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Fewer Americans died of cancer in 2003 than in previous years, the first such decline ever recorded, although the number of cancer deaths among women increased, the American Cancer…

Men with recurrent or advanced prostate cancer may be put on hormone therapy to block testosterone production in an effort to halt or slow the growth of the tumor.…

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago are conducting a study of racial disparities among breast cancer patients in Chicago. It is the first major effort to examine how…

A less aggressive type of surgery designed to spare healthy organ tissue is used infrequently to treat early-stage kidney cancer, according to researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Early diagnosis and treatment have improved survival rates for uterine cancer but researchers said on Tuesday there had been a sharp rise in the disease in…

Black women living in poor communities are less likely to be up-to-date with cervical cancer screening than those living in wealthier areas, according to new findings from the Black…

High levels of magnesium in the diet may lower a woman’s risk of developing colon cancer. The findings from the study of U.S. women support the results of an…

New research suggests that the lower survival rates of blacks with lung cancer may be explained by access to care. The study,…

The men most at risk for aggressive prostate cancer - black men with a family history - are the least likely to…

In the largest published study of its kind, with 1,100 patient cases reviewed, a minimally invasive surgical procedure for lung cancer has been shown to be as effective…

A new study suggests that the hormone estrogen works in partnership with other proteins to activate or suppress gene activity in breast cancer cells.

Surprisingly,…

There is “some support” for an association between ovarian cancer and the consumption of milk products, Swedish researchers report in the International Journal of Cancer.

Animal studies and ecological…

Regular use of selective COX-2 inhibitors significantly reduces the risk of breast cancer. A case-control study published today in the open access journal BMC Cancer observed that daily…

Hodgkin’s disease survivors face a more than six-fold increased risk of developing acute myeloid leukemia (AML), which is highest in the 10 years after Hodgkin’s diagnosis, a large study shows.

Elderly women with ovarian cancer tend to survive longer if they are treated by gynecologic oncologists rather than by general surgeons, according to the results of a large study review…

Melanoma rates are increasing rapidly among Hispanics, researchers in California report.

“Regardless of whether the patient in front of you is Latino or non-Latino white, it is just as important to…

Atorvastatin, the widely prescribed cholesterol-lowering “statin” drug, sold under the trade name Lipitor, shows significant action against human bladder cancer cells in laboratory experiments, researchers report in the medical journal…

According to a new study, the regular use of drugs such as Celebrex and Vioxx significantly reduces the risk of breast cancer.

The study by Randall Harris and…

New study by Mount Sinai researchers may lead to improved stem cell therapies for patients with compromised immune systems due to intensive cancer therapy or autoimmune disease. The study…

A small study suggests that a few months of voice therapy may improve a person’s ability to speak after treatment of early-stage glottic cancer, a form of cancer that affects…

Thousands of women across the country are voluntarily joining the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Sister Study, and they all have at least one thing in common: a sister…

In a multicenter study of patients with early-stage cancer of the esophagus, those who were treated with radiation and chemotherapy before surgery lived more than twice as long as those…

Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers are studying whether delivering chemotherapy drugs directly to breast “plumbing” might make treatment of early breast cancer easier on the patient and at…

Fewer than 20 percent of American women eligible for breast reconstruction following mastectomy, or removal of the breast, for breast cancer undergo the procedure, according to experts at the University of…

In what is clearly an awful medical blunder, twenty-two women with breast cancer were wrongly given the all-clear after misdiagnoses by a radiologist at two hospitals in Manchester, UK.

The…