Oncology News

Middle-aged men who stayed fit were less likely to die from three common cancers after being diagnosed than those who were out of shape, research found.

Charity Long said she underwent a double mastectomy in December 2009 months after she detected a lump on her right breast.

Journal of clinical oncology , Vol. 29, No. 3. , pp. 257-263, doi:10.1200/jco.2010.28.7078 Regular sunscreen use prevents cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma long term, but the effect on melanoma is highly controversial.

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Imaging scans following treatment for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma do little to help detect a relapse, a Mayo Clinic study has found.

A phase II study of neoadjuvant EndoTAG-1 - a composition of the cytostatic drug paclitaxel combined with neutral and positive lipids - has met its primary efficacy endpoint in patients with HER2-negative high-risk breast cancer.

Dr. Awtry of Beth Israel Deaconess & Lawrence General Hospital to Speak on Aging Women's Health and Cancer in North Andover May 20th On Monday, May 20 th at 7:30pm Dr.

A PERTH mother, who was diagnosed with cancer just after she lost her husband to the disease, has made a desperate plea to the Government to subsidise a $50,000 drug which will help to save her life.

Kelly Vanek, a runner, cyclist and triathlete, was listening to sports talk radio in the car when the conversation shifted to Angelina Jolie .

At 31, Matilda Tristram was looking forward to having her first baby. Then she discovered she had cancer.

Hawthorn Oncology Center has been acquired by Saint Anne's Hospital Regional Cancer Center, the hospital announced Friday, combining more than 100 staff members to service patients in Dartmouth and Fall River.

Seventy two hours after Elissa Bantug's mastectomy, she felt broken. She was only 25 years old, but she had lost both breasts and her strawberry blonde hair to cancer.

New approaches are dramatically changing breast surgeries, whether it's to treat cancer or to prevent it.

Two drugs from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. shrank tumors in as many as half of patients with advanced melanoma, according to early research that may pave the way for cocktails that trigger the immune system to destroy cancer.

To understand just how brave Angelina Jolie is, consider what she did not write in her op-ed in The New York Times: her decision to have a mastectomy and forgo, at least for now, an oopherectomy , goes against common medical practice in the US and, most likely, against most of the advice she received.

A second top oncologist has quit in the wake of the KwaZulu-Natal health department's failure to keep two state-of-the-art radiotherapy machines operational at Durban's Addington Hospital, Sapa was told on Friday.

Some women don't have a bit of trouble taking Tamoxifen, the well-known cancer drug for estrogen positive receptor breast cancer.

Despite unceasing pain from neuroblastoma, an aggressive cancer he battled for four years, Joey managed to summon strength every day to lift the spirits of his family, friends and caregivers.

Hyderabad, May 16 : For the first time in Andhra Pradesh, Basavatarakam Indo American Cancer Hospital Research Institute has set up Neuro Oncology facility in its premises.

New News In Biotechnology The American Society of Clinical Oncology conference is convening in two weeks.