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Searchresult: German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) presents software systems for computerassisted lung surgery as well as for liver and pancreatic surgery at MEDICAGerman Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) presents software systems for computerassisted lung surgery as well as for liver and pancreatic surgery at MEDICA Date: 14.11.2005 Press release content type: Press release
Preoperative three-dimensional views of the individual patient anatomy provide physicians with added safety in planning and performing treatments. Scientists of the Division of Medical and Biological…
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Searchresult: DKFZ Passes Ethical Code on the Non-Acceptance of Tobacco Industry Funds for Cancer ResearchDKFZ Passes Ethical Code on the Non-Acceptance of Tobacco Industry Funds for Cancer Research Date: 08.11.2005 Press release content type: Press release
The German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) is the first research institute in Germany to pass an ethical code on the non-acceptance of tobacco industry funds for…
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Searchresult: Familial Cancer Risk Overestimated
Is it really always genes or environmental influences that are responsible for increased incidences of cancer cases in individual families? Dr. Justo Lorenzo Bermejo and Professor Dr. Kari Hemminki…
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Searchresult: A Boost for Radiation Therapy
An increasing number of cancer patients are cured today by radiation therapy – alone or in combination with surgery or chemotherapy. At the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches…
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Searchresult: Cancer Because Mom and Dad Smoked?
When parents smoke, they lay the foundations for their child to develop cancer in later life. In particular, exposure to secondhand smoke in childhood increases the risk of nasal cancer. In addition,…
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Searchresult: Valuable Help in Pancreatic Surgery
More safety for cancer patients during surgery is provided by a new software which enables physicians to plan and perform surgical operations with enhanced precision. Computational molecular…
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Searchresult: Dragnet Search for Cancer Genes
Cancer is often caused by defects in the information pathways that regulate cell division. Dr. Michael Boutros, head of the Boveri group “Signaling and Functional Genomics" of the German Cancer…
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Searchresult: Novel Diagnostic Approach for Prostate CancerNovel Diagnostic Approach for Prostate Cancer Date: 01.08.2005 Press release content type: Press release
Methods for early detection of cancer should be simple and reliable. In the case of prostate cancer, the S100A9 protein appears to be equal or even superior to prostate specific antigen (PSA) as a…
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Searchresult: Spoilt for Choice: Therapy Decisions for Skin Cancer PatientsSpoilt for Choice: Therapy Decisions for Skin Cancer Patients Date: 29.07.2005 Press release content type: Press release
To select the optimal therapeutic strategy for malignant melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer, it is crucial to be able to discriminate, with high reliability, tumor stages and chances of…
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Searchresult: Novel Substance to Re-Program Tumor CellsNovel Substance to Re-Program Tumor Cells Date: 14.07.2005 Press release content type: Press release
Tumor cells often silence growth-inhibiting genes by chemically tagging specific building blocks of DNA. DKFZ scientists have now synthesized a substance that reverses these alterations.
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