Determining The Fertility Window Of Women Who Have Suffered From Childhood Cancer
12/07/2012
Researchers from Inserm, the French public hospital organization (AP-HP), the Institut Gustave Roussy and the Universite Paris-Sud studied the age at menopause of a cohort of 706 women who had suffered from childhood cancer...
Women With Higher Carotenoid Levels Have Reduced Risk Of Breast Cancer
12/06/2012
Women with higher circulating carotenoid levels are at a reduced risk of breast cancer according to a study published December 6 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Carotenoids, which are micronutrients found in fruits and vegetables, have been found to have anticarcinogenic properties...
Brain Tumors Respond To Diet And Radiation Therapy
12/06/2012
Brain cancer researchers have successfully treated mice with malignant gliomas, a type of aggressive and deadly brain tumor, with a unique combination of radiation therapy and ketogenic diet, a high fat, low carbohydrate and minimal protein regime that forces the body to use fat instead of sugar for energy...
Tamoxifen More Effective When Taken For Longer
12/06/2012
Taking tamoxifen for ten years following breast cancer surgery rather than five is more effective and better at reducing the risk of recurrence and death, according to a recent trial led by Oxford University's Clinical Trial Service Unit (CTSU), called ATLAS...
Prostate Cancer Care Needs To Keep Up With Increased Life Expectancy
12/06/2012
The population of the United States is getting older, due not only to aging boomers but also to a four-year increase in life expectancy from 1990 to 2010. An aging population means increased diagnosis of prostate cancer. Statistically, the older the patient at time of diagnosis, the more aggressive the disease - and also the less well the patient is likely to tolerate traditional chemotherapies...
In Childhood Leukemia Treatment, Nanotechnology Drug Delivery Shows Promise
12/06/2012
This month, Molecular Pharmaceutics reported promising findings from the Nemours Center for Childhood Cancer Research and the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Delaware, about the potential for nanotechnology to deliver chemotherapeutic agents in a way that attacks cancer cells without harming healthy cells...
Immune System Response Detrimental To Novel Brain Cancer Therapy
12/06/2012
For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that the response of natural killer (NK) cells is detrimental to glioblastoma virotherapy, a novel way of treating malignant brain cancer by injecting a virus into the tumor. A number of clinical trials are currently underway to test whether glioblastoma virotherapy will facilitate antitumor efficacy, but research led by E...
Bone Metastasis In Prostate Cancer Responds To Cabozantinib
12/06/2012
A new drug demonstrated dramatic and rapid effects on prostate cancer that had spread to the bone, according to a study reported by University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers. About two-thirds of patients treated with cabozantinib had improvements on their bone scans, with 12 percent seeing complete resolution of uptake on bone scan...
Chemotherapy Effectiveness Improved By Acting On The Immune System
12/06/2012
An Inserm team in Dijon directed by Francois Ghiringhelli (Inserm unit 866 'Lipids, nutrition and cancer') is to publish an article this week in the Nature Medicine review. The article suggests that two chemotherapy drugs frequently used to treat digestive and breast cancers may encourage the development of tumours by modulating the anti-tumoural immune response...
In the first national survey of enrollment policies at hospices, researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Yale University have found that the vast majority of hospices in the United States have at least one enrollment policy that could restrict access for terminally ill Medicare patients with high-cost medical needs...