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Healthy Lifestyle Help for Cancer Survivors
Wall Street Journal
Health-care institutions are increasingly offering programs — many free — to help cancer survivors improve their quality of life, but often patients aren't even aware of these services, more...
Cancer survivors' follow-up care falls short
Most childhood cancer survivors aren't getting important follow-up care to prevent serious long-term side effects of their treatment, a new study shows. more...
Breast cancer study: Use less radiation
CHICAGO (AP) — Women with early-stage breast tumors can undergo a shorter course of radiation without a greater risk that their cancer will come back years later, the largest study to test this suggests. more...
Cancer, Western habits expected to surge in Asia
SINGAPORE (AP) — Asia is bracing for a dramatic surge in cancer rates over the next decade as people in the developing world live longer and adopt bad Western habits that greatly increase the risk of the disease. more...
Many Americans Confused About Cancer: Survey
By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, May 17 (HealthDay News) -- The first national survey in a generation to look at Americans' feelings on cancer prevention finds widespread confusion about the disease. more...
Drug combination helps certain breast cancer cases
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A cocktail of three targeted drugs may help women with a specific type of breast cancer farbetter than any of the drugs used alone, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday. more...
ASCO Patient Guide: Hormone Therapy for Advanced Prostate Cancer
To help doctors give their patients the best possible care, ASCO asks its medical experts to develop recommendations for specific areas of cancer care. In 2004, ASCO published a clinical practice guideline about hormone therapy for advanced prostate cancer. more...
Cancer Patients at High Risk of Drug Interactions
WEDNESDAY, April 18 (HealthDay News) -- Because they often take several medications at the same time, cancer patients are at high risk for adverse drug interactions, Canadian researchers report. more...
Breast Cancer Drop Tied To Less Hormone Use
By Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writer
New federal statistics provide powerful evidence that the sharp drop in hormone use by menopausal women that began in 2002 caused a dramatic decline in breast cancer cases, according to an analysis being published today. more...
Chemotherapy Fog Is No Longer Ignored as Illusion
By JANE GROSS
On an Internet chat room popular with breast cancer survivors, one thread — called “Where’s My Remote?” — turns the mental fog known as chemo brain into a stand-up comedy act. more...
Prostate test could be more accurate
Hopkins scientists say screening might spare many biopsies
By Jonathan Bor
Johns Hopkins researchers say they have devised a more accurate blood test for prostate cancer that could eventually replace PSA screening, flagging more malignancies while reducing the number of false alarms. more...
Looking Beyond Survival
Survivorship care is critical to the future of oncology
Mary S. McCabe, RN, MA
As oncology professionals, we all look forward to seeing our successfully treated patients come in for their follow-up visits. In a busy day filled with making complex medical decisions, delivering bad news, managing symptoms, and dealing with insurance companies, it is a real highlight. more...
Report: Patient illiteracy threatens health care
By Marie Skelton, USA TODAY
Miscommunications between patients and health care providers are increasing the chances that people who need medical care will be hurt or killed in the process, according to a report from a health care accreditation group. more...
Dispelling the Myths of Colon Cancer
By Karen Barrow
While cancer rates are on the decline, colorectal cancer is still the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, second only to lung cancer. And though 150,000 Americans will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer this year, it is a highly preventable disease. more...
New Blood Test May Detect Cancer Early
By Karen Barrow
A simple blood test may reveal cancer in its earliest stages, researchers report. If proven accurate, this tool may make it easier and less expensive for doctors to screen for cancer and monitor treatment progress for those with cancer.more...
Long Term Health Risks for Childhood Cancer Survivors
By Karen Barrow
In 1970, at the age of two and a half, Mark Dickey was diagnosed with Wilms’ tumor, a form of cancer that affects the kidney. After surgery to remove his kidney, six weeks of radiation and a year of chemotherapy, he became the first child ever at St. Judes Children’s Research Hospital to survive this once-fatal cancer.
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New Stem Cell Transplant Brings Hope to Children with Leukemia
By Karen Barrow
A new form of blood stem cell transplantation (also known as a bone marrow transplant) allows closely related relatives to donate their healthy cells without being a perfect match to the recipient’s cells. more...
FDA approves advanced breast cancer drug
By ANDREW BRIDGES, Associated Press Writer
Women with an aggressive form of advanced breast cancer that other treatments have failed to stop gained a new option Tuesday with the approval of a novel drug — but how much benefit it offers is unclear. more...
'Expert Centers' Give More Cost-Effective Cancer Care
Health Day/Yahoo! News
MONDAY, March 12 (HealthDay News) -- Expert centers with extensive experience in managing cancer are more costly, but they are also more cost-effective in managing ovarian cancer in the long-term, U.S. researchers report.more...
