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Cancer Vaccines
Researchers at University of London publish new data on cancer vaccines
September 23rd, 2008
"This study examined cancer research stories on the BBC web archive (July 1998 - June 2006). There were about 260 BBC stories per year, of which about 170 were classed as relevant to reports of cancer research," investigators in London, the United Kingdom report. "The stories focused heavily on breast cancer, and over one-third of them mentioned this (compared with a cancer disease burden of 13%); the next most covered sites were lung and prostate cancers, although the former was much less mentioned than its cancer disease burden of almost 20% would have suggested. The focus of the stories was often on new or improved drugs or vaccines (20% of stories), with lifestyle...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-09-23)
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