Ellen Tauscher in good spirits after cancer fight 
San Francisco Chronicle
What they can't see is the new esophagus fashioned from what was part of her stomach. Fully recovered from esophageal cancer, Tauscher, 60, has opened a new chapter in her life, this month joining the board of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network ...

 

Amgen Revives Defunct Drug as Old Therapies Seek New Cure 
BusinessWeek
By Ryan Flinn on May 17, 2012 Amgen Inc. (AMGN) (AMGN)'s experimental drug rilotumumab, set aside by the company after it disappointed in a study, has been revived after a fresh look at data in gastric cancer found it helped a group of patients.
Analysis Of Rilotumumab (AMG 102) Data Identifies A Potential Predictive ... PR Newswire (press release)

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Analysis Of Rilotumumab (AMG 102) Data Identifies A Potential Predictive ... 
MarketWatch (press release)
This analysis, conducted on a previously reported Phase 2 study of rilotumumab in patients with locally advanced or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal cancer, showed that treatment with rilotumumab in combination with chemotherapy improved median ...

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Top doctor's warning over oesophagogastric cancer 
Sunday Sun
Michael Griffin, Professor of Gastrointestinal Surgery is supporting an awareness campaign aimed at highlighting the signs of oesophageal and stomach cancer. These types of cancer ? together called oesophagogastric cancer ? cause thousands of deaths ...

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Genta Initiates Randomized Trial of Tesetaxel in Gastric Cancer 
MarketWatch (press release)
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ, May 8, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- announced today that the first patient has been accrued to a new randomized clinical trial of its lead compound, tesetaxel, in patients with advanced gastric cancer. The trial, known as TESEGAST, ...

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Robin Gibb Passes On 
All Access Music Group
And he'd been hospitalized last year for stomach and colon problems, which were later confirmed to be colon cancer that had spread to his liver. GIBB had recently announced that he was in remission. ROBIN is survived by his wife DWINA, brother BARRY, ...
SAD NEWS Bee Gees star Robin Gibb dead at 62 Now Magazine Online
'Stayin' Alive' singer Robin Gibb dead New York Daily News
Bee Gees Robin Gibb dead at 62 after battling colon cancer (VIDEO) Washington Times
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Unable to stomach unhealthy diet, India plagued by cancer 
Daily Pioneer
Unregulated and unhealthy diet, rich in salt and spices, is increasingly becoming the second largest cause of stomach cancer among men and women in the country with 25000 deaths reported in 2011. Tobacco consumption continues to be the leading cause of ...

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Stomach cancer infections can be easily tested 
CBC.ca
A young physician who died of stomach cancer wanted Canadians to know that screening for bacteria with a blood test could help with prevention. Dr. Agnes Kwasnicka was an active doctor in Toronto when a "benign looking" cyst on her belly was diagnosed ...

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When you have and are doing all you can, and can't do anything more then that ... 
Muncie Free Press
After having suffered Stomach Cancer in the past four years, the VA Oncology started tracking some new growth near the cancer site. They were unable to do a biopsy due to being entangled in and around major organs; so it was going to take actual ...

 

Infections cause one in six cancer cases 
CNN (blog)
The research blames many of these cancer cases on Human papillomavirus, hepatitis B, hepatitis C and the stomach bacterium Helicobacter pylori. HPV is preventable through vaccines approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for girls and boys age 9 ...
Cancer screening CBC.ca
1 in 6 cancers are caused by infections New York Daily News
Study: One-Sixth of Cancers Are Preventable Truthdig
WTAM.com  -NHS Choices 
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