The taller the woman, the higher her cancer risk
7/28/2013
The ability to reach items on high shelves and easily see through a crowd may no longer have the same appeal for some women. A study recently published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention finds a link between postmenopausal women's height and cancers...
Study Clarifies Surgical Options for Kidney Cancer
7/28/2013
Surgery is often the first step in treating kidney cancer, and new data from the University of Rochester Medical Center, which contradicts earlier research, questions whether removal of only the tumor (partial nephrectomy) is better than removing the entire kidney (radical nephrectomy). The decided trend for the past decade has been toward a partial resection in the case of smaller cancers...
The Holy Grail in label-free cancer marker detection: Single molecules
7/28/2013
Just months after setting a record for detecting the smallest single virus in solution, researchers at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) have announced a new breakthrough: They used a nano-enhanced version of their patented microcavity biosensor to detect a single cancer marker protein, which is one-sixth the size of the smallest virus, and even smalle...
Study results published in the current issue of British Journal of Urology International (10.1111/bju.12223) demonstrate that new software to register and fuse information from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound (US) images enables intraoperative visualization of tumors, not ordinarily seen in a US image...
Doctors say HPV vaccine is safe and "grossly underutilized"
7/27/2013
Amid parents' concern for their daughters over the timing and safety of vaccination shots against human papillomavirus (HPV), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) have released a statement saying the vaccine is "safe, effective and grossly underutilized...
Children with cancer receiving home care at greater risk for central line infections
7/27/2013
Pediatric cancer patients whose central lines are used to treat them at home develop three times as many dangerous bloodstream infections from their devices than their hospitalized counterparts, according to the results of a new Johns Hopkins Children's Center study...
Potential for new, less invasive ways to detect and treat bladder cancer
7/27/2013
Scientists from Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center have provided evidence from preclinical experiments that a gene known as melanoma differentiation associated gene-9/syntenin (mda-9/syntenin) could be used as a therapeutic target to kill bladder cancer cells, help prevent metastasis and even be used to non-invasively diagnose the disease and monitor its progression...
Injectafer receives US FDA approval for the treatment of Iron Deficiency Anaemia
7/27/2013
Injectafer® has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the treatment of Iron Deficiency Anaemia (IDA). Luitpold Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the US partner of Vifor Pharma, a company of the Galenica Group, will immediately launch the product. Injectafer® will be produced at the Luitpold manufacturing facility in Columbus, Ohio...
Factors that link HPV and oesophageal cancer
7/26/2013
The human papillomavirus (HPV) triples the risk of people developing yet another cancer, oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), according to research led by University of New South Wales (UNSW) academics. In addition to causing cervical, anal and genital cancers, HPV has more recently been found to cause some head and neck cancers...
Gene test highly accurate in predicting metastasis in patients with thymoma
7/26/2013
Patients diagnosed with thymoma, a rare cancer of the thymus gland, may be able to avoid certain cancer treatments associated with severe adverse events if the results of a new test reveal they are at low risk of metastasis, according to a study published today in the journal PLOS ONE...