By Marilynn Marchione, Associated Press In a stunning example of when treatment might be worse than the disease, a large review of Medicare records finds that older people with small kidney tumors were much less...
ReadFRIDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- The cancer drug Avastin may extend the lives of patients with aggressive cervical cancer, a new study finds. The findings might change the way these patients are treated and...
ReadTHURSDAY, Feb. 7 (HealthDay News) -- The hassles and deadlines at work may leave you frazzled, but they won't raise your risk for cancer, new research suggests. Despite earlier studies suggesting an association between work...
ReadTUESDAY, Feb. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Patients who take an active role in their health care have lower medical costs, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed data from about 33,000 patients in Minnesota and...
ReadKatie Couric 02/04/2013 10:05 am It's World Cancer Day -- a moment in which we reach across borders and boundaries and unite in our shared quest to end a disease that claims the lives of...
ReadMONDAY, Jan. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Breast-conserving surgery for early stage breast cancers may result in better survival than mastectomy, according to a new study. For those with early stage breast cancer, "lumpectomy is just...
ReadBy MARILYNN MARCHIONE, Associated Press Jan. 23, 2013 2:10PM PST Smoke like a man, die like a man. U.S. women who smoke today have a much greater risk of dying from lung cancer than they...
ReadBy Bill Berkrot, Reuters Jan. 22, 2013 3:01PM PST Celgene Corp said its Abraxane drug helped patients with advanced pancreatic cancer live an average of two months longer than chemotherapy and significantly increased the percentage...
ReadTHURSDAY, Jan. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Although chemotherapy pills are able to target certain cancers better than traditional intravenous drugs, some patients have trouble taking them, according to new research. A study from researchers at...
ReadTHURSDAY, Jan. 17 (HealthDay News) -- The overall death rate for cancer in the United States has dropped by at least one-fifth over the past two decades, according to new statistics from the American Cancer...
ReadTUESDAY, Jan. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Minority patients in the United States are less likely than whites to be screened for colorectal cancer, a new study finds. Researchers analyzed national data from between 2000 and...
ReadBy Lillie Shockney, R.N., M.A.S. Jan 13, 2013 It's tough enough for a child to have to endure a cancer diagnosis and its treatment, but it has become increasingly apparent that radiation during childhood can...
ReadWEDNESDAY, Jan. 9 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests that beta blockers, medications that are used to control blood pressure and heart rhythms, may also help lung cancer patients live longer. The researchers found that...
ReadWEDNESDAY, Jan. 9 (HealthDay News) -- With no routine screening test currently available for uterine or ovarian cancer -- the latter of which is extremely lethal -- scientists have found promise in a new method...
ReadBy Andrew M. Seaman, Reuters Jan. 09, 2013 1:04PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Poor people are less likely to take part in clinical trials for new cancer drugs, which can make it harder...
ReadBy Sharon Begley, Reuters Jan. 09, 2013 3:34AM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - A day after an exhaustive national report on cancer found the United States is making only slow progress against the disease, one...
ReadMONDAY, Jan. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Medicare spends more than $1 billion each year for breast cancer screenings such as mammography, according to a new study. However, all that expenditure may not help produce better...
ReadMONDAY, Jan. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Although the news on the U.S. cancer front is generally good, experts report a troubling upswing in a few uncommon cancers linked to the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV)....
ReadNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A survey of cancer doctors finds that some believe they get paid more when they administer their patients' chemotherapy and other drugs, raising concerns about conflict of interest and the...
ReadA team of Toronto cancer researchers have made a breakthrough they say will change the way cancer is studied and even treated. The team, led by stem cell scientist John Dick of The Princess Margaret...
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