NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who smoke or drink heavily may develop pancreatic cancer at an earlier age than folks who avoid those habits, a new study suggests. It's long been known that smoking...
ReadBy MIKE STOBBE, Associated Press Sep. 17, 2012 NEW YORK (AP) — Cancer is now the leading killer of Hispanics in the U.S. — the latest sign it's beginning to displace heart disease as the...
ReadTHURSDAY, Sept. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Even after cancer patients beat their disease, many still grapple with health issues related to their treatments, including cardiovascular and bone problems. But, survivors often say it's unclear which...
ReadTUESDAY, Sept. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Married patients with locally advanced lung cancer survive longer after treatment than single patients, a small new study finds. This improved survival is linked to having a supportive spouse,...
ReadSep 10, 2012 | 8:33 AM ET | MyHealthNewsDaily Staff Smoking marijuana may increase young men's risk of testicular cancer, a new study suggests. In the study, marijuana users were about twice as likely to...
ReadBy Lisa Collier Cool Aug 07, 2012 Day in Health A bald head—one of the most visible and devastating side effects of cancer treatment—may not be inevitable, thanks to an amazingly simple treatment called scalp...
ReadAFP Aug. 03, 2012 2:48AM PDT A doctor examines a patient's mammogram. Medical experts have accused a major US breast cancer foundation known for its high-profile "pink ribbon" campaign of overselling pre-emptive mammography and understating...
ReadIt's a diagnosis nobody in grad school would ever expect. Arijit Guha, who's working on a doctorate at Arizona State, felt sick after coming back from a trip to India in early 2011. His severe...
ReadThe American Red Cross’ blood supply has hit a 15-year low, USA Today reports. According to the nonprofit’s website, it got 50,000 fewer donations than it expected in June and its supply has dipped to...
ReadEuropean data supports warnings to avoid the devices and cut your risk for skin cancer By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, July 24 (HealthDay News) -- Those who bronze themselves in tanning beds face a...
ReadBy Maggie Fox, NBC News Eight years after she was diagnosed with breast cancer at the unusually young age of 31, Catherine Lovazzano is down to her last $10,000 of debt. “I am really looking...
Readby Peter Ubel, MD | A recent economic analysis concluded that patients with metastatic cancer value their treatments significantly more than regulators recognize, with many expensive new therapies looking like veritable bargains to most patients....
ReadAFP Jun. 14, 2012 8:19AM PDT A US cancer patient gets her chemotherapy treatment in 2010. The number of people in the United States who have survived cancer is set to reach nearly 18 million...
ReadMONDAY, June 11 (HealthDay News) -- Most people with thyroid cancer live as long as people who don't have the disease, a new study finds. Patients with advanced thyroid cancer are the exception. German researchers...
ReadElsevier Global Medical News. 2012 Jun 6, JS MacNeil CHICAGO (EGMN) - Breast cancer risk is much higher than previously recognized among women who received chest radiation for Hodgkin's lymphoma when they were children, investigators...
ReadBy By E.J. Mundell Jun. 06, 2012 (HealthDay News) -- A small study gives a snapshot into the financial anxieties that plague many patients with advanced cancer and their spouses, even as they struggle against...
ReadBy Debra Sherman CHICAGO, June 5 (Reuters) - Mario Alberico got his education in oncology the hard way. He has lived with cancer and the long-term effects of his treatment for most of his life....
ReadAn early Positron Emission Tomography (PET) response after the initial cycle of neoadjuvant chemotherapy can be used to predict increased survival in patients with soft tissue sarcomas, according to a study by researchers with UCLA’s...
ReadThe new model may provide scientists with a better understanding of the disease and help with developing effective intervention CHICAGO, IL (April 4, 2012)—Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a very aggressive, often misunderstood type of...
ReadAdding ultrasound exams to annual breast cancer screening can help physicians detect more cancers in women who have dense breasts and are at a higher risk of breast cancer, according to a three-year, multi-center trial...
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