Breast Cancer Risk Calculator Updated For Asian-Americans
5/19/2011
Researchers have developed a more accurate method for estimating breast cancer risk for Asian and Pacific Islander American (APA) women...
Rising PSA Means Prostate Cancer May Be In Patient's Future, Even If Biopsies Are Normal
5/19/2011
A man's rising PSA (prostate-specific antigen) level over several years - which had been seen as a possible warning sign of prostate cancer - has recently come under fire as a screening test because it sometimes prompts biopsies that turn out to be normal...
Key To Fighting Drug-Resistant Leukemia Discovered By UCSF Team
5/19/2011
Doctors who treat children with the most common form of childhood cancer - acute lymphoblastic leukemia - are often baffled at how sometimes the cancer cells survive their best efforts and the most powerful modern cancer drugs...
Highlights Of National Jewish Health Conference
5/19/2011
Genetic Variant Raises Risk of Fatal Pulmonary Fibrosis Max Seibold, PhD, extended findings recently reported in The New England Journal of Medicine, which identified a common genetic variant associated with a 7 to 22 fold increased risk for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and familial interstitial pneumonia...
Not Enough Canadians Being Screened For Colorectal Cancer, Leading To Many Unnecessary Deaths
5/19/2011
Use of a simple, at-home screening test by Canadians can prevent many unnecessary colorectal cancer deaths, according to a special report about colorectal cancer in Canadian Cancer Statistics 2011 released today by the Canadian Cancer Society, in collaboration with the Public Health Agency of Canada and Statistics Canada...
A new treatment regimen for patients with metastatic colon cancer appears to offer clinical benefit even when used after multiple other treatments have failed, say research physicians at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, a part of Georgetown University Medical Center...
Discovery Of Gene Ripple Effect Which Causes Cervical Cancer To Advance And Spread
5/19/2011
Cancer Research UK scientists have discovered that a common gene fault in cervical cancer cells triggers a ripple of molecular signals - which makes the disease more aggressive, according to research published in The Journal of Pathology, today. The scientists at Cambridge University increased and decreased the activity levels of a gene called Drosha in cervical cancer cells...
Researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center say the number of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the blood is a "powerful predictor" to help physicians more reliably assess treatment benefit for patients with metastatic breast cancer...
Coffee Lowers Prostate Cancer Risk
5/19/2011
If you are male and drink coffee regularly, at least six cups per day, your chances of developing prostate cancer will be lower, and your risk of getting the more lethal form of prostate cancer that has spread to the bone is 60% less than men who never or rarely drink coffee, say scientists from the Harvard School of Public health...
Enzyme May Drive Breast Cancer Growth
5/19/2011
A recently discovered enzyme drives the production of a potent form of estrogen in human breast cancer tissue, researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have found. The extra-strength estrogen, called estradiol, then drives the production of even more enzyme, in what may be a lethal feed-forward mechanism...