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Cancer

Comfort zones
Published Oct 24, 2012
Palliative care advocates push hospice strategies upstream to aid patients throughout course of serious illness / Hopkins Medicine
Better brain treatment?
Published Sept 11, 2012
Researchers move closer to drug-delivery system able to overcome treatment challenges posed by brain cancer / Johns Hopkins Medicine
Shedding light on tumors
Published Aug 30, 2012
Technique using ultraviolet light may lead to new type of diagnostic imaging technology
Blood cells converted into stem cells
Published Aug 23, 2012
Method is step in effort to create cells suitable for use in place of human embryonic stem cells / Johns Hopkins Medicine
Drug from Mediterranean weed kills cancer cells
Published July 10, 2012
G202, developed by scientists at Kimmel Cancer Center, destroys cancers in mice while sparing healthy blood vessels and tissues in trial