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The interplay between a major tumor-suppressing gene, a truncated chromosome and two sets of microRNAs provides a molecular basis for explaining the less aggressive form of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, an international team of scientists reports today in the Jan. 4 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association.......

A higher prescription co-payment, particularly among older women, is linked to both early discontinuation and incomplete use of adjuvant aromatase inhibitor treatment, a life-saving treatment for women with hormone sensitive early stage breast cancer. Dawn L. Hershman, MD, associate professor of medicine and epidemiology and co-director of the Breast Cancer Program at the Herbert Irving Comprehen...

The best currently available screening tests can only slightly reduce ovary cancer deaths. That is the conclusion of new research published early online in Cancer, a peer-evaluated journal of the American Cancer Society. The results suggest that strategies other than screening, such as prevention and better therapys, will be needed to significantly lower the number of women who die from ovary canc...