• Scientists discover nucleoli damage could kill cancer cells

    Updated: 2011-11-08 00:01:00
    DAMAGING a cell¿s nucleolus could destroy cancer cells by increasing levels of the most important tumour prevention protein, p53, reveals research presented at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference in Liverpool, today.

  • Medics miss key opportunities to prevent cancers linked to obesity

    Updated: 2011-11-08 00:01:00
    People who work in health care are failing to give patients crucial information about the link between obesity and cancer according to new research presented today (Tuesday) at the National Cancer Research Institute Cancer Conference (NCRI) in Liverpool.

  • Bowel, oesophageal and pancreatic cancers show biggest improvement in diagnosis time

    Updated: 2011-11-08 00:01:00
    NEW research shows that bowel, oesophageal and pancreatic cancers have seen the greatest improvement in the time it takes from when a patient first visits their GP with symptoms to when they are diagnosed with the disease.

  • Researchers recognised by Cancer Research UK prizes

    Updated: 2011-11-07 11:15:00
    Cancer Research UK yesterday announced the recipients of this year¿s Cancer Research UK Prizes at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference in Liverpool.

  • Breast cancer patients lack adequate fertility preservation advice

    Updated: 2011-11-07 00:01:00
    Women may not receive adequate information on fertility preservation before breast cancer treatment, according to research presented at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference in Liverpool today (Monday).

  • First evidence of new 'druggable' DNA repair target to destroy cancer cells

    Updated: 2011-11-07 00:01:00
    BLOCKING a key DNA damage repair enzyme, called APE1, could provide a new way to kill cancer cells containing faulty BRCA genes, according to research presented at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference in Liverpool

  • Combined Androgen Deprivation Therapy and Radiation Therapy for Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer:Positive Results

    Updated: 2011-11-06 17:51:38
    A group of researchers just reported positive results of a phase 3 trial showing that the addition of radiation therapy (RT) improves overall survival in men with locally advanced prostate cancer (T3 & T4) to androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) alone. The researchers used a sample of 1,057 men with locally advanced (T3 or T4) prostate [...]

  • Poor men more likely to die from bowel cancer

    Updated: 2011-11-06 00:01:00
    Deprived men are more likely to die from bowel cancer than men from the most affluent section of society, new research presented at the NCRI Cancer Conference in Liverpool this week shows.

  • Cervical cancers rise in young women

    Updated: 2011-11-05 00:01:00
    The incidence of cervical cancer in women in their 20s has risen by over 40 per cent between 1992 and 2006 in England, despite the overall incidence of cervical cancer dropping by 30 per cent, according to research* that will be presented at the annual National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference in Liverpool which starts tomorrow.

  • On The Horizon – MDV3100 in Men With Advanced Prostate Cancer Study Will Be Stopped Early and MDV3100 Offered to All Participants

    Updated: 2011-11-04 16:04:58
    It was announced yesterday that the Independent Data Monitoring Committee (IDMC) has informed the the pharmaceuticals, Medivation and Astellas of positive results from a planned interim analysis of the Phase 3 AFFIRM trial of MDV3100 in men with advanced prostate cancer previously treated with chemotherapy. The monitoring committee found that MDV3100, the first androgen receptor [...]

  • HPV home tests for cervical cancer prove effective in study

    Updated: 2011-11-04 16:03:00
    Self-testing for the human papillomavirus (HPV) - the virus that causes cervical cancer - at home is at least as sensitive as conventional cytology (smear testing) in detecting cervical cancer or pre-cancerous changes, a study of Mexican women has found.

  • Away to Guadalajara for Latin American health care journalism workshop

    Updated: 2011-11-04 15:59:36
    Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog Gary Schwitzer Publisher , HealthNewsReview.org feedback healthnewsreview.org Away to Guadalajara for Latin American health care journalism workshop By Gary Schwitzer on November 4, 2011 10:59 AM No Comments No TrackBacks I may not be publishing much over the next week , as I'm helping to coordinate the second annual Cancer Research in the Media workshop for Latin American journalists with the National Cancer Institute . Last year I made several presentations to the first such workshop in Rio de Janeiro . This year's session will be in Guadalajara , Mexico , with nearly 40 journalists from Latin American countries and a few from the US from Spanish-language media . Speakers include : Antonio Tito Fojo , MD , PhD Head , Experimental Therapeutics

  • 36,000 urge No 10 to improve radiotherapy services across the country

    Updated: 2011-11-04 14:23:00
    More than 36,000 people have joined Cancer Research UK's Voice for Radiotherapy campaign to call on the government to improve radiotherapy services in England.

