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Living Through Cancer
After a cancer diagnosis, you're on to survivorship. These resources will help you and your loved ones on the journey.
Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body. Cancerous cells are also called malignant cells.
have declin...
Statistics 2009...
has recurred. In both studies, presented Saturday at the annual meeting...
Society. This steady decline translates to 1.2 million...
in individuals who were genetically vulnerable to developing these...
with some success, and advances were made in both disease prevention and risk factor identification. A new report from the American...
combined, according to the U.S. National Institutes...
, substantial victories have been scored against some, but not all...
generally, while...
survivors are more likely than their healthy peers to suffer serious psychological distress such as anxiety and depression, even a decade after treatment ends, new research shows....
survivors in the United States to go without the medical attention they need, a new analysis reveals. What's more, the study indicates that...
. Specifically, that includes those aged 55 to 74 with...
is poised to become the number one killer in the United States, topping heart disease, that is because deaths from heart......
. Dr. Scott Plotkin, a neuro-oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, who led the trial, was looking for a medical option....
, health officials reported. Using data from an ongoing health study of World Trade Center survivors and recovery workers, researchers found that, overall, people's risk of...
combined. It's typically discovered too late to be treated successfully...
Society took issue with that con...
went down by 1.8 percent a year in men and 1.6 percent...
, a new report says. At...
, "lumpectomy is just as effective if not more effective....
survivors found that 33.8 percent.....
among people in Sacramento County, Calif., in the two decades after the closure of the Rancho Seco nuclear reactor, according to a new study. The...
is not creditab...
, and everything changed. Although the COBRA coverage paid for most of the cost of his initial surgery, by the time he got out of the hospital having...
are some of the specific targets of the new research described Sunday in Denver at the annual.....
of the vulva, and some...
incidence -- more men than women develop...
detection, two new studies suggest. In 2009, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force -- an independent medical panel with federal support...
than whites, the report's authors note, and...
doctors may build up emotional walls -- distancing themselves from the patients they can't save -- to avoid grief, sadness and even despair, new research shows. In a profession where death and...
. These shortages are putting patients at risk and compromising their care, experts say. "FDA has been monitoring shortages for the last...
survivors who opted for a double mastectomy as a precautionary measure regretted their decision decades later, a new study finds. Researchers at the...
patients are being denied treatment at clinics nationwide because of federal budget cuts related to the so-called sequester, according to a published report. The mandated cuts...
. "The lesson is that there...
that affects only about 1,500 people in the United States each year. Forty years ago, Whelan would have had five years to live --......
treatment traditionally have been told to rest as much as possible and avoid exertion, to save all their strength to battle the dreaded disease. But a growing number of physicians and researchers now...
drug alemtuzumab (Campath) reduces the risk of disease relapse in people with multiple sclerosis, two new trials show. About 85 percent of multiple sclerosis patients start with a form of the disease called relapsing-...
tumors within an hour, from the patient's bedside. The so-called microNMR chip, which uses magnetic nanoparticles to measure proteins and.....
a year, two new studies claim. Based on the findings, reported in the Dec. 14/28 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine,...
survivors in the United States climbed to 11.7 million in 2007, government health officials reported Thursday. That's a dramatic increase since 1971, when there were 3 million survivors,...
-resistant rodent. While that might not sound like headline news, scientists say the findings could provide insights into human aging and...
can spread from a pregnant woman to her fetus, but a genetically confirmed case reported this week from Japan suggests the phenomenon is real. Mother-to-fetus transmissi...
and nothing can be done to change their fate, that's just not the case, experts say. Even people who have genes that predispose them...
, particularly people under age 65, are delaying or skimping on medical care because of worries about the cost of treatment, a new study suggests. The finding...
, three new studies find. The reports, documenting financial and racial factors that impact diagnosis, treatment and survival, were sche...
face other challenges later in life, such as unhealthy behaviors, chronic medical conditions and poor quality of life, according to a new...
often suffer from depression. A new study in rats has found that the cause of the depression may be the properties of the tumor itself, rather than emotional...
Society offers mostly good news but some bad news as well. Cigarette smoking rates continue to drop, with significant declines...
Society reports find. This translates into a dramatic decline between 1990 and 2007 -- nearly...
was a disease of the older population," Ruma said. "I felt healthy and strong and I had no idea anything was wrong. It was scary to hear those words." During...
will have a destructive impact on one's.....
patients, appointments with an oncologist are hard to come by -- even among those with private health insurance, according to U.S. researchers. The study...
survivors who believe in their ability to follow through with an exercise program are more likely to continue working out after their treatment ends, according to a new study. Researchers from Oregon State...
Institute's Physician Data Query (PDQ), a comprehen...
trends produced by...
is expected to increase 75 percent by 2030, with a projected increase of more than 90 percent in the poorest nations, a new study reveals. Rates...
