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Wednesday, Jul 10

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Man regains his voice after first-known voice-box transplant on cancer patient in U.S.

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Around the same time Marty Kedian became a grandfather, he lost his ability to speak after undergoing surgery to battle cancer in his larynx. But in a groundbreaking achievement, surgeons at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona were able to…

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Kazia Therapeutics Shares Are Jumping Today: Successful Study For Brain Cancer Treatment

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Kazia Therapeutics Limited (NASDAQ:KZIA) released results on Wednesday from the GBM-AGILE Phase 2/3 study that included an evaluation of paxalisib versus standard of care (SOC) for patients with glioblastoma, a type of brain cancer.

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WATCH: Rare voice box transplant helps cancer patient speak again

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man has regained his voice after surgeons removed his cancerous larynx and, in a pioneering move, replaced it with a donated one.

Doctors perform rare larynx transplant in cancer patient

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A Massachusetts man has become the first Mayo patient to undergo a total larynx transplant, and only the third person in the United States to have the procedure.

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Research supports TCM liver-breast cancer theory: Fatty liver linked to deteriorating breast cancer

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A research team from the School of Chinese Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has made a remarkable discovery that patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (commonly known as fatty liver disease)…

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How AI Can Help Alleviate the Stress of a Cancer Diagnosis

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Personalized AI-enabled tests can pave the way for patients to find hope, confidence, and comfort amid a cancer journey, writes Andre Esteva.

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Novel cancer therapy extends lives of terminally ill dogs, shows potential for use in human patients

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Researchers from the Department of Biochemistry and NUS Centre for Cancer Research (N2CR), at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have been pioneering a treatment using stem cell precision…

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Targeted alpha therapy offers hope for glioblastoma patients

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A new approach to treating the most malignant type of brain cancer – glioblastoma – has shown strong promise in pre-clinical settings, raising hopes of increasing current average survival rates beyond 18 months.

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Mayo Clinic makes medical history with total larynx transplant for cancer patient

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Mayo Clinic announces a groundbreaking achievement in organ transplantation, offering hope to thousands who have lost their ability to speak, swallow and breathe on their own due to diminished function or loss of their larynx.

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Firms that manage drug benefits, which promise to keep a lid on high drug costs, instead steer patients away from less expensive medicines and overcharge for cancer therapies, FTC investigators found.

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Firms that manage drug benefits, which promise to keep a lid on high drug costs, instead steer patients away from less expensive medicines and overcharge for cancer therapies, FTC investigators found.

Desperate Kenya cancer go to Kampala for free services

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UG has extremely low survival rates. But Kenya is expensive, and patients wait for months to be treated

Tuesday, Jul 9

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Study finds 1 in 12 patients labeled as having 'benign' results actually had high-risk prostate cancer

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New research highlights the challenge of balancing the risks of overdiagnosing and underdiagnosing prostate cancer early enough to intervene and minimize risk of death. Recently, some experts have called for the lowest grade of prostate…

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Amazon MGM Studios’ Debra Birnbaum Joins Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance Board

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Debra Birnbaum, global head of awards for Amazon Studios MGM, has joined the board of directors of New York-based Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance, the world’s largest organization dedicated to research into ovarian and related gynecologic…

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Study finds 1 in 12 patients labeled as having 'benign' results actually had high-risk prostate cancer

A recent study examined data from more than 10,000 patients with 'Biopsy Gleason Grade Group (GGG) 1,' a diagnosis considered to be the lowest grade cancer. Researchers found that even among patients diagnosed using the most modern…

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New weight-loss and diabetes drugs linked to lower risk of 10 cancers

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For diabetes patients, GLP-1 drugs linked to lower cancer risks compared to insulin.

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Laryngeal Transplant Helped a Cancer Patient Speak Again in Pioneering Study

(MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Massachusetts man has regained his voice after surgeons removed his cancerous larynx and, in a pioneering move, replaced it with a donated one.

A rare voice box transplant helped a cancer patient speak again, part of a pioneering study

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A Massachusetts man has regained his voice after surgeons removed his cancerous larynx and, in a pioneering move, replaced it with a donated one.

A rare voice box transplant helped a cancer patient speak again, part of a pioneering study

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WASHINGTON — A Massachusetts man has regained his voice after surgeons removed his cancerous larynx and, in a pioneering move, replaced it with a donated one.

Q&A: New strategy can improve cell therapy against cancer

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Researchers at the Center for Infectious Medicine at the Department of Medicine, Huddinge have developed a new strategy that can make cell therapy against cancer work longer in patients. The results are published in the journal Cell Stem…

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A rare voice box transplant helped a cancer patient speak again, part of a pioneering study

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A Massachusetts man has regained his voice after surgeons removed his cancerous larynx and, in a pioneering move, replaced it with a donated one.