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  • Striving to Improve Treatments for Uveal Melanoma: Although primary uveal melanoma can be effectively treated with radiation or surgery, patients with metastatic disease-or those at high risk for metastases-have few proven options. But specialists in medical oncology, radiation oncology, ophthalmology, surgery, and traditional research are working to improve those options
  • Beyond Diabetes: Metformin May Have Broad Utility in Cancer: Metformin, an inexpensive drug that has been prescribed for diabetes for decades, may also be useful in preventing or treating several types of cancer
  • HOUSE CALL: Smoking Cessation-Medications help smokers quit
  • INBRIEF: Vaccine Explored to Reduce Risk of HER2-Positive Breast Cancer Recurrence

Publication Date

11-1-2014

Publisher

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

City

Houston, Texas

Keywords

Lu, Karen H.; Beadle, Beth M.; Gombos, Dan; Grimm, Elizabeth; Patel, Sapna; Woodman, Scott; Chattopadhyah, Chandrani; Esmaeli, Bita; Naing, Aung; Soliman, Pamela; Skinner, Heath; Penas-Prado, Marta; Mittendorf, Elizabeth A.; Janku, Filip; Uveal Neoplasms; Melanoma; Neoplasm Metastasis; Liver Neoplasms -- secondary; Brachytherapy; Chemotherapy, Adjuvant; Metformin; Neoplasms; Lung Neoplasms; Smoking Cessation; Nicotine Replacement Therapy; Cancer Vaccines; Genes, erbB-2; Peptide Fragments; Receptor, ErbB-2; Clinical Trials as Topic.

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History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Oncology

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OncoLog, Volume 59, Number 11-12, November-December 2014

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