Recent Cancer Headlines:
Deaths from cancer of the large intestine on the rise
Jan 03, 2006 ... With deaths from cancer of the large intestine on the increase, health experts encouraged those with symptoms to seek early diagnosis and urged the public in ...
Crohn's disease ups risk of intestinal cancer
Jan 03, 2006 ... ... an inflammation of the digestive tract that affects a half million Americans, many age 15 to 35 years -- face a higher risk of intestinal cancer, according to ...
New breast cancer drug improves recurrence rates
Jan 03, 2006 ... Campaigners stepped up pressure for England to recognise a new breast cancer drug after research showed it was more effective than tamoxifen. ...
Radiology advance points way to non-invasive brain-cancer ...
Jan 03, 2006 ... In the January 1, 2006, issue of the journal Clinical Cancer Research, Gelsomina "Pupa" De Stasio, professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ...
Hoping to cast out breast cancer
Jan 03, 2006 ... ... The project was conceived by Mary Ellen Scherl of Tenafly, an established artist who had a lumpectomy after her own breast cancer scare, and whose mother was ...
Simple test can help head off cancer
Jan 03, 2006 ... Many mistake "abnormal Pap" for "will get cancer." While cervical cancer used to be the number one cancer killer of women in the US, today it is one of the ...
Shining a light on cancer
Jan 03, 2006 ... By JON VAN. A new generation of medical scanners is helping doctors quickly determine if cancer cells have spread -- and to where. ...
Effort to keep cancer vaccine from girls riles readers
Jan 03, 2006 ... Readers responded with dismay and outrage to last week's column about social-conservative groups who oppose making a new cervical cancer vaccine part of the ...
Dutchess to push cancer screenings
Jan 03, 2006 ... By Dan Shapley. When it comes to cancer, Dr. J. Keith Festa knows people can't take an "If it isn't broken, don't fix it," attitude. Consider colon cancer. ...
A Cancer Treatment in the Spice Cabinet?
Jan 03, 2006 ... ... Aggarwal, PhD, chief of the cytokine research laboratory in the department of experimental therapeutics at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. ...
Man plans to survive cancer for the fourth time
Jan 03, 2006 ... ,” said 29-year-old Satterlee, who has battled cancer most of his life and was diagnosed with the incurable ...
Cell phones don’t promote cellular stress or cancer, says study
Jan 03, 2006 ... ... Associate Profewssor of Radiation Oncology and a Researcher at the Siteman cancer center at Barnes - Jewish Hopsital and Washington University School of ...
Off-label use of cancer drug target of controversy
Jan 03, 2006 ... ... Vitreo-Retinal Associates in Shreveport now has more than 29 patients in a clinical trial of the off-label use of a cancer drug, Avastin, for the treatment of ...
Experts plot battle against cancer in Africa
Jan 03, 2006 ... In November, the Fifth International Conference of the African Organisation for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTIC) met in Dakar, Senegal, to examine how ...
Promising Target For Cancer Therapies Validated In New Study
Jan 03, 2006 ... University College London Study Shows Beans Beat Cancer (September 15, 2005) -- Scientists have discovered a new and potent anti-cancer compound in everyday ...
New drug helps people with form of blood cancer
Jan 03, 2006 ... ... an associate professor of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine, had little to offer his patients with a certain type of blood cancer, other than ...
Mercy makes strides in cancer treatment
Jan 03, 2006 ... By ERIN PUSTAY. Newly adopted radiation technology now allows doctors to treat specific types of cancer with pin-point accuracy from a variety of angles. ...
Walk for cancer
Jan 03, 2006 ... By MEGAN NICHOLS. Around 30 Anderson-area walkers and runners are heading to Disney World this weekend to raise money for cancer patients. ...
Singapore to research on childhood cancer rhabdomyosarcoma
Jan 03, 2006 ... Singapore's National Cancer Center (NCC) will launch research on rhabdomyosarcoma, the fourth most common childhood cancer, according to Channel NewsAsia ...
Communities Coming Together to Explore Environmental Links to ...
Jan 03, 2006 ... Marin Breast Cancer Watch, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California and the University of California San Francisco invite the community to participate in a ...
Honored dentist dies after a long bout with cancer
Jan 03, 2006 ... ... ever known," died Dec. 11 at his daughter's home in Redlands, after a long battle with cancer. He was 73. Kinzer was a professor ...