Health

Pod e-cigarettes are less harmful to health than traditional cigarettes

[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 18, 2020 Cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States, according to federal government data, and some smokers find it nearly impossible to quit. Many of these smokers use regular or combustible cigarettes. Doctors and scientists have been exploring …

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Small benefit of vitamin D for advanced cancer risk

[ad_1] Middle-aged adults who took low-dose vitamin D supplements for 5 years had a small but statistically lower risk of developing metastatic or fatal cancer, a new analysis of a randomized study showed. The absolute difference – 1.7% with vitamin D versus 2.1% without – represented a 17% reduction in …

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The computational method could predict the immunotherapy response in patients with advanced melanoma

[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 18, 2020 Conclusion: A computational method that combines clinicodemographic variables with in-depth learning of pre-treatment histological images could predict the response to immune checkpoint blockade among patients with advanced melanoma. Journal in which the study was published: Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the …

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