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Women with hereditary ovarian cancer respond better to chemo

...The study analyzed tissue samples from 189 Jewish patients treated during a 12-year period at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. All of the women had advanced ovarian cancer. Researchers focused on Jewish women because they...

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New drug might stop cancer by targeting genetic flaw

...one of these drugs, code-named IMC-C225. The drug was discovered by Dr. John Mendelsohn at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City and is being developed by ImClone Systems Inc., which is financing the research. Mendelsohn...

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Study finds no cell phone, cancer link

...disclosing their products' radiation levels. The new study, co-written by Dr. Mark Malkin of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, involved phone-use questionnaires given to 469 men and women ages 18 to 80 with brain cancer...

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Study: Best outcomes from lung cancer surgery are at high-volume hospitals

...before and after," said Dr. Peter P. Bach, a lung specialist and professor of epidemiology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Studies of heart surgery and treatments for a variety of other medical conditions likewise have...

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Studies: Working night shift increases breast cancer risk

...Cancer Institute. "These studies are fascinating and provocative," said Larry Norton of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. But Norton said the findings only "hint" at an effect on breast cancer rates from nighttime...

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Rare disease linked to breast cancer

...susceptibility gene that women should be tested for tomorrow," said Dr. Kenneth Offit of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. On the Net: Science magazine: http://www.sciencemag.org Fanconi Anemia Research Fund...

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LIFE'S RELAY

...two daughters, Ellie, 3; and Kate, 1. Peter recently began undergoing antibody treatments at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He spent the Fourth of July there. Peter travels to Manhattan, N.Y., for treatment...

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Names and faces

...million each to two hospitals that cared for his wife when she was dying from breast cancer. The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and the Arizona Cancer Center in Tucson, Ariz., will receive the donations. Linda McCartney...

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Nerve grafts restore sexual function after prostate surgery

...over doing nothing," said Dr. Joseph J. Disa, a plastic surgeon who performs the surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He outlined the new approach Wednesday at an American Cancer Society meeting at Dana Point...

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Chemotherapy may not be necessary for some women with early stage cancer

...treatment for specific patients, Gelber said. Dr. Andrew D. Seidman, a breast cancer specialist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, said the study "will reaffirm the way that many oncologists are now practicing" and should...

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