Republican party presidential candidate John McCain is a survivor of melanoma –  a deadly form of skin cancer.
Earlier this week, a spot in his right cheek was removed as part of a routine check-up. Following biopsy results have showed that McCain is cancer-free.
Presumed Republican presidential nominee John McCain, who has a history of dangerous melanomas, had a spot of skin removed from his face today, his campaign said.
The patch of skin was removed from McCain’s right cheek during a routine checkup in Arizona, the candidate said. In 2000, an invasive melanoma was removed from the senator’s left temple.
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A new study published August 18 in the open access journal Breast Cancer Research confirms the reliability of core needle biopsy as a tool in breast cancer diagnosis and prognosis.
The study conducted by Rosanna Zanetti-Dällenbach from the Women’s University Hospital in Basel, Switzerland and colleagues from Stiftung Tumorbank, OncoScore AG and University Hospital in Basel, reported that the gene expression profile detected in the core needle biopsy of a breast tumour is representative of gene expression in the whole tumour.
According to this study:
The gene expression profile detected in the core needle biopsy of a breast tumour is representative of gene …read more