It sounds too good to be true, but two independent studies appear to show that tumours can be detected by scanning people with a hand-held device similar to the metal detectors used to frisk airline passengers.
New Scientist, June 16, 2003 [READ IT]
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FOR the first time, cancer has been treated by removing an organ from the body, giving it radiotherapy and then re-implanting it. The out-of-body operation allows doctors to administer high doses of radiation to widespread tumours without affecting other organs.
New Scientist 21 December 2002
The life of Judah Folkman took an unexpected turn one morning in May 1998. That day, a front-page article in the New York Times announced that Folkman, a professor at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, had discovered two natural compounds, angiostatin and endostatin, that dramatically shrunk tumors in mice by cutting the cancer’s blood supply…
Scientific American, November 04, 2002 [READ IT]
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Test-tube studies have uncovered key facts about the breast cancer gene BRCA1, but new animal models of the disease promise to reveal much more
Scientific American, June 11, 2001 [READ IT]
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