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Breast Cancer Drugs from Pfizer and L...

Experimental breast cancer drugs from Pfizer Inc. (PFE) and Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY) slowed or halted growth of advanced tumors in studies, potentially adding a new treatment option for patients and top-selling therapies for the companies. Pfizer’s palbociclib doubled to 20.2 months the time in which patients’ advanced breast cancer didn’t [...]

Early Detection Urine Test for Prosta...

The reason is that the traditional prostate cancer screening test – a blood test to measure prostate specific antigen, or PSA – does not give doctors a complete picture. Now, the University of Michigan Health System has begun offering a new urine test called Mi-Prostate Score to improve on PSA screening for prostate cancer. The test incorpora [...]

U.S. cancer death rates continue to d...

U.S. cancer death rates continue to drop
The Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975–2009, shows that overall cancer death rates continued to decline in the United States among both men and women, among all major racial and ethnic groups, and for all of the most common cancer sites, including lung, colon and rectum, female breast, and prostate. However, the report [...]

Lung cancer likely to overtake breast...

Lung cancer likely to overtake breast cancer as the main cause of cancer death among European women
Lung cancer is likely to overtake breast cancer as the main cause of cancer death among European women by the middle of this decade, according to new research published in the cancer journal Annals of Oncology on February 13. In the UK and Poland it has already overtaken breast cancer as the main cause of cancer deaths in women. The study by [...]

Squeezing Breasts Can Help Fight Brea...

Squeezing Breasts Can Help Fight Breast Cancer
New research has found that applying physical force on one’s breasts can prevent malignant cancer cells. Researchers at the University of California Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory presented their findings Monday at the Society for Cell Biology in San Francisco. “People have known for centuries that physical force can [...]

Enzyme offers new therapeutic target ...

Enzyme offers new therapeutic target for cancer drugs
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have uncovered a new signal transduction pathway specifically devoted to the regulation of alternative RNA splicing, a process that allows a single gene to produce or code multiple types of protein variants. The discovery, published in the June 27, 2012 issue of Molecul [...]

HPV Vaccine May Prevent Recurrence of...

HPV Vaccine May Prevent Recurrence of Precancerous Conditions
The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine has been touted as a way to prevent cervical cancer and genital warts, but a new study suggests the vaccine may also prevent women diagnosed with precancers from developing recurrences. Researchers randomly assigned more than 1,350 women diagnosed with genital warts or certain precancerous conditions to [...]

Survival Rate of Cancer Patients in K...

Survival Rate of Cancer Patients in Korea Ranked in the Top in the World
SEOUL, South Korea, Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ As the whole world battles against cancer, the survival rate of cancer patients in Korea has shown a great improvement. Cancer is still the number one cause of death in Korea, but about half of Korean cancer patients have, in recent times, managed to survive for more than ten years, whi [...]

Kids’ leukemia risk raised by d...

Kids’ leukemia risk raised by dads who smoke
Children whose fathers smoked have at least a 15 percent higher risk of developing the most common form of childhood cancer, a new Australian study finds. “Paternal smoking seems to be real” as a risk factor, said Patricia Buffler, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who was not involved in the current analysis. [...]

Transplant recipients have a high ris...

Transplant recipients have a high risk of developing cancer
Organ transplant recipients in the United States have a high risk of developing 32 different types of cancer, according to a new study of transplant recipients which fully describes the range of malignancies that occur. Researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, the Health Resources and Se [...]