Why Antibiotics Prescribed For Chemotherapy Cause Kidney Failure
10/31/2012
Neutron scattering experiments have provided new insights into the origin of the side effects of an antifungal drug prescribed all over the world. The analysis conducted by scientists at King's College London and the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, and published in Scientific Reports, follows 40 years of debate and could help drug developers reduce these harmful complications...
Despite Socioeconomic Similarities, Ethnic Disparities In Breast Cancer Survival Remain
10/31/2012
Disparities in survival after breast cancer persisted across racial/ethnic groups even after researchers adjusted for multiple demographics, such as patients' education and the socioeconomic status of the neighborhood in which they lived, according to data presented at the Fifth AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities, held here Oct. 27-30, 2012...
Breast Screening - Do Benefits Outweigh The Harms?
10/30/2012
Routine breast cancer screening does reduce death risk, an independent panel of experts reported in The Lancet. However, the practice also results in overdiagnosis; cases of women with false positive results, having to have unnecessary biopsies and other interventions, or patients undergoing treatment for harmless tumors...
Survivors Of Certain Cancers Reported Poor Health-Related Quality Of Life Years After Diagnosis
10/30/2012
Melanoma, breast and prostate cancer survivors reported quality of life similar to adults without cancer. Cervical, blood, colorectal and short-survival cancer survivors reported worse health compared to adults without cancer. The researchers estimated 3.3 million American cancer survivors have poor physical health...
Breast Screening - Do Benefits Outweigh The Harms?
10/30/2012
Routine breast cancer screening does reduce death risk, an independent panel of experts reported in The Lancet. However, the practice also results in overdiagnosis; cases of women with false positive results, having to have unnecessary biopsies and other interventions, or patients undergoing treatment for harmless tumors...
Survivors Of Certain Cancers Reported Poor Health-Related Quality Of Life Years After Diagnosis
10/30/2012
Melanoma, breast and prostate cancer survivors reported quality of life similar to adults without cancer. Cervical, blood, colorectal and short-survival cancer survivors reported worse health compared to adults without cancer. The researchers estimated 3.3 million American cancer survivors have poor physical health...
Participation In Clinical Trials High Among Gay, Lesbian And Bisexual Cancer Survivors
10/30/2012
Cancer survivors who self-identified as being lesbian, gay or bisexual were more than twice as likely as heterosexual cancer survivors to have participated in cancer clinical trials, according to data from a small study presented at the Fifth AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities, held here Oct. 27-30, 2012...
Breast Cancer Tumor Disparity And Socioeconomic Disadvantage Linked
10/30/2012
Racial and ethnic disparities in breast tumor aggressiveness might be explained by social factors that influence the developing tumor and place those in disadvantaged groups at higher risk for aggressive breast cancer, according to data presented at the Fifth AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities, held here Oct. 27-30, 2012...
Prototype Ultra Sensitive Disease Sensor Developed
10/30/2012
Scientists have developed a prototype ultra-sensitive sensor that would enable doctors to detect the early stages of diseases and viruses with the naked eye, according to research published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology...
Less Clinical Trial Information Conveyed To Black Participants Than To Their White Counterparts
10/30/2012
A study comparing how physicians discuss clinical trials during clinical interactions with black patients versus white patients further confirms racial disparities in the quality of communication between physicians and patients...