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Women with mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes can significantly reduce their risk of certain types of cancer by having their ovaries removed, according to a…

Women who smoke appear to be more susceptible to lung cancer than men who smoke, though women smokers have a lower rate of lung cancer-related death,…

The risk of developing breast cancer is doubled in women who inherit a damaged version of a gene called ATM, according to a study published by Cancer Research UK funded…

Tobacco use now kills 5 million people a year and if people continue to smoke the way they do now, their habit will kill half a billion who are alive today,…

Worried that her daughters’ budding breasts would expose them to the risk of sexual harassment and even rape, their mother Philomene Moungang started ‘ironing’ the girls’ bosoms with a heated…

The benefits of physical activity do not extend to reducing the risk of developing ovarian cancer, according to a new study reported in the International Journal of Cancer.

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Research confirms that determining the genetic composition of brain cancers can better inform doctors and patients for treatment options and prognosis. The findings could change the…

When it comes to diagnosing skin cancer, early detection can make a significant difference in survival rates. Melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, has a…

An estimated 1.3 million new cases of cancer were diagnosed last year, according to the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Most of those cases required…

The risk for developing the tissue abnormalities, or lesions, that typically precede cervical cancer is much higher for women infected with multiple genotypes of…

The University Hospital at the University of Navarra is the only centre throughout the entire Spanish state for the treatment of liver tumours by means of radioembolisation and the one with the greatest…

Evidence from clinical trials neither supports nor refutes a benefit for surgery as a treatment for the most common type of lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer or NSCLC, according…

In what may be a significant advance for the treatment of breast cancer, researchers at Montefiore Medical Center and the Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute have discovered they…

A booster dose of radiotherapy added to regular treatment may help stop young women with very early breast cancer from progressing to a more serious form of the disease, researchers said…

A variation of a cancer-causing gene called SNP309 interacts with an anti-cancer gene, known as p53, to influence a woman’s odds of surviving breast cancer, according to a report in…

Concomitant chemoradiotherapy is the most promising primary chemotherapy approach to prolonging the survival of patients with locally advanced resectable and unresectable disease. It is the only systemic approach consistently shown…

Adjuvant chemotherapy to eradicate micrometastases following local therapy has not been studied extensively in HNSCC. The principal objectives of adjuvant trials have been to control subclinical persistent disease after surgery…

Neoadjuvant (induction) therapy prior to surgery is sometimes referred to as sequential chemoradiotherapy when chemotherapy is followed by definitive radiotherapy. This latter approach specifically excludes or limits the extent…

Although chemo-therapy has not improved the short-term survival of patients with recurrent or metastatic HNSCC, promising results are emerging from the intense study of chemotherapy as an adjunct to…

Radiotherapy is often given as an adjuvant to surgery for moderately advanced but resectable tumors. For most head and neck sites, giving adjuvant radiotherapy improves local…

Clinical testing of new cytotoxic agents traditionally has been conducted first in patients with recurrent disease, followed by testing in combined modality treatments in patients with potentially…

HNSCC responds to radiation injury through a loss of reproductive capability, resulting in a clonogenic rather than an interphase death. Within the context of a given fractionation…

There are two basic intents to the addition of chemotherapy to the treatment regimen for head and neck cancer: (1) there is potentially a synergistic effect…