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A woman undergoes a mammography exam, a special type of X-ray of the breasts, which is used to detect tumours as part of a regular cancer prevention medical check-up at a clinic in Nice

Breast Cancer Study Shows Benefits of Double Therapy

Giving breast cancer patients radiotherapy and chemotherapy at the same time significantly cuts the risk their tumors will come back and should be considered as a new treatment approach across the world, cancer experts said on Sunday.
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Novartis Drug May Help Older Breast Cancer Patients

Novartis's bone drug Zometa extended survival in older breast cancer patients but failed to improve disease-free survival among younger women patients in a large-scale clinical trial, researchers said on Sunday.
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Roche Bone Drug Eases Pain in Prostate Cancer Trial

Roche's bone strengthening drug Boniva is as good for pain relief as single dose radiotherapy in patients whose prostate cancer has spread to their bones, according to data from a late-stage trial released on Sunday.
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Daredevil Jeb Corliss Flies Through a Mountain [PHOTOS AND VIDEO]

Stuntman Jeb Corliss successfully completed a high-risk wingsuit dive through a 100-ft. wide arch in China's Tienman Mountain on Saturday.Corliss jumped from a helicopter 6,000 feet above the ground, and raced through the air at high speed towards a perilously narrow gap in the mountain. An expectant crowd gasped and cheered as the 35-year old made it through with room to spare.An earlier attempt was aborted after the smoke canisters on his wingsuit malfunctioned. The suit allows him ...
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Oktoberfest 2011: 5 Things to Know

Oktoberfest 2011 is currently underway in Munich, Germany. The festival from Sept. 17 to Oct. 3. Here are the five most important things to know about the festival.
Liverpool's Steven Gerrard challenges Napoli's Micele Pazienza during their Europa League soccer match at Anfield in Liverpool.

Serie A Match Fixing and the Mob

Are Serie A soccer matches being fixed? That is the chief question that Italian investigators are trying to answer this week, after eight people were arrested in Naples for illegal betting.
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Cancer Study Boosts Hopes for Roche's Armed Antibody

Women with an aggressive type of advanced breast cancer can live significantly longer without their disease getting worse if they are treated with an experimental armed antibody drug from Roche, researchers said on Sunday.
The wax figure of late pop star Michael Jackson is unveiled at Madame Tussauds in Hollywood

Michael Jackson's Doctor Trial: Reactions

Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's doctor, has been charged with overdosing pop icon Michael Jackson with a drug that led to the death of the singer. If convicted, Murray would be sentenced up to four years prison.
Lock of Aboriginal hair

Century-Old Hair From Australian Aboriginal Man Unlocks Mystery of Human Dispersal

In the 1920s, an Aboriginal man from Kalgoorlie in Western Australia gave a lock of hair to a British anthropologist. Now, after over a century, scientists have obtained a genomic sequence from that 100-year-old lock of hair, which showed that Aboriginal Australians are descendants of an early human dispersal into eastern Asia, possibly 62,000 to 75,000 years ago.

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