What Are The Leading Causes Of Cancer Deaths In India?
3/29/2012
According to a study published Online First by The Lancet, breast, cervical and stomach cancers are responsible for the majority of cancer deaths among women in India, while lung, oral and stomach cancers are the leading causes of cancer death in Indian men. The study was conducted by Professor Prabhat Jha, Center for Global Health Research, St...
Ipilimumab May Slow Brain Tumors In Melanoma Metastases
3/29/2012
Results of a phase II trial reveal that ipilimumab, a drug belonging to a new class of immune-based therapies which alter the way the immune system fights cancer, may help shrink some tumors and may slow progression of secondary tumors in the brain (metastases) in some patients with advanced melanoma. The study is published Online First in The Lancet Oncology...
Aggressive Prostate Cancer Tumors Controlled By Botanical Formula
3/29/2012
A study by researchers at Indiana University, Methodist Research Institute that is published in The International Journal of Oncology reveals that a non-toxic, botanical orally administered formula controls aggressive human prostate tumors in mice...
Light Drinking Can Raise Breast Cancer Likelihood
3/29/2012
The journal Alcohol and Alcoholism has published a new review of studies that have researched the association between alcohol consumption and breast cancer. The findings revealed that the risk of breast cancer rises by 5% for low level or moderate drinkers, i.e. women who have one drink per day, whilst the risk for those who consume three or more drinks daily (heavy consumption) is 40-50% higher...
Metastatic Breast Cancer - Percutaneous Cryoablation May Be Treatment Alternative
3/29/2012
A study presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 37th Annual Scientific Meeting in San Francisco, Calif. shows that percutaneous cryoablation may be provide another treatment alternative for people suffering from metastatic breast cancer, in whom the disease has progressed to other areas of the body...
Researchers Identify Genetic Markers Of Drug Sensitivity In Cancer Cells
3/29/2012
In the largest study of its kind, researchers have profiled genetic changes in cancer with drug sensitivity in order to develop a personalised approach to cancer treatments. The study is published in Nature on Thursday 29 March 2012. The team uncovered hundreds of associations between mutations in cancer genes and sensitivity to anticancer drugs...
Novel Compound Halts Brain Tumor Spread, Improves Treatment In Animals
3/29/2012
Researchers from Emory and the Georgia Institute of Technology have designed a new treatment approach that appears to halt the spread of cancer cells into normal brain tissue in animal models. Treating invasive brain tumors with a combination of chemotherapy and radiation has improved clinical outcomes, but few patients survive longer than two years after diagnosis...
Future Skin Cancer Risk Revealed By UV Photographs Of 12-Year-olds
3/29/2012
Look at a middle school assembly - during their lifetime one in 50 of these kids will develop melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer that kills 48,000 people every year, worldwide...
Myeloid Malignancies Underreported In U.S.
3/29/2012
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and colleagues from the UF Shands Cancer Center in Gainesville, Fla., have found that cases of myeloid malignancies are being underreported since a change in registry protocols and laboratory practices starting in 2001...
Growth Rates Of Lung Cancers Found By CT Screening
3/29/2012
Growth rates of lung cancers found by annual rounds of computed tomography (CT) screening are important for determining the usefulness and frequency of screening, as well as for determining the treatment...