Cancer Survivors Have Lower Employment Rates And Work Fewer Hours
6/22/2011
Cancer survivors are less likely to be employed, and they work fewer hours, than similarly aged adults without a history of cancer, even two to six years after diagnosis, according to a study by Penn State researchers...
Smoking Raises Risk Of Prostate Cancer Mortality
6/22/2011
A male smoker who is diagnosed with prostate cancer has a higher risk of dying from the disease as well as dying from any cause compared to a lifetime non-smoker with prostate cancer, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health reported in the journal JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association)...
NICE Recommends Treatment Option For Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
6/22/2011
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has recommended a new maintenance treatment that can help delay the growth and spread of follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma...
Cancer Care Network Launched By UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center
6/22/2011
Often people diagnosed with cancer who don't live near a major academic medical center have limited choices for specialized cancer care close to home...
"Today, nine federal agencies-the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the General Services Administration, and the departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, and Veterans Affairs-unveiled a joint plan to fight the leading cause of lung cancer in nonsmokers: exposure to radon...
Homosexuals Report More Problems With Prostate Cancer Drug Than Heterosexuals
6/22/2011
Homosexual men taking bicalutamide for prostate cancer were much more likely to report sexual problems during treatment than heterosexual patients, according to a study in the July issue of the urology journal BJUI...
Association Between Exercise And Longer Survival After Brain Cancer Diagnosis
6/22/2011
Brain cancer patients who are able to exercise live significantly longer than sedentary patients, scientists at the Duke Cancer Institute report. The finding, published online Monday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, adds to recent research that exercise improves how cancer patients feel during and after treatments, and may also extend their lives...
Results of a large, multi-national phase III trial for second-line treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer will be presented for the first time at the ESMO 13th World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer, beginning June 22 2011 in Barcelona Spain...
The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation today announced the formation of "Accelerating Cancer Cures," a historic collaboration of the biopharmaceutical industry and academia with a strong commitment to achieving key breakthroughs in cancer treatments...
Groups Come Together In Opposition To Senate Bill 173
6/22/2011
The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) - District IX, The California Radiological Society (CRS), the California Medical Association (CMA), the Medical Oncology Association of Southern California and the Association of Northern California Oncologists have come together to show opposition to Senate Bill 173 (Simitian)...