2009

February

• Beach vacations may increase future skin cancer risk in children -

• New tool predicts women’s outcome in breast cancer -

• Artificial Light at Night: Higher Risk of Prostate Cancer -

• Soy May Reduce the Risk of Colorectal Cancer -

• New technique images tumor vessel leakiness to predict breast cancer chemotherapy outcome -

• Study identifies potential ‘safe period’ for hormone replacement use -

• Overweight men risk prostate cancer recurrence -

January

• Physics, Math Provide Clues to Unraveling Cancer -

• Stress May Hasten Growth of Melanoma Tumors -

• Screening May Eventually Reduce Additional Breast Surgery -

• UK breast screening information has serious shortcomings -

• Many Women Who Had Childhood Cancer Do Not Undergo Breast Cancer Screening -

• Researchers Identify Risk Factors for Contralateral Breast Cancer -

• Cancer-causing gene discovery suggests new therapies -

• Study examines risk factors for cancer in unaffected breast of breast cancer patients -

• Marital distress may worsen breast cancer recovery -

• Obesity common in women at risk of breast cancer -

• Breast Cancer Survivors Call for More “Survivorship Care” from Primary Care Physicians -

• Free prescriptions over cancer -

• Important advance in the treatment of cancer and viral infections -

• African-Americans Have Worse Prognosis at Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis -

• Hepatitis C ups liver cancer risk, study confirms -

• 5 Ways to Spot and Stop Smoking-Related Cancers -

• Stem Cells Could be Used for Personalized Cancer Treatment -

• Abnormal DNA Repair Genes May Predict Pancreatic Cancer Risk -

• DNA Repair Patterns May Predict Risk of Pancreatic Cancer -

• Researchers identify new protein that triggers breast cancer -

• Morbidly obese patients face high risk for complications after colectomy -

• Obesity may raise risk of ovarian cancer -

• Treatment May Need to Be Modified for Elderly Brain Cancer Patients -

• UNC study supports role of circadian clock in response to chemotherapy -

• Researchers Discover New Genes That Fuse in Cancer -

• New Lab Evidence Suggests Preventive Effect of Herbal Supplement in Prostate Cancer -

• Hormone therapy associated with reduced colorectal cancer risk -

• High insulin levels raise risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women -

• New Hope for Cancer Comes Straight from the Heart -

• Large breast cancers persist despite screening -

• Lung Cancer Cells Activate Inflammation to Induce Metastasis -

• Why Prostate Cancer Patients Fail Hormone Deprivation -

• Family history of prostate cancer does not affect some treatment outcomes -

2008

December

• Pain pills may cut risk of bowel cancer: study -

• Newly Found Enzymes May Play Early Role in Cancer -

• Lance Armstrong: Cancer a global problem -

• Weakened RNA Interference Reduces Survival in Ovarian Cancer -

• Fruits, veggies slash breast cancer risk: U.S. study -

• Rotating breast cancer tests helps high-risk women -

• Possible way to treat ovarian cancer reported -

• Diet May Cut Second Breast Cancers in Women Without Hot Flashes -

• Low-Income Men More Likely to be Diagnosed with Advanced Prostate Cancers -

• Aspirin Not Effective in Preventing Lynch Syndrome -

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