  • Tobacco-ad ban 'supported by public'

    Updated: 2011-11-04 08:16:00
    In a boost to UK tobacco control policy, a Canadian study has shown that smokers and non-smokers alike strongly support the banning of tobacco adverts and displays.

  • ASCO Calls for New Approaches in Cancer Research

    Updated: 2011-11-03 22:54:17
    Cancer research needs to focus more on targeted therapies and personalized diagnosis and treatment, according to top officials at the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

  • Adding Radiation Boosts Prostate Cancer Survival

    Updated: 2011-11-03 19:00:00
    The addition of radiation to hormonal therapy for locally advanced or otherwise high-risk prostate cancer improves survival, a randomized trial determined.

  • Cancer is the biggest premature killer

    Updated: 2011-11-03 00:01:00
    Cancer is responsible for killing 40 per cent of all the men and women who die prematurely between the ages of 25 and 74 in the UK - according to a new analysis of the figures released today by Cancer Research UK.

  • KC TV station report on variations & shared decision-making

    Updated: 2011-11-02 15:45:59
    A Kansas City television station produced a good package on local variations in health care practice, and how one medical center is addressing variation by employing shared decision-making. It's good to see local TV news tackle issues such as this. Worth a look.

  • Moderate drinking 'ups cancer risk'

    Updated: 2011-11-02 15:11:00
    Women who consume just three small alcoholic drinks a week face an increased risk of breast cancer, US researchers have warned.

  • Androgen Receptor Genes Have An Opposite Effect In Prostate & Breast Cancers

    Updated: 2011-11-02 14:48:27
    A study at The Cleveland Clinic has discovered that a gene – known as an androgen receptor (AR) is present in both breast and prostate cancers, but the gene has opposite effects on these diseases. The AR gene promotes prostate cancer when the gene is “turned on,” but in breast cancer the AR gene promotes [...]

  • Cancer expert asks "Are we as a society prepared to pay attention to scientific evidence?"

    Updated: 2011-11-01 17:52:01
    Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog Gary Schwitzer Publisher , HealthNewsReview.org feedback healthnewsreview.org Cancer expert asks Are we as a society prepared to pay attention to scientific evidence By Gary Schwitzer on November 1, 2011 12:52 PM 1 Comment No TrackBacks It's ironic that this now makes three consecutive entries on this blog that all relate to public misconceptions or misunderstanding of how science works . Yesterday I blogged about a science writer's lament about how reader comments sometimes display an inability to accept evidence Earlier today I posted a humorous piece from The Daily Show showing some more gaps between what science shows and what people want to believe . And today , Dr . Otis Brawley of the American Cancer Society concludes a piece about prostate

  • The Role of BRCA2 Mutations in Aggressive Prostate Cancer

    Updated: 2011-11-01 16:53:48
    According to research published today in the British Journal of Cancer, routine testing for a faulty BRCA2 gene (Kote-Jarai Z et al, BRCA2 is a gene contributing to young onset prostate cancer: implications for genetic testing in prostate cancer patients British Journal of Cancer (2011) doi:10.1038/bjc.2011.383) in men under 65 years with prostate cancer could [...]

  • 'Smokefree generation' lobbies parents

    Updated: 2011-11-01 15:16:00
    A heightened awareness of the dangers of smoking among the younger generation has been highlighted by the remarkable findings of a new Department of Health survey.

  • 'Glow in the dark' brains aid tumour surgery

    Updated: 2011-11-01 00:01:00
    A multi-centre phase II clinical trial for a pioneering new surgical technique has started in the UK, jointly funded by Samantha Dickson Brain Tumour Trust and Cancer Research UK.

