Updated: 2012-10-31 19:00:00
Cancer survivors may be cured of their disease, but they are still more likely to report a poorer quality of physical and mental health than adults who have not had cancer, researchers found.
Updated: 2012-10-31 12:40:57
Health News Quality of Life After Cancer May Depend on Tumor Type Print E-mail TUESDAY , Oct . 30 HealthDay News Cancer survivors' quality of life can vary widely depending on the type of cancer , and millions of U.S . cancer survivors have a lower-than-normal quality of life , a new study . finds Researchers looked at more than 1,800 adult cancer survivors and more than 24,000 adults with no history of cancer and found that survivors of melanoma , breast and prostate cancers had a mental- and physical-health-related quality of life similar to those who never had . cancer Survivors of cervical , blood and colorectal cancers , as well as survivors of cancers with a five-year survival rate of less than 25 percent such as liver , lung and pancreatic cancers however , had worse
Updated: 2012-10-30 18:24:34
The University of South Florida along with Moffitt Cancer Center has published a study in the October issue of Brain, Behavior, and Immunity which found that men with advanced prostate cancer who are on androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) are more likely to suffer from general fatigue if they also have single nucleotide polymorphisms in three [...]
Updated: 2012-10-30 17:52:29
, , Health News Breast Cancer Survival Varies by Race , Ethnicity , Study Shows Print E-mail TUESDAY , Oct . 30 HealthDay News Racial disparities in breast cancer survival persist , even after factors such as education , neighborhood and socioeconomic status are accounted for , new research . finds However , in some cases , those factors did affect the rate of survival , according to the . study The worse survival for African Americans disappeared after adjusting for socioeconomic status and other lifestyle factors , said study author Salma Shariff-Marco , a research scientist at the Cancer Prevention Institute of California , in Fremont . There was an effect of neighborhood socioeconomic status associated with survival , with increasing neighborhood socioeconomic status associated with
Updated: 2012-10-30 01:36:48
: Health News Viagra Can Help Prostate Cancer Patients Maintain Sex Lives : Study Print E-mail MONDAY , Oct . 29 HealthDay News Prostate cancer patients who received Viagra before and after their radiation therapy had improved sexual function , according to a new . study Sexual woes , including erectile dysfunction , are a common side effect of prostate cancer care . The new study included patients with prostate cancer that had not spread who underwent external-beam radiation therapy and or permanent implantation of radioactive seeds . The men were randomly assigned to take either a 50-milligram-a-day dose of Viagra sildenafil citrate or an inactive placebo during treatment and for six months after . therapy The men completed sexual function questionnaires before their first radiation
Updated: 2012-10-30 00:01:00
Our official response to the Independent Breast Screening Review Panel's findings
Updated: 2012-10-29 17:26:00
Health News Body Fat May Affect Death Risk Among Breast Cancer Patients Print E-mail MONDAY , Oct . 29 HealthDay News Having a very high or low body-mass index or high waist-to-hip ratio raises the risk of death among breast cancer patients , but this association varies some by race and ethnicity , a new study . suggests Body-mass index BMI and waist-to-hip ratio are both measures of body fat , and both affect overall and breast-cancer-specific risk of death , according to the . researchers The researchers analyzed data from more than 12,000 white , black , Hispanic and Asian-American patients in the California Breast Cancer Survivorship . Consortium Overall , we found that patients with breast cancer who were underweight , extremely obese or had high levels of abdominal body fat had the
Updated: 2012-10-29 15:43:04
BOSTON -- Men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer lived significantly longer when treated with a bone-targeted, alpha-emitting agent, a randomized trial showed.
Updated: 2012-10-29 10:01:00
Astex Pharmaceuticals, Inc, a pharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery and development of novel small molecule therapeutics, Cancer Research Technology Limited (CRT) and Newcastle University have signed a major five-year strategic drug discovery alliance. The partners will discover and develop new cancer drugs in collaboration with researchers at the Cancer Research UK Drug Discovery Program at the Northern Institute for Cancer Research (NICR, Newcastle University).
