2012

February

• Many lung cancer patients get radiation therapy that may not prolong their lives

• Curry Spice Component May Help Slow Prostate Tumor Growth

• Nanotube Therapy Takes Aim at Breast Cancer Stem Cells

• Researchers Find Ovarian Cancer Risk Related To Inherited Inflammation Genes

• Risk of Death From Breast Cancer Higher Among Older Patients

• Ovarian cancer screening popular despite guidelines

• PET Techniques Provide More Accurate Diagnosis, Prognosis in Challenging Breast Cancer Cases

• Three ‘Targeted’ Cancer Drugs Raise Risk of Fatal Side Effects

• Our Promise to Black Women

• Breast cancer kills more black women

• World Cancer Day Points to Prevention

• Cancer Researcher Offer New Hope for Brain Tumor

• Balancing oxaliplatin dose with neurological side effects in metastatic colon cancer

• New research confirms need for lung cancer testing

• Surgical breast biopsy not overused, study suggests

• Breast Cancer Surgery Rules Are Called Unclear

January

• Women not following through with recommended breast screening MRI

• Type of Anesthesia May Affect Recurrence Risk after Liver Cancer Procedure

• Gene Linked to Pancreatic Cancer Growth

• Cancer Patients Pain Can Be Helped By Psychosocial Interventions

• Barrett’s patients who smoke are twice as likely to develop esophageal cancer

• Head & neck cancer in transplant patients: For better or worse?

• Cancer sequencing initiative discovers mutations tied to aggressive childhood brain tumors

• New lung cancer test predicts survival

• New research sheds light on gene destruction linked to aggressive prostate cancer

• Birth after cancer treatment with removal and storage of ovary

• Cocoa could prevent intestinal pathologies such as colon cancer

• Erlotinib dose-adjusted for smoking status effective as first treatment for head and neck cancer

• Roche’s Avastin helps colorectal cancer patients

• Aiding cancer therapy by mathematically modeling tumor-immune interactions

• Scientists developing breast cancer treatment test news

• In Breast Cancer, The Quality Of Life For Younger Patients More Adversely Affected Than For Older Women

• Genetic testing helped breast cancer survivor

• Women with Certain Type of Ovarian Cancer and BRCA Gene Mutation Have Improved Survival at 5 Years

• Cocoa could prevent intestinal pathologies such as colon cancer

• HPV testing: Indications of a benefit in primary screening

• Arsenic cancer risk still high decades later in Chile region

• Compounds in mate tea induce death in colon cancer cells

• Identified a cause of resistance to colon cancer treatment

• Quality of life for younger breast cancer patients more adversely affected than older women

• Lead blood levels may increase smokers’ risk for kidney cancer

• Study examines quality of colonoscopy reporting and performance

• Korean research, a first step toward Dr. Smartphone?

• Papillary Thyroid Cancer (PTC): Overview

• Statistics About Thyroid Cancer

• Key Statistics About Thyroid Cancer

• Thyroid Cancer - Overview

• Basic Epidemiological Problems in Thyroid Cancer

• Thyroid cancer on the rise

• The Rising Incidence of Thyroid Cancer

• Study showed oxaliplatin improved colon cancer patient survival

• Younger breast cancer patients have more adverse quality-of-life issues

• 3 is the magic number: A chain reaction required to prevent tumor formation

• Metastasis of pancreatic cancer in action

• Why cholesterol-lowering statins might treat cancer

• Roche melanoma pill spurs growth of less harmful cancers

• Aspirin Merits Testing for Prevention of Cervical Cancer in HIV-Infected Women

• Novel gene mutations associated with bile duct cancer

• Study finds that tumor cells can prevent cancer spread

• Drug improves survival of colorectal cancer patients, trial results show

• Breast cancer spread triggered by a cleaver-wielding protein on cancer cell’s surface

• Stanford computer algorithm used to identify bladder cancer marker

• MD Anderson Orlando Moves Pancreatic Cancer Research Forward

• New indicator may help identify patients with increased risk from throat cancer

• Researchers use sugar to halt esophageal cancer in its tracks

• Researchers identify possible receptor for key breast cancer regulator

• Faulty proteins may prove significant in identifying new treatments for ovarian cancer

• A novel therapeutic target to slow breast cancer cell motility

• Early-Stage Breast Cancer Patients Lack Knowledge About Their Disease and May Not Receive the Treatment They Prefer

• Towards more effective treatment for multiple myeloma

• Personalized gene therapies may increase survival in brain cancer patients

• Don’t believe hype about robot prostatectomy: study

• Prospective surveillance model emerges as standard of care for breast cancer treatment

• Mayo Clinic Studies Identify Risk Factors in Rising Trend of Liver Cancer

• Antiestrogen Therapy May Decrease Risk for Melanoma

• Fibroblasts Contribute To Melanoma Tumor Growth

• Proton Therapy Effective Prostate Cancer Treatment

• Moderate Red Wine Drinking May Help Cut Women’s Breast Cancer Risk

• Cancer deaths across Europe ‘tipped to fall in 2011’

• Cancer rates in U.S. keep falling: American Cancer Society

• UK wants results of breast implant review this week

2011

December

• Gene fusion in lung cancer afflicting never-smokers may be target for therapy

• France to offer surgery if breast implants a risk

• Breast cancer and heart disease may have common roots

• Removal of lymph nodes during surgery for thyroid cancer may be beneficial

• Scientists may be able to double efficacy of radiation therapy

• No brakes on breast cancer cells

• Tanning beds raise risk of common skin cancer: study

• Mammography Study in BMJ Flawed: Discredited Data Used

• Breast cancer survivors struggle with cognitive problems several years after treatment

• Why women quit breast cancer drugs early

• Circulating tumor cells not linked to survival in newly diagnosed inflammatory breast cancer

• Breast Cancer Mortality Higher in Hispanic Women

• MRI May Be Noninvasive Method to Measure Breast Cancer Prognosis

• Obese Patients with HER2-Positive Breast Cancer May Have Worse Outcomes

• Women advised to avoid ZEN bust-enhancing supplements because of possible cancer risk

• Quicker radiation therapy doubles mastectomy risk

• Novel approach to treating breast cancer shows great promise

• Mammography screening reduced risk for death from breast cancer by half

• Study finds side effects, complications, mastectomy more likely after partial breast irradiation