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    Gene Test Estimates 5yr Risk Of Recurrence For Breast Cancer Patients, Says Studies

    Positive Results from Two Studies of the PAM50-Based In Vitro Diagnostic Assay will be Presented at the Annual IMPAKT Breast Cancer Conference NanoString Technologies, Inc., a privately held provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today...
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    Increased Risk Of Recurrence Of Most Common Type Of Breast Cancer In Overweight And O

    Extra pounds - even within the overweight but not obese range - are linked to a higher risk of recurrence of the most common type of breast cancer despite optimal cancer treatment, according to a new study published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society...
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    Safely Treating Prostate Cancer And Lowering The Risk Of Recurrence

    A recent Phase I/II clinical trial has shown that a new combination of radiation therapies developed at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center escalates radiation doses to safely and effectively treat prostate cancer and lower the risk of recurrence with minimal radiation exposure...
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    Blood Test In Early Stage Breast Cancer May Predict Recurrence And Survival

    Testing the blood of early stage breast cancer patients for circulating tumor cells (CTCs) may predict their chance for recurrence and survival, and help identify which ones may need additional treatment, according to a new study published on Wednesday. However, the findings need to be...
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    Biomarkers Discovered For Prostate Cancer Detection, Recurrence

    Alterations to the "on-off" switches of genes occur early in the development of prostate cancer and could be used as biomarkers to detect the disease months or even years earlier than current approaches, a Mayo Clinic study has found. These biomarkers - known as DNA methylation profiles - also...
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    Starch Intake May Influence Risk For Breast Cancer Recurrence

    Researchers have linked increased starch intake to a greater risk for breast cancer recurrence, according to results presented at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec. 6-10, 2011. "The results show that it's not just overall carbohydrates, but particularly starch,"...
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    Evaluation Of B7-H3 Expression As A Biomarker Of Biochemical Recurrence After Salvage

    Approximately one third of men who undergo radical prostatectomy (RP) to treat clinically localized prostate cancer will develop a detectable PSA within 10 years.[1,2] Biochemical recurrence (BCR) of prostate cancer after RP is defined as a rising PSA in the absence of clinical or radiographic...
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    MAP Pharmaceuticals To Present Data Showing Low Migraine Recurrence Rates With LEVADE

    MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: MAPP) announced new data from the FREEDOM-301 Phase 3 trial of its investigational LEVADEX™ orally inhaled migraine therapy showing low recurrence rates with LEVADEX. Eight additional analyses from the LEVADEX program also will be presented during the 2010...
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    Aspirin Could Lower Chance Of Breast Cancer Recurrence, Death, Study Finds

    Breast cancer survivors who regularly took aspirin after completing treatment were 50% less likely than survivors who did not take aspirin to die or have a recurrence, according to a study published Wednesday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, USA Today reports (Szabo, USA Today, 2/17)...
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    Soy Does Not Appear To Increase Breast Cancer Deaths, Recurrence, Study Finds

    Soy foods may not be harmful to breast cancer survivors -- as some animal studies have suggested -- and they could even reduce the risk of recurrence of the disease, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Los Angeles Times reports. Breast cancer survivors...
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    Soy Does Not Appear To Increase Breast Cancer Deaths, Recurrence, Study Finds

    Soy foods may not be harmful to breast cancer survivors -- as some animal studies have suggested -- and they could even reduce the risk of recurrence of the disease, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Los Angeles Times reports. Breast cancer survivors...
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    can you have recurrence of Bells Palsy within three months?

    Was diagnosed w/Bells Palsy in July and was treated with prednisone. treatment was completed but my eye and lip have drooped again
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