Archive for the ‘Cancer / Oncology’ Category
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
The cost of treating colorectal cancer varies widely, with newer, life-extending therapies sometimes costing tens of thousands of dollars more than older agents, according to a study led by a team of researchers in the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center."The total cost of chemotherapy to treat colorectal cancer may differ by ...
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
There are options for breast cancer treatments that can minimize the harm of the treatment and women should be well-informed about those breast cancer treatments. Acting early could avoid long-term problems like lymphedema.Choosing less damaging breast cancer treatments, staying active and learning about the warning signs of lymphedema: that's how ...
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Scientists at Washington University in St Louis have decoded the genes of a woman who had acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and discovered a set of mutations that may have caused the cancer or aided it's progression, according to an article published today in Nature.Washington University (who also provided the photo> ...
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Training physicians and caregivers to improve cultural sensitivity and communication with economically disadvantaged African-American patients could influence these women to get mammograms that could save their lives, according to a new study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.The study found that many African-American women perceive they are being treated ...
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Black and Hispanic women, particularly Hispanic women who prefer to speak Spanish, are more likely than white women to be dissatisfied or regret decisions made about their breast cancer treatment, according to a study by University of Michigan researchers, Reuters Health reports.Women with breast cancer vary in their preferences for ...
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
Study will allow doctors to better predict which patients will do well with aggressive, personalized treatment of kidney cancer and select those who may respond to targeted therapies.A study of nearly 1,500 patients treated for kidney cancer at UCLA in the last 15 years shows that an aggressive, tailored treatment ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Researchers studying neurofibromatosis type 1 — a rare disease in which tumors grow within nerves — have found that the tumors are triggered by crosstalk between cells in the nerves and cells in the blood. The researchers, who were funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
InteRNA Technologies B.V. and VU university medical center in Amsterdam, VUmc, announce today the signing of a framework research agreement to develop microRNA (miRNA)-based diagnostics and therapeutics for cancer using InteRNA's proprietary library of miRNAs.Under the research collaboration, InteRNA will apply its unique lentiviral-based miRNA overexpression library in multi-parametric, high-throughput ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
New surgical techniques have dramatically improved the aesthetic results of mastectomy without sacrificing outcomes. Properly placed incisions and skin-sparing, or breast skin conserving, surgical approaches provide women undergoing biopsy and surgical treatment for breast cancer with the best option for appropriate cancer eradication while still permitting reconstruction of a more ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Telik, Inc. (Nasdaq: TELK) today announced top-line results from an interrupted Phase 3 randomized study of Telcyta (canfosfamide HCL) in combination with pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (PLD) versus PLD alone in second-line therapy in platinum refractory, primary platinum resistant or secondary platinum resistant ovarian cancer.On an intent-to-treat (ITT) basis for the ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Routine imaging studies of older patients are finding thyroid nodules that may be malignant before they cause signs or symptoms of the disease according to a study by surgeons at Rush University Medical Center presented at the 2008 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons.According to findings from the ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Using high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with a special vaginal coil, a technique to measure the movement of water within tissue, researchers may be able to identify cervical cancer in its early stages, according to a new study being published in the November issue of Radiology.The new technique offers better ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Viruses - long regarded solely as disease agents - now are being used in treatment for cancer. Concerns over the safety of these so-called> Cancer TreatmentMicroRNAs are the nucleotide snippets that are encoded by genes, but don't end up as proteins. In many cases, they have a role in down-regulating ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Genetically modified tomatoes that are rich in purple antioxidants called anthocyanins cause cancer prone mice to live longer. Tests> Cancer TreatmentThe researchers from the John Innes Centre, Norwich, England, published their results this week in Nature Biotechnology. They were investigating ways to increase the levels of antioxidants in common ...
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
We are nearing the end of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Here is a quick roundup of some breast cancer news, facts, and posts.Did you do a post> Breast CancerFrom Team TracyBreast Cancer Facts:1. Each year, more than 182,000 American women learn they have breast cancer and more than 40,000 ...
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