by Christina Silva | Sep 19, 2023 | Blog
Source: CNBC In his office at the VA hospital in Seattle, Dr. Nadeem Zafar needed to settle a debate. Zafar is a pathologist, the kind of doctor that carries out clinical lab tests on bodily fluids and tissues to diagnose conditions like cancer. It’s a specialty...
by David Rosado | Oct 27, 2015 | 2015, Blog, October
www.cbsnews.com It’s official: Ham, sausage and other processed meats can lead to colon, stomach and other cancers – and red meat is probably cancer-causing, too. While doctors have long warned against eating too much meat, the World Health...
by David Rosado | Jul 9, 2015 | 2015, Blog, July
SCOTT HENSLEY NPR One of the great successes in the war on cancer has been the steep decline in the death rate from colorectal cancer. Since 1970, the colorectal cancer death rate per 100,000 Americans has been cut in half, falling to 15.1 in 2011 from 29.2 in...
by David Rosado | Jun 25, 2015 | 2015, Blog, June
Catharine Paddock PhD www.medicalnewstoday.com A study that successfully differentiated patients with pancreatic cancer from those with another pancreatic disease using a new biomarker, could lead to a blood test that detects pancreatic cancer early enough for...
by David Rosado | May 28, 2015 | 2015, Blog, May
TARA HAELLE www.npr.org Sometimes a story takes odd turns as you report it. Every once in while it goes off the rails. That’s what happened as I reported on a new study purporting to explain how a childhood vaccine helps prevent leukemia. The experience...
