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The push to increase the affordability of palliative care in sub-Saharan Africa faces many challenges, including limited resources, legal barriers to improved availability of low-priced morphine, overstretched practitioners, and inadequate skills in pain assessment and management.
The Lancet Oncology (Oncologia) - Mar, 9 Marzo 2010
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc
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Concerns have been raised recently about the safety of the full-body scanners being rushed into service at airports around the world in the wake of the failed Christmas day bomb attack in the USA. Experts maintain that the extremely low levels of radiation used in these scanners are harmless, with more than 200 000 scans equating to the level of radiation exposure experienced during a typical CT scan. Perhaps more worthy of attention is whether that one typical CT scan poses a cancer risk.
The Lancet Oncology (Oncologia) - Mar, 9 Marzo 2010
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc
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Changes in patients' self-rated quality of life after treatment for esophago-gastric cancer can predict the chances for long-term survival. This is the result researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet made, in a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Karolinska Institutet (Oncologia) - Mar, 9 Marzo 2010
http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=130&l=en
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How much do you know about colon cancer? Your life could depend on separating factual information from myth. Test your knowledge and then test your family and friends.
Baylor College of Medicine (Oncologia) - Mar, 9 Marzo 2010
http://www.bcm.edu
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In this issue of the Archives, we present a survey of articles that cover the important clinical and basic scientific advances in neuro-oncology during the last 5 years.
Archives of Neurology (Oncologia) - Mar, 9 Marzo 2010
http://archneur.ama-assn.org/
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Revised prostate cancer screening guidelines from the American Cancer Society offer clearer guidance on what you should discuss with your doctor before you decide whether to be tested for prostate cancer.
American Cancer Society (Oncologia) - Mar, 9 Marzo 2010
http://www.cancer.org/
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Scientists develop a gene test which predicts how well chemotherapy will work in individual breast cancer patients.
BBC News (Oncologia) - Lun, 1 Marzo 2010
http://news.bbc.co.uk
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Severe heartburn is the most important risk factor for suffering from glandular cell carcinoma (adenocarcinoma) in the esophagus. Scientists have therefore hoped that surgery for heartburn should have a protective effect against this aggressive cancer. However, a large Swedish study, published in the scientific journal Gastroenterology, show that patients who undergo surgery for heartburn still are in high risk of having esophageal cancer a long time after they have had surgery.
Karolinska Institutet (Oncologia) - Lun, 1 Marzo 2010
http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=130&l=en
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With a new trial performed in Denmark, the problem of substitutive hormone therapy and the risk of ovarian cancer has been examined: 900,000 women between 50 and 79, with ovarian cancer, have been prospectively followed. In an 8-year follow-up, 2681 ovarian cancers have been diagnosed; through analyses adjusted for many factors, the risk of ovarian epithelial cancer resulted of 44% higher in women using substitutive hormone therapy and of 15% higher in women having used it previously.
MedNews (Oncologia) - Lun, 22 Febbraio 2010
http://mn.medsurfnews.com/
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Although heart tumors do occur, the vast majority of them are noncancerous
MayoClinic.com (Oncologia) - Lun, 22 Febbraio 2010
http://www.mayoclinic.com