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Breast implant

Should breast implants come with a health warning?

18 Mar 2015

Newspaper reports suggest that France may be considering health warnings – or even an outright ban – on breast implants, following a cancer scare...

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Breast implant

Study offers clues to how breast implants may cause lymphoma

16 Sep 2014

Researchers at the University of Cambridge, together with colleagues specialising in plastic surgery or histopathology in Austria, Australia...

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Facing up to cancer

02 Apr 2013

Gavin Garland’s experiences of confronting cancer as a teenager influenced his choice of career as a molecular biologist working on the mechanisms of...

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Lymphoma

Cut-and-paste cancer: lymphoma’s genetic blueprint

04 Jan 2010

Researchers in the Department of Pathology have established precisely how the ‘cutting and pasting’ of genetic material from one chromosome to...

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