, Norwegian researchers report. Since 1998, many countries have mandated folic acid (vitamin B9) fortification of foods to decrease the incid...
, a new study finds. Researchers analyzed how smoking, drinking and physical activity affect...
. The research, published Nov. 7 in the New England Journal......
tend to die earlier than patients of other races, a finding that suggests biological or genetic factors may play an important role. For many.....
risk that younger adults face from exposure to CT scans pales in comparison to the actual threat posed by health conditions driving the use of the imaging technology, a new study indicates. Examining medical...
survivors living in the United States and that number is expected to reach 18 million in just 10 years, a new report predicts. This dramatic increase will be driven,...
Research's annual meeti...
tumors in mice, new research suggests. Experts note that the results of animal studies often don't hold up when tried in humans....
drug Gleevec may benefit people with scleroderma, a chronic connective tissue disease. No effective treatment currently exists for scleroderma, which affects the skin, blood vessels and...
as they reach adulthood. And some survivors suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder years after beating...
drug that had helped treat children with Hodgkin's lymphoma for decades forced doctors to find a substitute, they thought they had settled on a drug that would work just as well for these yo...
diagnosis low: Don't smoke, eat healthy, exercise and get the recommended screenings. But, many Americans don't make those choices,...
diagnosis is far from always a death sentence, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed 82 movies that center......
, a new study says. Women taking estrogen plus progestin who reported developing breast tenderness after starting the hormone therapy.....
could be prevented if ...
was increased by 42 percent for....
, a new study confirms. Researchers from the...
survivors who participated in a month-long program in the ancient art of yoga reported enhanced quality of life, better sleep, less fatigue and less need for sleep medications....
......
patients in the United States and found a large number developed a potentially deadly blood clot called a venous thromboe...
cells, making tumor recurrence more likely, a new study suggests. The research team, from Memorial Sloan-Kette...
in children. Methotrexate is a linchpin in the treatment of children battling acute lymphoblastic leukemia. In high doses, the generic...
we can now say there is convincing......
is one of the leading health concerns for humans, accounting for more...
and their spouses, even as they struggle against the disease itself. Four of every five such American patients and their spouses-caregivers....
, shining a light on the unique medical risks that gay people may face. It's not the first time that researchers have noted differences...
, Taiwanese researchers report. The risk, which the researchers termed "borderline significantly increased," is more pronounced in men...
patients, indicate that the drug does not pose lingering risks for humans. The researchers analyzed data from a phase 3 clinical trial that led to Sutent's approval. They concluded that regardless...
patients in the United States to forgo drugs and doctor appointments and to cut back on food and other necessities, a new study reveals. The researchers...
Panel shows. In partic...
agents make it from the laboratory to the patient. So scientists have come up with a way to weed out the duds earlier in the process and spe...
preferred pazopanib (Votrient) over sunitinib....
research published in the world's most influential medical journals, a new study says. The findings raise concerns that scientists aren't learning all they can...
Research, in Chicago,......
patients who are given full access to their medical records feel a greater sense of satisfaction about their treatment, a new study finds. The French researchers also found...
at the base of his skull. A neurosurgeon shook his head about the diagnosis. "He told us to go home and hug him," said Daniel's mother,....
patients' primary goal in talking with their doctors about information they've found on the Internet is to get more insight and advice on the online information, new research indicates. "It seems that...
, California researchers say. Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health collected data on...
-fighting powers, a new animal study shows. "We certainly didn't see any positive effects," said Ronald Lubet, program director in the divi...
isn't necessarily linked to arthritis treatments, such as tumor necrosis factor......
they receive very different information about their future fertility than women, new Scottish research says. "Our study has demonstrated significant gaps in the information...
patients may be lower than previously believed, a new study indicates. An international team of researchers analyzed 94 studies involving more than 14,000 patients and found that about...
prevention and treatment, three new British studies suggest. "We have now found that after taking aspirin for three or four years there.....
is often not the immediately fatal diagnosis it often was in the past," said one expert,...
, an international team of researc...
patients who receive a combination of low-dose interleukin-2 and retinoic acid after conventional therapy seem to live longer than those who don't get the combination. These new study findings, slated...
. Researchers in Norway have found that cooking with gas produces more potentially harmful fumes than electric cooking. But,...
risk and has little effect on the likelihood...
in dogs, and had been given only three months, at best, to live. The dog's owners, from Milford, Mass., were heartbroken and planned to have...
rates among blacks in the United States are on the decline, especially among black men, and the improvement may have saved almost 200,000 people from dying of the disease since the early 1990s....
. People with the most severe sleep apnea -- those who have 30 or more episodes of low or no oxygen in an hour of sleep...
survivors have a lower-than-normal quality of life, a new study finds. Researchers looked at more than 1,800 adult.....
Society...
