Benefits of lung cancer screening with CT questioned
...have died with and not from. Other cancers were so aggressive that early detection with CT did not make a difference." Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in both men and women in the United States, killing more people than breast, prostate and colon cancers combined, according to the American Canc...African-American women with endometrial cancer have more aggressive cancer than Caucasian women
...n women with advanced endometrial cancer have more aggressive tumors than Caucasian women, potentially leading t...omen compared to Caucasian women that lead to more aggressive tumors. The investigators subsequently performed a study evaluating global gene expression among pa...Donor age has no affect on long-term liver transplant survival
...n the disease recurs it often has a more rapid and aggressive course than in patients who have not undergone liver transplantation. Survival rates of these patients appear to be worsening during the past few years, but recent studies have shown conflicting results about whether a donor's age can be associated w...Patient with drug-resistant form of HIV identified
...d disease progression may be due to a particularly aggressive form of HIV. However, studies looking into this are ongoing and currently incomplete. The authors note that the public health ramifications of this case are great since the patient reported having unprotected sex with multiple partners. Dr Markowitz ...Minorities, poor, uneducated bear the burden
... that despite several national calls to action for aggressive prevention and control of cardiovascular risk factors, little progress has been made in reducing physical inactivity, poor nutrition and prevalence of hypertension. "Most importantly," Mensah said, "although some significant improvements such as red...Cardiovascular health disparities must be eradicated
...can Heart Association, said the association has an aggressive goal to reduce coronary heart disease, stroke and risk by 25 percent by 2010. "Without improving these disparities in access to care and health information we will never achieve the goal of improving outcomes for everybody in the U.S," said Bonow, c...Prostate cancer screening practices examined
...positives. In addition, neither test indicates how aggressive a man's cancer is. Furthermore, because prostate cancers grow slowly in many cases and treatments can have unpleasant side effects, treating the cancer may be less desirable than leaving it alone, especially in older men. "But the main thing is we do...Researchers say breast cancer in Africa may provide clues to the disease in African-Americans
...rican American women. Their tumors tend to be very aggressive with short periods of time between the onset of symptoms and diagnosis. Moreover, the tumors at diagnosis also tend to be higher grade, often involving axillary lymph nodes and, therefore, higher stages disease with worse prognoses. Poor prognosis is...Malt liquor beers, and the people who drink them, are different
... higher blood alcohol levels, an increased risk of aggressive behavior, and other alcohol-related problems." Jones-Webb added that MLBs are largely targeted to African American and Hispanic youth, and young adults. "Malt liquor brands such as Steel Reserve, Hurricane, Magnum, and Panther are used by the alcoho...Tumor-targeted immune cells cure prostate cancer in mice without causing systemic immune suppression
...cells into mice that had been given a particularly aggressive form of prostate cancer, called TRAMP-C2. TRAMP-C2 prostate cancer cells produce large amounts of TGF-beta, and possess such potent immunosuppressive power that regular CD8+ T cells are unable to infiltrate tumor tissues, Lee explained. The mice re...Breakthrough in medical research: New chemotherapy gives hope to brain tumour patients
...al in patients suffering from glioblastoma, a very aggressive form of a brain tumour. Further, molecular analyses of the tumour allowed for the identification of those patients most likely to benefit from this type of treatment. The findings are leading to a new standard of care for patients with this fast grow...Study examines consequences of Thailand's 'war on drugs'
...ducted the first study on the effect of Thailand's aggressive war on illicit drugs and the war's impact on injection drug users. According to their study, 70 percent of injection drug users surveyed said they stopped using heroin after the campaign began. However, nearly a third of those who quit heroin said th......laced. Koppel and his colleagues also call for an aggressive examination of the technology in use: in other words, hospitals should perform an in-depth review and analysis of the way technology is actually used by physicians and nurses, rather than on how manufacturers expect the technology to be used. In a...Even mild depression increases long-term mortality in heart failure
...cial status, since these patients may be helped by aggressive heart failure and/or antidepressant therapy. Jiang presented the results of her study March 7, 2005, at the annual scientific sessions of the American College of Cardiology in Orlando. The study was supported by the National Institute of Mental Healt...Implanted devices detect high-risk heart failure patients
...igh risk patients who would benefit from early and aggressive therapy. Secondly, the devices provide cardiologis...heart failure patients for whom we need to be more aggressive if we don't see early improvement in heart rate variability," Gilliam said. "We would expect that as...Studies underscore genetic involvement in nicotine addiction & aggressive hostility
...ded to a growing body of evidence that the type of aggressive behavior we think of as psychopathic or sociopathic has some genetic basis that may involve abnormally low levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin. Once again, gene polymorphisms appear to influence individual variance. Specific components of aggre...Chest radiographs can predict risk of death in SARS patients
...patient, such as introducing new drugs, using more aggressive treatment or transferring the patient to a specialized unit. They also might help in establishing measures that could reduce the mortality rate of the disease," said Dr. Antonio....Brain tumor with dismal prognosis in infants can be cured in older children
...atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor (ATRT), is a rare aggressive cancer that arises either in the cerebellum or cerebral cortex and often spreads through the central nervous system. The cerebellum is the lower, back part of the brain that controls balance. The St. Jude team showed that, while children with ATRT ...Both inherited traits and tumor mutations affect response to treatment of leukemia
...tions of leukemic cells. Chemotherapy must be more aggressive and may have more side effects if leukemic cells have genetics indicating a higher risk of relapse than if the leukemia cells indicate a lower risk of relapse. So-called germline (inherited) genetic characteristics are generally not used to identify ...Older women can benefit from chemotherapy to treat breast cancer
...between 1975 and 1999. These trials compared more aggressive with less aggressive chemotherapy regimens. A total of 6, 487 women with lymph node-positive breast cancer were include...