Disfigurement Common for Childhood Cancer Survivors

Source: Softpedia

According to the conclusions of a new study, it would appear that surviving cancer during childhood comes with a variety of ill side-effects, including disfigurement, persistent hair loss and long-term emotional distress throughout ...
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Monday Newspaper Review - Irish Business News and International Stories - - May 28, 2012

Source: FinFacts

The Irish Independent reports that the European Union will seek to give regulators the power to impose writedowns on senior unsecured creditors at failing banks as part of measures to prevent taxpayers from footing the bill for saving crisis-hit lenders ...
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Marked For Destruction: Newly Developed Compound Triggers Cancer Cell Death

Source: Medical News Today

Main Category: Cancer / Oncology Article Date: 28 May 2012 - 0:00 PDT The BCL-2 protein family plays a large role in determining whether cancer cells survive in response to therapy or undergo a form of cell death known as apoptosis. Cells are pressured ...
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New Clues About Cancer Cell Metabolism Emerge

Source: Medical News Today

Main Category: Cancer / Oncology Also Included In: Biology / Biochemistry Article Date: 28 May 2012 - 0:00 PDT For almost a century, researchers have known that cancer cells have peculiar appetites, devouring glucose in ways that no ...
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The Cells' Petrol Pump Is Finally Identified

Source: Medical News Today

Main Category: Biology / Biochemistry Also Included In: Cancer / Oncology Article Date: 28 May 2012 - 0:00 PDT Researchers from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, describe how mitochondria, the cell's power plants, are supplied ...
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Anti-Psychotic Drug Pushes Cancer Stem Cells Over The Edge

Source: Medical News Today

Main Category: Cancer / Oncology Also Included In: Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma; Stem Cell Research Article Date: 28 May 2012 - 0:00 PDT An anti-psychotic drug used to treat schizophrenia appears to get rid of cancer stem cells by helping th ...
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Cancer Stem Cells Self-Renewal Capacity Is Independent Of Their Ability To Initiate Leukemia

Source: Medical News Today

Main Category: Cancer / Oncology Also Included In: Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma; Stem Cell Research Article Date: 28 May 2012 - 0:00 PDT In leukemia, specialized cells called cancer stem cells are thought ...
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Women get less information on post-cancer fertility

Source: Dawn

A scanning electron micrograph of human colon cancer cells, mag. 8600x is seen in an undated handout photo. The smaller cell is an immature cell. – Reuters Photo Cancer treatment can sometimes lead to infertility, but young women are fa ...
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I kicked the butt: Commissioner

Source: IBN Live

Hyderabad: City Police Commissioner Anurag Sharma was, in his own words, a serious tobacco addict. “I had picked up the habit when I was posted in Nagaland in 1981,” he admitted, recalling that several attempts at kicking the butt ...
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