Major Variation In Bladder Cancer Subtype Trends Highlights Need For Focused Research
1/06/2012
Researchers are being urged to differentiate between two types of bladder cancer when they carry out studies, after a detailed trends analysis revealed significant differences between the main subtypes of the disease...
Impaired Quality Of Life: A Warning Signal After Oesophageal Cancer Surgery
1/06/2012
A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology shows that most patients who survive for at least five years after oesophageal cancer surgery recover an average quality of life. However, quality of life deteriorates significantly for one in six patients to a level that remains much lower than the average population in the five years after surgery...
Antiestrogen Therapy May Decrease Risk For Melanoma
1/06/2012
Women with breast cancer who take antiestrogen supplements may be decreasing their risk for melanoma, according to a study published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Christine Bouchardy, M.D., Ph.D...
Cutaneous Melanoma Risk Higher Among Cancer Survivors
1/05/2012
A study published in the December issue of the Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals reveals that, cancer survivors have a higher chance of developing cutaneous melanoma (CM), one of the most aggressive forms of skin cancer. Individuals with previously diagnosed melanoma are at the highest risk...
Before Prescribing Clopidogrel Should Genetic Testing Occur? Apparently Not
1/05/2012
A study in the December issue of JAMA reports that despite the U.S...
Reducing HPV Infection - Single-Sex Vaccination Has Best Effect
1/05/2012
According to a study in PLoS Medicine, the most effective strategy to protect against human papillomavirus (HPV) is single-sex vaccination. They also found that it was preferable to vaccinate females instead of men, given that females are the sex with the highest prevaccine prevalence of HPV infection...
Reducing HPV Infection - Single-Sex Vaccination Has Best Effect
1/05/2012
According to a study in PLoS Medicine, the most effective strategy to protect against human papillomavirus (HPV) is single-sex vaccination. They also found that it was preferable to vaccinate females instead of men, given that females are the sex with the highest prevaccine prevalence of HPV infection...
US Cancer Deaths Continue To Fall, ACS Report
1/05/2012
A new report from the American Cancer Society (ACS) shows that rates of cancer deaths in the United States continue the downward trend of the last two decades...
Simple Online Tool To Aid GPs In Early Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis
1/05/2012
The lives of hundreds of women could be saved every year, thanks to a simple online calculator that could help GPs identify women most at risk of having ovarian cancer at a much earlier stage. Academics from The University of Nottingham and ClinRisk Ltd have developed a new QCancer algorithm using the UK QResearch database...
Major Variation In Bladder Cancer Subtype Trends Highlights Need For Focused Research
1/05/2012
Researchers are being urged to differentiate between two types of bladder cancer when they carry out studies, after a detailed trends analysis revealed significant differences between the main subtypes of the disease...