Older And Younger Chronic Leukemia Patients May Need Different Therapy • Blood Cancer News • Dec 13 12 Doctors should use different therapies when treating older and younger patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, according to a new study led by researchers at the Ohio… Bowel cancer test delayed by IT glitch • Stomach Cancer news • Dec 12 12 The test, called flexible sigmoidoscopy, should have been introduced from spring 2011. But problems with computer systems mean it will only now be piloted from next March. Jeremy Hunt,… More to benefit from ‘Lockerbie bomber’ prostate cancer drug • Prostate Cancer news • Dec 12 12 At the moment abiraterone is only used in Britain as a ‘last line of defence’ in men whose cancers have become resistant to every other form of… FDA backs prostate cancer drug Zytiga for earlier use • Prostate Cancer news • Dec 12 12 The Food and Drug Administration on Monday expanded approval of Johnson & Johnson’s prostate cancer pill Zytiga for men with an earlier stage of the disease. The agency… Eating more fruits and vegetables linked to lower breast cancer risk • Breast Cancer news • Dec 12 12 Women who have higher levels of nutrients commonly found in vegetables may have a lower risk of developing breast cancer, say researchers at Brigham & Women’s… More Bad News for Avastin in Breast Cancer • Breast Cancer news • Dec 12 12 A randomized trial found bevacizumab (Avastin) failed to improve outcomes in combination with chemotherapy in early triple-negative breast cancer, adding to the string of failures for the drug. Invasive… Vitamin D Tied to Breast Cancer Outcome • Breast Cancer news • Dec 12 12 Vitamin D levels may be part of the reason some women saw a benefit from adding a bone drug to standard breast cancer chemotherapy regimens, a researcher said. Postmenopausal women… New Research Helps Predict Susceptibility to Burkitt Lymphoma • Blood Cancer News • Dec 12 12 New research, presented this morning at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), has identified important associations between Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) malaria and endemic Burkitt… The current state of lung cancer treatment • Lung Cancer news • Dec 12 12 A review in the December issue of the journal Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine by Paul Bunn Jr, MD, University of Colorado Cancer Center investigator and past president of… To fight incurable metastatic breast cancer, resistance must be broken • Breast Cancer news • Dec 11 12 One of the most frustrating truths about cancer is that even when a treatment works, it often doesn’t work for long because cancer cells find ways to… Existing Breast Cancer Drugs May Help More Women • Breast Cancer news • Dec 10 12 Current screening tests may miss as many as 1 in 50 women with breast cancer who would benefit from treatment with highly effective breast cancer drugs. At issue is… Weekly challenge: think orange and red vegetables to reduce breast cancer risk • Breast Cancer news • Dec 10 12 While pink is usually the color most associated with breast cancer advocacy, women may want to think red and orange if they’re looking to lower… Caffeinated coffee may reduce the risk of oral cancers • Colon & Colorectal Cancer news • Dec 10 12 A new American Cancer Society study finds a strong inverse association between caffeinated coffee intake and oral/pharyngeal cancer mortality. The authors say people who drank more than four… Internet use can reduce fatalistic view of cancer • Cancer news • Dec 10 12 Many Americans have fatalistic views on cancer prevention—they believe that getting cancer is a matter of luck or fate. Recent research, published in the Journal of Communication, found… Existing drugs may help more breast cancer patients • Breast Cancer news • Dec 09 12 More patients can benefit from highly effective breast cancer drugs that are already available, according to DNA sequencing studies by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St.… Researchers develop novel 3-D culture system for inflammatory breast cancer • Breast Cancer news • Dec 09 12 Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a very rare and aggressive disease that progresses rapidly and is associated with a very low survival rate. To understand how this… Roche breast cancer drug extends overall survival • Breast Cancer news • Dec 09 12 Swiss pharma group Roche’s drug Perjeta significantly extended the lives of women with an aggressive and incurable form of breast cancer compared to a placebo, according to new data from… Should breast cancer patients skip the pre-op MRI? • Breast Cancer news • Dec 09 12 A new review of existing evidence suggests that using magnetic resonance imaging to “stage” a woman’s breast cancer before surgery might do more harm than good. MRI produces a… TGen-US Oncology data guides treatment of metastatic triple-negative breast cancer patients • Breast Cancer news • Dec 07 12 Genomic sequencing has revealed therapeutic drug targets for difficult-to-treat, metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), according to an unprecedented study by the Translational Genomic Research Institute (TGen)… Men more likely to die of cancer: study • Cancer news • Dec 07 12 Not only are men more likely than women to be diagnosed with cancer, men who get it have a higher chance of dying from the disease, according to a… African American women with breast cancer less likely to have newer, recommended surgical procedure • Breast Cancer news • Dec 06 12 African American women with early stage, invasive breast cancer were 12 percent less likely than Caucasian women with the same diagnosis to receive… Clinical trial tests rice bran to prevent cancer • Cancer news • Dec 06 12 A recent University of Colorado Cancer Center review in the journal Advances in Nutrition shows that rice bran offers promising cancer prevention properties. Meanwhile, an ongoing clinical trial is… Breath test could possibly diagnose colorectal cancer • Colon & Colorectal Cancer news • Dec 05 12 A new study published in BJS has demonstrated for the first time that a simple breath analysis could be used for colorectal cancer screening. The study is part of the… Less invasive surgery detects residual breast cancer in lymph nodes after chemotherapy • Breast Cancer news • Dec 05 12 Most patients whose breast cancer has spread to their lymph nodes have most of the lymph nodes in their armpit area removed after chemotherapy to… Genetic data shows that skin cancer risk includes more than UV exposure • Skin Cancer news • Dec 04 12 t’s common knowledge that excessive UV exposure from sunlight raises your chances for skin cancer, but predicting whether someone will actually develop skin cancer remains… Page 41 of 217 pages « First < 39 40 41 42 43 > Last » << Back to main
