More people are dying in hospices in England
5/20/2015
More people are dying in hospices, but few from diseases other than cancer and the gap between rich and poor is increasingThe proportion of people dying in hospices in England has nearly doubled...
Family history has 'no adverse effect' on breast cancer outcomes
5/20/2015
Women diagnosed and treated for breast cancer under the age of 41 have an outlook just as good with family history of the disease as without - with similar prognosis of recurrence.
Adults harbor lots of risky autoreactive immune cells, Stanford study finds
5/20/2015
Decades' worth of textbook precepts about how our immune systems manage to avoid attacking our own tissues may be wrong.
Prospects after breast cancer treatment: family history has 'no adverse effect'
5/20/2015
Women diagnosed and treated for breast cancer under the age of 41 have an outlook just as good with family history of the disease as without - with similar prognosis of recurrence.
Smoking a significant predictor of lung cancer recurrence in survivors
5/20/2015
In 2015, an estimated 158,040 Americans are expected to die from lung cancer, making it the leading cause of cancer death in this country.
Women with dense breasts may not need additional cancer imaging
5/19/2015
A new study suggests that many women with dense breasts do not need additional imaging for breast cancer after a normal mammogram.
Urine-based test improves on PSA for detecting prostate cancer
5/19/2015
Use of Mi-Prostate Score would reduce unneeded biopsiesA new urine-based test improved prostate cancer detection - including detecting more aggressive forms of prostate cancer - compared to...
Noted urologist calls attention to implications of flawed prostate specific antigen data in SEER
5/19/2015
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) recently announced that it had removed all prostate specific antigen (PSA) data from the SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results) and SEER-Medicare...
Researchers make progress engineering digestive system tissues
5/19/2015
New proof-of-concept research at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine suggests the potential for engineering replacement intestine tissue in the lab, a treatment that could be applied to...
Additional imaging unnecessary for many women with dense breasts
5/19/2015
A new study suggests that many women with dense breasts do not need additional imaging for breast cancer after a normal mammogram.