2006

January

• Ovarian Cancer Treatment Found to Significantly Improve Survival

• Loss of gene linked to spread of childhood cancer

• GW wins US okay for pivotal cannabis drug study

• Soda pop link to esophageal cancer debunked

• Halting Cancer Metastasis

• Coffee may lower breast cancer risk for some women

• New Option for Patients with Metastatic Melanoma

• Radiotherapy Advance Builds Hope for Noninvasive Brain Cancer Treatment

• Lung Cancer Screening Encouraged for Smokers with History of the Disease

2005

December

• Counseling helps sex life after prostate cancer

• Many cancer survivors still smoking and drinking

• A Cervical Cancer Screening Month Resolution

• New breast cancer drug Femara will save lives

• Moderate drinking may lower kidney cancer risk

• In 2005, Advances Made in Breast Cancer Treatment and Detection

• Blacks more likely to die of curable lung cancer than whites

• UCSD Researchers State Vitamin D Needed to Cut Cancer Risk

• The Pill doesn’t affect cervical pre-cancer risk

• Targeted cancer therapies: Another step forward

• Children could be saved from neuroblastoma using antibody therapy

• Women often opt out of lung cancer studies

• US approves new drug for advanced kidney cancer

• Chest x-rays detect early lung cancer

• Kidney Cancer Patients Unlikely to Respond to Potential Treatment Drug

• Risk of second malignant melanoma high

• Green Tea Helps

• Gardasil prevents cervical cancer caused by virus

• Good results with cervical cancer vaccine in young girls

• Radiotherapy aids breast cancer survival: study

• 65% of ovarian cancer cells sideline body’s defences

• The role of genes in the development of non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas

• Breast cancer risk higher in young smokers

• New cell findings have implications for cancer, immune disorders

• Lean body mass may protect against prostate cancer

• Betel quid chewing increases pharyngeal cancer risk

• Breast cancer gene tests backlog

• Femara helps prevent the return of breast cancer

• Insulin Levels and Resistance Linked to Risk of Pancreatic Cancer

• Drinking Tea Associated with Lower Risk of Ovarian Cancer

• Dietary iron linked to upper GI cancer risk

• Study links infections with some childhood cancers

• Smoking lowers chances of surviving throat cancer

• Breast cancer survivors face other cancer risks

• Cancer, genes and broccoli

• Study suggests a way to eliminate glioblastoma

• Use of Chemotherapy After Surgery for Colon Cancer Has Risen

• New Treatment for Pancreatic Cancer Allows Life-Saving Surgery

• Model of Prostate Cancer Helps Identify Promising Pain Treatment

• Cancer cell resistance to chemotherapy drugs

• Ack1 molecule stimulates the aggressive growth of prostate cancer

• Radiation better than surgery at preserving speech for patients with head and neck cancer

• Passive smoking is breast cancer risk factor

• Iron and calcium may up risk of lung cancer

November

• Treatment of breast cancer in pregnancy

• Long-term hormone therapy best for prostate cancer

• Radiation Treatment Prolonged Liver Cancer Patients’ Lives

• Pancreatic cancer and ecoendoscop

• Low PSA may not rule out prostate cancer

• Symposium on Minimally Invasive Cancer Treatments

• Cellular clues to vitamin A resistance in lung cancer

• Risk of cervical and other cancers after treatment of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia

• Herbal extract may treat prostate cancer

• Plant product may help prevent lung cancer

• Deleted Genes Help Predict Outcome in a Children’s Cancer

• Brochure Helps Patients Understand Treatments for Bladder Cancer

• Drug May Combat Weight Loss During Radiation Treatments

• Learn the Signs and Symptoms of Lung Cancer

• Investigational Treatment Shows Promise in Metastatic Breast Cancer

• Infertility linked to higher testicular cancer risk

• Smaller prostate size, more aggressive cancer

• Phenoxodiol Produces Anti-cancer Responses in Women with Cervical Cancer

• High colon cancer risk with diabetes confirmed

• Antidepressant doesn’t raise breast cancer risk

• Pancreatic cancer vaccine may improve survival

• Gene therapy tested in pancreatic cancer studies

• Backyard Garden May Yield Leukemia Treatment

• Parents of kids with cancer face traumatic stress

• Ginkgo may ward off ovarian cancer

• British woman to get cancer drug after U-turn

• Missing protein may hold lung cancer key

• Ospemifine may also help to prevent breast cancer

• Experimental drug slows tumor growth

• “Screen and treat” cervical cancer programs effective in poorly resourced areas

• Top cancer fighting foods

• Tarceva Approved for Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer

• Colorectal Cancer More Common Among Diabetics

• Cheek Scrapings Can Detect Lung Cancer

• Women survive lung cancer better than men

October

• Colon cancer hits blacks at a younger age

• Childhood cancer survivors face limitations

• Early detection and improved treatment have contributed almost equally to the substantial decrease i

• Pot smoking not a major lung cancer threat

• China has become the 89th country to ratify the global tobacco treaty

• Preventing bowel cancer in high risk families

• Enzyme Test for Bladder Cancer May Promote Early Diagnosis

• Possible Genetic Link to Pancreatic Cancer

• Single men may forgo retreatment of prostate cancer

• Annual Prostate Cancer Screening Test Appears to Save Lives

• Many patients not screened for colorectal cancer

• Breast Cancer Genetic Tests Validated for African-Americans