2009

June

• Habits explain poor women’s worse cancer outcome -

• Stroke risk increased in Hodgkin’s survivors -

• Prostate Cancer Translational Research in Europe meeting: Search for biomarkers continues -

• Green Tea May Affect Prostate Cancer Progression -

• Dramatic Outcomes in Prostate Cancer Study -

• Less Invasive CT-Scan Based Colorectal Cancer Screening Method Shows Good Accuracy -

• ‘Cannabis alters human DNA’—new study -

• Potential for non-invasive brain tumor treatment -

• Novel light-sensitive compounds show promise for cancer therapy -

• Statins may cut liver cancer risk for diabetics -

• Most patients want cancer prognosis test -

• Diet may make a difference in prostate cancer -

• Prototype Breast Cancer Imaging System May Improve Patient Care -

• New Approach for Treating Recurrent Prostate Cancer on the Horizon -

• “Navigators” help improve colon cancer screening -

• Study shows promise for new cancer-stopping therapy -

• Gene explains breast cancer chemotherapy outcomes -

• Many breast cancer patients take high doses of antioxidants despite possible consequences -

• Women underrepresented in most cancer research -

• Exercise after age 30 may curb breast cancer risk -

• Jefferson researchers identify critical marker of response to gemcitabine in pancreatic cancer -

• Acrylamide in food not linked to prostate cancer -

• Brain Irradiation in Lung Cancer -

• Heaviest Smokers Face Greatest Risk of Death After Lung Cancer Diagnosis -

• Diet May Reduce Risk of Prostate Cancer -

• Researchers Link Pathway to Breast Cancer Stem Cells -

• Wet ear wax and unpleasant body odors signal breast cancer risk -

• Researchers Discover Genetic Risk Factor for Testicular Cancer -

• Surgery Not Necessary for Most Late-Stage Colorectal Cancers -

May

• Eating Meat Does Not Raise Breast Cancer Risk in Older Women -

• Cotton-Seed Based Drug Shows Promise in Treating Severe Brain Cancer -

• Cancer Cells Need Normal, Non-mutated Genes to Survive -

• Carbohydrate restriction may slow prostate tumor growth -

• Black women often refuse breast cancer treatment -

• Testicular cancer survivors may face lung problems -

• Statins may cut liver cancer risk in diabetics -

• Black women often refuse breast cancer treatment -

• Early childbirth, big family tied to kidney cancer -

• Breast MRI Detects Additional “Unsuspected” Cancers Not Seen on Mammography or Ultrasoun -

• African-American women with advanced breast cancer often forego vital treatment -

• Younger men with advanced prostate cancer have shorter survival times -

• Why Do People with Down Syndrome Have Less Cancer? -

• The future of personalized cancer treatment: An entirely new direction for RNAi delivery -

• Study Shows Chemotherapy Improves Survival Among Older Breast Cancer Patients -

• Early Xeloda does not help in breast cancer- study -

• New Treatment Tested for Common Type of Non-Invasive Breast Cancer -

• Formaldehyde raises risk of deadly cancers: study -

• Don’t Give Up on Prostate Cancer Screening Just Yet -

• Novel therapy may prove effective in treatment of 30 percent of cancers -

• Scientists Identify Gene in Breast Cancer Pathway -

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