Breast cancer drug receives FDA approval
... 52 percent decrease in the risk for breast cancer recurrence compared with patients who received the same chemotherapy without Herceptin. "In terms of a single leap forward, this is probably the most dramatic we've had in a long time," Romond said. The study revealed the use of Herceptin in early-stage HER-2 p...Mayo Clinic research reveals 'broken heart syndrome' recurs in 1 of 10 patients
...f patients who have ABS. The main finding is that recurrence is possible and happens in about 10% of patients a...nts ever undertaken, Mayo researchers investigated recurrence and survival rates in 100 ABS patients seen at Mayo Clinic from January 1988 to November 2005. The p...Cost-benefit analysis: Combo treatment costs more, saves money later
...e costs associated with treating complications and recurrence of cancer, said lead author Andre A. Konski, M.D., M.B.A., M.A., a radiation oncologist and director of clinical research in Fox Chase Cancer Center's radiation oncology department. Konski presented the results today at the 48th Annual Meeting of th...Higher levels of cells originating in bone marrow may be useful in prognosis of liver cancer
... surgery were much higher in those who experienced recurrence within a year. Researchers also analyzed levels of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), a specific biomarker of HCC, and found that patients with higher CFU scores had higher levels of AFP. Similarly, there was a correlation between both VEGF and IL8 levels and ...Long-term outcomes for prostate cancer show IMRT Curative: 89 percent disease-free 8 years later
...ty of patients had good tumor control with neither recurrence of their original cancer nor development of second cancers, which one might have expected from the high doses of radiation," he added.Pre-treatment diagnostic evaluations were performed for all of the patients to better define their clinically locali...Major cancer study aims to identify protein markers for early-stage disease
...a cancer's response to treatment and to detect the recurrence of cancer after treatment. "This is an extraordinarily exciting endeavor," says Fisher. "We truly believe in this project, and that it is going to help people. We think that the methods we're proposing will work." The UCSF component of this resear...Use of antibiotic to treat infectious eye disease trachoma may increase risk for reinfection
...nd the final treatment point to determine rates of recurrence of disease and infection and the risk factors that may contribute to each. Berna Atik, M.D., M.P.H., of Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, Calif., and colleagues evaluated the effect of targeted oral azithromycin treatment of s...Risk factors linked to pain after breast cancer surgery
...an be frightening because they think it might mean recurrence or metastasis," Dworkin said. "We've also found that it is difficult for people with cancer to characterize their pain and to report it to their doctors. They are concerned that talking about pain will distract the oncologist from focusing on other a...Study identifies potential new marker for heart failure diagnosis, prognosis
...howed that the highest risk of short-term death or recurrence of heart failure symptoms was seen in patients with elevations in both NT-proBNP and galectin-3. Contrary to prior findings, however, apelin did not prove useful for either diagnosis or prognosis, a finding that, Januzzi notes, "may lead investigato...ACTOS (pioglitazone HCl) demonstrates significant improvements in cardiovascular outcomes
... on top of standard-of-care treatment, reduced the recurrence of fatal or non fatal (excluding silent MI) heart attacks by 28 percent (P=0.045). Prevented Recurrent Strokes Patients with diabetes have a markedly higher risk of stroke than those without. In fact, strokes occur twice as often in people with...Orange juice is better than lemonade at keeping kidney stones away
...A daily glass of orange juice can help prevent the recurrence of kidney stones better than other citrus fruit juices such as lemonade, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered. The findings indicate that although many people assume that all citrus fruit juices help prevent the formation o...Unlocking colon cancer with key of prevention
... and manufactured by Pfizer, significantly reduced recurrence of adenomas, or pre-malignant colon tumors - within three years of previous adenoma removal. The New England Journal of Medicine today published findings from the Prevention of Spontaneous Adenomatous Polyps (PreSAP) study, involving more than 1,55...Study finds that vioxx reduces the risk of colorectal polyps
...nsion to the APPROVe study was conducted to assess recurrence of adenomas in the year following the end of the t...al cancer. Patients taking rofecoxib had a lower recurrence rate of adenomas than those taking placebo (41 percent vs 55 percent; p Baron says that patients tr...Rofecoxib significantly reduces the risk of recurrence of colorectal polyps
... showed that patients taking rofecoxib had a lower recurrence rate of adenomas than those taking placebo (41 per...nsion to the APPROVe study was conducted to assess recurrence of adenomas in the year following the end of the three years' treatment through colonoscopy at year ...Obesity leads to more aggressive ovarian cancer, Cedars-Sinai research shows
...ed survival rates, shortened the length of time to recurrence of the disease, and led to earlier death from the ...was shown to have a significant effect on both the recurrence and mortality of women with advanced disease. The cellular characteristics of the tumors found in t......xican-Americans -- and determined the frequency of recurrence through the end of 2004 and recorded details about their demographics, other health problems, and whether or not they had had another stroke. They then compared these recurrent stroke patients with the other stroke survivors who had not had a seco...Mexican Americans have higher risk of stroke recurrence
...e compared to non-Hispanic whites, but the risk of recurrence and its effect on mortality has not been investiga... American Neurological Association examined stroke recurrence in Mexican Americans (MAs) and found that they had a higher risk compared with non-Hispanic whites (...Decrease in progression of prostate cancer
...er and more than a third of them will experience a recurrence after undergoing treatment, putting them at high risk to die of the disease. In a recent study published in SAGE publication's Integrative Cancer Therapies, Dr. Gordon A. Saxe and colleagues at the Moores Cancer Center and School of Medicine at the U...Medication may promote opening of arteries following stroke
...ally opened in four patients. Reocclusion, or the recurrence of the blockage, occurred in three of those individuals. The average scores of all the patients on scales used to measure the severity of strokes improved after treatment. Argatroban and other similar agents have not been shown to be effective on ...Two-thirds of pregnant women with depression aren't getting treatment for it
...er screened for depression or treated to prevent a recurrence of past depression. She and her colleagues are now preparing another paper that assesses the impact of screening pregnant women for depression, based on the results from the study group. "We're hoping to see if some of the approaches used in to he...