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Cancer-blaster shoots for Valley
• Cancer • Jan 20 05
Local developer Gopal Kris Kapoor is backing a New Jersey company’s plans to build a $200 million outpatient cancer treatment center and hotel…
Non-alcoholic beer helps fight cancer, in mice
• Cancer • Jan 19 05
Mystery ingredients in non-alcoholic beer seem to protect against cancer, at least in mice.
Rodents fed cancer-causing chemicals suffered 85 percent less DNA damage…
U.S. blacks get less treatment for cancer - study
• Cancer • Jan 19 05
Black patients with esophageal cancer in the United States are half as likely as whites to get surgery that can help them live longer…
Air Pollution Probable Cause of Most Childhood Cancers
• Cancer • Jan 17 05
Exposure of preganant women to air pollution is the most likely cause of childhood cancers, suggests a British study published in the Journal of…
Guidelines tackle emotional side of cancer
• Cancer • Jan 13 05
Leading cancer organizations are focusing new attention on a problem that is often overlooked when treating cancer: the anxiety and Depression that can affect…
Patients’ age a factor in terminal cancer care
• Cancer • Jan 12 05
Among people with advanced cancer, the concerns of the elderly appear to be given more weight than are those of middle-aged patients, according to…
High red meat consumption linked to colon cancer
• Cancer • Jan 11 05
Long-term high consumption of red and processed meat may increase the risk of cancer in the colon and rectum, a new study shows.
Dr.…
Colon cancer screening still underused
• Cancer • Jan 10 05
Many people with colon cancer may not be diagnosed until after symptoms arise, even though the disease can be caught earlier with routine screening,…
Many chronically ill kids take supplements: study
• Cancer • Jan 06 05
Many children with chronic medical conditions such as cancer and cystic fibrosis may be taking dietary supplements that are not part of their prescribed…
High body weight linked to kidney cancer risk
• Cancer • Jan 04 05
The risk of developing a type of kidney cancer, renal cell carcinoma, is directly related to body mass index (BMI) and to the…
Moderate therapy OK for some bladder cancers
• Cancer • Dec 30 04
Once bladder cancer invades surrounding muscles, surgical removal of the bladder - radical cystectomy - is usually deemed necessary. However, if the disease has…
Diabetes drugs might treat multiple myeloma
• Cancer • Dec 28 04
In the lab, multiple myeloma cells are killed by drugs similar to existing anti-diabetes drugs like Avandia or Actos, according to researchers…
Income Cancer Risks
• Cancer • Dec 28 04
A new survey of low-income women living in rural areas shows they are not getting the information they need about cancer screenings.
Seven in…
FDA OKs Ecstasy Study in Cancer Patients
• Cancer • Dec 28 04
The illegal club drug Ecstasy can trigger euphoria among the dance club set, but can it ease the debilitating anxiety that cancer patients feel…
Ecstasy For Terminal Cancer Patients?
• Cancer • Dec 28 04
The illegal club drug Ecstasy can trigger euphoria among the dance club set, but can it ease the debilitating anxiety that cancer patients feel…
Cancer outcome good at regular high-volume centers
• Cancer • Dec 28 04
In the long run, survival after cancer surgery appears to differ little at hospitals designated by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as “centers…
Many poor women uninformed about cancer screening
• Cancer • Dec 27 04
According to a survey of low-income, rural women over age 40, nearly 7 out of 10 say their physicians have never prompted them to…
DNA stool test promising for cancer detection
• Cancer • Dec 23 04
A non-invasive test that detects mutated tumor DNA in feces may be a useful method of screening for colorectal cancer, according to new research…
Men prone to cancer from hepatitis C
• Cancer • Dec 23 04
People infected with the hepatitis C virus risk developing liver cancer, and now Japanese researchers have identified several factors that increase that risk.
Being…
Clearer info could up cancer screening in blacks
• Cancer • Dec 22 04
Better doctor-patient communication may improve colon cancer screening rates among African Americans, results of a North Carolina study suggest.
“Good communication between patients and…
Women, Latinos not getting colon cancer tests
• Cancer • Dec 20 04
A survey of older Californians shows that many - especially women and Latinos - are not being screened for colorectal cancer as they…
42 million Americans not screened for colon cancer
• Cancer • Dec 17 04
About 60 percent of Americans aged 50 or older who are at average risk for colorectal cancer - some 42 million people - have…
WHO Aims To Curb Cervical Cancer
• Cancer • Dec 16 04
Almost a quarter million women worldwide die from cervical cancer each year although the disease is largely preventable, the U.N. health agency said Thursday.
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Cervical cancer an “epidemic” in poor countries
• Cancer • Dec 16 04
Health agencies on Thursday called for tackling cervical cancer which has taken on epidemic proportions in developing countries from Brazil to India due to…
Bee products fight tumors in mice, study shows
• Cancer • Dec 16 04
Honeybees could be keeping a cornucopia of anti-cancer compounds in their hives, early research in mice suggests.
Researchers in Croatia found that bee products…