New Prostate Cancer Urine Test
8/13/2011
Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) screening is the universal standard for early detection of prostate cancer in men. The medical community, and even the press, routinely urge men to begin PSA testing at age 50, and even earlier age 40 for high risk men, including African Americans or those with a family history of prostate cancer. Dr...
New Treatment Option For Advanced Prostate Cancer
8/13/2011
Prostate cancer that has become resistant to hormone treatment and that does not respond to radiation or chemotherapy requires new methods of treatment. By attacking stem cell-like cells in prostate cancer, researchers at Lund University are working on a project to develop a new treatment option...
The Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care is the first facility in the Northeast to provide three types of "regional" chemotherapy treatments for cancer patients that go beyond standard surgical removal but remain limited to an organ or region of the body...
TB Jab May Help Fight Cancer, Researchers Discover
8/13/2011
Using the Baculillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) - the germ commonly used to inoculate against tuberculosis (TB), researchers have found a potential new mechanism to stimulate the body's own ability to fight cancer. The discoveries are published online this week in the British Journal of Cancer...
Tanning Rehab? Brain's Addiction Related To Alcoholism, Drug Abuse
8/12/2011
Melanoma is a killer. So is alcoholism and drug abuse. Did you ever think they were connected? A new study shows that the brains of people who say they're addicted to tanning act a lot like those of alcoholics and drug addicts. Maybe tanning rehab centers should be opening close to beaches nationwide. Tanning comes with many health risks...
Genetically Modified 'Serial Killer' T Cells Obliterate Tumors In Leukemia Patients
8/12/2011
In a cancer treatment breakthrough 20 years in the making, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania's Abramson Cancer Center and Perelman School of Medicine have shown sustained remissions of up to a year among a small group of advanced chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients treated with genetically engineered versions of their own T cells...
Trastuzumab Raises Risk Of Heart Problems In The Elderly With History Of Heart Disease Or Diabetes
8/12/2011
The first study to investigate the effect of the breast cancer drug trastuzumab (Herceptin) on heart and vascular function in elderly patients has found that it increases the risk of heart problems, particularly in women with a history of heart disease, diabetes or both...
Analysis Of Metabolites Reveals Need For Gender-Specific Therapies
8/11/2011
Scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum München have agreed in a study that will be published on August 11 in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics, that there is a need for gender-specific therapies after analyzing the metabolic profile of blood serum revealed significant differences in metabolites between men and women...
Music, Instrument Based Therapies Ease Children's Cancer Pain
8/11/2011
According to new analysis, music and instrument based therapies appear to have incredible effects on cancer patients' pain levels, mood, and certain vital signs such as blood pressure. This may lead the way to an addition to standard treatment practices and a complement to medication doses alone. Joke Bradt, Ph.D...
Shrinking Liver Tumors, New Non-Invasive Technology Looks Promising
8/11/2011
According to research carried out at the University of Alabama in Birmingham a potentially new option is starting to emerge for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the fastest growing form of liver cancer in the U.S that often does not respond positive to chemotherapy...