Declines In Smoking And Lung Cancer Mortality In The US: 1975-2000
3/16/2012
Although changing smoking behaviors have had a major impact on lung cancer mortality in the U.S., the numbers of lung cancer deaths averted are only a small fraction of deaths that could have been avoided had all smoking ceased following the 1964 Surgeon General's Report...
New Guidelines For Cervical Cancer Screening
3/16/2012
Women ages 21 to 65 should have a Pap smear every three years, according to new guidelines from the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). Based on the evidence, women between the ages of 30 and 65 can safely extend the screening interval to once every five years if they undergo the humanpapillomavirus (HPV) test at the same time as the Pap...
Exposure To Cadmium Increases Risk Of Breast Cancer
3/16/2012
A recent study, published in Cancer Research , a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, explains that dietary cadmium, which is a metal found in fertilizers used on farms and is very toxic, can potentially pose a risk of breast cancer. Agneta Akesson, Ph...
New Treatments For Breast Cancer A Possibility
3/16/2012
A new study by University of Kentucky researchers provides insight into developing new treatment strategies for basal-like breast cancer, commonly known as triple negative breast cancer. This cancer is associated with early metastasis and resistance to chemotherapy and occurs at women at a younger age...
Genetic Evolution Of Leukemia Mapped
3/16/2012
The diagnosis of myelodysplastic syndrome, a blood cancer, often causes confusion. While some patients can be treated with repeated blood transfusions, others require chemotherapy, leaving some uncertainty about whether the syndromes actually are cancer. Now, using the latest DNA sequencing technology, scientists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St...
PSA Screening Reduces Prostate Cancer Mortality, But Not All-Cause Mortality
3/15/2012
Prostatic-specific antigen (PSA) testing appears to considerably reduce mortality from prostate cancer over an 11-year period, but has no significant impact on all-cause mortality, a European study published in NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine) reported today. Fritz H. Schröder, M.D...
Cancer Care Outcomes Better In Specialized Cancer Centers
3/15/2012
In a review of recent studies, researchers from The Cochrane Library, reveal that specialized cancer centers may help improve survival rates for cancer patients. ,The team discovered that when women with gynecological cancer were treated in specialist centers, they lived longer than those treated in non-specialist cancer centers...
Gene Known To Protect Against Cancer Can Also Promote Tumor Growth
3/15/2012
Can a gene simultaneously protect against cancer and favor its growth? Researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre have discovered a gene with this double-edged property and suspect there may be many more that share it. In the words of Oscar Fernandez Capetillo, head of the group responsible for the study, this gene "can be both Dr. Jekyll and Mr...
A New Approach To Faster Anticancer Drug Discovery
3/15/2012
Tracking the genetic pathway of a disease offers a powerful, new approach to drug discovery, according to scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine who used the approach to uncover a potential treatment for prostate cancer, using a drug currently marketed for congestive heart failure...
Since the mid-1990s, doctors have had the protein Mer in their sights - it coats the outside of cancer cells, transmitting signals inside the cells that aid their uncontrolled growth...