Study in male smokers continues to provide clues into the causes and prevention of multiple cancers
...of vitamin A), would prevent lung cancer and other cancers in a group of 29,133 male smokers in Finland. The participants, ages 50 to 69, provided information such as height, weight, and medical factors, as well as an extensive food frequency questionnaire. The participants stopped tak...'Energy blocker' kills big tumors in rats
...t may become an option for treating advanced liver cancers and perhaps other tumors in people. "Liver can... or impossible to treat, and many other aggressive cancers spread to the liver, so we need more treatment options," says Peter Pedersen, Ph.D., professor of bi...Analysis of tamoxifen studies reveals slight increase of stroke risk
...ar. Breast cancer accounts for nearly one in three cancers diagnosed in the U.S. and is the second leading ca...death for women. Fortunately, 90 percent of breast cancers are now diagnosed at localized and regional stages, for which five-year survival rates are 97 percen...Switch of a gene turns cancer cells healthy in mice, Stanford scientists find
... called epithelial cells - the same ones that form cancers in the breast, colon and prostate. Felsher's findi...o become cancerous. This finding could explain why cancers recur after chemotherapy. If the treatment only turns the cancer cells dormant, they can easily beco...Mentally ill have higher odds of developing brain, lung cancers
...rain tumors and lung cancer and they develop these cancers at younger ages than individuals without mental illness according to a study published in the current issue of Psychosomatic Medicine. "This work is a piece in the larger puzzle of understanding the relationships between mental and physical health," ...$5 million grant awarded to U.VA health system targets leukemia drug development, creates new jobs
...However, leukemia makes up about 30 percent of all cancers in children. The relative five-year survival rate for people with leukemia has more than tripled in recent decades to 46 percent. Still, according to The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, about 23,300 people are expected to die of leukemia in the U.S. t...Scientists begin validation study of test to detect recurrence of bladder cancer
...ew cases this year, is both one of the more common cancers and one that has a high recurrence rate. Frequent surveillance of bladder cancer patients is critical, but current procedures have shortcomings. Urine cytology, which checks the number and appearance of cells in urine samples, often fails to detect e...Other highlights in the September 15 JNCI
...est that further studies are warranted for several cancers (lung, bladder, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and multiple myeloma) for which there was a suggestion of a trend. Contact: National Cancer Institute Press Office, 301-496-6641, NCIPressOfficers@mail.nih.gov Alcohol Consumption Not Associated With Increased...'Hedgehog' signal distinguishes lethal from localized prostate cancers
...ible way to distinguish lethal metastatic prostate cancers from those restricted to the walnut-size organ. I...hway called Hedgehog -- can predict which prostate cancers will spread, the results could revolutionize decision making processes for prostate cancer patients,...Cancer burden seen even many years after diagnosis
...ences existed across all tumor sites, survivors of cancers that typically have shorter survival times, such a...ce may reflect a greater proportion of people with cancers that typically have shorter survival times being more likely to have metastatic or, at least, active...Chemists honor 'Heroes' for biotechnology achievements in health
...y 20 million people, and for treating certain skin cancers and pre-cancerous lesions. The cream is one of a family of medications being developed by the company that modify and strengthen the body's immune-response system. These immune-response modifiers have the potential to work against a wide range of vi...3D neutron-based medical imaging, 4D lung scans, and hitting a moving tumor
...ges than conventional 2D mammography. DBT unmasks cancers that are ordinarily obscured by normal tissue on traditional 2D mammograms. Contrast imaging involves the injection of an agent, such as iodine (in x-ray imaging) or gadolinium (in MRI), that concentrates in abnormal breast tissue and "lights up" tho...Severe sepsis causes almost 10% of cancer deaths
...s suffering from lymphoma, leukemia or other blood cancers were even more susceptible to severe sepsis than those suffering from cancer of a solid organ. Patients with a blood cancer were 15 times more likely than the average person to suffer from severe sepsis. This higher rate corresponds to the fact that...Cancer cell detection technology wins Kaye Award for Hebrew University researchers
...ccessfully applied thus far to detect a variety of cancers in tissues and body fluids. The technology has provided a basis for the formation of a joint venture company involving the university's Yissum Technology Transfer Company and an Australian company. Under development through this joint venture is a d...VELCADE(TM) data confirms long-term survival
...cer, representing approximately one percent of all cancers and two percent of all cancer deaths. Worldwide in 2000, there were 73,943 cases of multiple myeloma and 57,370 deaths(1). In Europe there were approximately 19,000 cases in 2000 and just under 15,000 deaths (1). Only 30 percent of multiple myelom...Study finds dramatic increase in thyroid cancer
...The study documents a dramatic increase in thyroid cancers following the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. According ...national Journal of Epidemiology, rates of thyroid cancers among women in Belarus have increased 12-fold in the years since the April 1986 explosion at the Che...Researchers develop better understanding of tamoxifen resistance in breast cancer patients
...iestrogen therapy, hopefully inhibiting new breast cancers or reoccurrences of disease," said Clarke. Clarke and his Georgetown colleagues will next use preclinical studies to test the effects of adding interferon to tamoxifen treatment. "Used as a primary treatment, interferon can be extremely toxic, so w...Two landmark studies show Taxotere (R) significantly improves survival in men with prostate cancer
...g and prostate cancer, three of the most prevalent cancers in the world today," said Frank Douglas, MD, PhD, Executive Vice President of Drug Innovation and Approval and a Member of the Board of Management at Aventis. TAX 327/SWOG 9916 Study Protocol The TAX 327 study reported by Mario Eisenberger, MD, Dal...Doctors don't agree on diagnosis of uterine cancer
...et a baseline estimate of the percentage of actual cancers found in hysterectomy samples of women diagnosed with AEH biopsies. The baseline, reported to be anywhere from 17 to 52 percent, would provide information needed to design studies to find non-surgical treatments for AEH that preserve fertility in y......data, the researchers determined the risks of nine cancers (bladder, colon/rectum, esophagus, kidney, larynx,...ther diseases. The greatest increased risk was for cancers in the larynx, lung, and oropharynx. The risks were smaller than those associated with cigarette smo...