Cancer Treatment

Value Of Routine Breast Cancer Screenings For Elderly Patients

Although annual breast cancer screenings are recommended for most women ages 40 and older, physicians debate the value of regular mammograms for elderly women, who are more likely to die from unrelated causes, the New York Times reports. A study published in May in the Journal of Clinical Oncology showed that among women ages 80 [...]

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Radiation Treatment of Rare Breast Cancer May Lower Recurrence

Patients with a rare type of breast cancer may benefit from receiving radiation therapy in addition to surgery to prevent recurrence, according to a study in the July issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official journal of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology. Phyllodes tumors are rare breast tumors that [...]

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Combination Therapy Promising for Melanoma Treatment

Recent research by the National Cancer Institute says that more women are being diagnosed with the most dangerous form of skin cancer melanoma. Too much sun exposure and lack of safe sunscreens contribute extensively in the sharp increase of Melanoma. While everyone is recommended to have reasonable amount of sun exposure (here you need to [...]

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Cancer Drug Shows Promise Against Graft-Versus-Host Disease

A new University of Michigan study in mice suggests that a drug recently approved to fight cancer tumors is also able to reduce the effects of graft-versus-host disease, a common and sometimes fatal complication for people who have had bone marrow transplants. Plans are under way at U-M for an initial trial of the drug [...]

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Herceptin Targets Breast Cancer Stem Cells

A gene that is overexpressed in 20 percent of breast cancers increases the number of cancer stem cells, the cells that fuel a tumor’s growth and spread, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. The gene, HER2, causes cancer stem cells to multiply and spread, explaining why HER2 has [...]

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Cases Of Melanoma Skin Cancer Sharply Increased in Young Women

Melanoma cases of skin cancer increased by 50% in younger women, urging the need of more educational campaigns for younger people to help them understand how dangerous skin cancer is and what to do to protect themselves from the disease. A team of researchers from National Cancer Institute examined data from government cancer statistics for [...]

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Colorectal cancer screening rates still too low

Although colorectal cancer screening tests are proven to reduce colorectal cancer mortality, only about half of U.S. men and women 50 and older receive the recommended tests, according to a report in the July 2008 issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. The Centers for Disease [...]

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Magnolia Compound Hits Elusive Target in Cancer Cells

A natural compound from magnolia cones blocks a pathway for cancer growth that was previously considered “undruggable,” researchers have found. A laboratory led by Jack Arbiser, MD, PhD, at Emory University School of Medicine, has been studying the compound honokiol, found in Japanese and Chinese herbal medicines, since discovering its ability to inhibit tumor growth [...]

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Mitochondrial cholesterol makes response to chemotherapy difficult in hepatic cancer

Cancer is a disease characterized by important metabolic alterations. Not only these adaptative changes give higher proliferative capacity to cancer cells, but they also contribute to higher resistance to chemotherapeutic agents. The research group led by Dr. José Carlos Fernández-Checa in the Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques de Barcelona of the CSIC (IIBB-CSIC), a centre linked to [...]

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Mesothelioma Law Firm Donates Record $10.2 Million to Build Cancer Center

Say the word “lawyer” and a bevy of images comes to mind, many of them negative. But the partners at the East Alton, Illinois law firm SimmonsCooper LLC, specializing in Mesothelioma, are hoping to shift such stereotypes, beginning with a record $10.2 million total donation comprised of annual gifts and a multi-year pledge to help [...]

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Breast Asymmetry After Cancer Treatment Affects Quality Of Life

Most women with breast cancer assume that surgery to preserve their breast will be less disfiguring than a mastectomy that removes the entire breast. But nearly one-third of women reported pronounced asymmetry between their breasts, and that perceived disfigurement greatly affects a woman’s quality of life after treatment, according to a new study by researchers [...]

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Young Women’s Breast Cancers Have More Aggressive Genes, Worse Prognosis

Young women’s breast cancers tend to be more aggressive and less responsive to treatment than the cancers that arise in older women, and researchers at the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences %26amp; Policy may have discovered part of the reason why: young women’s breast cancers share unique genomic traits [...]

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