Updated: 2012-10-29 02:50:41
It is very common, men with advanced prostate cancer find that they are subject to confusion and memory loss; they experience a general dumbing down of their brain facilities. The most common culprits causing this are hormone therapy (ADT) and chemotherapy treatments. At this time we don’t have any great magic bullets to treat this [...]
Updated: 2012-10-26 20:53:24
The Early Access Committee Announces an Additional Site for Radium-223 Chloride (Alpharadin) in Castration-Resistant (Hormone-Refractory) Prostate Cancer Patients With Bone Metastases We have been able to get Bayer to open another early access site for Alpharadin. This additional site is in Boston, Ma. In addition to this new site there are still three other sites. [...]
Updated: 2012-10-26 11:34:00
Scientists have discovered new types of early cells in mammary glands, uncovering clues to the origins of different breast cancers - and potential new drug targets, according to findings published in Breast Cancer Research.
Updated: 2012-10-25 17:34:00
Early surgery for patients with slow-growing, low-grade glioma brain tumours may result in better survival than a wait-and-see approach, according to Norwegian research.
Updated: 2012-10-24 19:00:00
Combining two approaches - one that digitally scans images of tumour samples and another that analyses genetic information - gives a more accurate prediction of how breast cancer will behave.
Updated: 2012-10-24 18:51:57
The big news from yesterday is that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a MRI-guided, focused ultrasound therapy for the treatment of bone pain associated with metastatic advanced prostate cancer. In a media release written by InSight, an Israeli company states that its ExAblate® MRI-guided, focused ultrasound technology is indicated to treat pain [...]
Updated: 2012-10-24 17:39:00
Detailed genetic analysis of nearly 150 pancreatic tumours has given new clues about how the disease develops and spreads.
Updated: 2012-10-24 11:09:00
A drug that has been used to treat alcoholic patients for more than sixty years could potentially help treat glioblastoma – the most common and deadly brain tumour in adults – according to a study published in the British Journal of Cancer today (Wednesday).
Updated: 2012-10-24 00:01:00
Cancer Research UK has launched the first ever interactive website - www.clicktocure.net - that will allow the public to delve into real-life cancer data from research archives and speed up lifesaving research, outside of the laboratory.
Updated: 2012-10-23 18:00:00
Comparing levels of specific proteins that the drug Avastin targets could identify patients with advanced bowel cancer who will benefit from the treatment, according to research published in Clinical Cancer Research today.
Updated: 2012-10-22 14:00:00
Breast cancer cells puncture holes into neighbouring tissues and crawl though the spaces they create to spread around the body, according to research published in the Journal of Cell Biology today.
Updated: 2012-10-22 05:01:00
Metabolic factors did not increase the risk of prostate cancer but modestly raised the risk of prostate cancer mortality, results of a large cohort study showed.
Updated: 2012-10-19 17:43:13
A recently published article in Urology Times claims that salvage high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) appears to be an effective treatment option for locally recurrent prostate cancer after primary external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) failure. The study, which this article reported on, used data from analyses of 6-year oncologic outcomes show. When the researchers did a [...]
Updated: 2012-10-19 11:00:00
Rates of tobacco smuggling into the UK have fallen despite earlier claims from the tobacco industry that tax rises would prompt an increase in the illicit trade, official figures show.
Updated: 2012-10-19 10:20:00
A Cancer Research UK funded trial will offer new treatments for children and adults with a form of muscle cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma that has returned or does not respond to current treatments.
Updated: 2012-10-19 01:54:00
Around one in five women eligible for cervical cancer screening in England have missed their most recent cervical screening appointment, according to a new report.
Updated: 2012-10-19 00:01:00
Radiotherapy is an effective treatment for men with early-stage prostate cancer who are at high risk of their disease coming back after an operation to remove their prostate, according to a French study.
