2012

March

• UC San Diego Noted for Highest Quality Cancer Care

• Breast Cancer on the Rise Among African Women, Say Experts

• Breastfeeding for a year cuts cancer risk by a third: Study

• Taking a pill to fight cancer? Avoid these dangerous drug interactions

• Effects of estrogen alone vs. estrogen plus progestin on breast cancer risk

• Obesity Increases the Risk for Colorectal Cancer and Polyps

• Health Groups Issue Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines

• Dietary Cadmium May Be Linked with Breast Cancer Risk

• New data fuel debate over prostate cancer screening

• Circumcision reduces prostate cancer risk

• New Study Finds Usual Care Enough to Promote the Well Adjustment to Early Breast Cancer

• Facts About Colorectal Cancer

• Fat Intake and Colorectal Cancer

• Sugar + Fat Might Add up to Colon Cancer

• Study shows how high-fat diets increase colon cancer risk

• Wilmot Researchers Create New Way to Study Liver Cancer

• Estrogen Benefit in Breast Cancer Affirmed

• Researchers discover possible approach to the treatment of aggressive breast cancer

• Researchers find possible genetic keys to surviving epithelial ovarian cancer

• Internists echo call for colon cancer screening

• Regulators dispute finding of cancer-causing soda

• Five Facts to Help Reduce Your Risk of Colorectal Cancer:

• UCSD First to Treat Brain Cancer with Viral Vector

• Researchers Find Sarcoma Tumor Immune Response With Combination Therapy

• New screening technique could provide more reliable breast cancer detection

• What are the risk factors for penile cancer?

• Can penile cancer be prevented?

February

• Boys should get HPV vaccination too

• Cancer seen killing 1.3 million EU citizens in 2012

• Stopping hormones might help breast cancer to regress

• Study Shows Fish Oil Does Not Prevent Cancer and May Increase Risk in Women

• Scripps Florida Scientists Uncover Inflammatory Circuit That Triggers Breast Cancer

• Colonoscopy Prevents Deaths From Colon Cancer

• Colon cancer study backs blood stool screening test

• Mammography-detected breast cancer in 40-49 year-olds has better prognosis

• Men opting for costly new prostate cancer treatment, study shows

• New Lung Cancer Treatment Target Identified By Scientists

• Wayne State proves targeted tumor freezing therapy increases ovarian cancer survival

• Nanoparticles may enhance cancer therapy

• Low Molecular Weight Heparin Use in Cancer Treatment

• Understanding the role of androgen receptor signaling in breast cancer

• Study Explains High Platelets in Ovarian Cancer Patients; Survival Reduced

• Video games lead to new paths to treat cancer, other diseases

• Does hormone replacement therapy cause breast cancer

• Fetal Exposure to Radiation Increases Risk of Testicular Cancer

• Breast Implants Are Most Popular Form of Plastic Surgery

• GW researchers reveal digital transcriptome of breast cancer

• Radiation treatment transforms breast cancer cells into cancer stem cells

• First prospective analysis links breast and pancreatic cancer risk with lynch syndrome

• Evidence strengthens link between NSAIDs and reduced cancer metastasis

• Enhancing the effectiveness of a breast cancer treatment

• New study casts doubt on lung cancer treatment

• 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