Cancer Detection Tool Saves Lives
10/13/2011
Urologists for Patient Access to Care (UPAC) called a federal government report recommending that healthy men should no longer receive prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood tests as a part of routine cancer screening "a major retrenchment in preventive health care." Dr...
Disparities In Survival Rates Between African-American And White Colorectal Cancer Patients
10/13/2011
African-American patients with resected stage II and stage III colon cancer experienced worse overall and recurrence-free survival compared to whites, but similar recurrence-free intervals, according to a study published Oct. 12 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Colorectal cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States...
Delivering Cisplatin By Inhaler For Treating Lung Cancer
10/13/2011
Lung cancer patients could receive safer and more efficient treatment through a system being developed by researchers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. The scientists have devised a method for giving drugs by inhalation to patients through a nebuliser, rather than the current approach of intravenous delivery...
Reducing Risk Of Death In Advanced Lung Cancer
10/13/2011
Researchers at the University of Colorado Cancer Center have developed a test that identifies key biomarkers in advanced lung cancer that helped reduce the risk of death by 36 percent over a 30- month period in a recent clinical trial. "We are moving from a one-size-fits-all model to more personalized medicine in lung cancer," said University of Colorado School of Medicine Professor Fred R...
Cancer Detection Tool Saves Lives
10/13/2011
Urologists for Patient Access to Care (UPAC) called a federal government report recommending that healthy men should no longer receive prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood tests as a part of routine cancer screening "a major retrenchment in preventive health care." Dr...
Disparities In Survival Rates Between African-American And White Colorectal Cancer Patients
10/13/2011
African-American patients with resected stage II and stage III colon cancer experienced worse overall and recurrence-free survival compared to whites, but similar recurrence-free intervals, according to a study published Oct. 12 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Colorectal cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States...
Genome Of Naked Mole Rat Could Unlock Secrets Of Aging And Cancer
10/13/2011
Scientists have sequenced the genome of the naked mole rat, a highly social underground rodent of extraordinary longevity that retains youthful biology, good health and fertility well into its final years...
Vitamin E Supplements Raise Risk Of Prostate Cancer
10/13/2011
Men who regularly take vitamin E supplements eventually have a higher risk of developing prostate cancer, compared to other men of the same age and overall health who don't, researchers from the Cleveland Clinic reported in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association). The authors say their findings clash with what most people would have expected...
Delivering Cisplatin By Inhaler For Treating Lung Cancer
10/13/2011
Lung cancer patients could receive safer and more efficient treatment through a system being developed by researchers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. The scientists have devised a method for giving drugs by inhalation to patients through a nebuliser, rather than the current approach of intravenous delivery...
Reducing Risk Of Death In Advanced Lung Cancer
10/13/2011
Researchers at the University of Colorado Cancer Center have developed a test that identifies key biomarkers in advanced lung cancer that helped reduce the risk of death by 36 percent over a 30- month period in a recent clinical trial. "We are moving from a one-size-fits-all model to more personalized medicine in lung cancer," said University of Colorado School of Medicine Professor Fred R...