  • The Prostate Cancer Roundtable Posts Its Comments to the USPSTF on PSA Screening

    Updated: 2011-10-31 19:12:02
    The Prostate Cancer Roundtable is a formal organization consisting of some of the largest prostate cancer advocacy and support organizations. The goal of the organization is to try and coordinate both the actions and the messages of these independent organizations, or as some of us have described to try and play nice with each other [...]

  • Clue to spread of ovarian cancer

    Updated: 2011-10-31 14:17:00
    Laboratory-based research by US scientists has given a clue to the role that a pad of fat cells inside the abdomen, called the omentum, plays in fuelling the spread of ovarian cancer.

  • Breast Cancer Awareness For Men – Men Do Get Breast Cancer!

    Updated: 2011-10-28 18:14:45
    I know, many of you think that breast cancer is a woman only issue. But, it is not. Men do get breast cancer and men do die of breast cancer! Now, of course you are asking why I am writing about breast cancer on this prostate cancer blog. In the past, most of my comments [...]

  • AACR-FCPR: Adverse Effects Long Lasting After Prostate Cancer Tx

    Updated: 2011-10-28 13:11:06
    BOSTON -- A majority of prostate cancer survivors reported long-term treatment-related adverse effects with surgery or radiation therapy, survey data showed.

  • Aspirin 'should be recommended' to cut bowel cancer risk in people with inherited syndrome

    Updated: 2011-10-28 09:33:00
    Long-term aspirin use protects against bowel cancer in people with Lynch syndrome - a genetic disorder that predisposes to the disease - according to research partly funded by Cancer Research UK.

  • NHS faces huge cancer challenge as cases set to jump by 45 per cent

    Updated: 2011-10-28 00:01:00
    THE NHS must start planning now to deal with a predicted leap of 45 per cent in the number of new cancer cases in the UK over the next two decades, Cancer Research UK warns today.

  • Xigris: "Another over-hyped and over-marketed drug bites the dust"

    Updated: 2011-10-27 18:39:21
    : Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog Gary Schwitzer Publisher , HealthNewsReview.org feedback healthnewsreview.org Xigris : Another over-hyped and over-marketed drug bites the dust By Gary Schwitzer on October 27, 2011 1:39 PM 1 Comment No TrackBacks As he so often does , Merrill Goozner offers some important historical perspective to the news , as he headlined it : Xigris Pulled 1 Billion Later Excerpt : Another over-hyped and over-marketed drug bites the dust . Eli Lilly earlier this week pulled Xigris from the market after a clinical trial showed it provided no benefit for hospital patients with septic shock . From the start , critical clinicians questioned the efficacy of this drug , which is used to treat sepsis , a hospital-acquired systemic infection that often strikes the

  • Infections During Chemotherapy – An Emergency Situation

    Updated: 2011-10-27 17:00:53
    From the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Watch out for fever. If you get a fever during your chemotherapy treatment, it’s a medical emergency. Take your temperature any time you feel warm, flushed, chilled, or not well. If your temperature is 100.4°F (38°C) or higher for more than [...]

  • Chest X-rays for lung cancer 'do not save lives'

    Updated: 2011-10-27 14:36:00
    People who have annual chest radiography screening do not have a significantly lower rate of death from lung cancer compared with people who aren't screened, a US study has suggested.

  • New England Journal of Medicine pieces on prostate cancer screening

    Updated: 2011-10-26 21:41:20
    Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog Gary Schwitzer Publisher , HealthNewsReview.org feedback healthnewsreview.org New England Journal of Medicine pieces on prostate cancer screening By Gary Schwitzer on October 26, 2011 4:41 PM No Comments No TrackBacks This week's edition of the NEJM includes four perspective pieces on the new US Preventive Services Task Force's prostate cancer screening recommendations . One , on what the USPSTF left out , states Although the USPSTF explicitly does not consider costs , policymakers cannot ignore economic aspects of screening . Using data from the European screening trial , researchers have estimated that 5.2 million would have to be spent on screening and the interventions that follow it to prevent one death from prostate cancer . That estimate does

  • The Education of Dee Dee Ricks

    Updated: 2011-10-26 17:47:00
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  • Alpha Blockers Linked to Prostate Cancer Relapse

    Updated: 2011-10-26 16:32:59
    A retrospective study has just been published that shows that the risk of experiencing a biochemical recurrence (PSA recurrence) after radical prostatectomy to treat prostate cancer increased significantly in men who received alpha blockers for lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) after surgery. When compared to men who did not receive alpha blockers, those who did [...]

