bladder cancer News

THE family of a Mansfield pensioner who suffered complications after surgery have criticised the standard of care he received at King's Mill Hospital.

Researchers have long considered smoking a risk factor for bladder cancer , a disease that strikes about 55,000 Americans each year.

This Veterans Day in the Upstate finds the demand for health care services soaring, with veterans' clinics fairly bursting at the seams and the government promising millions of dollars in local upgrades so that many of the sick and wounded won't have to travel so far for treatment.

BACKGROUND: The National Cancer Institute expects there will be 70,980 new cases of bladder cancer and 14,330 deaths in 2009.

The bladder is a hollow organ in the lower abdomen which collects and stores urine that is produced by the kidneys.

Canadian biopharmaceutical company Bioniche Life Sciences Inc said it received the first milestone payment of US$6-million under a licensing deal with Endo Pharmaceuticals for its experimental bladder cancer drug.

Bioniche Life Sciences Inc. , a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company, today announced financial results for its Fiscal 2010 first quarter, ended September 30, 2009.

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Main Category: Urology / Nephrology Also Included In: Cancer / Oncology ; Medical Devices / Diagnostics Article Date: 04 Nov 2009 - 6:00 PST Predictive Biosciences Inc.

The NHS is still failing lung cancer patients, according to the results of the first national review of lung cancer services, published this Monday.1 Despite headway in UK lung cancer prevention, disease awareness and screening, key areas such as diagnosis, treatment rates and access to specialists are still 'woefully inadequate' say the UK's ...

Bladder cancer and its surgery can dramatically change a patient's life, making some usually normal activities almost impossible.

A TEENAGER from Eastbourne jumped 10,000 feet in a sponsored skydive in memory of her grandparents who died earlier this year.

Main Category: Cancer / Oncology Also Included In: Clinical Trials / Drug Trials ; Immune System / Vaccines Article Date: 02 Nov 2009 - 4:00 PST Celldex Therapeutics, Inc.

BSD Medical Corporation announced that published study results demonstrated improvement in overall survival, tumor response rates, and local tumor control from the addition of hyperthermia therapy, delivered using the BSD-2000 Hyperthermia System, to the standard treatment regimen for 45 patients with high-risk bladder cancer.

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BSD Medical Corporation today announced that published study results demonstrated improvement in overall survival, tumor response rates, and local tumor control from the addition of hyperthermia therapy, delivered using the BSD-2000 Hyperthermia System, to the standard treatment regimen for 45 patients with high-risk bladder cancer.

Egr-1 has been proposed to be involved in invasion and metastasis processes of human bladder cancer, but Egr-1 protein expression levels in human bladder cancer have not been investigated.

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Oct 29, 2009 - Celldex Therapeutics, Inc. today announced positive results from Phase 1 studies of CDX-1307 in patients with advanced epithelial cancers, including breast, colon, bladder and pancreatic cancer.

Veterans of EPA Superfund sites are at risk for bladder cancer from organic solvent exposure.