Findings of a study published in an article Online First revealed that patients with anemia who are undergoing a range of non-cardiac surgical procedures have a 42% higher risk of death and a 35% higher risk of serious co-morbidities compared with non-anemic patients...
Aging Cancer Survivors Increasing In Number Rapidly
10/07/2011
Over the next 10 years, the number of cancer survivors living beyond the age of 65 is likely to increase by nearly fifty percent. Figures show that in 2008 there were approximately 12 million cancer survivors, almost four times the 1971 number. Julia Rowland, Ph.D...
Resectability With Cetuximab Extends Life In Difficult-to-Treat Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
10/07/2011
Combining the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor cetuximab with conventional chemotherapy improves survival in patients who have had complete resection of colorectal liver metastases that were initially judged to be unresectable, according to data presented at the 2011 European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress (EMCC)...
Women's Ability To Track The Signs Of Ovarian Cancer Improved By New App
10/07/2011
Today the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance have released a free app designed to help women learn more about the signs, risks, and symptoms of ovarian cancer, the app also tells you whether you should go and see a doctor...
Women's Ability To Track The Signs Of Ovarian Cancer Improved By New App
10/07/2011
Today the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance have released a free app designed to help women learn more about the signs, risks, and symptoms of ovarian cancer, the app also tells you whether you should go and see a doctor...
Predicting Prognosis Of Patients With Inoperable NSCLC Using FDG-PET
10/07/2011
The prognosis for patients with stage II and III inoperable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is poor, with only about 15 percent of patients surviving at five years post-treatment for the disease. While new treatment strategies are being intensely studied, timely assessment of their efficacy has proven difficult...
Older Cancer Survivor Population To Increase Substantially
10/07/2011
Over the next decade, the population of cancer survivors over 65 years of age will increase by approximately 42 percent. "We can expect a dramatic increase in the number of older adults who are diagnosed with or carry a history of cancer," said Julia Rowland, Ph.D...
Extending The Effective Lifetime Of Stents, Peptide Promotes Healing Of Blood Vessels
10/07/2011
Implanted stents can reopen obstructed arteries, but regrowth of cells into the vessel wall can entail restenosis. Research at LMU now shows that an antimicrobial peptide inhibits restenosis and promotes vascular healing. Thus, coating stents with this peptide could increase their clinical efficacy...
Lung Fibrosis Progression Blocked In Mouse Model
10/07/2011
A study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine may lead to a way to prevent the progression, or induce the regression, of lung injury that results from use of the anti-cancer chemotherapy drug Bleomycin. Pulmonary fibrosis caused by this drug, as well as Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) from unknown causes, affect nearly five million people worldwide...
The Success Of Certain Cancer Therapies Can Be Predicted By Novel Stanford Math Formula
10/07/2011
Carefully tracking the rate of response of human lung tumors during the first weeks of treatment can predict which cancers will undergo sustained regression, suggests a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine...