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  1. Health & Medicine

    Chemotherapy baldness thwarted in rats

    Scientists studying rats have now developed a medication that wards off chemotherapy-induced baldness.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Health & Medicine

    Protein predicts prostate cancer spread

    Prostate cancer patients who harbor high concentrations of a protein called thymosine beta-15 in their tumors face an increased risk that the cancer will spread.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Health & Medicine

    Getting melanoma chemotherapy to work

    A drug that turns off a gene that blocks the action of chemotherapy in melanoma shows promise against this lethal skin cancer.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Health & Medicine

    High estrogen linked to lung cancer

    Estrogen receptors proliferating on tumor cells in women's lungs may account for why women seem more easily affected by the carcinogenic effects of tobacco smoke.