-free lives. There...
may be found in "spelling mistakes" contained in a person's DNA. In a step toward personalized medicine and the ability to better underst...
-fighting powers of vitamins C and E, new research suggests that supplement forms of the vitamins don't prevent the disease in women. And another widely touted supplement, beta carotene,......
patients, new research has found. These perforations are potentially life-threatening holes in the wall of the stomach, small intestine...
, new Danish research suggests. The finding applies to doctor visits among the general population, in which seemingly healthy patien...
during the first seven years after they receive the device, according to a new study. However, a longer-term study should be done, rese...
-free patients. They found that.....
in older patients, a new study says. "We imagined there would be some difference, but there's a four-fold difference" between the two.....
registries from around the world and used a measure called disability-adjusted life-years...
. This is in contrast to news earlier this year that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had received reports of 23 patients taking the...
recurrence better than a two-year course of the drug and it also shields some women from cardiovascular dis...
who are most likely to benefit from certain treatments. The discoveries, paving the way toward an era of personalized medicine, could...
and may even decrease users' risks for lymphoma, melanoma and endometrial tumors, a new study finds. Studies have shown that the...
, Swedish researchers report. The study, which tracked the medical records of more than 20,000 MS patients for 35 years, "found that they...
-- typically avoid genetic counseling or testing, a new study found. When they do get counseling or testing, they're less likely than women....
. "Depression can make people more inattentive to potentia...
, separation from your spouse appears to be worse for your health than divorce or even widowhood, a new study suggests. In contrast, being married -- or never married -- seems to improve your......
can put an enormous strain on a marriage, and couples are much more likely to fall apart if the woman is the patient. In fact, the odds of separation or divorce are six times higher compared to when the man is the...
drug bexarotene quickly eliminates Alzheimer's disease-associated amyloid beta from the brain and reverses memory problems in mice, a new study finds. The results suggest that bexarotene could possibly help the...
, new research suggests. Many studies have linked oral health to chronic illnesses such as heart disease. This latest research, howev...
, a new investigation reveals. Specifically, a British research team unearthed evidence that a low-dose aspirin (75 milligrams) taken daily.....
in some high-risk women, a new study suggests. Dutch researchers analyzed six previously published studies, four examining the effect of low-dose radiation exposure from......
pain refers to sudden, temporary flares...
often have complex medication regimens -- sometimes as many as 20 drugs a day -- that they take at home, and mistakes are common, a new study finds. Errors often occur when parents don't...
was reduced modestly by about 8 percent," said Dr. J. Michael Gaziano, lead author of the study that appear...
patients to fight anemia-linked fatigue, may boost the risk of death and serious adverse events such as blood clots. These drugs, called......
drug, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday announced it had fast-tracked the approval of the first generic form of one such medication, Doxil (doxorubici...
, and then use that fingerprint to track the trajectory of that particular tumor in that particular person. "[This technique] will allow us to measure the...
. In January, he took his second medical leave from Apple after undergoing a liver transplant for tumors that ...
among 100,000 men and 62 additional cases among 100,000 ...
growth' in the lungs of regular smokers, but also did quantitative radiobiological calculations to estimate the long-term lung radiation absorption dose of ionizing alpha pa...
, according to a phase 1 study. Palliative therapy is used...
, a new study suggests. Researchers from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., found that access to clinical trials.....
diagnosis is important for detecting...
drugs that have been in dangerously short supply. One of the drugs, methotrexate, is used in combination with other drugs to...
could be just as important as taking care of their medical needs, a new study suggests. When asked what was important to them at the end of their lives, people...
risk, a new review of data finds. The drugs are known as angiotensin-receptor blockers (ARBs) and include medicines such as telmisartan......
, according to a new study. Quitting smoking after long-term asbestos exposure, however, can dramatically reduce the odds of developing...
patients are less likely to participate in clinical trials, according to a new study that found income affects participation even among older patients likely to have Medicare....
therapies, said the scientists,...
treatment, a new study says. The findings suggest that reproductive-age women...
-fighting fruits and vegetables are at their nutritional peak in the fall, and it's a good time to incorporate them into your diet, a nutritional expert advises. For example, research suggests that eating an apple......
, says a new study. The drug is used to treat Burkitt lymphoma, an aggressive,...
in humans, a new report finds. The two chemicals, perfluorooctanoate and...
long associated with the cooking of beef. Scientists at Kansas State University (KSU) found that three spices in particular -- fingerroot,....
cases a year, and 80 percent of those cases...
, treatment, age or body mass index, a new U.S. study says. Researchers from Georgetown...
appeared to increase the risk of death in heart failure patients by 46 percent, according......
, researchers report. In a small pilot study, the compound psilocybin appeared to be safe, with no participants reporting a "bad......
. Study co-author...
survivors struggle with good health habits, such as regular exercise and a proper diet, a new study shows. Those who did exercise and eat well after...
often have fewer therapies because the research money just hasn't been......
