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cancer cells move through the body with tentacles, like a predator hunting prey
university of copenhagen researchers say the discovery sheds light on how disabling the tentacles may slow the spread of the deadly disease.
chris arnold
cancer
mar 30 2022
the level of mobility, specifically in twisting, is essential to how the cancer cells move around the body. getty

melasma: the emotional impact of skin disease
melasma, which causes patches of skin to darken, has been shown to affect quality of life for those who live with it.
frances krawiec
skin health
mar 30 2022
patients with melasma often describe feeling shame, frustration, low self-esteem, a lack of motivation to go out.

after 10 mammograms, half of women can expect a false positive: study
researchers found that while newer technology did not substantially reduce the risk of false positives, the chances were much lower when screening was done every two years.
dave yasvinski
breast cancer
mar 29 2022
while breast cancer screening is a vital tool in efforts to reduce deaths from the prevalent disease, false positives are a common occurrence. getty

machado: what happens to patients in a war?
one ukraine patient had to leave the hospital with just the clothes he was wearing and no immune system. he reached out for advice on how to stay healthy while homeless.
lisa machado
mar 28 2022
the evacuation programme removes sick children from the war in ukraine and undertakes to match each child to a foreign hospital that has the capacity to continue their care. (photo by alexey furman/getty images)

lung cancer: 'i'm not ready to cash in'
peter brown received the terrifying diagnosis of inoperable stage 4 lung cancer in 2019, but thanks to successful immunotherapy treatment, he's still here to tell the story.
karen hawthorne
lung cancer
mar 24 2022
peter brown (fifth from left) and his family on the last day of his treatment. supplied

canadian researchers develop new type of mri that makes cancer easier to detect
tested on people with prostate cancer, the technique increases the chances of earlier diagnosis.
dave yasvinski
prostate cancer
mar 23 2022
prostate cancer is the fourth most common cancer in canada, with an estimated 23,300 people receiving a diagnosis in 2020, according to the public health agency of canada. getty

as told to: a london, ont. family shares their story of survival and resilience in the face of childhood cancer
'you’ve got to take it not even day by day, but minute by minute and just keep moving forward,' says the wynette family of getting through nine-year-old nash's bout with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
as told to sadaf ahsan
cancer
mar 23 2022
the wynette family (from left to right), kyle, nash, who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 2018, reid and julie. supplied

new technology catches over 95 per cent of deadly cancer
pancreatic cancer has the lowest five-year relative survival rate of all major cancer killers and is the only one for which both the incidence and death rates are rising.
dave yasvinski
pancreatic cancer
mar 22 2022
pancreatic cancer is difficult to diagnose because symptoms do not often appear during the early stages of the disease when surgery is still an option. getty
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cancer cells move through the body with tentacles, like a predator hunting prey
university of copenhagen researchers say the discovery sheds light on how disabling the tentacles may slow the spread of the deadly disease.
chris arnold
cancer
mar 30 2022
the level of mobility, specifically in twisting, is essential to how the cancer cells move around the body. getty

melasma: the emotional impact of skin disease
melasma, which causes patches of skin to darken, has been shown to affect quality of life for those who live with it.
frances krawiec
skin health
mar 30 2022
patients with melasma often describe feeling shame, frustration, low self-esteem, a lack of motivation to go out.

after 10 mammograms, half of women can expect a false positive: study
researchers found that while newer technology did not substantially reduce the risk of false positives, the chances were much lower when screening was done every two years.
dave yasvinski
breast cancer
mar 29 2022
while breast cancer screening is a vital tool in efforts to reduce deaths from the prevalent disease, false positives are a common occurrence. getty

machado: what happens to patients in a war?
one ukraine patient had to leave the hospital with just the clothes he was wearing and no immune system. he reached out for advice on how to stay healthy while homeless.
lisa machado
mar 28 2022
the evacuation programme removes sick children from the war in ukraine and undertakes to match each child to a foreign hospital that has the capacity to continue their care. (photo by alexey furman/getty images)
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canadian centre for caregiving excellence

lung cancer: 'i'm not ready to cash in'
peter brown received the terrifying diagnosis of inoperable stage 4 lung cancer in 2019, but thanks to successful immunotherapy treatment, he's still here to tell the story.
karen hawthorne
lung cancer
mar 24 2022
peter brown (fifth from left) and his family on the last day of his treatment. supplied

canadian researchers develop new type of mri that makes cancer easier to detect
tested on people with prostate cancer, the technique increases the chances of earlier diagnosis.
dave yasvinski
prostate cancer
mar 23 2022
prostate cancer is the fourth most common cancer in canada, with an estimated 23,300 people receiving a diagnosis in 2020, according to the public health agency of canada. getty

as told to: a london, ont. family shares their story of survival and resilience in the face of childhood cancer
'you’ve got to take it not even day by day, but minute by minute and just keep moving forward,' says the wynette family of getting through nine-year-old nash's bout with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
as told to sadaf ahsan
cancer
mar 23 2022
the wynette family (from left to right), kyle, nash, who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 2018, reid and julie. supplied

new technology catches over 95 per cent of deadly cancer
pancreatic cancer has the lowest five-year relative survival rate of all major cancer killers and is the only one for which both the incidence and death rates are rising.
dave yasvinski
pancreatic cancer
mar 22 2022
pancreatic cancer is difficult to diagnose because symptoms do not often appear during the early stages of the disease when surgery is still an option. getty
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diabetes canada

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