Younger Women Benefit From Mammography
4/28/2012
Researchers from University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have published new findings that mammography remains beneficial for women in their 40s...
Tobacco Exposure And Genetics Linked To Lung Cancer Risk
4/27/2012
According to a study in the April 25 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, genotype rs1051730-rs16969968 and objective measures of tobacco exposure are associated with each other. The link indicates that the risk of developing lung cancer is mostly, if not completely, caused by the level of tobacco exposure...
Robot Assisted Prostate Cancer Surgery Associated With Fewer Complicated Outcomes
4/27/2012
A study published in the medical journal European Urology reveals that robot-assisted surgery to treat prostate cancer is more common and significantly more successful in the United States than radical "open" surgery...
Robot Assisted Prostate Cancer Surgery Associated With Fever Complicated Outcomes
4/27/2012
A study published in the medical journal European Urology reveals that robot-assisted surgery to treat prostate cancer is more common and significantly more successful in the United States than radical "open" surgery...
Votrient (Pazopanib) For Soft Tissue Sarcoma Approved By FDA
4/27/2012
Votrient (pazopanib) has been approved by the FDA for the treatment of soft tissue sarcoma in patients who have already received chemotherapy. Soft tissue sarcoma is a type of cancer that starts in the fibrous tissue blood vessels, fat, muscle, or other supporting tissue in the body. The cancer develops in the mesenchymal cells...
The Aggressiveness Of Prostate Cancer Determined By New Diagnostic Tool
4/27/2012
One in six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime, the second leading cause of death among men in the United States. It's a serious problem and current diagnostic tests aren't very specific...
Designing New Generation Anti-Cancer Drugs
4/27/2012
Researchers from the Research Programme in Biomedical Informatics (GRIB) from the IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute) and the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) have identified 115 proteins in silico (via computer simulation) that could be highly relevant to treat colon-rectal cancer, since they would make it possible to define the strategy to design new generation anti-cancer drugs...
Anti-Smoking Ad Success May Be Predicted By Small 'Neural Focus Groups'
4/27/2012
Brain scans of a small group of people can predict the actions of entire populations, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Michigan, the University of Oregon and the University of California at Los Angeles...
Beware Of Dietary Supplements For Cancer Prevention
4/27/2012
Government regulators and the scientific community should work to ensure that they give clear guidance to the public about dietary supplements and cancer risk, according to a commentary published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Evidence from animal, in vitro and observational studies has suggested that taking dietary supplements may lower cancer risk...
Tobacco Exposure, Genetic Variants And Lung Cancer Risk
4/27/2012
There is an association between the rs1051730-rs16969968 genotype and objective measures of tobacco exposure, which indicates that lung cancer risk is largely, if not entirely, mediated by level of tobacco exposure, according to a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute...