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Buried in the questions Senate Republicans want answered by the nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency is a stumper: data linking microscopic particles in the air to premature death.
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Chemotherapy, radiation and the use of radioactive follow-up tests aren’t needed for some cancers, according to two studies that add to a growing debate on ways to lessen side effects and lower patient costs.
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Bayer AG and Algeta ASA won U.S. approval for their drug to treat an advanced prostate cancer that doesn’t respond to standard testosterone-lowering therapy.
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Angelina Jolie, named the highest- paid actress in Hollywood by Forbes in 2011, said she had a double mastectomy after learning she has a gene mutation linked to breast cancer, the disease that killed her mother at age 56.
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A novel test from Genomic Health Inc. helps predict whether prostate cancer is aggressive or slow- growing, giving patients and doctors more information to shape treatment for the most common tumor found in men, a study found.
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Just as Novartis AG’s best-selling medicines are losing patent protection, the company is poised to get a revenue boost from a U.S. program designed to speed life- saving therapies to patients with few treatment options.
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An analysis of the most common uterine cancer suggests the disease should be reclassified into four categories that may help lead to more targeted treatments.
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Amgen Inc.’s Neulasta and Neupogen and a similar blood-boosting drug from Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. may help people survive after a nuclear attack, U.S. regulators said.
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Doctors are changing their approach to prostate biopsies as evidence mounts that the danger of complications from the procedure may outweigh its usefulness identifying some cancers.
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Cancer medicines that cost more than $100,000 a year aren’t morally justifiable and may keep patients from getting life-saving treatments, a group of more than 100 leukemia doctors said.
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