SATURDAY, Nov. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Screening for the human papillomavirus (HPV) is more effective than Pap tests for protecting women against invasive cervical cancer, a new study suggests. HPV causes most cases of cervical...
ReadWEDNESDAY, Oct. 30 (HealthDay News) -- A diagnosis of cancer may put teens and young adults at risk for suicide, a new study finds. "There is a need to support and carefully monitor this vulnerable...
ReadWEDNESDAY, Oct. 30 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental drug switched off a gene linked to an aggressive and incurable type of brain cancer and extended the lives of mice. The brain cancer, glioblastoma multiforme, kills...
ReadTUESDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors might better predict a woman's risk for breast cancer by tracking levels of key hormones, Harvard researchers report. One expert said such a test could be useful. "A...
ReadTUESDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Breast cancer patients who live farther away from comprehensive cancer centers are more likely to be diagnosed with later-stage disease, according to new research. These patients are also more...
ReadMONDAY, Oct. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Radiation therapy for early stage breast cancer carries a small, but real, risk of heart disease, new research finds. The lifetime risk ranges from 0.05 percent to 3.5 percent,...
ReadFRIDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Current U.S. colon cancer screening guidelines may result in 10 percent of colon cancers being missed in people with a family history of colon polyps that can lead to...
ReadFRIDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Patient assistance programs make it more likely that breast cancer patients will get additional treatments after they have surgery, and receive other kinds of support, a new study finds....
ReadFRIDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal tumor types because it's too often diagnosed in a later, advanced stage. But a new study suggests that a simple blood...
ReadTHURSDAY, Oct. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with prostate cancer may be encouraged to get radiation therapy by urologists who own the equipment, new research suggests. According to study author Jean Mitchell, a professor of...
ReadTHURSDAY, Oct. 24 (HealthDay News) -- A specific genetic variant might help explain why eating red and processed meat is associated with an increased risk of colon cancer, a small, new study contends. The study...
ReadTUESDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Older men and women who use the Internet frequently are more likely to have a lifestyle that includes many cancer-preventive behaviors, according to a new study. Compared to their...
ReadObese Patients With Pancreatic Cancer Have Shorter Survival, Study Finds TUESDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) -- A diagnosis of pancreatic cancer usually carries with it a poor prognosis, and the news may be even worse...
ReadMONDAY, Oct. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Most patients are not being informed by their doctors of the possibility that they could be overdiagnosed and overtreated as a result of their cancer screenings, researchers say. Although...
ReadTHURSDAY, Oct. 17 (HealthDay News) -- If fear of kidney stones is preventing you from using vitamin D supplements, a new study could ease your mind. Taking vitamin D does not increase the risk for...
ReadTUESDAY, Oct. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers say they've developed a blood test that can detect some cases of early stage lung and prostate cancer. Although the test has limited accuracy and only a small...
ReadMONDAY, Oct. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Overweight teens are at increased for developing esophageal cancer later in life, new research says. Esophageal cancer occurs when a tumor develops in the tube that connects the throat...
ReadTUESDAY, Oct. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Treating pancreatic cancer patients with the chemotherapy drug gemcitabine (Gemzar) after surgery improved survival rates when compared to doing nothing, German researchers report. However, one expert noted that the...
ReadTUESDAY, Oct. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Seniors who have minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery for colon cancer are much less likely to end up in a nursing home after being discharged from the hospital than those...
ReadLisa Bankard/For the Steamboat Today Sunday, October 6, 2013 Steamboat Springs — One in eight American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and many find the best way to manage the mind-numbing chaos that...
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