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Breast feeding reduces cancer risk (via NYTimes)
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 | No Comments
How is it that the Western Docs are continuosly astounded by things that make sense?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/health/research/11cancer.html
Implant Makes Cells Kill Cancer (via Technology Review via Gizmodo)
Saturday, February 7th, 2009 | No Comments
A polymer device trains immune cells to shrink tumors.
By Katherine Bourzac
One of cancer’s cleverest tricks is its ability to hide from the immune system. A new approach to cancer treatment called immunotherapy could spare patients at least some of the grueling battery of chemotherapy treatments by retraining the body’s own defenders–the cells of the immune system–to recognize and destroy tumors. Now researchers at Harvard University have developed a simple way to do this inside the body: a polymer implant attracts and trains immune-system cells to go after cancer.
Tiny Chemo Beads Boost Liver Cancer Outcomes (via Y! Health News)
Thursday, January 29th, 2009 | No Comments
(HealthDay News) — A minimally invasive therapy that uses beads soaked with anti-cancer agents has been successful at halting liver tumors, according to new studies.
