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ALOS June 2010
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ALOS Screening Give yourself an edge: Get screened
Learn about one of the best ways to improve your chances of a long, healthy life: cancer screening tests.


Blood marker may aid early breast cancer detection
Levels of a telltale protein in a woman’s blood may signal breast cancer up to 17 months before a typical diagnosis.



Science matters
Freezing 'to death' and living to tell about it
How is it that some people who apparently freeze to death can be brought back to life? A new suspended animation study sheds light on this phenomenon.


A dangerous stomach bug with a twist
Discoveries about the corkscrew shape of a bacterium that can lead to stomach cancer and ulcers may spark better antibiotic drugs to prevent these diseases.


Drug cocktail cuts HIV transmission
Use of antiretroviral therapy reduced the spread of HIV by more than 90 percent among couples in which one partner has the disease.

Get to Know Us
ALOS, Higano Battling prostate cancer with vaccines
Dr. Tia Higano works to bring new options to men with prostate cancer. She investigates vaccines—like the recently approved Provenge—that may boost survival rates with fewer side effects.

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Summer Quest
ALOS Quest In this issue, read about chemobrain, a debilitating condition in recovering cancer patients that was little understood until recently, and "Dr. T-Cell," a pioneer in the emerging field of immunotherapy to treat cancer.
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