, the test -- like the.....
. Conducted in France, Germany, Poland, Spain and the United States, the poll also found the vast majority of those surveyed would not hesi...
, a new study warns. These people also have twice the risk of developing advanced precancerous cells, according to the study in the Februa...
have become more common among HIV patients than among people without HIV since antiretroviral therapies were introduced in the mid-1990s to treat people with the virus, U.S....
as well, researchers report. Individuals who don't smoke and who maintain a healthy body-mass index (BMI), normal blood pressure and two......
, a new study shows. The potential threat appears to be greatest for young children. Coal tar, a byproduct of steel manufacturing, is a commo...
charity he founded. In a statement posted on the foundation's website, Armstrong said, "I have had the great honor of serving as this found...
who had been faring poorly on less finely tuned therapies did better when they received treatments that were targeted to their tumors' specific...
detected by a screening mammogram is unlikely to ever cause a problem, a new study predicts. The report of a so-called overdiagnosis rate of 35 percent came from an examination......
. The vaccine has provoked the required tumor-fighting immune response in early human trials, but only in a minority of patients teste...
, at least in postmenopausal women, a new study suggests. According to the findings, older women who lost at least 5 percent of their body...
risk," said Dr. Kathleen Arcaro, an associate professor of veterinary and animal sciences at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She is to present her...
with novel drugs. Barlow,...
. In a statement released Thursday, the agency said the drugs involved include popular medications sold under the brand names Proscar...
, as some previous studies suggested. Statins are the most commonly prescribed drugs for people with high blood cholesterol levels, which.....
to prepare for the future when they may be infertile but still want to become natural fathers. Scientists in the Netherlands found that testi...
that's spread...
patients who have anemia caused by chemotherapy, according to new medical guidelines. And with rare exceptions, ESAs should not be given...
are less willing than patients of other races or ethnicities to use up their personal financial resources to prolong their life, a new study finds. U.S. researchers.....
saw their tumors shrink when taking one of the two drugs,.....
if you're overweight or obese, but not all diet plans are effective in lowering that risk, an expert says. Diets that help protect...
, but not....
prevention strategies. "Many of us believe that prevention is better than trying...
, research suggests. A new study suggests that those who take these medications are four times more likely to die than people who don't...
Society and the American Diabetes Associat...
. The treatment uses gold nanospheres guided directly to the melanoma cells by a special protein fragment called a peptide placed inside...
drug Rituxan may offer the first new treatment approved for lupus in 50 years, suggests a small study by U.K. researchers at Imperial College London. The 22-month study included 20 people with...
survivors in the United States are parents who live with one or more children younger than 18 years old, finds a new study. The findings may lead to greater assistance for these patients and their families, said Kathryn Weaver,...
patients will respond to the drug Avastin has been developed by U.S. researchers. Avastin, which shrinks tumors by cutting off their blood supply, was approved this...
of the plasma cells, seems to target...
compared to those of normal weight, finds a new study. Researchers analyzed data from over 424,500 adults in Asia, Australia and New......
, according to a new study. Pistachios are a good source of a type of vitamin E called gamma-tocopherol. "It is known that vitamin...
drug might be able to restore day-to-day memory in patients with Alzheimer's disease. The disease, the most common form of dementia among the elderly, is expected to afflict 120 million...
diagnoses who were asked to provide information about pain severity, pain-related.....
drugs to tumors have been developed by U.S. researchers. Made from a safe, biodegradable polymer, the nanoparticles are chemically engineered...
drug Avastin (bevacizumab), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned on Wednesday. Lab tests revealed that at least one batch of the....
, a new study finds. Canadian researchers analyzed data from 82,861 patients who survived a heart attack between April 1996 and March 2006....
in animals has provided fundamental new knowledge...
with a "chemical nose," a new report suggests. Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst say they have developed....
don't benefit from getting radiation therapy designed to help them feel better by controlling symptoms like pain. The researchers, who reported their...
patients develop venous...
and diabetes, a new study finds. The finding suggests it may be possible to use drugs or other methods to achieve similar protection in normal-he...
survivors who were diagnosed...
diagnosis accelerated shortening of telomeres. These structures...
-related deaths.....
treatments. STAT3, which has a role in the cell nucleu...
? The answer is still unclear, according to a review of 51 previous studies done over two decades. The review, published online in The Cochrane Database...
in the United States almost doubled between 1987 and 2005, with private insurers taking on a greater share of the cost, a new study finds. Researchers led by Florence Tangka, a...
. This medicine may be used for ...
, a new study suggests. The study included 50 patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) who'd been receiving Gleevec....
, cell death and metabolic problems by harming gene expression, new research reveals. Gene expression is a crucial process in which a gene'...
