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Pain of mammography is recognised as a significant deterrent to breast screening and therefore may effect the success or failure of any screening programme.

To review interventions…

The human papillomavirus (HPV) has been implicated as a cause of cervical cancer in women, but there’s another devastating form of cancer also linked to HPV infection…

Cancer-causing genes can work in more powerful and sneaky ways than have been realized. Scientists have shown that a gene named JAK that is closely related…

Advanced cancer in the head and neck is traditionally treated with surgery followed by radiotherapy. Surgery usually entails removal of areas like the voice box, or part of the throat, leading to…

Ultrasound guided fine-needle aspiration (US FNA) biopsy of the thyroid gland is an established diagnostic test that is routinely used as the first step in the evaluation of…

In the U.S. this year more than 55,000 Americans will develop cancer of the head and neck and nearly 13,000 of them will die from it.…

University of Iowa researchers have discovered a gene that plays a linchpin role in the ability of breast cancer cells to respond to estrogen. The finding may…

Smaller-framed women reap significant health and quality-of-life benefits from breast reductions that involve the removal of under 500 grams of tissue per breast, according to a…

Early detection of disease is often critical to how successful treatment can be. Therefore, the development of new methods of diagnosis is a hot research field, where every…

A tailored virus destroys brain tumor stem cells that resist other therapies and cause lethal re-growth of cancer after surgery, a research team led by scientists…

Men now have another good reason to consider taking finasteride, a well-known generic drug that shrinks an enlarged prostate and reduces the risk of getting prostate cancer by 25…

Physicians who treat women with the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1 often remove their patients’ ovaries to eliminate the source of estrogen they believe fuels cancer growth. Yet…

Ovarian cancer doesn’t get the kind of attention breast cancer gets. It’s not as common, and because survival rates are poor, it does not produce an army of survivors to raise awareness.…

A new study finds that, compared to healthy women, breast cancer survivors reported more days of fatigue and more severe fatigue symptoms. The study, published in the…

Mental illness and emotional distress in patients with advanced cancer are often overlooked by oncologists but, if screened for, can be adequately managed to improve…

Postmenopausal women consuming two or more alcoholic beverages a day may double their risk of endometrial cancer, suggests a study led by researchers at the University of Southern…

Black American women are more likely to have a hard-to-treat form of breast cancer, they get it earlier and they are more likely to die of it, researchers said…

More than 10 percent of women with breast cancer stopped taking a commonly prescribed drug because of joint and muscle pain,…

Men with slow urine flow from enlargement of the prostate gland (known as benign prostatic hyperplasia or BPH) should avoid anything that makes the situation worse - and that includes…

Women past menopause who experience any abnormal vaginal bleeding or spotting should contact their physician. It’s one of the signs of endometrial cancer.

Endometrial cancer doesn’t get a lot of media…

African-American men face a higher risk of developing prostate cancer in their lifetime, but researchers do not fully understand why.

“Many prostate cancer research programs include too…

Nutrients taken from avocados are able to thwart oral cancer cells, killing some and preventing pre-cancerous cells from developing into actual cancers, according to researchers at Ohio State University.

Researchers found…

Findings from a new study suggest that both high and low birth weights increase the risk of testicular cancer in men. The reason for this finding is unclear.

A high…

Studying the DNA of 889 people, gene hunters at the Mayo Clinic and H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Centers have identified a region…

Parents who learn that they carry a breast cancer-linked gene mutation will usually pass this information along to their children, and will often do so long before any medical…