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Category: What is the status of cancer research?

What cancers are being studied, what we know about them, and what are the latest findings?
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Trying to prevent cancer and heart disease? Skip the Vitamin D.

Posted on December 4, 2018December 5, 2023 by Sciworthy

Vitamin D does not appear to help prevent cancer and heart disease in a 5 year long study of over 25,000 older Americans.

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    Brain Cancer Treatment Finishes Phase 3 of Clinical Trials

    Posted on July 9, 2018May 6, 2025 by Nathan Gock

    For most types of cancer, survival rates have steadily been improving since the 1970s as medical advancements have been made in both cancer…

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      Popular over-the-counter sleep aid may help with cancer treatment side effects

      Posted on May 8, 2017October 24, 2022 by Gina Misra

      An over-the-counter hormone supplement called melatonin, typically made from animal pineal glands or synthesized in a laboratory, was tested…

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        Viruses may help us in the fight against cancer

        Posted on March 27, 2017October 24, 2022 by Gina Misra

        Cancer is one of the greatest challenges of our time. A common misconception about cancer is that it is one disease. There are hundreds of…

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