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   Prostate cancer

   ↑ Strum SB, Pogliano D (May 2005), "What every doctor who treats male patients should know", PCRI Insights 8(2): 4–5, < http://www.prostate-cancer.org/resource/pdf/Is8-2.pdf> ... ↑ Yarnell, E (1999), "A naturopathic approach to prostate cancer.
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   Cancer

   Breast cancer screening can be done by breast self-examination, though this approach was discredited by a 2005 study in over 300,000 Chinese women.
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   Head and neck cancer

   Treatment planning generally requires a multidisciplinary approach involving specialist surgeons and medical and radiation oncologists. ... Types of cancer
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   Ovarian cancer

   The challenge in such an approach is that the very low population prevalence of ovarian cancer means that even testing with very high sensitivity and specificity will still lead to a number of false positive results (i.e. performing surgical procedures in which cancer is not found intra-operatively).
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   Testicular cancer

   This approach maintains a high cure rate because of the growing accuracy of surveillance techniques. ... Primary fallopian tube cancer · Adenomatoid tumor
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   Lung cancer

   Performing a chest x-ray is the first step if a patient reports symptoms that may be suggestive of lung cancer. ... "A global approach to tobacco policy".
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   Thymidine kinase

   This approach has been used to treat cancer in animal models, and is advantageous in that the tumor may be killed with as few as 10% of malignant cells expressing the gene.
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   Colorectal cancer

   There is, however, little evidence of an influence of endogenous hormones on the risk of colorectal cancer. ... bleeding with or without hematoma formation
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   Breast cancer

   No etiology is known for 95% of breast cancer cases, while approximately 5% of new breast cancers are attributable to hereditary syndromes. ... Medications
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    UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center

    He treats sarcoma patients with chemotherapy before surgery, avoiding limb amputation that would otherwise be required. ... Drs. Robert Figlin and Arie Belldegrun developed a new approach to treating metastatic kidney cancer by combining biologic and cellular therapies to extend remission times.

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Prostate cancer,
• Cancer,
• Head and neck cancer,
• Ovarian cancer,
• Testicular cancer,
• Lung cancer,
• Thymidine kinase,
• Colorectal cancer,
• Breast cancer,
• UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center