2011

November

• Tamoxifen resistance—and how to defeat it -

• Study helps eliminate causes for joint pain linked to commonly used breast cancer drugs -

• New target identified to stop the spread of breast cancer -

• Cervical cancer vaccines may cut need for screening -

• Panel backs skin cancer advice for youths -

• UT MD Anderson study finds advances in breast cancer don’t extend to older women -

• Prostate surgery risks lower at academic hospitals -

• Researchers discover genes involved in colorectal cancer -

• Just a few drinks a week tied to breast cancer -

• Breast cancer risk: It’s not all in the family -

October

• Computer-based tool to improve diagnosis and prognosis for cancer patients -

• Key driver of metastasis identified -

• Estrogen use tied to bladder control problems -

• Folate receptors may serve as a front door to ovarian cancer treatment -

• Controlling gene expression to halt cancer growth -

• Moffitt Cancer Center Researchers Find More Clues To Causes Of Breast Cancer -

• Research makes it possible to predict how cancers will respond to chemo -

• Singling out the real breast cancer among the lumps -

• Significant Weight Gain in Adulthood Increased Risk for Endometrial Cancer -

• Body Weight, Diet May Be Risk Factors for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma -

• Advanced post-mastectomy breast reconstruction improves women’s psychosocial and sexual well-being -

• Trio of studies support use of PET/CT scans as prostate cancer staging tool -

• Mobile phones don’t hike cancer risk: Danish study -
  
  
  

• More breast cancer diagnosed in women with diabetes -

• Association of quantity of alcohol and frequency of consumption with cancer mortality -

• Thomas Jefferson University Hospital adopts new imaging agent to improve detection of bladder cancer -

• Health panel cautious on HPV screening vs Pap -

• Discovery of a cell mechanism that reduces effectiveness of breast cancer treatment -

• Health groups issue proposed cervical cancer screening guidelines -

• Researchers Find Possible Link Between Bacterium and Colon Cancer -

• Male breast cancer rare, but can be aggressive -

• Mammogram results often wrong, U.S. study finds -

• Obese Women Have Higher Risk Of Suffering Breast Cancer -

• Lung cancer patients with diabetes show prolonged survival -

• Researchers discover that same gene has opposite effects in prostate, breast cancers -

• Breast Cancer Surgery Preserves Artery for Future Heart Surgery -

• BRCA2 genetic mutation associated with improved survival and chemotherapy response in ovarian cancer -

• Ovarian cancer patients survive longer with BRCA2 mutated in tumors -

• Hispanic Women Have Higher Incidence of Rare Breast Tumor -

• Inhaler treatment for lung cancer -

• Vitamin E may raise prostate cancer risk -

• University of Colorado Cancer Center test helps reduce risk of death in advanced lung cancer -

• Pancreatic Cancer Expert at University of Virginia -

• UNC Researcher to Help Lead New Esophageal Cancer Network -

• Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Cancer -

• What is a Neuroendocrine Tumor? -

• Different types of islet cell tumors have different signs and symptoms -

• Islet Cell Tumors (Endocrine Pancreas) -

• Neuroendocrine Tumors of the Pancreas -

• Early breast cancer screening may help some: study -

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