WEDNESDAY, Nov. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors have made great strides in fighting breast cancer, but not everyone is benefiting equally: Black women, in particular, are 40 percent more likely to die from the disease...
ReadBy Kerry Grens, Reuters Nov. 13, 2012 11:52AM PST NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - White patients with the most common form of kidney cancer, called renal cell carcinoma, are slightly more likely to survive the...
ReadNov 9 (Reuters) - Celgene Corp said on Friday that a clinical trial of Abraxane, its drug to treat breast and lung cancer, improved survival in patients with pancreatic cancer. The company did not give...
Readby Erin Marcus, MD on November 5th, 2012 in Conditions Marc Henderson, a 63-year-old African-American airport executive, isn’t afraid to ask his physician to do a blood test for prostate-specific antigen (PSA), a screening test...
ReadIMNG Medical Media. 2012 Nov 5, S Freeman MANCHESTER, ENGLAND (IMNG) - Older women who are breast cancer survivors have a greater risk of developing additional primary cancers in the long term than those under...
ReadResearchers from Aarhus University, Denmark, have now discovered an important mechanism behind one of our most fundamental lines of immune function. The discovery has been published in the esteemed scientific journal, The Journal of Immunology,...
ReadBy Ludwig Burger, Reuters Nov. 01, 2012 8:15AM PDT FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Software engineers are moving to the fore in the war on cancer, designing programmes that sift genetic sequencing data at lightning speed and...
ReadTUESDAY, Oct. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Cancer survivors' quality of life can vary widely depending on the type of cancer, and millions of U.S. cancer survivors have a lower-than-normal quality of life, a new study...
ReadBy Frederik Joelving, Reuters Oct. 29, 2012 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Cancer doctors often refer their patients to palliative care very late in the course of disease, according to a new survey from Canada....
ReadBy Linda Carroll Along with the standard treatments of chemotherapy and radiation for cancer, patients are routinely being offered alternative or complementary therapies such as acupuncture, massage and yoga in major cancer centers around the...
ReadBy Frederik Joelving, Reuters Oct. 22, 2012 1:41PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women about to have breast cancer surgery may want to pay extra attention to the radiation treatment they could be offered...
ReadBy Lisa Collier Cool Oct 22, 2012 Amazing new scientific research—including discovering the genetic blueprint of breast cancer—may offer a roadmap to curing a disease that strikes one in eight women over a lifetime. An...
ReadWEDNESDAY, Oct. 17 (HealthDay News) -- A week after the release of more allegations of involvement in illegal blood doping in professional cycling, Lance Armstrong announced Wednesday that he is stepping down as chairman of...
ReadBy Kerry Grens, Reuters Oct. 11, 2012 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Younger people with advanced lung cancer who quit smoking more than a year before their diagnosis survive longer than those who continue smoking,...
ReadTUESDAY, Oct. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Indoor tanning, already associated with an increased risk for the deadliest type of skin cancer, appears to increase the likelihood for other skin cancers as well. Tanning beds lead...
ReadBy Kate Kelland, Reuters Oct. 01, 2012 LONDON (Reuters) - Extending treatment with Roche's breast cancer drug Herceptin to two years from the one year current standard is not worth while, trial data showed on...
ReadBy Brian Alexander, NBC News For men diagnosed with prostate cancer, the decision about how to treat it -- or even whether to treat it -- can be agonizing. Surgery, radiation, or some combination of...
ReadFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 24, 2012 U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Because of the health care law, millions of Americans will have access to standardized, easy-to-understand information about health plan benefits and coverage....
ReadThe Associated Press, Sep. 23, 2012 NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists reported Sunday that they have completed a major analysis of the genetics of breast cancer, finding four major classes of the disease. They hope...
ReadBy Kerry Grens, Reuters Sep. 19, 2012 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The number of pregnant women diagnosed with cancer has increased over the past couple of decades, a new study from Australia suggests. In...
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