Sharing clinical trial results strongly favored by participants
...Four percent of the participants had experienced a recurrence of their cancer. As for the way they first became aware of the study's results, 29 percent learned about it through the media, 26 percent received the information in the mail, 19 percent from a health care provider, and 26 percent through other means...New combination therapy after surgery improves survival for pancreatic cancer patients
... after having surgery, patients often experience a recurrence of the cancer in the pancreas or in the liver, and treatment options are limited. "Since the 1990s, the standard of care for patients who have had surgery has been postoperative treatment with the chemotherapy drug 5-FU and radiation. We wanted to fi...Young men with prostate cancer benefit from radiation therapy
...respective age category had no evidence of disease recurrence according to blood. While this study did not compare radiation to other therapies, "external beam radiation at appropriate dose levels has been shown to be equivalent to permanent prostate seed implant and radical prostatectomy in the treatment of pa...Antidepressant drug may prevent recurrence of depression in patients with diabetes
...eam didn't know whether the drug could prevent the recurrence of depression in patients with diabetes. He also didn't know what would happen to glucose levels in the months following successful depression therapy. So Lustman teamed up with investigators at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and at the Universit...Breast conservation a good option for non-invasive, 'early' breast cancer, U-M study shows
... the 513 women studied, only 8 percent developed a recurrence of breast cancer or DCIS. Of those recurrences, 97...osis. If they follow up with regular mammograms, a recurrence can be detected early before it has had a negative effect on prognosis," says study author Renee Pin...PET-CT highly accurate for detecting ovarian cancer recurrence
...t is difficult many times to detect ovarian cancer recurrence because of the presence of certain metastatic deposits," said Sunit Sebastian, MD, who is currently at Emory University School of Medicine and is lead author on the study. According to the researchers, the results of their study could mean earlier ...MDCT shows potential for detecting bladder cancer without surgery or contrast
...radiotherapy or chemotherapy, so monitoring cancer recurrence is still a problem for both tests. The full results of the study will be presented on Monday, May 1, 2006 during the American Roentgen Ray Society Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC....Antidepressant medication may prevent recurring depression in diabetics
...benefit of sertraline for prevention of depression recurrence in patients with diabetes," they conclude. "Sertraline lengthened the depression-free interval of maintenance and did not interfere with glycemic improvement achieved during the recovery phase. Treatment with sertraline is relatively simple, safe a...Combining PET and CT scans makes cancer treatment more accurate
...lted in better delivery of the radiation and lower recurrence rates. The doctors fused images captured from both the PET and CT scans and found that the proposed treatment plans were very different in 14 of 16 patients whose plans had been designed using CT scanning alone. Out of the 28 patients who were follow...Antioxidant selenium offers no heart-disease protection
...mine if selenium supplementation could prevent the recurrence of non-melanoma skin cancer. Results of the trial, the only large randomized clinical trial to date to examine selenium supplementation alone in the prevention of CVD, appear in the April 15 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology. Saverio S...Many breast cancer survivors not getting recommended mammograms
...t cancer survivors, who are at increased risk of a recurrence or a new malignancy in the other breast, dropped off after a few years. During the five year study period, only one in three women in this high-risk population had received regular annual mammograms. Published in the June 1, 2006 issue of CANCER, a p...Recurrent melanoma may be more common than previously thought
...in its color. Previous studies have evaluated the recurrence of melanoma among patients already diagnosed with the disease; most have estimated that less than 4 percent of them will develop additional tumors in the year following diagnosis, according to background information in the article. Linda Titus-Ernsto...Benefit of chemotherapy in breast cancer depends on estrogen-receptor status
...ophosphamide plus paclitaxel - lowered the rate of recurrence and death in ER- patients by more than 50 percent, compared to the low-dose regimen used in the first study. "This tells us that breast oncology has made enormous strides in treating patients with ER- tumors, a finding which contradicts the prevaili...Newer chemotherapies improve outcomes for some types of breast cancer
...ogen-receptor negative tumors have a lower rate of recurrence and risk of death with treatment with newer chemot...otherapy improvements reduced the relative risk of recurrence by 21 percent, 25 percent, and 23 percent in the three studies, respectively, and 55 percent compari...Advances in chemotherapy improve outcomes in select breast cancers
...apy have significantly reduced the risk of disease recurrence and death in breast cancer patients whose tumors a...but substantially less so (26 percent reduction in recurrence risk and 23 percent reduction in risk of death). Although the improvements in chemotherapy provided ...Doctors able to predict recurrence of high-risk breast cancers
...del to assist doctors in determining the chance of recurrence of cancer in high-risk breast cancer patients who ...(tumor size and the effect on lymph nodes) for the recurrence of breast cancer in patients who have had their breast removed and undergone radiation therapy. Thei...Dangerous glucose-hungry cervical tumors can be detected using PET scans
...median value of 10.2 survived five years without a recurrence of their disease. In contrast, 52 percent of those whose glucose uptake measured above 10.2 went for five years without a recurrence. Since submitting their findings, the team has continued their investigation with additional patients, who now numbe...EBCC calls to speed access to innovative advances for all breast cancer patients
...ls showed a significant reduction in breast cancer recurrence for women with HER2 positive breast cancer, when given the drug post-surgery. Breast cancer doctors claim that the results of the four trials are sufficiently compelling to recommend adjuvant trastuzumab as a standard option after surgery in appropri...UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center named Survivorship Center of Excellence
...nd follow-up care they need to monitor for disease recurrence or any late effects that may result from their cancer treatment." The formation of the LIVESTRONG Survivorship Center of Excellence Network was announced today by LAF officials. The network is an invitation-only collaborative partnership among the LA......f those children that improve their diet to stop a recurrence of cavities also are able to maintain healthy bodyweight."...