Punch a phrase like "breast cancer" into her database and the names of David Arquette and wife Courteney Cox will pop up--Arquette's mother died of the disease.

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In the study, researchers at Harvard Medical School analyzed a national database of cancer statistics in which nearly 350, 000 men diagnosed with prostate cancer between 1979 and 2004 were followed for a year after receiving their diagnosis.

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"Of around 800 prostate cancer patients on the hospital's database about 10% are black, nearly 3 times their rate in the population, " he said.

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Diadexus scans the database for those few genes specific to one type of cancer, but not found in healthy tissue or other diseases.

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The Friend way would take all the data collected each year from the thousands of cancer patients entered in trials, make it anonymous and put it into one database, preferably held by the U.S. government but definitely accessible to any physician or scientist.

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The CDC database is the primary repository for the government's information on everything from infant mortality rates and cancer deaths to accidental poisonings and heart disease.

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The researchers then ran each ingredient through a medical journal database to find studies linking how much of the ingredient people consumed to their risk for some type of cancer.

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She said three large studies, covering almost 20, 000 IVF children, had found no increased cancer risk, and that there were no cases of retinoblastoma amongst 6, 000 IVF children on the Scandinavian IVF database.

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