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New Microdevice Captures Rare Cancer Cells

(March 31) -- Cancer patients could soon benefit from a new screening device that can pick out and analyze rare tumor cells from standard blood samples, according to a report today in Science Translational Medicine. The device, which is the size of a business card, could be an alternative to surgery, offering a noninvasive...

My Cancer Scare, Thanks to a Mammogram

WASHINGTON (Nov. 17) -- Now they tell me. It took doctors and scientists on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force seven years to reverse their recommendation that women have mammograms every one or two years once they turn 40, saying the tests triggered too many false alarms. But I already knew that they can do more...