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Quality of life in younger patients treated for breast cancer is seriously compromised and these women suffer from severe psychological distress, infertility, premature…

Higher than normal levels of lead in the blood may signal a risk two times higher than average of developing renal cell carcinoma in smokers, according to…

Researchers in the Netherlands assessed the quality of colonoscopy reporting in daily clinical practice and evaluated the quality of colonoscopy performance. They found that colonoscopy reporting varied significantly in…

Tired of long waits at the hospital for medical tests? If Korean researchers have their way, your smartphone could one day eliminate that - and perhaps even tell you…

Thyroid carcinoma comprises 1% of all malignancies but is the commonest malignant endocrine tumour. Annual incidence in the UK is reported at 2.3 per 100,000 women and 0.9 per 100,000 men (1).

The American Cancer Society estimates that a 48,020 new cases of thyroid cancer (36,550 in women, and 11,470 in men) will be diagnosed in the United States. The likelihood of being diagnosed with…

The American Cancer Society’s most recent estimates for thyroid cancer in the United States are for 2010:

  About 44,670 new cases of thyroid cancer will occur (33,930 in women, and 10,740…

Thyroid cancer was first described at the end of the eighteenth century. For one and a half centuries surgery remained the only effective therapeutic option for this cancer, until in 1946 radioiodine therapy…

Two of the main features of thyroid malignancy are its rarity and its excellent prognosis in the overwhelming number of cases. On the other hand, these factors induce some specific difficulties…

A little more than a year ago, Amber Skipper had no idea what the thyroid did. Then her baby head-butted her in the neck. The spot swelled, and Skipper, now 29, couldn’t…

It’s easy to crunch the numbers on thyroid cancer and assume it is a disease fast on the rise. Incidence has more than doubled since the early 1970s, and for women,…

Younger women with breast cancer experience a decrease in their health-related quality of life (QOL), associated with increased psychological distress, weight gain, a decline in their physical activity,…

Stage III colon cancer patients in the general population who receive adjuvant treatment for the disease have an improved rate of survival when oxaliplatin is added to 5-fluorouracil (5FU),…

The expression of p53 and Mdm2 is closely related. In an article published this week in the Cancel Cell review, Robin Fahraeus and his…

Ben Stanger, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and Andrew Rhim, MD, a Gastroenterology Fellow in the…

Cholesterol-lowering statins seem to keep breast cancer at bay in some patients. Now researchers reporting in the January 20th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, provide clues about…

A new study helps explain why up to a third of advanced melanoma patients who take Roche Holding’s pill Zelboraf develop a less deadly form of skin cancer…

Research conducted by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center global health investigators and cancer specialists in New York, Qatar and Haiti suggests that aspirin should be evaluated…

Investigators at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center have identified a new genetic signature associated with bile duct cancer, a usually deadly tumor for which effective treatment currently…

A new study finds that a group of little-explored cells in the tumor microenvironment likely serve as important gatekeepers against cancer progression and metastasis. Published in the January…

An investigational drug called regorafenib slowed the progression of tumors and lengthened the lives of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, an international phase III clinical trial found.…

Scientists from the University of Helsinki and from UCSF have exposed a cell pathway that breast tumor cells use to destruct local tissue neighborhood. Cancer…

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have used an innovative mathematical technique to find markers that effectively predict how deadly a cancer will be. The discovery,…

MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando has received a generous donation to help in the fight against pancreatic cancer. A $75,000 grant, funded by the Shirley E. Noland Foundation, will…

Researchers at the University of Michigan Health System have found a new indicator that may predict which patients with a common type of throat cancer…