Americans spend more on health care but are not healthier
...tegories, which include survival rates for various cancers and transplants, avoidable events such as suicides, asthma and smoking rates and process indicators that include vaccination and screening rates. The United States had the highest breast cancer survival rate, the highest cervical cancer screening ra...Chemical brain scans may help reassure brain tumor patients
... chemicals that are produced or used up by growing cancers or dying cells. Depending on which area of the brain is scanned, those concentrations might be high or low. And, the U-M team shows, by making a ratio between the levels of two chemicals, it's possible to show clear differences between different kind...FDA approves Enbrel to treat psoriasis
...t of lymphoma is unknown. The incidence of other cancers has not increased with extended exposure to ENBREL and is similar to the expected rate. ENBREL can also cause injection site reactions. In a medical study of patients with JRA, infections, headaches, abdominal pain, vomiting, and nausea occurred ...VELCADE (Bortezomib) receives European marketing authorisation
...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. In Europe there were approximately 19,000 cases in 2000 and just under 15,000 deaths (1). Only 30 percent of multiple myeloma p...Iressa news backgrounder: Testing of smart drug expands at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
...ilar other targeted therapies, pose - what are the cancers that may best respond, and which patients will ben... who has treated many lung and other head and neck cancers where it has shown tantalizing benefit. "So far, Iressa has been a good news, bad news story. Th...NCI grant supports Jefferson trial to study test for colorectal cancer recurrence
...man says, and particularly in identifying isolated cancers that have spread to other areas of the body. The c...tein marker, CEA, is inadequate because many colon cancers don't make CEA, and typically, it starts to increase in the blood after the cancer has grown to the ...Smoking linked to more than 60 percent of overall cancer death burden in black men
...ncreasingly, research has linked smoking to deadly cancers other than lung cancer, including cancers of the colon, pancreas and prostate. In his new study, Leistikow found compelling data suggesting th...Study shows opioid growth factor safe for treatment of pancreatic cancer
...te that it may be useful in the treatment of other cancers that rely on OGF for growth such as colon, head and neck, kidney and developing nervous system. The investigators are currently enrolling patients in a larger, phase II study of OGF for the treatment of pancreatic cancer sponsored by the National Ins...Oral cancer survey from Case dental school shows dental hygienist's role in catching cancer
...ely 28,900 people were diagnosed in 2002 with oral cancers and 7,400 people would died as result of their dis...al cancer screening, are trained to screen for the cancers and ae non-smokers themselves. However, only 53 percent do head and neck examinations on their pati...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, April 20, 2004
...lcohol consumed and the location of the colorectal cancers within the intestine. Chaos in Health Care Could Spur Innovation in General Internal Medicine In response to challenges facing general internal medicine, a task force makes eight recommendations to redefine the domain of general internal medicine ...Protein promotes cancer metastasis and survival
...umors in samples from primary and metastatic colon cancers and found that periostin was highly expressed in m... plays a critical role in the progression of colon cancers and may be involved in metastasis of other cancers as well. "Metastasis accounts for the majority of...Solvent, common drug plus hormones raise risk of reproductive failures and breast cancers
...productive failures -- and potentially even breast cancers -- seen among women exposed to these chemicals. ...triggers for the increased risk of invasive breast cancers in postmenopausal women who take hormone replacement therapy. Rather, it may be that select women wh...Blood screen may help cancer patients thwart radiation side effects, say Stanford researchers
...oxicity could make treatment decisions easier. For cancers of the breast or prostate, Chu said surgical optio...t patients at risk for high toxicity may also have cancers that die in response to much lower radiation doses. In such cases, radiation - though at greatly red...Green and black tea polyphenols consumption results in slower prostate cancer cell growth
...nsumption. Prostate cancer is one of the common cancers among males in the United States, and more than a fourth of all those patients with prostate cancer are known to use alternative therapies, including green tea. This study suggests that both black and green tea are promising natural dietary supplemen...DNA test shows promise for identifying patients with colorectal cancer
...ANCET. Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers in the industrialised world, and early detection might help to reduce the risk of death from the disease. However, although several methods of detection are available, these procedures are either uncomfortable for the patient or are not specific or s...Alarming rise in incidence of lung cancer and death in women
...ber equal to all deaths for breast and gynecologic cancers combined. The increase in the number of women smokers is an obvious cause for this uptick, but a recent review article suggests that genetic, metabolic and/or hormonal factors may also be responsible for the increase in lung cancer in women which has...Lung cancer in women is a 21st century epidemic
...this year than breast cancer and all gynecological cancers combined. In 2003, an estimated 80,100 American women were diagnosed with lung cancer, and 68,800 died from their disease. "The majority of lung cancer is caused by cigarette smoke, yet despite all we know about the health hazards of smoking, one i...Lung cancer now leading cause of cancer death in women
...many deaths in women as breast and all gynecologic cancers combined. Several studies have reported that women are more susceptible than men to the lung cancer-causing effects of cigarette smoking, although this issue remains somewhat controversial. What is not controversial, according to Northwestern Univ...Other highlights in the April 7 JNCI
... be associated with reduced risk of mortality from cancers of the colon, stomach, and esophagus. During the 1... the ER status of primary and contralateral breast cancers and whether tamoxifen treatment affects this relationship. Among patients who did not receive tamox...Duke scientists overcome immune resistance in dendritic cell vaccines for cancer
...ritic cell vaccines have shown promise in battling cancers in laboratory studies, but they have not met with ...lls. However, the tumor-specific antigens for most cancers are unknown, and finding them can be extraordinarily time-consuming and costly. In contrast, dendrit...