Northwestern Memorial physicians encourage screenings during colon cancer awareness month
... Huron. "Colon cancer is one of the most treatable cancers if caught in its early stages," says Amy Halverson...cer screenings lag far behind screenings for other cancers such as breast, cervical and prostate. Colorectal cancer remains the second-leading cause of cancer...New treatment options for some difficult cancers improve survival and quality of life
...rates and quality of life in patients with several cancers that historically have a poor prognosis. Results ...- is a very common cause of death in patients with cancers in the abdomen. Surgery alone has proven to have limited effectiveness, as has radiation therapy and...CAD detects breast cancers that are most challenging to detect
...tection system (CAD) can effectively detect breast cancers a radiologist is more apt to initially miss, a new...said Dr. Brem. CAD was most effective in detecting cancers measuring 11-15 mm (94%) and least effective in detecting cancers measuring 16-20 mm (80%), Dr. Brem...MRI proves useful in assessment of suspected breast cancer patients
...fy if a lesion is benign or malignant and can show cancers that would otherwise be missed. "This is the fir...he said. In addition, MRI detected 23 additional cancers in the 44 patients that actually had a breast cancer (either in the same breast as the primary cance...Older women can benefit from chemotherapy to treat breast cancer
... increasing age, and almost half of all new breast cancers in the United States occur in women 65 years of age or older," the authors note in background information in the article. "Systemic adjuvant (secondary treatment) chemotherapy in women with early-stage breast cancer significantly improves both relap...Studies address issues of risk and survival in rapidly increasing GI cancers
... seven years of follow up, survival rates for both cancers were low between 12 and 20 percent. However, three factors increased the likelihood of survival: Those who were overweight before diagnosis (BMI 25-30 kg/m2) had an approximately 30 percent lower risk of death compared to normal and underweight...Fewer false alarms when mammographers have greater experience screening healthy breasts
...who read a greater number of mammograms identified cancers without mistaking normal tissue for a malignancy with greater accuracy than physicians whose volume was not as high. In general, the false-positive rate declined with increasing physician age, with increasing time since receipt of medical degree, and...Chemicals in apples could reduce the risk of breast cancer, Cornell study in rats suggests
...bles extend beyond lowering the risk of developing cancers and cardiovascular diseases to include preventive effects for other chronic diseases, such as cataracts, age-related macular degeneration, central neurodegenerative disease and diabetes. Says David R. Jacobs, professor in the Division of Epidemiolog...LA BioMed medical/research briefs March 2005
...ast imaging camera, which appears to detect breast cancers missed by standard mammography. Approximately 25 t...ding tissue. This technique is well suited to find cancers in women whose mammograms may not be very accurate. Experts have long recognized that screening for ...Plant derivative attacks the roots of leukemia
...ntists have identified cancer stems cells in blood cancers and in brain and breast tumors although the idea ...ther scientists showed that it prevented some skin cancers in animal models. Intrigued by the plant's anti-tumor activities, the UR team analyzed how a concent...Cancer in patients with hepatitis C
...ation between those two diseases and other related cancers in the country's population. To evaluate this possibility, researchers, led by Ann-Sofi Duberg of rebro University Hospital in Sweden, gathered data from the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control and the Swedish Cancer Registry to examine ...How often should women get mammograms?
...ects the number of lives saved by detecting breast cancers at an earlier stage. With screening guidelines and...n between 40 and 50 has merit because their breast cancers are more aggressive. If women underwent mammograms every two years beginning at 40 and then annua...New European cancer figures for 2004 major efforts needed against the big four killers
...rope", said Professor Boyle. Lung and colorectal cancers leading cancers overall Overall, lung cancer was the commonest form of cancer diagnosed (13.2%) and of cancer deat...Next generation body scanner launched by the University of Manchester
... will be able to look at the way brain tumours and cancers grow and develop and how different kinds of treatment might work. It will also help researchers looking into strokes and will enable them to understand the way the brain recovers in stroke patients. The scanner will also benefit researchers carryi...New test improves detection of bladder cancer
...he authors write. "The proteomic marker detected 4 cancers that were not visualized during initial cystoscopy, including 3 that were muscle invasive and 1 carcinoma in situ." According to the article, the average Medicare reimbursement for voided cytology is approximately $56, compared with $24 for the NMP22...Another look finds promising proteomics test is not biologically plausible
...of using protein "barcodes" to identify individual cancers before symptoms appear, but Baggerly and others maintain that the promise of this emerging field of proteomics has not yet been met due to the difficulty in finding complex, reproducible patterns of proteins. According to Baggerly, that now appears t...Breast cancer treatment reduces risk of heart disease
...reated with tamoxifen and 4233 patients with other cancers not treated with tamoxifen. Women treated with tamoxifen were less likely to develop symptomatic heart disease than those who did not receive tamoxifen. On further analysis current use of tamoxifen was associated with significantly reduced risk of he...Promising treatments for Huntington's disease identified in UCI study
...he treatment of other complex human diseases, like cancers and AIDS. And while any human benefits from this study are years off, the research provides the first evidence that a regimen of complementary drugs can treat Huntington's. Study results appear this week in the early online edition of the Proceedings...Mayo Clinic identifies key cellular process in prostate and other cancers
...rostate cancer, as well as a number of other human cancers in which elevated levels of Skp2 have already been documented. These include cancers of the breast, lymphatic leukemia, small cell lung cancer and certain cancers of the mouth and color...Penn joins major NCI research initiative to advance breast cancer therapies
...ls that more accurately reflect the way that human cancers develop and respond to therapy. The research group...in the US and abroad and focus on mouse models for cancers of major organ systems including prostate, breast, lung, ovary, skin, colon, brain, and the blood an...