Cancer Concern Center in Point Pleasant Beach offers support, hope
POINT PLEASANT BEACH — Mary Evanchik of Brick says she will never forget the day a doctor told her she had late-phase colon cancer.
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Cancer Concern Center in Point Pleasant Beach offers support, hope
POINT PLEASANT BEACH — Mary Evanchik of Brick says she will never forget the day a doctor told her she had late-phase colon cancer.
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Breast cancer screening saves lives, study finds
Regular mammographic screening for breast cancer saves the lives of two women for every one who is given unnecessary treatment, scientists said on Wednesday, in a study which adds to a global row over screening programs.
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Ze-Guang Han and colleagues, at the Chinese National Human Genome Center at Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, have now identified SCARA5 as a candidate tumor suppressor gene in human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a form of liver cancer that is the fifth most common cancer worldwide.
The research is reported in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
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