Acute Lung Injury Survivors Tend To Have Long-Term Neuropsychological Impairment
4/11/2012
A new study, published online ahead of print publication in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, shows that cognitive and psychiatric impairments are common amongst long-term survivors of acute lung injury (ALI), and these impairments can be evaluated by using a telephone-based test battery. Leading researcher, Dr. Mark E...
Breast Cancer Risk Driven By Estrogen-Raising Gene
4/11/2012
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the UK, with almost 48,000 women and about 300 men diagnosed every year. About one in eight women in the UK will develop breast cancer at some stage during their life, but thanks to better awareness, treatments and screening, more women than ever are surviving breast cancer in the UK...
Personalizing Prostate Cancer Treatment
4/11/2012
Each year in the UK alone, about 37,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer. Given that prostate cancers can be genetically quite different, means they affect the way in which they react to treatments...
Chemotherapy Resistance - How Does It Happen?
4/11/2012
Genetic mutations in cancer cells can lead to treatment resistance, which could result in relapse, yet according to a new study in the journal PLoS Biology, it is possible that the reverse could also happen...
Compliance To Colorectal Cancer Screening Recommendations - Study
4/11/2012
A study, published in the April 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, reveals that patients are less likely to undergo colorectal cancer screening if their physicians only recommend a colonoscopy, compared with patients who are advised to undergo fecal occult blood testing (FOBT), or patients who are given the choice between colonoscopy or FOBT...
Lung Cancer Screening As An Insurance Benefit Would Save Lives At A Relatively Low Cost
4/11/2012
Lung cancer is the most lethal cancer in the United States. According to the National Cancer Institute, lung cancer causes more than 150,000 deaths annually and has a survival rate of 16 percent. More Americans die of lung cancer each year than of cervical, breast, colon and prostate cancers combined...
New Evidence Could Tip The Balance In Aspirin Cancer Prevention Care
4/11/2012
A new report by American Cancer Society scientists says new data showing aspirin's potential role in reducing the risk of cancer death bring us considerably closer to the time when cancer prevention can be included in clinical guidelines for the use of aspirin in preventative care...
Survivors Of Breast Cancer Suffer Treatment-Related Side Effects Long After Completing Care
4/11/2012
More than 60 percent of breast cancer survivors report at least one treatment-related complication even six years after their diagnosis, according to a new study led by a researcher from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania...
Nano-Factories Could Make Drugs At Tumor Sites
4/11/2012
A team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US has designed nanoparticles that produce proteins when utraviolet (UV) light shines on them: they suggest the idea could be used to create "nano-factories" that make protein-based drugs at tumor sites to fight cancer...
Genes Identified That May Help In Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis And Prognosis
4/11/2012
Scientists from Duke University Medical Center have determined that genes acting as molecular "on/off" switches can define clinically relevant molecular subtypes of ovarian cancer, providing ideal potential targets for use in clinical prognostic and diagnostic testing. These bimodal genes can define tumor subtypes that have different overall prognoses and respond to different therapeutic regimens...