2014

June

• Personalized therapy helped women with advanced cervical cancer -
  
  
  

May

• Cancer doctors urged to consider value when treating patients -
  
  
  

• More patients with ovarian cancer are receiving chemotherapy before surgery -
  
  
  

• Study explains how green tea could reduce pancreatic cancer risk -
  
  
  

• Circumcision linked to reduced risk of prostate cancer in some men -
  
  
  

• Two new possible drug targets for triple negative breast cancer -
  
  
  

• More access to health care may lead to unnecessary mammograms -
  
  
  

• An area’s level of poverty or wealth may affect the distribution of cancer types -
  
  
  

• Study identifies how signals trigger cancer cells to spread -
  
  
  

• Team validates potentially powerful new way to treat HER2-positive breast cancer -
  
  
  

• Gene mutation found for aggressive form of pancreatic cancer -
  
  
  

• Studies still looking for link between cell phones and brain tumors -
  
  
  

• Yale Cancer Center studies find lifestyle changes improve biomarkers for breast cancer recurrence and mortality -
  
  
  

• Most women who have double mastectomy don’t need it, U-M study finds -
  
  
  

• Scientists find new way to combat drug resistance in skin cancer -
  
  
  

• Dogs can sniff out prostate cancer in urine -
  
  
  

• Robot-assisted prostate cancer surgery as safe but more expensive as open surgery in older men -
  
  
  

• New way to predict response to chemo in triple-negative breast cancer -
  
  
  

• Cancer patient demands rarely lead to unnecessary tests and treatments -
  
  
  

• Large panel genetic testing produces more questions than answers in breast cancer -
  
  
  

• Researchers identify link between colon cancer and metabolism -
  
  
  

• Older, sicker men with early-stage prostate cancer do not benefit from aggressive treatment -
  
  
  

• US cervical cancer rates higher than previously reported, especially among older women -
  
  
  

• Current guidelines underestimate US cervical cancer incidence and older women’s risk -
  
  
  

• New Method Sneaks Drugs into Cancer Cells Before Triggering Release -
  
  
  

• Ovarian cancer cells are more aggressive on soft tissues -
  
  
  

• Few women at high-risk for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer receive genetic counseling -
  
  
  

• International molecular screening program for metastatic breast cancer AURORA at IMPAKT -
  
  
  

• Focused ultrasound reduces cancer pain -
  
  
  

• Researchers present findings on promising biomarker for esophageal cancer -
  
  
  

• Glutamine ratio is key ovarian cancer indicator -
  
  
  

• A transcription factor called SLUG helps determines type of breast cancer -
  
  
  

• Vitamin D deficiency may predict aggressive prostate cancer -
  
  
  

• ‘Achilles heel’ of pancreatic cancer identified -
  
  
  

• Better sleep predicts longer survival time for women with advanced breast cancer -
  
  
  

• Oral Cancer linked to human papillomavirus: No increased HPV risk for long-term partners -
  
  
  

• New combination therapy developed for multiple myeloma -
  
  
  

• Lymph Node Ultrasounds More Accurate in Obese Breast Cancer Patients, Mayo Clinic Study Finds -
  
  
  

• Prostate cancer and blood lipids share genetic links -
  
  
  

April

• Breast cancer patients place huge emphasis on gene expression profiling test -
  
  
  

• Researchers identify potential new strategy to treat ovarian cancer -
  
  
  

• Unemployment common after breast cancer treatment -
  
  
  

• Receiving chemotherapy after a breast cancer diagnosis may affect a patient’s employment -
  
  
  

• Gold nanoparticles help target, quantify breast cancer gene segments in a living cell -
  
  
  

• False-positive mammograms have limited effect on anxiety -
  
  
  

• Stanford scientists identify source of most cases of invasive bladder cancer -
  
  
  

• Dana-Farber researchers uncover link between Down syndrome and leukemia -
  
  
  

• Chronic inflammation linked to ‘high-grade’ prostate cancer -
  
  
  

• Research uncovers DNA looping damage tied to HPV cancer -
  
  
  

• Virus-fighting genes linked to mutations in cancer -
  
  
  

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