Experimental vaccine can help delay IBD and colon cancer
An experimental vaccine against an abnormal protein found in some tumors has the potential to delay the onset of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and in turn prevent progression to colon cancer, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
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Dendreon Rises After Winning Approval for Cancer Drug (Update2)
April 29 (Bloomberg) — Dendreon Corp. won approval for its first product, a vaccine to fight prostate cancer, after a three-year battle with U.S. regulators. Shares surged the most in a year in New York trading.
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Ovarian cancer is a silent killer and is one of the deadliest threats to women’s health. The American Cancer Society says that about 20,180 American women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer this year alone. Every woman faces a risk of 1:57 risk of getting ovarian cancer in her lifetime.
The symptoms of ovarian cancer are not perceptible until the cancer becomes widespread and critical, which explains why thousands of women die of this dreaded disease every year. Although ovarian cancer is treatable, in most instances, it is detected late causing complications and death to ovarian cancer patients.
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