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Lifetime intense physical activity may lower risk for non-hodgkin lymphoma
5/01/2015
Performing vigorous physical activity over one's lifetime may lower risk for non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL).
Prolonged statin use may lower risk of lung cancer death
5/01/2015
Lung cancer patients who used statins in the year prior to a lung cancer diagnosis or after a lung cancer diagnosis had a reduction in the risk of death from the disease.
Blood cancer diagnosed too late due to crisis in awareness
5/01/2015
Thousands of blood cancer patients are suffering unnecessarily - and in some cases dying - because health professionals and the public aren't sufficiently aware of the symptoms of blood cancer.
Children's National researchers uncover new T-cell immunity role in study
5/01/2015
Children's National Health System researchers, joining other teams, have uncovered new evidence that T-cells, a type of blood cells, can effectively restore antiviral immunity after transplantation...
Combined chemotherapy and immunotherapy shows promise for advanced prostate cancers
5/01/2015
Immune cell manipulation plus chemotherapy achieves prostate cancer remission in mouse models where chemotherapy alone failsChemotherapy can be very effective against small prostate tumors.
New therapy from naïve cells attacks high-risk viruses in cord blood transplant patients
5/01/2015
Researchers in the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Methodist and the Texas Children's Hospital have expanded the use of virus-specific cell therapy in cord...
NEJM reports promising results of phase 1/2 trial of rociletinib in EGFR lung cancer
5/01/2015
59 percent response rate with 13.1 month progression-free survivalThe New England Journal of Medicine reports results of a multi-center phase I/II study of the investigational anti-cancer agent...
Danish discovery may change cancer treatment
5/01/2015
Danish researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Herlev Hospital have made a discovery that may change the principles for treating certain types of cancer.
Five-year survivors of esophageal cancer still face low but constant risks
5/01/2015
Clinicians should remain on the lookout for recurrence, other primary cancers, and chronic respiratory distress, according to presentation at 95th AATS Annual MeetingPatients with esophageal...
Brain tumor patients should be screened for depression
5/01/2015
New article supports the screening, treatment and evaluation of depression in brain tumor patients, who are at high risk of depressive symptoms that can impact care outcomesBecause depression in...