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  • 11,000 lives lost because cancer is found too late

    21/11/2008

    Britain's cancer survival rates low due to patients not noticing the warning signs of cancer and to late diagnosis by doctors.

  • Research - Test, episode, and programme sensitivities of screening for colorectal cancer as a public health policy in Finland: experimental design

    21/11/2008

    Objectives - To report the sensitivities of the faecal occult blood test, screening episode, and screening programme

    Design - Experimental design incorporated in public health evaluation using randomisation at individual level in the target population.

  • Technique tracks cancer-killing cells

    Source:
    Healthscout

    20/11/2008

    US researchers say they've developed a new long-term method of monitoring the location and survival of cancer-killing cells within the body.

  • Rapid care 'cuts baby's HIV risk'

    Source:
    Bbc

    20/11/2008

    Rapid drug treatment of babies with HIV dramatically cuts their risk of death and debilitating disease, international research shows.

  • Clinical transplantation of a tissue-engineered airway

    Source:
    The-lancet

    20/11/2008

    Background The loss of a normal airway is devastating. Attempts to replace large airways have met with serious problems.

    Methods We removed cells and MHC antigens from a human donor trachea, which was then readily colonised by epithelial cells and mese