Nursing,...
risk factors in young women....
lymphoma, a new study says. The findings should help reduce widely held fears about a link between lupus medication and lymphoma, said the....
risk, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday urged patients who are on the medication to continue using it. Three of four......
drug capecitabine can cause people to lose their fingerprints, which could lead to problems when they're trying to enter the United States, an oncologist warns....
Institute funding will go to test theories that exercise along with traditional courses of treatment....
, a new study suggests. French...
in patients with neurologic symptoms, according to U.S. researchers. So-called "paraneoplastic neurologic disorders" can occur in people......
than people without the inherited disorder, according to a new study that suggests the diseases share a common genetic mechanism......
, researchers warn. Aristolochic acid is found in Aristolochia herbal remedies, which have been used for centuries and still are used in...
patients' anxiety, researchers say. Music may also have positive effects on their mood, pain and quality of life, according to Joke Bradt.....
, which frequently....
who are enrolled in clinical research trials, most do not receive a clear explanation of their role in research from their parents and doctors, a new report...
in people, however. University of Florida...
who stay physically active, maintain a healthy weight and eat a well-balanced diet are much more likely to survive than those who don't, according to a new study. The University of Minnesota......
in elderly people who had the screening for the first time, a new study indicates. The findings suggest that screenings should be made available...
Research Fund (WCRF). These....
drug. The key appears to lie in a molecular.....
, allowing them to light up more often. The study noted that such trading of a virtuous behavior for a subsequent indulgence, known as the...
within five years of the operation, Swedish researchers report. "Neither duration of anesthesia nor increased cumulative time with...
as long suspected, a new study finds. Though racial disparities have been found in many studies, researchers say they are far less...
of the endometri...
patients may have little or no additional benefit over amputation in terms of health, cost or quality of life, researchers say. Limb-sparing surgery can be just as effective as...
a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a610013.html"...
, according to a new study. The researchers also said that starting antiretroviral therapy at an earlier stage of HIV infection might reduc...
care has the potential to benefit patients both physically and psychologically...
than those who wait longer before having their first cigarette of the day, a new study finds. The study was released online Aug. 8 in advan...
recurrence, a new stud...
, but it's not clear whether there's a cause-and-effect relationship, a new study finds. Researchers also don't know if these women are.....
patients undergo radiation therapy. The key is a biochemical signaling pathway that can influence how radiation exposure affects both...
, which has been linked to alcohol use...
than those who weren't abused, according to a Canadian study. The University of Toronto researchers concluded that childhood physical abuse....
than women who haven't been diagnosed with CIN, a new U.S. study suggests. CIN is a precancerous condition in which there's abnormal grow...
patients undergoing chemotherapy, a rate nearly three times higher than that of the general population, a new study finds. The problem is more common...
Center in Houston, and his colleagues surveyed 71 U.S. National Cancer Institute-...
is loss of communication among cells due to, among other things,...
patients appear to be associated with lower survival rates, U.S. researchers have found. Their study included 339 patients who provided information about their...
. The mutations, identified...
. Their analysis suggest...
prevention, according to an expert. "Two aspects of the traditional American cookout, what you grill and how you grill it, can potentially....
survivors, new research has found. The study participants included 641 people in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, aged 65.....
chemicals called polyp...
, new research suggests. Contact allergies occur due to direct contact with chemicals and common metals...
cells grew more quickly when implanted into mice and there was an increase in the number of blood vessels feeding the tumors. To grow a...
(CAC), a new study suggests. The Interleukin 6 (IL-6) cytokine, a protein released by cells in the immune system, plays a key role.....
. The key appears to lie in telomeres, structures at the end of chromosomes that shorten as people get older. Telomeres are also thought to.....
is a matter of luck or fate. That's the finding of a survey of near...
in return for developing a more advanced brain? That's a possibility, says a Georgia Institute of Technology researcher who found that the genes of...
, new research has found. TNF is a substance secreted by immune cells that regulates the immune system and plays a role in inflammati...
Center will help you and your loved ones on...
, a new study has found. The Finnish study included 2,560 men, aged 42 to 61, whose leisure-time physical activity was assessed over one......
drug Doxil (doxorubicin hydrochloride liposome injection) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which says the action should help relieve shortages of the brand-name ...
of the anus, cervix, penis, vagin...
of years of life, raising questions about the need to screen patients for psychological problems. "We found an increased risk of death in patients...
survivors preserve their fertility, according to a small, new study. Researchers from the University of Kansas Medical Center found that.....
in dogs, the agency said in a news release Wednesday. The drug has been sanctioned to treat canine cutaneous mast cell tumors, which account for about one in five cases of skin tumors in...
has often led to trouble sleeping -- or so people believed. But researchers have found that, in fact, sleep seems to cause those problems rat...
often benefit more than older women when they undergo early, pre-operative chemotherapy, a new study finds. A team of German scientists found that women aged 35 or younger who underwe...
that forms in cells that line the walls of the GI tract, including the stomach. Such cells play a role in food digestion and other bodily processes, the FDA said. Gleevec, first approved in 2001 to treat a genetic...
-destroying virus -- a form of gene therapy -- can destroy tumor cells throughout the body. Twenty-three patients whose colorectal, skin,...
that has recurred but remains confined to in or near the breast, post-surgical chemotherapy appears to boost survival, new research shows. The study also found that patients with estrogen receptor...
, known as estrogen receptor-positive, and it's best given before the tamoxifen r...
survivors to develop the painful, arm-swelling condition known as lymphedema, new research suggests. There's a hint that weight-lifting might even...
. The findings raise the prospect of a potential new treatment for metastatic tumors in individual patients, although the research is.....
survivors, lymphedema -- an uncomfortable swelling of the arm and wrist -- can be one of the most vexing side effects of treatment. Now, a new study has found that women who develop lymphedema......
, researchers say. In a study published in the Jan. 24 online edition of the journal...
and helped fund research for a cure. But chances are good that most people.....
, a new study shows. "This concept of a shorter length of treatment is gaining acceptance," said Dr. Manjeet Chadha, associate...
cells inside that patient. New tests...
, a rare condition that kills several hundred men in the United States each year. The finding won't immediately lead to any improvemen...
screening, as was widely reported Wednesday. "We are not redoing or rethinking our guidelines at this time, nor are we going to restate...
risk, and a new study finds even moderate drinking may....
is in its early stage. The American Academy of Dermatology says you should look for any...
untreated appears to result...
before the age of 35 are themselves at a higher risk for developing both breast ...
do better after standard chemotherapy than they do with the oral drug capecitabine (Xeloda), a new study finds. "After three years, 85...
patients with isolated tumor cells or tiny "micrometastases" in the lymph nodes benefit from adjuvant treatment, such as post-surgical chemotherapy or hormonal therapy, a new study finds. Until now, many doctors.....
testing for women, including when to start screening for sexually active young women, extending intervals between screenings and in some cases, supplementing the traditional Pap test with...
care, a new study suggests. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, say prostate tumors can be diagnosed using "image-guided targete...
, a higher intake of soy may help reduce the risk of the disease's recurrence, a new study of Chinese women suggests. The same link was not found in premenopausal women with......
, particularly in the opposite breast, a new study indicates. "The risk appears to be stronger for the...
has spread beyond the prostate, Canadian and U.K. researchers report. These men have what is called high-risk, or locally advanced, prostate...
has jumped dramatically worldwide, from about 640,000 in 1980 to more than 1.6 million in 2010, University of Washington researchers report. Over the same period, the number of cases...
risk that radiation from mammograms might cause is slight compared to the benefits of lives saved from early detection, new Canadian research says. The study is published online and will appear in the...
. In the Oct. 5 online issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, researchers report that the more acini a woman has -- these are...
at a young age, according to a new study. Researchers from Memorial...
has revealed new insights into the disease -- including the discovery that certain breast and ovarian tumors may be closely related. Basal-like breast tumors...
who receive targeted radiation to the breast after a lumpectomy has jumped dramatically over the last decade. However, only about a third of these women were considered "suitable" for...
, are slated to be presented Wednesday at the...
in postmenopausal women, although some differences are starting to emerge between the two drugs. Raloxifene (Evista), originally an oste...
therapy that offers high-precision targeting of tumors proves successful. The new approach uses a unique three-pronge...
, new research sugges...
patients, Zometa...
refuse the chemotherapy and radiation treatments that could save their lives, a new study finds. Black women have almost twice the rate of advanced...
treatments. In two separate studies to be presented Tuesday at the Society of Interventional Radiology's annual meeting in Tampa, Fla....
, Danish researchers find. Moreover, the risk appears to be cumulative and highest among women who describe themselves as "morning" peop...
diagnosis, new research suggests. Within the cell nucleus, chromosomes and individual genes occupy specific locations relative to one....
specialists on Sunday. Newton-John, 60, spoke at a special news...
patients are at increased risk for recurrence of the disease, a new study finds. The findings -- which held true even though chemotherapy doses were adjusted for weight...
treatment, many women suffer from hot flashes and night sweats, but a type of "talk therapy" might relieve these symptoms for some women, British researchers suggest. In a new study, women who received...
in women, a team of British and German researchers report. The drugs are believed to work by preventing stress hormones from stimulating.....
by 20 percent in heavy smokers and formerly heavy smokers, compared to those who get annual chest X-rays, according to the results of a major National....
as an open...
Research Center in Seattle report. "We know that hormones...
. When compared with Taxotere, Abraxane extended the time before a recurrence by almost seven months, effectively doubling survival. Both......
by avoiding unnecessary medical radiation, forgoing menopausal hormone therapy and limiting alcohol use, but they don't need to worry about using hair dyes or cellphones, a ...
survivors are at increased risk for developing diabetes and should be screened for the disease more closely, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed data from 1996 to 2008 from the province...
, the standard treatment...
images and predicts patient survival better than the pathologists who do the job now, new research suggests. The computer program "provides information above and beyond...
by about 2.5 months, researchers report. The promising finding on the drug, known as eribulin, was presented Sunday at the annual meeting of.....
, researchers report. The risk appears higher for younger women, the preliminary research showed. For example, for a girl or young woman unde...
, according to two new studies. One study suggests that women who are already taking beta blockers to lower blood pressure tend to be diag...
any better than chemo alone, new research finds. "Therefore, sadly for patients, we have nothing extra to add to chemotherapy for early,.....
who received radiation through strategically placed "seeds" had double the risk of a mastectomy later on, compared with women who got radiation for their entire breast, new research finds. This type...
drug could help women live longer, according to separate studies reported Wednesday. In one study,....
doesn't seem...
, a new study suggests. With Americans getting more and more CT scans, concerns exist about the potential for that radiation exposure...
have dropped more than 2 percent each year...
with low-dose CT scans cut mortality rates in older, current or former heavy smokers by 20 percent, a major U.S. government study finds. Given the large numbers of Americans who fall ill from...
risk, but "the diabetes link...
, a new study finds. Swedish researchers examined the family...
in the opposite breast than are women who don't have the genet...
among survivors of the disease. Tibolone, brand name Livial, isn't available in the United States but is approved in 90 countries for......
as well. Tanning beds lead to more than 170,000 cases of basal and squamo...
of a more aggressive ...
, a new study re...
by about 5 percent, according to a new review of existing research. Heavier drinking -- three or more drinks a day -- can increase...
may actually improve their survival odds, a notion contrary to what some medical experts had thought. The finding is significant, given that...
, and new research confirms that a decline in breast density over time does, in fact, decrease that risk. New research also has found that....
may be reduced by as much as 26 percent. And, no matter what a woman's age or what migraine triggers a woman might be avoiding, the risk...
that's particularly difficult to treat, a new study suggests. The study, by researchers at Columbia University, found that breast-feeding lowered the odds...
. The drug also helped a 26-year-old man...
. Almost 56 percent of patients who underwent the therapy, called stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), were still alive three......
that have become resistant to anti-estrogen therapies with estrogen actually shrank some tumors. Not only that, but the estrogen made some of the...
caused by smoking, with a new study strengthening the link between the two. And other studies are providing more bad news for people who haven't managed to quit: Two papers...
radiation therapy, and, while medications can help prevent....
cases that began in 2003 is indeed due to women stopping hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after a large, U.S. study showed surprisingly higher rates of heart problems and brea...
among middle-aged and even younger Americans, and some experts link the trend to a rise in the popularity of oral sex over the past few decades. That'...
has centered exclusively around work with mice....
by 65 percent in high-risk postmenopausal women, new research has found. And unlike other anti-estrogen therapies such as tamoxifen...
outcomes, with black women more likely to die from the disease, can't be explained completely by any one factor, new research shows. For a quarter of a century, researchers...
may be one step closer to fruition, but is still far from becoming a reality, according to a new study. The researchers found that blood hormone...
meeting said Friday. Presen...
-- the latter of which is extremely lethal -- scientists have found promise in a new method that can detect both types using cervical fluid obtaine...
are less likely than their white peers to benefit from improved surgical techniques used to treat their disease, according to a new study. After examining five years of data, researchers in...
in white women have less impact on Hispanic women, a new study shows. For instance, for postmenopausal women in the study, "recent hormone use...
, tamoxifen can protect against the disease for a decade after treatment ends, save lives and reduce medical costs, new research suggests. For years, women...
. Not only that, numerous researchers are also working to harness the power of the body's immune system to develop vaccines to help treat....
can often be treated. But most cases are not detected until the disease is well advanced. Though doctors......
, with research...
cells may indicate which tumors are likely to spread, scientists report. In a new study published in the current issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, high levels...
drug Avastin becomes the focus of U.S. regulators' attention again Tuesday during a two-day hearing to determine if the medication can keep its FDA approval for the treatment of metastatic...
