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"Game-Changing" Study Links Cellphone Radiation to Cancer

Josh Harkinson | Mother Jones | May 27, 2016

It's the moment we've all been dreading. Initial findings from a massive federal study, released on Thursday, suggest that radio-frequency (RF) radiation, the type emitted by cellphones, can cause cancer. The findings from a $25 million study, conducted over two and a half years by the National Toxicology Program (NTP), showed that male rats exposed to two types of RF radiation were significantly more likely than unexposed rats to develop a type of brain cancer called a glioma, and also had a higher chance of developing the rare, malignant form of tumor known as a schwannoma of the heart. The effect was not seen in females...

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1 Drop Of Blood & 60 Minutes: Breakthrough Device Heralds Future Of Cancer Detection

Staff Writer | RT News | October 18, 2014

Early cancer detection can save millions of lives but current diagnostic methods remain costly and invasive. However, a new startup is developing a device which could detect dozens of cancers with a single blood test...

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16 Cancer Causing Foods You Probably Eat Every Day

Staff Writer | NaturalOn.com | March 9, 2014

It’s probably not something you think about every day, whether or not the foods you are eating could contain carcinogens, but with almost 1.5 million people diagnosed with some type of cancer just last year, perhaps it’s time to look at what is in our foods that could be causing such a huge number of new cancer patients. Here is a list of the top 10 foods that you most likely consume every day that may contain carcinogens or be suspected of causing cancer...

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3D Printed Virus To Attack Cancer Cells

Jennifer Hicks | Forbes | October 29, 2014

A genetic engineer at Autodesk ADSK says he can 3D print a virus that one day might be able to attack cancer cells...

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3D Printing Points Way To Smarter Cancer Treatment

Ben Hirschler | Reuters | December 16, 2014

British scientists have developed a new use for 3D printing, putting it to work to create personalized replica models of cancerous parts of the body to allow doctors to target tumors more precisely...

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After A Year Of Medical School, IBM's Watson Passes First Milestone

Andrew Nusca | ZDNet | February 8, 2013

IBM's year-long residency at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Wellpoint is finally producing cognitive computing breakthroughs (and two new products). Read More »

Asia’s Leading Oncology Journal Cancer Science Adopts Open Access

Press Release | Wiley, Wiley Open Access, Cancer Science, Japanese Cancer Association (JCA) | September 9, 2013

From January 1, 2014, all newly published articles will be open access and free to view, download and share. Read More »

Big Pharma Companies Open Up Cancer Trial Comparator Arm Data

Nick Paul Taylor | Fierce Biotech IT | April 11, 2014

A lot has changed in clinical trial transparency since Project Data Sphere outlined plans to share cancer results in 2012, with the European law voted in last week then still a distant threat. Even so, Pfizer ($PFE), Sanofi ($SNY) and the other groups behind the initiative think it still offers something different now that it has belatedly launched.

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Big Pharma Opens New Chapter On Big Data Collaboration

Dan Munro | Forbes.com | April 8, 2014

In the course of one short week, no less than 3 different models have emerged for sharing big data in the pharmaceutical industry.  The highest profile of these ‒ called Project Data Sphere (PDS here) ‒ was announced earlier today with the official opening of an online resource to share clinical trial data for use in cancer research.

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Big Sugar's Sweet Little Lies

Gary Taubes and Cristin Kearns Couzens | Mother Jones | November 1, 2012

How the industry kept scientists from asking: Does sugar kill? Read More »

Can Doctors Teach The Body To Cure Cancer?

Jacoba Urist | The Atlantic | July 28, 2014

Increasingly, doctors are using their patients' own immune systems as valuable weapons against the disease...

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Canada Tar Sands Linked To Cancer In Native Communities, Report Says

Renee Lewis | Aljazeera America | July 8, 2014

Canada’s tar sands development, in the Alberta province, has been linked to environmental contaminants in wildlife and increasing incidences of cancer in indigenous communities, a new report released this week said...

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Cancer And Clinical Trials: The Role Of Big Data In Personalizing The Health Experience

Despite considerable progress in prevention and treatment, cancer remains the second leading cause of death in the United States. Even with the $50 billion pharmaceutical companies spend on research and development every year, any given cancer drug is ineffective in 75% of the patients receiving it. [...] Read More »

Cancer Deaths Double In Argentina's GMO Agribusiness Areas

Lawrence Woodward | The Ecologist | August 24, 2014

Sharply increased levels of crop spraying in Argentina's most intensively farmed areas have resulted in a public health disaster, writes Lawrence Woodward, with large increases in cancer incidence. And it's all the result of the widespread use of GMO crops engineered for herbicide resistance...

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Cancer Maps Show The Power And Limits Of Data For Public Policy

Joseph Marks | Nextgov.com | May 7, 2014

...Linda Pickle has spent decades using maps and other spatial analyses to gather insights from cancer data. She likely had the first copy of Geographic Information System software at the National Institutes of Health, NCI’s parent agency, she told Nextgov recently, and she’s watched as visualization data went from “little better than crayons” to Google Maps applications that nearly anyone can use...

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