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Or do you still fear that heavy cellphone use may yet be tied to brain-cancer risk?
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A 13-country study of adults, released last year, suggested that there was no increased brain-cancer risk for cellphone users compared with non-users.
Study Sees No Cellphone-Cancer Ties Gautam Naik 2011
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Kurt Straif, a cancer epidemiologist at the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer who wasn't involved in the latest research, said the study was "important" because it was the first to look at a possible cellphone and brain-cancer link in children.
Study Sees No Cellphone-Cancer Ties Gautam Naik 2011
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His six-year-old son recently had two brain-cancer operations, he says.
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The charity, Voices Against Brain Cancer, conducts monthly support groups for caregivers and families of brain-cancer patients, as well as people who have been diagnosed with nonmalignant brain tumors.
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Translation: you don't get to have brain-cancer surgery at Duke.
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Paula Vertino of the Emory University School of Medicine, for example, has identified patches of DNA that seem especially prone to be inappropriately silenced or activated in breast and lung cancer; researchers at Johns Hopkins have used epigenetic markers in brain-cancer cells to predict which patients are likelier to benefit from chemotherapy.
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Could we your opinion on the best therapy for brain-cancer patients?
Newt Gingrich: Republicans Ran "Cheap And Nasty" Campaign Against Kerry In 2004 2009
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Health physicists are establishing safe procedures for a promising experimental brain-cancer therapy which uses a radioactive version of scorpion venom to kill cancer cells.
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And our chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, says Senator Kennedy could be a candidate for a new vaccine that's having great success in some brain-cancer patients.
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