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In a study recently published online in The Journal of the American Medical Association Dermatology, Marianne Berwick, PhD, and her international team of melanoma researchers confirmed that the chances of dying from skin cancer depend strongly upon how thick the primary tumor is. But 鈥� unexpectedly 鈥� the team also found that those having more than one primary tumor have better survival odds.

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Dr. Vittorio Cristini, at the UNM Cancer Center, and his colleagues have just published a paper describing their mathematical model of cancer. The model uses physics and the patient's own tumor information to accurately predict treatment outcomes.

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A cross-institutional, international team of scientists recently discovered a new, important step of the process that grows new blood vessels, a discovery that could lead to a new way to combat cancer.

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It may be the simple telephone that helps save lives. Anita Kinney, PhD, RN have found that personalized cancer screening messages over the phone can better help promote preventive cancer measures.

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Dr. Cristini and his collaborators describe how they applied their "Master Equations of Cancer" to pancreatic cancer. It鈥檚 an application that will soon help oncologists use the mathematical model to develop treatment plans for all cancer patients.

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More and more people are surviving their cancer but they don't need to cope with lingering pain in silence. A review paper in the Journal of Clinical Oncology describes what survivors can do.

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Angelina Jolie鈥檚 decision to undergo a double mastectomy inspired many other women to seek genetic counseling, too. But for women in rural areas, getting a genetic test can impose its own set of barriers. New research by Anita Kinney, PhD, RN, offers some hope.

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A research paper published in The Lancet Oncology showed that a single dose of the human papillomavirus vaccine Cervarix庐 may prevent HPV-related cervical cancer.

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New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has provided a major boost for the prostate cancer field by uncovering an unprecedented mechanism for developing cancer.

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Monte Shaheen, MD, and colleagues from around the country recently published a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine about a promising new treatment for melanoma.