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Cancer
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Definition of Cancer
Cancer is not just one disease, but a large group of almost one hundred diseases. Its two main characteristics are uncontrolled growth of the cells in the human body and the ability of these cells to migrate from the original site and spread to distant sites. If the spread is not controlled, cancer can result in death.
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What is Cancer?1 hr. 3 min. 45 sec.
Dianne Sullivan, host and Professor of Law, sits down with Dr. Samer Homsi of the UMASS Medical School and Dr. Bruce Chabner, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Chief of Oncology and Clinical Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital's Cancer Center to discuss the basics of cancer.
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Kidney Transplants Boost Cancer Risk
Some patients have a threefold increased risk of developing a variety of cancers after receiving a kidney transplant, Australian researchers report. Drugs used to prevent rejection of the new kidney by suppressing the body's immune system may be to blame for a bump in risk for nonmelanoma skin cancer, non-Hodgkin lymphoma and the rare skin malignancy known as Kaposi's sarcoma, researchers report in the Dec. 20 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Drug developed for rare disease may help millions more as treatment for cancer, autoimmune diseases
An anti-angiogenesis drug developed at the University of Michigan is showing promise in studies of three different disease families, including multiple forms of cancer. The drug, tetrathiomolybdate or TM, essentially wages war against copper, which serves to choke off tumor growth, fibrosis and inflammation.
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