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Support groups aid patients in cancer care
Breast cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer… three of the more common cancers diagnosed in the country. But even with all of those patients...
Modified prostate cancer surgery offers men better recovery
Dr. Rabii Madi, director of Urologic Oncology and Robotic Surgery at the Georgia Cancer Center, believes the Retzius-Sparing method for...
One man’s mission to offer help to male cancer patients
A male breast cancer survivor wants to make sure his fellow men have access to the treatment options needed to win their own fight against...
Cells that make blood vessels can also make tumors and enable their spread
While it’s widely held that tumors can produce blood vessels to support their growth, scientists now have evidence that cells key to blood...
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Helping dad make a healthy choice about prostate cancer screening
This weekend, families across the country will celebrate “dad” with funny cards, gifts and plenty of food, too. And while it’s all fun and...
Medical Minute discusses an unhealthy role of protein
In this week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at...
Protein hampers the positive power of brown and beige fat
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Too much of a protein already associated with prostate cancer appears to also diminish the energy burning power of brown...
Georgia Cancer Center participates in initiative to understand racial, ethnic, age disparities in six cancers
The Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University is one of a dozen sites across the nation helping build a molecular profile of six cancers...
NCI-grant explores potential of likely tumor-suppressor gene in kidney cancer
A poorly understood gene that appears super-suppressed in African-Americans with kidney cancer may be a biomarker of a patient’s prognosis...
Baseball great Ken Griffey tells men “Don’t fear the finger” at MCG event
Had Ken Griffey, Sr. never been part of baseball’s fabled Big Red Machine, had he not been part of three World Series championships or won...
Treatment strategy under development has two arms to get a secure grip on cancer
Scientists have engineered a sort of biological barbell that can get inside cancer cells and do damage to two proteins that work...
June 21st Lecture: Important Issues in Prostate Cancer Pathology
Thomas Wheeler, MD, is board certified in Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology, and Cytopathology and has served over 35 years in...
New target identified for reducing cancer metastasis
AUGUSTA, Ga. – A protein that is constantly expressed by cancer cells and quiescent in healthy ones appears to be a solid target for...
Coping with cancer: 5 ways to fight back
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Before the books close on 2015, an estimated 1.6 million new cancer cases will be detected, according to the American Cancer...
Older, white males with advanced bladder cancer at high risk for suicide
Older, single white males with advanced bladder cancer have the highest suicide risk among those with other cancers of the male genitals...
GRU launches special Initiative to reduce the burden of preventable cancers in Georgia
The Georgia Regents University Cancer Center today launched an initiative seeking to reduce the burden of cancer among minority and...