Hot flashes may be welcome sign in women with breast cancer, study says
... hot flashes compromise their quality of life. The most common request for additional treatment we get is for relief from these symptoms." The study was based upon data from the comparison group of the Women's Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) study a multi-site randomized trial of the impact of a diet ...Researcher says few families report safe firearm storage
... guns safely in the home." Storage patterns are most influenced by firearm type, family socialization with guns and the age of the child, DuRant said. "Our research shows that unsafe gun storage is associated with families who were raised with guns in the home," he said. "They tend to be more comfor...AMPAKINE compounds a new potential treatment for respiratory depression
...rvine, California. AMPAKINE compounds act on the most common excitatory receptor in the brain, the AMPA "Glutamate type receptor," which has been shown in rodent models to boost the brain's own protein for improving age-related deficits in memory mechanisms. In primate models AMPAKINE compounds have r...New study could bring relief to sweltering city slickers
...ld help identify areas of a city that might become most uncomfortable during a hot spell. The SCORCHIO project will initially focus on the central areas of Manchester and Sheffield, although other cities have expressed an interest in becoming involved. ...Revlimid data presented at ASCO stands to change the way physicians treat multiple myeloma
...lls, white cells and stem cells. It is the second most prevalent of the blood cancers, affecting an estimated 750,000 people worldwide, and in industrialized countries it is being diagnosed in growing in numbers and in increasingly younger people. The Revlimid/dexamethasone combination is approved for us...May/June Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...and 14.7 million patients. Of the PBRNs surveyed, most are affiliated with universities. Poor and minority patients are overrepresented in their practices. The networks common focus for research is prevention, diabetes, cardiovascular risk factors and mental health. With the majority of research in th...Chemotherapy may enhance the effectiveness of brain tumor vaccines
...osed with early stage glioblastoma multiforme, the most common and deadly form of malignant brain tumor, were given both a vaccine aimed at tumor cells along with the chemotherapy drug temozolomide. "Conventional wisdom has been that chemotherapy, by suppressing the immune system, would prevent the vacc...MUHC-led international team identifies gene responsible for blindness in infants and children
...ponsible for Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA), the most common cause of congenital blindness in infants an...rch team identified the CEP290 gene last year, the most common genetic cause of LCA (American Journal of Human Genetics September, 2006). By using the prot...Treatment for early prostate cancer associated with type of specialist seen
...ctors that a patient considers when deciding their most optimal treatment," said Justin Bekelman, MD, a ph...arly 100 percent. Treatment side effects vary. The most common are urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction for prostatectomy; diarrhea and erectile dy...Genetic mutations identified for type of gastric cancer
...ation in the article, gastric cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death worldwide. There are two major variants of this cancer: an intestinal type and a diffuse type. "A decline in the overall incidence of gastric cancer can be attributed primarily to a decrease of the intestinal variant of g...Phase II study shows combination improves survival of metastatic melanoma patients
...e promising, they are preliminary. "This is the most effective treatment we have ever tested at Mayo Cl... (spread) to other parts of the body is one of the most difficult cancers to treat. Though rare, it is also the most deadliest of skin cancers because it do...Harboring hostility may be linked to unhealthy lungs
...n during a time of life we think of as healthy for most people. Right now, we cant say if having a hostile personality causes lung function decline, though we now know that these things happen together. More research is needed to establish whether hostility is associated with change in pulmonary functio...Pre-operative chemotherapy does not increase survival rates for nonsmall cell lung cancer
...ive chemotherapy. We recommend that surgery, the most important component of combined modality treatment for early stage non-small cell lung cancer, not be delayed, and that systemic treatments should be administered postoperatively....GSK's Pazopanib shows positive results in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma
...eutic promise in several other tumor types. The most frequent adverse events (AEs) were diarrhea, fatigue, hair color change, nausea, and hypertension. Pazopanib had a low incidence of hand-foot syndrome (10%), rash (12%), hemorrhage (9%), and mucositis (5%). Please see safety considerations below. ...GSK's Pazopanib shows positive results in patients with advanced RCC and ovarian cancer
...eutic promise in several other tumor types. The most frequent adverse events (AEs) were diarrhea, fatig... 22 evaluable patients with relapsed disease. The most common AEs were diarrhea, nausea, abdominal pain, fatigue, and vomiting. Please see safety consider...Protein may be linked to melanoma recurrence
... to identify better predictors of who will benefit most from treatment with interferon and who is most at risk of their cancer returning. The study also found that patients who survived longer showed ...Herb shows potential to reduce cancer-related fatigue
...estigator. Cancer-related fatigue is one of the most profound and distressing issues patients face, she says. This unique type of fatigue can have dozens of causes, and for patients who have completed cancer therapy, fatigue is among their foremost concerns, second only to fear of disease recurrence. ...VEGF Trap shows activity in patients with advanced ovarian cancer
...l Sloan-Kettering and the studys senior author. In most solid tumors, the efficacy of VEGF targeting is likely to be further enhanced by combining it with classic chemotherapy agents. Epithelial ovarian cancer is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the tissue covering the ovary. About 85...OHSU Cancer Institute shows findings of immunotherapy vaccine in prostate cancer patients
... was found to have a favorable safety profile. The most common side effects seen more commonly in sipuleuc... system to fight cancer. Prostate cancer is the most common nonskin cancer in the United States and the third most common cancer worldwide. More than 1 m...Study supports activity of GEMZAR in the treatment of early-stage breast cancer
...epresents the stage of the tumor with T4 being the most advanced. A biopsy was performed before treatment ...one (2%). Nausea (13%) and vomiting (15%) were the most frequent grade 3/4 non-hematological toxicities. Asymptomatic decrease in cardiac ejection fraction ...