Tag Archive: cancer

Racial gaps in colon cancer changes survival

Colorectal cancer is still the third leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, but since the mid-1980’s the rates have slowly declined. That is, in some ethnic groups but not in all. Poorer patients, sometimes black, indigent, or…
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Avastin slows down ovarian cancer growth

This week results from two clinical trial studies were released by the American Society of Clinical Oncology and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, announcing that Avastin (also called bevacizumab), a chemotherapy drug used for other types of…
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