  • British breast cancer screening now under independent review

    Updated: 2011-10-26 13:21:43
    Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog Gary Schwitzer Publisher , HealthNewsReview.org feedback healthnewsreview.org British breast cancer screening now under independent review By Gary Schwitzer on October 26, 2011 8:21 AM No Comments No TrackBacks Questions about how best to communicate to the public about the tradeoffs of potential benefits versus potential harms of mammography do not end at America's shores . The Guardian of London reports An independent investigation into breast cancer screening has been set up by the government's cancer chief to try to settle the growing controversy around its usefulness and potential . harms Prof Sir Mike Richards's move is an attempt to put to rest the criticisms of a number of scientists , who say the NHS British National Health Service screening

  • Pill and pregnancy have biggest effects on ovarian cancer risk

    Updated: 2011-10-26 00:01:00
    Taking the Pill for 10 years can reduce the risk of ovarian cancer by almost half (45 per cent), new research part-funded by Cancer Research UK shows today.

  • UK's breast cancer screening programme reviewed

    Updated: 2011-10-25 23:31:00
    The UK's National Cancer Director, Professor Sir Mike Richards, has ordered an independent review of the NHS breast cancer screening programme.

  • The Really Big Factor in Prostate Cancer Deaths Is Age – Can Rationing Save Money?

    Updated: 2011-10-25 16:49:23
    Is it a subtle form of healthcare rationing with the goal of saving money at the expense of lives? Maybe that is what is going on. Older men are not economically as valuable to society as other individuals, in many people’s eyes they are actually a burden. Can a solution to the problem be to [...]

  • Consumer quandary on health care costs

    Updated: 2011-10-25 15:51:27
    Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog Gary Schwitzer Publisher , HealthNewsReview.org feedback healthnewsreview.org Consumer quandary on health care costs By Gary Schwitzer on October 25, 2011 10:51 AM No Comments No TrackBacks Two items in the news reflect the dilemma that health care consumers face on health care cost issues . The Washington Post published advice from Dr . John Santa of Consumer Reports for people with health insurance but who are facing large deductibles and also paying an increasingly large portion of the rest of the bill . But the Wall Street Journal reports on a Government Accounting Office report that showed : Consumers are usually unable to get accurate information about how much medical treatment will cost them before they receive it . The GAO tried to get

  • Another day, another slew of misleading media messages on observational study

    Updated: 2011-10-25 14:45:45
    , Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog Gary Schwitzer Publisher , HealthNewsReview.org feedback healthnewsreview.org Another day , another slew of misleading media messages on observational study By Gary Schwitzer on October 25, 2011 9:45 AM 1 Comment No TrackBacks I know you're probably tired of reading about it . Frankly , I get a bit weary of writing about it . But as long as journalists continue to use the wrong language to describe observational studies , I'm going to keep plugging away . This recurring flaw was one of three I identified in a popular blog post last week , How the News Media May Hurt Not Help Health Literacy Efforts Observational studies can't establish cause-and-effect so it is simply inaccurate to use active , causal verbs to describe their findings . So when

  • Sheffield launches new cancer research Centre

    Updated: 2011-10-25 14:01:00
    Cancer Research UK and Yorkshire Cancer Research have come together for the first time today (Tuesday) to fund a new cancer research centre in Sheffield.

  • AACR-FCPR: Drug Linked to Prostate Ca Relapse

    Updated: 2011-10-24 21:48:48
    BOSTON -- The risk of biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy increased significantly in men who received alpha blockers for lower urinary tract symptoms after surgery, according to a study reported here.

