| Cancer: |
| Smokeout '08: The Perfect Time to Quit (HealthDay) |
| HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Everyone knows smoking is
bad for you. Really bad. |
| Colorectal Cancer Treatment Costs Vary Widely (HealthDay) |
| HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) -- The cost of treating
colorectal cancer can vary by tens of thousands of dollars per
patient. |
| Removing small colon polyps costly, unnecessary (Reuters) |
| Reuters - The surgical removal of small colon polyps found during computed tomography imaging of the colon, or CT colonography, is costly and unnecessary, according to a new study. |
| Health Highlights: Nov. 19, 2008 (HealthDay) |
| HealthDay - Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by editors of HealthDay: |
| Technique Tracks Cancer-Killing Cells (HealthDay) |
| HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers say
they've developed a new long-term method of monitoring the location and
survival of cancer-killing cells within the body. |
| Cancer drug Avastin raises risk of blood clots: study (AFP) |
| AFP - The anti-cancer drug Avastin increases the risk of blood clots in the legs and lungs by 33 percent, according to an analysis published by US researchers Wednesday. |
| European patent office restores breast cancer gene patent (AFP) |
| AFP - The European Patent Office on Wednesday restored on appeal a controversial patent for a breast cancer gene that had been withdrawn from a US biotech firm, but granting it in a more restricted form than before. |
| Gender and age impact stomach cancer prognosis (Reuters) |
| Reuters - Older men and younger women fare worse with stomach, or "gastric" cancer than patients in other gender and age groups, research shows. |
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