Young female cancer survivors are concerned about their future fertility and parenthood options and want better information and guidance early on, according to a new study by Jessica Gorman and her team from the University of California in the US...
Survival In Brain Cancer Patients May Be Improved By Personalized Gene Therapies
1/11/2012
Personalized prognostic tools and gene-based therapies may improve the survival and quality of life of patients suffering from glioblastoma, an aggressive and deadly form of brain cancer, reports a new University of Illinois study funded by the NIH National Cancer Institute...
How Obesity Affects Cancer Screening
1/11/2012
Researchers in Family and Community Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University recently found that obesity was linked to higher rates of prostate cancer screening across all races/ethnic differences and lower rates of cervical cancer screening, most notably in white women...
How Obesity Affects Cancer Screening
1/11/2012
Researchers in Family and Community Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University recently found that obesity was linked to higher rates of prostate cancer screening across all races/ethnic differences and lower rates of cervical cancer screening, most notably in white women...
Sharing Breast Cancer Results With Children Is Popular
1/10/2012
An investigation published online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society has discovered that many parents share their breast cancer test results with their children, even if they are very young. Furthermore, the researchers discovered that the majority of parents believe that their children are not distressed when they find out about the test results...
PSA Screening Does Not Help Mortality
1/10/2012
A study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute reveals that there is no difference in mortality rates between men participating in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer (PLCO) Screening Trial, and men who receive usual care after 13 years follow-up. In November 1993, the multi-center, two-arm, PLCO Trial, began enrollment with follow-up, through December 2009...
Following Genetic Testing For Breast Cancer Genes, Most Parents Share Results With Their Children
1/10/2012
A new study has found that when parents get tested for breast cancer genes, many of them share their results with their children, even with those who are very young. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study also revealed that most parents think that their children are not distressed when they learn about the test results...
Circulating Tumor Cells Analyzed In Patients With Lung Cancer
1/10/2012
Researchers have developed a method to analyze circulating tumor cells in the blood of patients with non-small cell lung cancer. This method, which can analyze a sample size as small as three cells, may allow clinicians to track cancer progress and treatments and could help them develop new therapies...
News From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation: Jan. 9, 2012
1/10/2012
ONCOLOGY: KRAS provides maintenance for pancreatic cancer The outlook for individuals diagnosed with the most common form of pancreatic cancer, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA), is very poor; the average time of survival after diagnosis is less than 6 months. New therapeutic approaches are therefore much needed...
Sorafenib Effective In Patients With Non-small Cell Lung Cancer, But Low Survival Rates Reported
1/10/2012
Sorafenib was effective in patients with non-small cell lung cancer and a KRAS mutation, but survival rates were reportedly "unsatisfactory," according to data presented at the AACR-IASLC Joint Conference on Molecular Origins of Lung Cancer: Biology, Therapy and Personalized Medicine, held Jan. 8-11, 2012...