2015

January

• Coupling head and neck cancer screening and lung cancer scans could improve survival -
  
  
  

• Nutrition intervention leads to dietary behavior changes in Latina breast cancer survivors -
  
  
  

• Nutrition education may help prevent breast cancer reoccurrence -
  
  
  

2014

December

• Scientists zero in on how lung cancer spreads -
  
  
  

• Scientists identify rare cancer’s genetic pathway -
  
  
  

• Mutations Need Help From Aging Tissue to Cause Leukemia -
  
  
  

• How does prostate cancer form? -
  
  
  

• Breast Cancer Specialist Presents Positive Results for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Presurgery Chemotherapy Benefits -
  
  
  

• Herceptin found to improve long-term survival of HER2-positive breast cancer patients -
  
  
  

• Most elderly women with early stage breast cancer receive a treatment that may not be as effective -
  
  
  

• Older breast cancer patients still get radiation despite limited benefit -
  
  
  

• HIV No Bar to Transplant for Lymphoma -
  
  
  

• Common prostate cancer treatment associated with decreased survival in older men -
  
  
  

• Mental health inequalities in detection of breast cancer -
  
  
  

November

• Survival differences seen for advanced-stage laryngeal cancer -
  
  
  

• New insights into breast cancer spread could yield better tests and treatments -
  
  
  

• Therapy Found Effective in Older, African American Lung Cancer Patients -
  
  
  

• ‘Invisible tattoos’ could improve body confidence after breast cancer radiotherapy -
  
  
  

October

• Generic Medications Boost Adherence to Breast Cancer Therapy -

• Radiation exposure linked to aggressive thyroid cancers -
  
  
  

• Useful markers to predict response to chemotherapy in patients with liver cancer -
  
  
  

• Silencing the speech gene FOXP2 causes breast cancer cells to metastasize -
  
  
  

• New analysis methodology may revolutionize breast cancer therapy -
  
  
  

• Detecting Cancer Earlier is Goal of Rutgers-Developed Medical Imaging Technology -
  
  
  

• Blood biomarker may detect lung cancer, study presented at CHEST 2014 -
  
  
  

• Trastuzumab continues to show life for HER2-positve early stage breast cancer -
  
  
  

• Patients who have left breast tumors have comparable OS to those with right breast tumors -
  
  
  

• Study sheds light on factors that may contribute to pancreatic cancer -
  
  
  

• PTPRZ-MET fusion protein: A new target for personalized brain cancer treatment -
  
  
  

• Oral drug reduces formation of precancerous polyps in the colon, UB researchers find -
  
  
  

• New at-risk group identified for gastrointestinal stromal tumors -
  
  
  

• Testosterone promotes prostate cancer in rats -
  
  
  

• Link between breast implants and cancer under investigation -
  
  
  

• Study indicates possible new way to treat endometrial, colon cancers -
  
  
  

• Researchers discover gene that can predict aggressive prostate cancer at diagnosis -
  
  
  

September

• Scientists discover a new role for estrogen in the pathology of breast cancer -
  
  
  

• New data on combination treatments for melanoma -
  
  
  

• Risk of esophageal cancer decreases with height -
  
  
  

• Most Breast Cancer Patients Who Had Healthy Breast Removed at Peace with Decision -
  
  
  

• New Study Identifies Opportunities To Reduce Patient Burden Associated With Breast Cancer Screening -
  
  
  

• Patients with advanced, incurable cancer denied palliative care -
  
  
  

• Exercise Boosts Tumor-fighting Ability of Chemotherapy, Penn Team Finds -
  
  
  

• Large study reveals new genetic variants that raise risk for prostate cancer -
  
  
  

• Breast cancer screening in over-70s ‘may lead to overdiagnosis’ -
  
  
  

• Accurate test for aggressive prostate cancer steps closer with genetic study -
  
  
  

• Chemotherapy and stereotactic ablative radiation (SABR) consecutively may be promising treatment option for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer -
  
  
  

• Benefit of endocrine therapy in elderly women with low risk hormone receptor positive breast cancer? -

• African American Women Receive Less Breast Reconstruction after Mastectomy -
  
  
  

• Novel Immunotherapy Vaccine Decreases Recurrence in HER2 Positive Breast Cancer Patients -
  
  
  

• Breast conserving therapy shows survival benefit compared to mastectomy in early-stage patients -
  
  
  

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