2013

September

• Functional disability high among newly diagnosed older breast cancer patients -
  
  
  

• 6 deaths linked to delays in cancer screens -
  
  
  

• New models of drug-resistant breast cancer hint at better treatments -
  
  
  

• Mayo Clinic Researchers Identify Biomarker for Smoker’s Lung Cancer -
  
  
  

• New test enables early diagnosis of liver cancer -
  
  
  

• VA increases breast screenings after initiative -
  
  
  

• Studies confirm colon cancer screening reduces deaths -
  
  
  

• Results of long term follow-up show breast conserving treatment with radiotherapy reduces risk of local recurrence -
  
  
  

• Evolutionary medicine of skin cancer risk among Europeans -
  
  
  

• Women with breast cancer may overestimate secondary risks -
  
  
  

• New marker identified for early diagnosis of lung cancer -
  
  
  

• BRAF Mutation Not Prognostic in Thyroid Ca -
  
  
  

• Diet quality linked to pancreatic cancer risk -
  
  
  

• F.D.A. Panel Backs Pre-Surgery Drug for Breast Cancer -
  
  
  

• Radiotherapy in Girls and the Risk of Breast Cancer Later in Life -
  
  
  

• Brachytherapy to treat cervical cancer declines in US, treatment associated with higher survival -
  
  
  

• 3 out of every 4 cases of bladder cancer display mutations in the same gene -
  
  
  

• Lung cancer drug could aid plight of ectopic pregnancy patients -
  
  
  

• Experts take on challenge of breast density notification laws -
  
  
  

• A new view of brain tumors -
  
  
  

• New method for early detection of colon cancer -
  
  
  

August

• St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital study yields new strategy against high-risk leukemia -
  
  
  

• Collagen clue reveals new drug target for untreatable form of lung cancer -
  
  
  

• Unexpected use of former cancer drug -
  
  
  

• Scripps Florida Scientists Detail Critical Role of Gene in Many Lung Cancer Cases -
  
  
  

• School-age drinking increases breast cancer risk -
  
  
  

• Johns Hopkins researchers find promising therapeutic target for hard-to-treat brain tumor -
  
  
  

• Benefit of PET or PET/CT in oesophageal cancer is not proven -
  
  
  

• Women told they have breast ‘cancer’ more likely to want surgery -
  
  
  

• Ovarian cancer screening ‘has potential’ -
  
  
  

• High-tech imaging contributing to overdiagnosis of low-risk thyroid cancers -
  
  
  

• 3 subtypes of gastric cancer suggest different treatment approaches -
  
  
  

• Hybrid screening strategy emerges for colorectal cancer -
  
  
  

• Calcium Supplements May Not Prevent Bone Loss in Women with Breast Cancer -
  
  
  

• New screening strategy may catch ovarian cancer at early stages -
  
  
  

• CA-125 change over time shows promise as screening tool for early detection of ovarian cancer -
  
  
  

• Wait times up 78 percent at VA for colorectal cancer procedures -
  
  
  

• New screening strategy may catch ovarian cancer at early stages -
  
  
  

• New technique to help brain cancer patients -
  
  
  

• Study finds genomic differences in types of cervical cancer -
  
  
  

• Scientists pinpoint a new molecular mechanism tied to pancreatic cancer -
  
  
  

• Single injection may revolutionize melanoma treatment, Moffitt study shows -
  
  
  

• Multicenter trial finds BI-RADS 3 breast lesions have low cancer rate -
  
  
  

• New MR analysis technique reveals brain tumor response to anti-angiogenesis therapy -
  
  
  

• Major study links aging gene to blood cancer -
  
  
  

• Drug safely cuts prostate cancer risk, study finds -
  
  
  

• Exercise may cut endometrial cancer risk for heavy women -
  
  
  

• Aspirin tied to smaller lung and colon cancer tumors -
  
  
  

• Tamoxifen cuts second cancer risk in BRCA carriers -
  
  

• 1 in 5 women don’t believe their breast cancer risk -
  
  
  

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