Researchers Use Poliovirus to Destroy Neuroblastoma Tumors in Mice
The cause of one notorious childhood disease, poliovirus, could be used to treat the ongoing threat of another childhood disease, neuroblastoma... [researchers] report that a... form of poliovirus is effective in obliterating neuroblastoma tumors in mice, even when the mice had been previously vaccinated against the virus. more...
Large-Scale Japanese Study Finds Soy Protective against Localized Prostate Cancer, But Not Advanced Prostate Cancer
The largest study examining the relationship between the traditional soy-rich Japanese diet and development of prostate cancer in Japanese men has come to a seemingly contradictory conclusion: intake of isoflavone chemicals, derived largely from soy foods, decreased the risk of localized prostate cancer but increased the risk of advanced prostate cancer. more...
Green Tea and COX-2 Inhibitors Combine to Slow Growth of Prostate Cancer
PHILADELPHIA -- Drinking a nice warm cup of green tea has long been touted for its healthful benefits, both real and anecdotal. But now researchers have found that a component of green tea, combined with low doses of a COX-2 inhibitor, could slow the spread of human prostate cancer. more...
Researchers Wake Up Viruses Inside Tumors to Image and Then Destroy Cancers
Researchers have found a way to activate Epstein-Barr viruses inside tumors as a way to identify patients whose infection can then be manipulated to destroy their tumors. more...
Study shows breath test for lung cancer possible
Yahoo! News
A simple breath test can sometimes detect lung cancer in patients even in the early stages of the disease, proving in principle that the idea might work, more...
Panel nixes aspirin as cancer preventive
By RON TODT, Associated Press Writer
PHILADELPHIA - People at average risk for colon cancer shouldn't take aspirin or painkillers like ibuprofen to try to prevent the disease, a federal task force advises, because of the risk of bleeding and other potential health problems. more...
Improved Stool-Based Test Could Boost Colon Cancer Screening
The fecal sampling test, called I-FOBT, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2001, but is used infrequently by doctors, said Dr. Thomas Imperiale, more...
Breast Cancer Survivors Not Getting Screened
Author: Karen Barrow
One would think that a woman who survived breast cancer would be extra vigilant about screening for recurrence, but new research shows that many survivors are not seeking annual mammograms. more...
Gene Profiling Predicts Resistance to Breast Cancer Drug Herceptin
Using gene chips to profile tumors before treatment, researchers at Harvard and Yale Universities found markers that identified breast cancer subtypes resistant to Herceptin, the primary treatment for HER2-positive breast cancer. They say this advance could help further refine therapy for the 25 to 30 percent of breast cancer patients with this class of tumor. more...
Tamoxifen May Affect Women's Eye Health
Yahoo! News
Tamoxifen, a drug commonly prescribed to prevent breast cancer recurrence, may cause swelling within the eyes, U.S. researchers conclude. Tamoxifen is one of two types of drugs often used to prevent breast cancer recurrence. more...
Shortening Chromosomes Cause for Earlier Cancer Onset in Families with Rare Syndrome
PHILADELPHIA -- In families with a high incidence of Li-Fraumeni syndrome, the ends of individuals' chromosomes act somewhat like a lit fuse, according to researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. more...
Researchers Say It’s Never Too Late to Start Exercising
PHILADELPHIA -- Six or more hours per week of strenuous recreational activity may reduce the risks of invasive breast cancer by 23 percent, according to researchers from [UWCCC]. more...
Survey Finds Perceived Risk of Recurrence Is Low in African American Breast Cancer Survivors
PHILADELPHIA - A unique survey of African American breast cancer survivors at heightened risk for hereditary breast cancer has found the majority do not believe they have an increased chance of developing the cancer again. more...
Vitamin D Studies Show Promise for Reducing Cancers
Certain amounts of vitamin D may be able to prevent up to half of breast cancer cases and two-thirds of colorectal cancer cases in the United States, according to two studies by researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego, and colleagues at other centers. more...
Gene may protect some women against breast cancer
Yahoo! News
Scientists have identified a gene variation found in about 13 percent of women of European descent that reduces their risk of developing breast cancer, a study released on Sunday said. more...
Study finds newer breast cancer drugs save lives
Yahoo! News
Women who switch from the breast cancer pill tamoxifen to a newer class of drugs called aromatase inhibitors live longer, Italian researchers reported on Monday. more...
Test to Predict Breast Cancer Relapse Is Approved
By Andrew Pollack
A new genetic test that tries to predict whether a woman with breast cancer will have a relapse won approval yesterday from the Food and Drug Administration, marking a step toward an era in which medical treatments are personalized for each patient. more...
Vitamin D Appears Effective in Reducing Colorectal Cancer Incidence
By Valerie DeBenedette
A larger daily dose of vitamin D could reduce the incidence of colorectal cancer with minimal risk, according to a new review that pools results from five studies. more...