, even if a close relative has had the disease, a new study finds. Engaging in regular physical activity, maintaining a healthy weight and.....
risk, a new study suggests. The study focused on the potential health benefits of 15 different so-called "specialty" supplements to see......
who receive intense chemotherapy directly into their stomach area may live at least one year longer than women who receive standard intravenous chemotherapy, a new study says......
than ever before, millions aren't getting the tests and thousands are dying needlessly as a result, according to U.S. health officials. Two...
in women, new research suggests. "If you choose to drink at all, choose your drink based upon what tastes good to you, because wine...
patient's chances of benefiting from chemotherapy, a small study suggests. Researchers found that they were able to put together a genetic "profile" of patients'...
risk, but the drugs carry other health risks, a new analysis suggests. That was the conclusion of researchers who looked at numerous......
agents has been successful at halting liver tumors, according to new studies. Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) attacks liver tumors on two fronts....
years before the disease has a chance to develop, researchers report. British scientists analyzed blood samples from 640 breast...
return in women with a history of the disease has triggered the desired immune response in early research. The vaccine under development is aimed at preventing recurrence...
down the road, a news study says. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) fell from grace rather dramatically after a large government-run trial,...
. The test, described in the June 6 online edition of The Lancet Oncology, measures how many tumor cells are circulating in the blood....
at early stages, when it can still be treated, mammography screening has failed to reduce cases of more serious late-stage disease, according to a new study. The...
, a new, large Japanese study comes to a different conclusion. "We found no overall association between green tea intake and the risk of breast...
, may be more susceptible to treatment when doctors match up targeted drugs to tumors with key genetic traits, a new study finds. The study...
, citing the medication's poor performance in follow-up studies and its potential for serious side effects. But the recommendation, announ...
known as HER2-positive appears to work better than using either drug alone, researchers report. The dual-drug approach greatly boosted the chances of eliminati...
, new research suggests. Testing levels of this protein, which eliminates iron from cells, may someday help doctors better predict which...
, according to a new study. Researchers found that over-expression or under-expression of certain genes may help doctors pinpoint women....
, the most effective treatment is a short course of radiation therapy followed by "high-quality surgery," according to a new study. Surgery is the standard treatment...
cells. The finding...
, new research suggests. This is the first time a link has been found between atypical ductal hyperplasia -- abnormal cells in the breast'...
, but not everyone is benefiting equally: Black women, in particular, are 40 percent more likely to die from the disease than any other racial or ethnic group. So said......
return drop by 32 percent when the osteoporosis drug Zometa is added to regular hormone therapy for three years after surgery, Austrian resear...
in the United States,.....
, a new study suggests that the sooner chemotherapy starts following the operation, the better the prognosis. For every month after the first four weeks...
risk for women past menopause, believing it works partly by lowering....
by as much as 30 percent, a new study suggests. Weight gain, however, may undermine the benefit of exercise, the researchers noted....
screenings such as mammography, according to a new study. However, all that expenditure may not help produce better results for older women, said Dr. Cary Gross,.....
site often travel.....
suffer more stress than white women, and the researchers connected the extra stress to more aggressive tumors. But, the study authors cautioned that the researc...
take tamoxifen to prevent the disease. This news comes despite the fact that experts have known since 1998 that tamoxifen can cut the risk of developing...
recurrence, new research suggests. Tamoxifen is the standard...
survivors face a greater risk of having a stillborn child if their uterus or ovaries were exposed to radiation during their treatments, a new study finds....
, two new studies suggest. Researchers were to present studies in Berlin, Germany, on Monday that could offer an alternative to colonoscopy.....
surgery to help prevent recurrence in high-risk patients. Surgery to remove the prostate (radical prostatectomy) is one of the main treatments...
treatments than white patients. "Less well known is what the issue......
drugs to patients. In some cases, combination...
, who appeared to fare better in a new study when they took an older...
Society report finds. The trend represents a reversal of a previous trend, in which women with greater...
researchers report they are heartened by the results of two new studies that show combination therapies might improve survival for women with two different types of advanced tumors. One of the drugs, everolimus...
, new research finds. "Women who were smokers or had a history of smoking had a 39 percent higher rate of...
return, and that protection lasted...
overall, a new study finds. Specifically, the new study found lower rates of what'...
, researchers found that women who consumed.....
if they receive radiation after surgery, a new study finds. The researchers also found that treatment with the drug tamoxifen greatly reduced the...
experience, the opportunity to experience feeling...
survivors after successful treatment stems from a tug of war between the "fight-or-flight" and "resting" parts of the autonomic nervous system,.....
Research annual......
-free for a long time, a new study has foun...
rise don't live significantly longer than women who wait until symptoms begin to reappear. Blood.....
or leukemia later in life, a new study says. Although multiple CT scans could triple the risk, the absolute risk remains small -- one case...
patients are less likely than younger ones to receive potentially life-prolonging chemotherapy following surgery for their illness, a new study reveals. The research indicates that those...
killer occurs in nonsmokers. The annual death toll among this....
who undergo the same class of chemotherapy, race doesn't affect the odds of having no sign of disease at surgery, a new study finds. Having no sign of the disease is considered.....
, the IUD allows women.....
patients. It was hypothesized that these substances may have anti-tumor properties. In the 1980s, Burzynski identified chemical st...
