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Cancers Are Newly Evolved Parasitic Species, Biologist Argues
Wellcome ImagesBreast Cancer Cells DividingThis confocal micrograph shows two human breast cancer cells dividing. The cell at the top is at prophase, showing the condensing chromosomes prior to their...
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Image-Recognition Algorithm Diagnoses Breast Cancer Better Than a Human...
© Science/AAASBreast Cancer ImagingThis image shows 18 breast cancer images adjacent to matching images that have been automatically labeled by image processing software.Add one more item to the list...
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High Court Rejects Patents on Genes, Sending Breast Cancer Gene Case Back to...
Wellcome ImagesBreast Cancer CellsScanning electron micrograph of breast cancer cells shows visual evidence of programmed cell death (apoptosis).Amid all the hype over the federal health care law...
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A Guide To Not Saying Dumb Things About Angelina Jolie's Double Mastectomy
Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia CommonsAngelina JolieAngelina Jolie's announcement in Tuesday's New York Times that she has undergone a preventative double mastectomy to reduce her risk of breast cancer as...
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Major U.S. Company Makes A Breast Cancer Risk Test Using Once-Patented Genes
Oak Ridge National LaboratoryDNARemember when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled genes can't be patented? Well, now we're seeing the consequences. A major U.S. medical testing company—it's America's largest...
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When There's Nothing Left To Do But Crack A Cancer Joke
Dan Zen via Flickr CC By 2.0Smiling Through AdversityComedian Tig Notaro had a famously stressful year in 2012. Within months, she got pneumonia, Clostridium difficile (an intestinal infection spurred...
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Cancer Treatment Would Be Even More Effective With 3D Tissue Modeling
Dominic Doyle & Frank Block, Vanderbilt UniversityMicrobrain BioreactorThis is a 3D simulation for how blood moves in the brain. Simulations like these could help researchers figure out the best...
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Researchers Grow Breast Tissue In A Lab
Nevit Dilmen via Wikimedia CommonsA mammogram, used to identify cancerous breast tissueFrom edible meat to entire rat arms, scientists can grow pretty much anything in a petri dish. But until recently,...
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Cancer Deaths Hit Lowest Rate In 25 Years
United States Navy via Wikimedia CommonsMammogramMore people are getting screened more often for cancers including breast cancer, which has contributed to the drop in death rates.The number of people...
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The Confounding Commandments Of Cancer Screening
slgckgc via Flickr, CC by 2.0MammogramThese are images generated from a mammogram, a breast cancer screening test.Last year, at the age of 43, Chicago-based writer Jessica Gardner had her first...
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It’s Not Just Meat: Carbs Can Raise Cancer Risk, Too
Health But we still don't know how People who regularly consumed sugary drinks were three times more likely to develop prostate cancer, and processed carbohydrates like pizza and hamburgers doubled...
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Exploring Breast Cancer Cells In Virtual Reality Could Help Fight The Disease
Health Just don't forget to dodge incoming particles A team at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, designed a VR simulation to explore cancer cells.
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Cancer Deaths Hit Lowest Rate In 25 Years
Health Better prevention and early diagnosis have played a big part The number of people dying from cancer every year has dropped to its lowest rate since 1991, according to a new study. The number of...
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The Confounding Commandments Of Cancer Screening
Health Why do the guidelines seem so contradictory, and how can we make sense of them? Recently, the American Cancer Society changed its breast cancer screening guidelines; the U.S. Preventative...
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It’s Not Just Meat: Carbs Can Raise Cancer Risk, Too
Health But we still don't know how People who regularly consumed sugary drinks were three times more likely to develop prostate cancer, and processed carbohydrates like pizza and hamburgers doubled...
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Exploring Breast Cancer Cells In Virtual Reality Could Help Fight The Disease
Health Just don't forget to dodge incoming particles A team at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, designed a VR simulation to explore cancer cells.
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A new microscope uses light to "cut" through tissue samples and find cancer
Health It could help surgeons remove cancerous breast tissues all at once. A new microscope lets doctors see cancer tumors in 3D. Read on.
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To support breast cancer research, skip pink ribbons and check out these...
Health Spend your dollars on research that might actually save lives. Your money should go to a charity that’s going to do some good with it. Breast cancer has plenty of organizations that you can...
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What you should know about birth control and breast cancer
Health A new study has mostly just confirmed what we already knew. Given that about a quarter of all women in the U.S. use some kind of hormonal birth control, this sounds like a huge public health...
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23andMe can now test for BRCA mutations. Here's what you need to know.
Health There's only so much the test can actually tell you about breast cancer. You can buy your BRCA test online and get results a few months later—without seeing a genetic counselor or doctor. But...
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