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A blood test so sensitive that it can spot a single cancer cell lurking among a billion healthy ones is moving one step closer to being available at your doctor's office.
Boston scientists who invented the test and health care giant Johnson...
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) is teaming up with researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital to market a microchip-based test that could detect cancer cells in blood, a potentially revolutionary initiative for cancer patients.
The deal is...
Q: Which types of cancer are hereditary?
A. “Fortunately, cancer itself is not hereditary, but the susceptibility to cancer is,’’ says Dr. Judy Garber, director of the Center for Cancer Genetics and Prevention at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute...
The recent Annual Report to the Nation featuring colon cancer trends (http://bit.ly/ccF9ma) highlights the success of prevention in reducing colorectal cancer incidence and mortality. Colorectal cancer is the third most frequently diagnosed...
As we struggle to deliver 200% at work each day and come home and offer the same to our children and spouses, it can be easy to let the choices we talk about for cancer prevention -- cutting down on processed food, eating vegetables (i.e. doing...
