Continuing The Pollution Controls Used During The China Olympics Could Save Lives
2/08/2011
The air pollution control measures that were put in place in Beijing during the 2008 Olympic Games - if continued - would cut almost in half the lifetime risk of lung cancer for the area's residents from certain inhaled pollutants, a new study concludes...
First FDA-Approved Prostate Cancer Treatment Vaccine Available At Roswell Park
2/08/2011
The nation's first FDA-approved cancer treatment vaccine, Provenge (sipuleucel-T), is being offered for the first time in Western New York at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI). The vaccine is designed for men with advanced prostate cancer who have limited treatment options and who meet eligibility requirements...
Early Detection Of Prostate Cancer By Urine-Sniffing Dogs
2/08/2011
In the February 2011 issue of European Urology, Jean-Nicolas Cornu and colleagues reported the evaluation of the efficacy of prostate cancer (PCa) detection by trained dogs on human urine samples. In their article, the researchers affirm that volatiles organic compounds (VOCs) in urine have been proposed as cancer biomarkers...
DermTech International, Inc, a biotechnology company dedicated to bringing genomic medicine to dermatologists, today announced that the discovery data on its new genomic assay for melanoma have been published in the British Journal of Dermatology...
Fast Track Management Of Colorectal Surgery
2/08/2011
The concept of a fast track rehabilitation program has been recently introduced in colorectal surgery. It is basically a multidisciplinary perioperative care strategy for patients after resection of colorectal cancer. A research article published on February 7, 2011 in the World Journal of Gastroenterology addresses this question...
Research Team Honored For Innovative Science To Advance Cancer Research
2/08/2011
The Fifth Annual AACR Team Science Award will be given to a team of internationally renowned molecular biologists, epidemiologists, biostatisticians and clinicians from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington who have worked together on human papillomavirus (HPV) for more than 20 years...
Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company announced that Phase II results of a clinical trial examining VELCADE® (bortezomib) in patients with previously untreated aggressive lymphoma were published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology...
Native American Ancestry Linked To Greater Risk Of Relapse In Young Leukemia Patients
2/07/2011
The first genome-wide study to demonstrate an inherited genetic basis for racial and ethnic disparities in cancer survival linked Native American ancestry with an increased risk of relapse in young leukemia patients. The work was done by investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the Children's Oncology Group (COG)...
Data Show Incidence Of Skin Cancer Rising At Alarming Rate
2/07/2011
For many young adults, the serious health consequences of tanning have been shown to have little impact on their behavior when it comes to sun exposure. But with spring break around the corner, dermatologists are urging people -- particularly young adults -- to practice proper sun protection and understand the importance of early detection of skin cancer, the most common type of cancer...
Improving Care For Bowel Cancer Patients
2/07/2011
Rainer Kube and his working group report in the current issue of Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2011; 108[4]: 41-6) on new treatment strategies in patients with colon cancer. The findings of multicenter observational studies are a good basis for improvements to overall quality of patient care...