  • Most women with screen-detected breast cancer have not had their life saved by screening

    Updated: 2011-10-24 21:42:09
    Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog Gary Schwitzer Publisher , HealthNewsReview.org feedback healthnewsreview.org Most women with screen-detected breast cancer have not had their life saved by screening By Gary Schwitzer on October 24, 2011 4:42 PM No Comments No TrackBacks That's the conclusion of an article published today in the Archives of Internal Medicine . I'm on the run today , but here's the abstract Background Perhaps the most persuasive messages promoting screening mammography come from women who argue that the test saved my life . Because other possibilities exist , we sought to determine how often lives were actually saved by mammography . screening Methods We created a simple method to estimate the probability that a woman with screen-detected breast cancer has had her

  • US study confirms aromatase inhibitors are effective for post-menopausal breast cancer

    Updated: 2011-10-21 14:52:00
    An anti-oestrogen drug called letrozole is more effective at preventing breast cancer from coming back than tamoxifen in post-menopausal women, US researchers have said.

  • Attacking Androgen Receptor Signaling In Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer

    Updated: 2011-10-21 03:52:47
    Advanced prostate cancer eventually progresses and becomes castration resistant (CRPC) despite the fact that it is exquisitely sensitivity to androgen deprivation therapy. There has been recent evidence that prostate cancer progression at the CRPC stage is still mediated by androgen receptor signaling, so it seems that subsequent androgen receptor targeting may further contribute to disease [...]

  • 'No link' between using mobile phones and brain tumours

    Updated: 2011-10-20 23:30:00
    There is no link between using a mobile phone and developing tumours in the brain or central nervous system, according to a Danish study published in the British Medical Journal today.

  • Radiotherapy after surgery halves rate at which breast cancer comes back

    Updated: 2011-10-20 15:34:00
    Radiotherapy halves the rate at which breast cancer recurs in the 10 years after surgery, according to Cancer Research UK-funded research by the Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group.

  • Scientists uncover how cancer stem cells are regulated in common skin cancer

    Updated: 2011-10-20 15:13:00
    Belgian scientists have discovered that a molecule already targeted by several cancer therapies may play a crucial role in a common form of skin cancer.

  • Gene silencing paves way to new treatments for breast cancer

    Updated: 2011-10-20 09:54:00
    CANCER RESEARCH UK scientists have discovered that switching off a gene called CERT makes breast cancer cells more sensitive to a range of drugs.

  • 'Supercharged' breast cancer cells give clues to new treatments

    Updated: 2011-10-18 16:03:00
    Scientists at the Duke Cancer Institute in the US have found a genetic 'fingerprint' inside breast cancer cells that seems to predict which women will develop a more aggressive form of disease.

  • Advanced skin cancer drug 'not cost-effective' for NHS

    Updated: 2011-10-14 15:20:00
    A new skin cancer drug is not suitable for use on the NHS as its benefits are outweighed by its cost and possible side-effects, according to draft guidance by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).

  • Cancer Research Technology appoints new chairman to its board of directors

    Updated: 2011-10-13 14:06:00
    Cancer Research Technology - the commercial arm of Cancer Research UK - today announced the appointment of Peter Chambré as its new chairman.

  • Study suggests oesophageal cancer 'less common than previously thought' in people with Barrett's oesophagus

    Updated: 2011-10-13 12:29:00
    In the largest study of its kind, Danish researchers have found that the rates of oesophageal cancer among people with Barrett's oesophagus - a common condition that predisposes to the disease - could be up to four times lower than previous estimates.

  • Prostate Test Recommendation Draws Mixed Reviews

    Updated: 2011-10-12 23:25:43
    A recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force against PSA-based screening for prostate cancer has drawn little official reaction from medical organizations but mixed -- and strong -- reactions from individual physicians.

  • Gene testing young prostate cancer patients could help target treatment

    Updated: 2011-10-12 00:01:00
    ROUTINELY testing for a faulty BRCA2 gene in under-65s with prostate cancer could help identify men who could benefit from new types of targeted treatment, new research published in the British Journal of Cancer* today shows.

  • Vitamin E May Hike Risk of Prostate Cancer

    Updated: 2011-10-11 21:00:00
    Men receiving vitamin E supplements in a large randomized trial showed a slight but statistically significant increase in prostate cancer diagnoses after 10 years of follow-up, researchers said.

  • Vitamin E supplements may slightly increase prostate cancer risk

    Updated: 2011-10-11 21:00:00
    Taking vitamin E supplements may be linked to an increased risk of prostate cancer, according to the results of a large US study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

  • WAPC Responds to Updated Recommendations on PSA Screening

    Updated: 2011-10-11 14:35:08
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