Cancer News

Mammography screening is one of the major health care advances of the past 40 years.

Researchers have found that hormones produced during pregnancy induce a protein that directly inhibits the growth of breast cancer.

The uproar over the on-again, off-again guidelines on when women should have mammograms is proof of the blindingly obvious: Health-care reform that actually controls costs a ' rather than just pretending to do so a ' would be virtually impossible to achieve.

The World Health Organization tried this week to dampen fears about mutations seen in the swine flu virus in several countries, noting that both mutations had been found in very few people.

Main Category: Cancer / Oncology Also Included In: Immune System / Vaccines Article Date: 25 Nov 2009 The H1N1 vaccine has spurred media interest in vaccines, as well as predictions of vaccines for a host of new diseases.

MEMPHIS - It was their last chance for a baby with her eyes. His chin. Her nose.

Some new technology is making the treatment process for cancer patients a little easier.

Don't mess with the breast. That's the clear message that has emerged from the uproar over a medical panel's recommendation last week that American women don't need as many mammograms as they're getting.

Rituxan, a drug used to treat cancer and rheumatoid arthritis, may help slow the development of newly discovered type 1 or juvenile diabetes, researchers reported on Wednesday.

Neurological side effects are among the potential problems faced by long-term survivors of testicular cancer who were treated with cisplatin-based chemotherapy, a new study has found.

Tel Aviv University's new biodegradable fibers advance stent technology and brain surgery, then disappear Stents that keep weakened and flabby arteries from collapsing have been true life-savers. But after six months, those stents are no longer needed -- once the arteries are strengthened, they become unnecessary.

Researchers at the University of Granada, Spain, have found a suicide gene, called 'gene E', which leads to the death of tumour cells derived from breast, lung and colon cancer, and prevents their growth.

Juries in Philadelphia have now returned two huge verdicts against Pfizer, which owns the companies that manufactured the hormone replacement therapies.

Main Category: Lung Cancer Also Included In: Colorectal Cancer Article Date: 25 Nov 2009 - 4:00 PST NICE will be making two announcements on cancer treatments this week.

Almost all winter squash is an all-star source of beta-carotene and its antioxidant carotenoid "cousins." It's also a good source of vitamin C, potassium and dietary fiber, all with about 75 calories in a cup of cooked squash cubes.

FEARS that the breast cancer unit will be moved from Dorset County Hospital have sparked protest plans.

Fredericton resident Andrew Goodridge says the provincial government's decision to cover the expensive cancer drug Avastin is great news, even if it took longer than he expected.

This image shows the effect of gene therapy combined with cytotoxic agents in E spheroids derived from breast cancer cell line MCF-7. A. Control; B. Doxorubicin 10nm, C. Paclitaxel 10nm, D. Docetaxel 10nm, combined with gene E. Credit: University of Granada Researchers at the University of Granada, Spain, have found a suicide gene, called 'gene E', ...

A Richmond Indiana family is taking Pfizer Pharmaceuticals to court. The family says the menopause drug, Prempro gave their mother breast cancer which then led to her death in 2005.

One week ago, a government task force released a report saying women in their 40s should forgo screening mammograms, waiting until age 50.