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Methods of preparing for cancer treatment are never an exact science. The key to optimizing your recovery is learning and familiarizing yourself with your personal reactions to the treatments being administered.

Veridex, LLC announced today that the technology used in the CellSearch System to measure circulating tumor cells (CTCs) was ranked as the top medical innovation for 2009 by the Cleveland Clinic, a leading multispecialty academic medical center.

If you live or travel to Florida, sunscreen should be on your radar. The sun, although it’s not as strong as it was a few months ago, can still do great damage to your skin. But, do you use sunscreen regularly? Here's the perfect solution for regular us

October Is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Take Control Of Your Cancer Risk By Eating Super was written by Betty HoeffnerEarly detection, thanks to regular self-exams and mammograms, ups the chances of successfully treating and surviving breast ca

Doctors are being urged to re-think their approach to giving chemotherapy at the end of life, by an independent group.

Skin cancer is the most common form of human cancer. It is estimated that over 1 million new cases occur annually. The annual rates of all forms of skin cancer are increasing each year

Bone Cancer was written by Karen Lavender from bone-cancer.blogspot.comBones form the core structure of our body. In total, there are 200 bones in a human body that support us and provide protection to our body organs. Though bone cancer is not as common

Eluzar and Miriam Brody are facing perhaps the hardest situation any parent can encounter. Their son, Motl, had brain cancer. Now doctors say the twelve-year-old is brain dead, and they've recommended removing the boy from life support.

In the war on cancer, oncologists report that financial concerns are increasingly altering certain aspects of treatment and may be narrowing patient options. While six in ten (59%) oncologists express optimism about the future of oncology care in the US,

In regard to tobacco use, gay men smoke at "strikingly higher" rates than other men. And almost 40 per cent of lesbian and bisexual girls ages 12 to 17 in an ongoing survey reported smoking weekly, compared with 6 percent of heterosexual girls, according