Updated: 2012-10-18 23:30:00
Men with high-risk prostate cancer had a significantly lower risk of biochemical relapse when treated with adjuvant radiation therapy after radical prostatectomy, results of a large randomized trial showed.
Updated: 2012-10-18 19:52:39
I try not to get political in this blog, but current politics are directly involved in our healthcare and that is what I write about in this blog. I write this because all of my work is dedicated to improving the quality of life and for saving lives. Candidate Mitt Romney has been very clear; [...]
Updated: 2012-10-17 16:26:35
Data presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology annual congress in Vienna, Austria linked the delay of pain progression the functional decline of men with the newly approved drug Zytiga. The data was derived from an additional anaylisis of the phase 3 trial (COU-AA-302) that led to the FDA approval of Zytiga. The FDA [...]
Updated: 2012-10-17 11:45:00
The younger a women starts her periods, and the later she finishes, the more at risk she is from developing breast cancer but new research* published in the Lancet Oncology today (Wednesday) shows that these risk factors are particularly relevant for specific types of breast cancer.
Updated: 2012-10-16 15:29:04
There was just a new site opened for the early/expanded access program for Alpharadin (Radium-235). The new site is at Stanford University, California. This makes a total of four sites, but most of them have not been adequately supported by the drug company, Bayer. Hopefully, this site will be better supported, but if it too [...]
Updated: 2012-10-16 10:29:00
Nearly 170 million years of healthy life were lost because of cancer in 2008, according to a French study.
Updated: 2012-10-16 01:53:17
It is the general consensus that prostate cancer when still confined to the prostate gland is gland curable, but when it has left the prostate gland and becoming metastatic it is no longer curable. But evidence now says there might be an intermediate stage where the cancer has spread outside the prostate gland but is [...]
Updated: 2012-10-16 00:01:00
Elderly patients with advanced non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who developed a rash within 28 days of receiving the targeted drug erlotinib (Tarceva) survived on average 6.2 months, compared to 4.1 months for patients who were given a placebo, results from a major phase III Cancer Research UK-funded trial show today (Tuesday).
Updated: 2012-10-13 23:42:39
Powdered turmeric is a common ingredient of Indian food and a substance that has been used for centuries to treat osteoarthritis and other illnesses. In March 2012 researchers from Michigan State University found that curcumin may be beneficial for people with Parkinson’s disease as well as head and neck cancers. It is now thought that [...]
Updated: 2012-10-11 16:59:00
A legal challenge by the tobacco industry to a ban on cigarette sales from vending machines in Scotland has been rejected by senior judges.
Updated: 2012-10-11 09:18:00
A legal challenge by the tobacco industry to a ban on cigarette sales from vending machines in Scotland has been rejected by senior judges.
Updated: 2012-10-10 23:42:31
Two different genetic signatures may offer some clue about prognosis in castration-resistant prostate cancer.
Updated: 2012-10-09 16:57:00
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Updated: 2012-10-09 16:55:00
Women living in England's more deprived areas have a higher chance of developing cervical cancer and of dying from the disease, a study has confirmed.
Updated: 2012-10-09 09:15:00
A new £15 million fund could provide nearly 8,000 more cancer patients with access to an advanced radiotherapy technique that results in fewer side effects.
Updated: 2012-10-09 01:04:42
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Updated: 2012-10-09 00:01:00
A blood test that reads genetic changes in blood cells like a barcode can predict how severe a man's prostate cancer is likely to be, according to two new studies.
Updated: 2012-10-08 14:29:00
A cancer-killing antibody that can be activated by a magnetic field has been developed by scientists in Korea.
Updated: 2012-10-04 12:51:00
The government is recommending that all suitable patients should be offered a sophisticated form of radiotherapy that involves examining their tumours with imaging techniques like CT scans over the course of their treatment.
Updated: 2012-10-04 12:28:00
Bacteria can trigger inflammation in developing bowel tumours, which then drives the growth of the cancer, according to US research in mice.
