2006

January

• Prostate cancer screening may not reduce mortality -

• Screening for Prostate Cancer May Not Reduce Men’s Risk of Death -

• Fatigue may persist after breast cancer treatment -

• Anti-cancer drugs based on platinum -

• Loss of Caspase-8 Makes Neuroblastoma More Aggressive -

• Concerns raised about surgeons performing occasional breast cancer operations -

• Loud noise increases the risk of developing a non-cancerous tumor -

• Biofeedback cuts urine leak after prostate surgery -

• Body cavity drugs cut ovarian cancer death risk -

• Ovarian Cancer Treatment Found to Significantly Improve Survival -

• Loss of gene linked to spread of childhood cancer -

• GW wins US okay for pivotal cannabis drug study -

• Soda pop link to esophageal cancer debunked -

• Halting Cancer Metastasis -

• Coffee may lower breast cancer risk for some women -

• New Option for Patients with Metastatic Melanoma -

• Radiotherapy Advance Builds Hope for Noninvasive Brain Cancer Treatment -

• Lung Cancer Screening Encouraged for Smokers with History of the Disease -

2005

December

• Counseling helps sex life after prostate cancer -

• Many cancer survivors still smoking and drinking -

• A Cervical Cancer Screening Month Resolution -

• New breast cancer drug Femara will save lives -

• Moderate drinking may lower kidney cancer risk -

• In 2005, Advances Made in Breast Cancer Treatment and Detection -

• Blacks more likely to die of curable lung cancer than whites -

• UCSD Researchers State Vitamin D Needed to Cut Cancer Risk -

• The Pill doesn’t affect cervical pre-cancer risk -

• Targeted cancer therapies: Another step forward -

• Children could be saved from neuroblastoma using antibody therapy -

• Women often opt out of lung cancer studies -

• US approves new drug for advanced kidney cancer -

• Chest x-rays detect early lung cancer -

• Kidney Cancer Patients Unlikely to Respond to Potential Treatment Drug -

• Risk of second malignant melanoma high -

• Green Tea Helps -

• Gardasil prevents cervical cancer caused by virus -

• Good results with cervical cancer vaccine in young girls -

• Radiotherapy aids breast cancer survival: study -

• 65% of ovarian cancer cells sideline body’s defences -

• The role of genes in the development of non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas -

• Breast cancer risk higher in young smokers -

• New cell findings have implications for cancer, immune disorders -

• Lean body mass may protect against prostate cancer -

• Betel quid chewing increases pharyngeal cancer risk -

• Breast cancer gene tests backlog -

• Femara helps prevent the return of breast cancer -

• Insulin Levels and Resistance Linked to Risk of Pancreatic Cancer -

• Drinking Tea Associated with Lower Risk of Ovarian Cancer -

• Dietary iron linked to upper GI cancer risk -

• Study links infections with some childhood cancers -

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