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colorectal cancer

Appendix surgery

Life

Miniature brain and skull found inside 16-year-old girl’s ovary

A tumour removed from a girl in Japan contained a thin plate of bone covering a brain-like structure capable of sending electric impulses between cells

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girl

Health

Gene editing starts to save lives as human trials get under way

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Mushrooms

Health

Magic mushroom drug helps people with cancer face death

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Neurosurgery

Health

Laser probe lets brain surgeons identify cancer cells with sound

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Full ashtray

Health

Every 50 cigarettes smoked cause one DNA mutation per lung cell

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Randy Hillard, pictured on a street in San Francisco

Health

The price of my life: $1.6 million and counting

Features

Musical: A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer

Health

A new London musical will change the way we think about cancer

Culture

Picture of Ben Stiller

Health

Why men should ignore Ben Stiller's call for cancer test

Analysis

Baby breastfeeding

Health

Your boobs start to eat themselves after breastfeeding is over

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Breast cancer cell

Health

Body clock gene may help lethal spread of breast cancer

Shift work raises the risk of breast cancer, and now a gene associated with the body clock seems to makes its spread more likely in mice

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Health

Deaths from 9/11-related illness are set to exceed initial toll

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Health

Doing exercise may counteract some of alcohol’s deadly effects

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Technology

Nanobots could swarm like bats to hunt out brain tumours

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Health

Laser made from human blood could help hunt down tumours

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