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(Source: UBC - University of British Columbia) Patients who experience anxiety and depression after being diagnosed with advanced lung cancer are more likely to die sooner, according to new research from the University of British Columbia and BC Cancer...

Written by UBC PR Researchers Jiayun Yao and Hind Sbihi were intrigued by a population health concern they were hearing about anecdotally: that immigrants had fewer allergies upon arriving in Canada, but that their allergy rates increased over time...

Global Experts Discuss and Recommend Best Practices for the Integration of Personalized Medicine Into Healthcare VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwired - June 07, 2015) - The Personalized Medicine Summit will bring together global leaders from academia, healthcare...

Published on July 13, 2015. Canadian researchers have launched the world’s first clinical trial of a novel investigational therapy that uses a combination of two viruses to attack and kill cancer cells, and stimulate an anti-cancer immune response. Previous...

March 7, 2016 (Toronto) – A new guideline on screening for lung cancer with low-dose CT technology presents a new opportunity for the control of lung cancer – currently Canada’s most common cause of cancer death. The Canadian Task Force on Preventive...