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Anne Li                     7/22/2017                       anne2001.li@gmail.com   The Department of Health has published its long-awaited Tobacco Control Plan for England. The plan aims to create a “smokefree generation” by reducing smoking…...

Anne Li                7/22/2017                         anne2001.li@gmail.com   One reason cancer is so difficult to treat is that it avoids detection by the body. Agents of the immune system are constantly checking the surfaces…...

Anne Li                     7/22/2017                    anne2001.li@gmail.com   Scientists may be able to minimize the failure rate of drugs for diseases linked to high-calorie diets, such as colon cancer and type 2 diabetes, if…...

Anne Li                 7/22/2017                 anne2001.li@gmail.com   An international research team led by Université de Montréal medical professor Christopher Rudd, director of research in immunology and cell therapy at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Centre, has identified a…...

Anne Li                   7/22/2017                     anne2001.li@gmail.com   Several known factors are associated with a higher risk of breast cancer including increasing age, being overweight after menopause, alcohol intake, and family history. However, the…...

Anne LI                           7/22/2017                          anne2001.li@gmail.com   Genetic mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 increase the risk of breast and ovarian cancer in Ashkenazi Jewish women. A new…...

Anne Li                      7/22/2017                       anne2001.li@gmail.com   More than half of cancer patients undergo radiotherapy, in which high doses of radiation are aimed at diseased tissue to kill cancer cells. But…...

Anne Li                     7/22/2017                           anne2001.li@gmail.com   Virtually all cancer treatments used today also damage normal cells, causing the toxic side effects associated with cancer treatment. A cooperative research…...