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A New Marker to Spot Aggressive Breast Cancers?

HealthCentral.com | 18 days ago

Low cellular levels of a protein known as ferroportin are tied to recurrent, aggressive breast cancers, new research suggests.. . Testing levels of...

Less May Be More When Treating Early Hodgkin's

HealthScout.com | 28 days ago

Fewer cycles of chemotherapy and lower dosages of radiation may work just as well as more intensive treatment for early-stage Hodgkin's lymphoma, a ...

Overtreating earliest cancers _ but which ones?

AP News | 86 days ago

Overdiagnosed: Some cancers found too early are posing a dilemma in choosing best treatmentD.J. Soviero wanted the least treatment that would beat back her small, early-stage breast cancer, but her first doctor insisted she had only one option: tumor remo

Time to rethink colon cancer therapy?

Reuters US Online Report Health News | 93 days ago

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Adding the drug cetuximab (Erbitux) to standard treatments does not help patients with early stage colon cancer even though it does help patients with advanced disease, a perplexing finding that is causing doctors to question some basi

US cancer costs double in nearly 20 years

AP News | 121 days ago

Study says US cancer costs almost double in 20 years _ but not because of pricey treatmentsThe cost of treating cancer in the United States nearly doubled over the past two decades, but expensive cancer drugs may not be the main reason why, according to a

Kennedy's cancer puts focus on quality of life

AP News | 378 days ago

After cancer treatment, Kennedy focused on quality of life; brain cancer survival time limitedHe lived 15 months with an incurable brain tumor, a little longer than usual for a patient in his late 70s. Perhaps equally important is that Sen. Edward M. Kenn

Stomach stapling may lower cancer risk in women

AP Features | 442 days ago

Women who have their stomachs stapled not only lose weight, they also may reduce their cancer risk by up to 40 percent, new research says.In a study of more than 2,000 obese people who had surgery to reduce the size of their stomachs, Swedish researchers

Immune therapies finally working against cancer

AP News | 465 days ago

Immune therapies are finally starting to work against cancer after 30 years of false startsFirst there was surgery, then chemotherapy and radiation. Now, doctors have overcome 30 years of false starts and found success with a fourth way to fight cancer: u

Immune system taught to fight deadly skin cancer

AP Features | 466 days ago

For the first time, a novel treatment that trains the immune system to fight cancer has shown modest benefit in late-stage testing against the deadly skin cancer melanoma.The approach is called a cancer vaccine, even though it treats disease rather than p

More evidence prostate tests overdiagnose cancer

AP News | 547 days ago

Study: PSA tests often find prostate cancer too slow-growing to be life-threateningAs many as two of every five men whose prostate cancer was caught through a PSA screening test have tumors too slow-growing to ever be a threat, says a new study that raise