Too Young for This: Facing Cancer Under 40
By AMANDA SCHAFFER
Cancer is indeed less common in adolescents and young adults than in older people. But in some ways it is more alarming. more...
Workplace secondhand smoke ups cancer risk: study
By Will Dunham, Reuters
High levels of secondhand smoke on the job can double nonsmokers' risk of developing lung cancer, and those who inhale it at work long-term face a 50 percent higher risk, researchers said on Wednesday. more...
Human Pancreatic Stem Cells Identified
PHILADELPHIA - Researchers at the University of Michigan Medical Center have, for the first time, identified human pancreatic cancer stem cells. Their work indicates that these cells are likely responsible for the aggressive tumor growth, progression, and metastasis that define this deadly cancer. more...
Cancer research and drug development are yielding more sophisticated candidate therapies
PHILADELPHIA - Cancer research and drug development are yielding more sophisticated candidate therapies, but investigators’ methods to test them haven’t kept pace, according to researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. more...
Cancer drugs: Too toxic?
By Shari Roan
New drugs developed in the last decade can dramatically cut the chances that breast cancer will return. But as many as one-third of women stop taking the drugs before the end of the recommended five-year course of therapy, often because of the side effects. more...
Hormone Drug Type Makes Survival Difference in Advanced Breast Cancer
By Katherine Kahn, Contributing Writer
Health Behavior News Service
Aromatase inhibitors, a type of hormone therapy used to treat advanced breast cancer in postmenopausal women, result in a small but significant increase in overall survival when compared to other hormone treatments, according to a new systematic review of studies. more...
BE A PART OF LIVESTRONG DAY 2007!
Wednesday, May 16, 2007, is the day. LIVESTRONG Day! LIVESTRONG Day is our annual grassroots advocacy effort to unify people affected by cancer. more...
Simple Diagnostic Test Detects Genetic Signs of Lung Cancer in a Patient’s Sputum
PHILADELPHIA- DNA coughed up along with phlegm could point to lung cancer, say researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who are developing an inexpensive and non-invasive gene probe to help diagnose early stage lung cancer in current and former smokers. more...
ACS Recommends HPV Vaccine But Cervical Cancer Screening Still Necessary
Girls should get the new vaccine for human papilloma virus (HPV) at age 11-12, the American Cancer Society says in new guidelines issued Friday. more...
HPV Vaccination for Cervical Cancer
Most cervical cancers are caused by infection with the human papillomavirus (HPV). HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. Although many women infected with the virus eventually clear the infection, some women develop a persistent (lasting) infection, which is a risk factor for cervical cancer. more...
Gum Disease, Pancreatic Cancer May Be Linked
By Rob Stein
Scientists have new evidence that gum disease may be linked to more serious health problems, in this case pancreatic cancer. more...
Cancer found more often in dense breasts
By JEFF DONN, Associated Press Writer
BOSTON - Cancer turns up five times more often in women with extremely dense breasts than in those with the most fatty tissue, a study shows, signaling the importance of a risk factor rarely discussed with patients. more...
Armstrong still fighting strong
By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY
Lance Armstrong wants voters to make cancer a political priority. In an interview with USA TODAY, the cancer survivor and seven-time Tour de France winner says the country needs an army of advocates to push the disease to the top of the agenda. more...
How to cope with shock of cancer diagnosis
By Judy Foreman, THE BOSTON GLOBE
Late last fall, Dartmouth Medical School researchers reported in the journal Cancer that all newly diagnosed breast cancer patients in their study experienced at least some level of distress, and nearly half met the criteria for a significant psychiatric disorder such as major depression or post-traumatic stress disorder. more...
Study: Doctors out of sync with cancer patients' wishes
By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY
ORLANDO — A new study sheds light on the hardships that cancer patients are willing to endure in the hope of a cure — as well as the communication gap between patients and their doctors. more...
Study: Doctors out of sync with cancer patients' wishes
By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY
ORLANDO — A new study sheds light on the hardships that cancer patients are willing to endure in the hope of a cure — as well as the communication gap between patients and their doctors. more...
Radiation After Lumpectomy Cuts Recurrence
By Rita Rubin, USA TODAY
Radiation after a lumpectomy can reduce the risk of a recurrence or new tumor in women who are diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer at age 65 or older, but some patients may decide that the benefit doesn't outweigh the treatment's drawbacks, a study suggests today. more...
Survey shows need for oral chemotherapy guidelines
Clear, standardized guidelines are needed for giving oral chemotherapy drugs to iron out inconsistencies in how patients are given the drugs and monitored, researchers said on Friday. more...
Gene test may help lung cancer patients
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Medical Writer
Scientists in Taiwan have developed a simple, five-gene test aimed at showing which lung cancer patients most need chemotherapy, as similar tests now do for people with breast cancer and lymphoma. more...
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