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MSN MoneyCentral - A symposium on platinum resistant ovarian cancer will be held at the European Society for Gynecological Oncology in Berlin on Sunday, 28 October. Leading cancer researchers will speak at the symposium which will focus on advances in platinum ...

BBC News - Earlier this year the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation recommended routine vaccination for 11 to 12-year olds, including the possibility of a catch-up campaign - but only up to the age of 16. In England the programme will start ...

Times Online - Most doctors will welcome the Government’s announcement of a vaccination programme for girls but hope that the vaccine will be made available to other age groups earlier than announced. Many doctors also believe that, despite the increased expense ...

Bloomberg - Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. girls will receive vaccinations that prevent about 70 percent of cervical cancers starting next year, the government said today. The inoculation protects against the human papillomavirus, a sexually transmitted virus that ...

Forbes - Kosan Biosciences Inc. and Roche Holding AG are terminating their development and marketing partnership for experimental cancer drug epothilone, the biotechnology company said late Thursday. The companies, which teamed up in in September 2002, will ...

Forbes - SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Accuray Incorporated (Nasdaq: ARAY), a global leader in the field of radiosurgery, announced today that the company is partnering with The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in ...

MSN MoneyCentral - LOS ANGELES, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ASTRO Booth #2303 -- Varian Medical Systems VAR is sponsoring a special broadcast of The Group Room, a live radio talkshow about cancer that will air during the American Society for Therapeutic ...

CNBC - ... 2nd graf and shows it is a Roche Holding drug) MADRID (Thomson Financial) - Zeltia SA unit PharmaMar said it has obtained positive results in preclinical studies on its drugs Zalypsis and Aplidin, which have been presented in three recent cancer ...

CBS News - (AP) Ten-year-old cancer patient Fadi Haddad received an unexpected guest Thursday _ first lady Laura Bush, who was visiting Jordan to launch a U.S.-funded breast cancer screening center. "I really loved Mrs. Bush. She was sweet and warm," said the ...

Forbes - GURNEE, Ill., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Super Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. For children suffering with neuroblastoma, a rare and deadly type of pediatric cancer, they come in the form of scientists, researchers, doctors and nurses. In ...