Pot smoking not a major lung cancer threat
• Lung Cancer news • Oct 26 05
China has become the 89th country to ratify the global tobacco treaty
• Lung Cancer news • Oct 26 05
China has become the 89th country to ratify the global tobacco treaty, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). Countries that ratify…
Preventing bowel cancer in high risk families
• Colon & Colorectal Cancer news • Oct 26 05
Enzyme Test for Bladder Cancer May Promote Early Diagnosis
• Cancer news • Oct 26 05
Possible Genetic Link to Pancreatic Cancer
• Pancreatic Cancer news • Oct 24 05
Single men may forgo retreatment of prostate cancer
• Prostate Cancer news • Oct 21 05
Single men with Prostate cancer that has spread to the bone are less likely to receive repeat radiation therapy to alleviate the pain than their married counterparts,…
Annual Prostate Cancer Screening Test Appears to Save Lives
• Prostate Cancer news • Oct 20 05
Men who have a yearly blood test to examine their prostate specific antigen levels are nearly three times less likely to die from Prostate cancer than…
Many patients not screened for colorectal cancer
• Colon & Colorectal Cancer news • Oct 20 05
Breast Cancer Genetic Tests Validated for African-Americans
• Breast Cancer news • Oct 19 05
Reflexology helps women with breast cancer cope
• Breast Cancer news • Oct 19 05
Preliminary findings suggest that the ancient art of reflexology may help women with Breast cancer cope in part by relieving anxiety and depression.
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Many cancer patients undergoing radiation treatment or chemotherapy keep their use of complementary or alternative medicines secret from their oncologists, an omission that could compromise treatment,… Patients surviving childhood Hodgkin’s disease suffer Strokes later in life at rates about four times that of the general population, UT Southwestern… Long-term Smoking increases the risk of Breast cancer in older postmenopausal women by up to 40 percent, according to a report in the October issue of Cancer Causes… Men who gain weight rapidly between the ages of 25 and 40 are twice as likely to experience a recurrence of Prostate cancer after surgery as men… A computer-aided detection or CAD system not only helps radiologists see more cancers in the breast, it also helps them detect smaller tumors at an earlier stage in younger women,… Black women with breast cancer do not live as long as white women with breast cancer, largely because of a higher rate of competing illnesses… The time it takes for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels to double can help predict the clinical outcome of patients with Prostate cancer who have been treated with combined radiation… Young women treated with high-dose chest radiation for Hodgkin’s lymphoma have 10 times or greater the risk of developing Breast cancer later in…
Cancer Patients Using Alternative Medicine Keep Oncologists in Dark
• Cancer news • Oct 18 05
Hodgkin Disease Survivors Face Higher Risk for Stroke Later in Life
• Cancer news • Oct 13 05
Smoking raises breast cancer risk
• Breast Cancer news • Oct 12 05
Obesity ups odds that prostate cancer will recur
• Prostate Cancer news • Oct 11 05
Computer-aided mammography improves tumor detection
• Cancer news • Oct 11 05
Understanding the racial gap in breast ca survival
• Breast Cancer news • Oct 11 05
Errors in cancer diagnosis common, often harmful
• Cancer news • Oct 10 05
PSA increase predicts prostate cancer outcome
• Prostate Cancer news • Oct 10 05
Breast Cancer Risk Found High After Chest Radiation for Hodgkin’s
• Breast Cancer news • Oct 07 05
Access to cancer care unequal across Europe
• Cancer news • Oct 06 05
Study indicates vaccine prevents cervical cancer
• Cervical Cancer news • Oct 06 05
US cancer death rates decline, report finds
• Cancer news • Oct 06 05
Cancer rates on the rise in young people
• Cancer news • Oct 06 05
Marriage tied to better bladder cancer survival
• Cancer news • Oct 05 05
Dietary Phytoestrogens Reduce Risk of Lung Cancer
• Lung Cancer news • Oct 02 05