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Online Registration for the 2009 Annual Conference will be available by July 6.
Researchers at St Jude are asserting that radiation therapy can be eliminated as a treatment for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), according to a press release at www.stjude.org. (6/29/09)
Patients who receive a cancer diagnosis at age 65 or older often experience a significant decrease in quality of life, according to two studies published in the June 9, 2009, online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. (6/29/09)
Childhood survivors of cancer treated with radiation therapy were less likely than their siblings to undergo a colonoscopy or PAP smear, but more likely to have undergone a mammogram or skin exam, in a recent study by Paul C. Nathan et al presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting. (6/22/09)
In a study of more than 1,800 patients treated for head and neck squamous cell cancer with radiation therapy alone, post-operative radiation therapy and chemoradiotherapy, cigarette and alcohol use was associated with poor outcomes. (6/22/09)
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