A 20-year study following 110,645 workers who helped clean up after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident in the former Soviet territory of Ukraine shows that the workers share a significant increased risk of developing leukemia...
Colon cancer survivors whose diet is heavy in complex sugars and carbohydrate-rich foods are far more likely to have a recurrence of the disease than are patients who eat a better balance of foods, a new study by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers indicates. The connection is especially strong in patients who are overweight or obese, the authors write...
Patients With Aberrations In Two Genes Respond Better To Drugs Blocking A Well-Known Cancer Pathway
11/09/2012
Cancer patients with mutations or variations in two genes - PIK3CA and PTEN - who have failed to respond to several, standard treatments, respond significantly better to anti-cancer drugs that inhibit these genes' pathways of action, according to research presented at the 24th EORTC-NCI-AACR [1] Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics in Dublin, Ireland...
Thyroid Journal Publishes First Comprehensive Guidelines For Managing Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer
11/09/2012
Anaplastic thyroid cancer is a rare form of thyroid tumor, but it is also the most deadly. Newly developed evidence-based recommendations for the diagnosis, treatment, and long-term monitoring and follow-up care of patients with this extremely aggressive form of thyroid cancer are published in Thyroid, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers...
Connection Between Popular Pain Relievers, Bladder Cancer
11/09/2012
Dartmouth researchers have found that duration of ibuprofen use was associated with a reduced risk of bladder cancer in patients in northern New England, which has a high mortality rate of this disease...
A study by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University suggests that body mass index (BMI) - the most commonly used weight-for-height formula for estimating fatness - may not be the best measure for estimating disease risk, and particularly the risk of certain types of cancer. The study was published in the online edition of the American Journal of Epidemiology...
Clots Following Joint Replacement Surgery Prevented By Aspirin
11/09/2012
If you've had joint replacement surgery, it's likely you've been given warfarin, a common blood thinner and clot-preventer, prior to surgery...
Few available treatment options exist once prostate cancer has spread to other parts of the body and has failed to respond to therapies that involve blocking the male hormone androgen. Patients with advanced, hormone-refractory prostate cancer usually die from the disease after 12 to 18 months, so new therapies are desperately needed...
Ovarian Cancer Death Rates Higher At Low-Volume Hospitals
11/09/2012
Women who undergo surgery for ovarian cancer at hospitals with high-volume experience better results than those who have surgery at low-volume hospitals, according to researchers from the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICC) at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center and published before print in the Journal of Clinical Oncology...
A new power-free microfluidic chip developed by researchers at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute (ASI) enables detection of microRNA from extremely small sample volume in only 20 minutes. By drastically reducing the time and quantity of sample required for detection, the chip lays the groundwork for early-stage point-of-care diagnosis of diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's...