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Breast Cancer Risk Related To Menopausal Hormone Therapy
Mar 18, 2012
In the past decade, results from large prospective cohort studies and the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) randomized placebo-controlled hormone therapy trials have substantially changed thoughts about how estrogen alone and estrogen plus progestin influence the risk of breast cancer, according to a review published in the Journal of The National Cancer Institute... Read More
Oral Cancer Drugs Not Effective When Mixed With Some Other Medications
Mar 17, 2012
A study, which is being presented at the 2012 American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT) Annual Meeting, and conducted by the Medco Research Institute, claims that cancer drugs taken orally which hit enzymes in tumor cells may have been effective in the past for reducing the amount of time patients had to stay at centers to receive their chemotherapy,... Read More
Surprising Connection Between Breast Cancer Cells And Surrounding Tissue
Mar 17, 2012
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Biologist Lee Ligon has found a previously unknown connection between breast cancer tumor cells and the surrounding healthy tissue. The results provide new information on the earliest stages of breast cancer metastasis... Read More
Leukemia Patients' Outcomes Predicted With Genetic Profiling
Mar 16, 2012
According to a study due to be published in the March 22 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, a set of genetic abnormalities in individuals with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) have been identified by researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center... Read More
HRT With Estrogen Added Raises Breast Cancer Risk
Mar 16, 2012
According to a study published March 15 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, thoughts about how estrogen alone or estrogen in addition to progestin influence the risk of developing breast cancer has considerably changed in the past 10 years due to results from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) randomized placebo-controlled hormone therapy trials, and from large p... Read More
Obesity Increases The Risk For Colorectal Cancer And Polyps
Mar 16, 2012
The American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) and the Campaign to End Obesity (CEO) are joining forces to highlight the potentially deadly link between higher Body Mass Index (BMI) and colorectal cancer... Read More
Biomarker Links Clinical Outcome With New Model Of Lethal Tumor Metabolism
Mar 16, 2012
Researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have demonstrated for the first time that the metabolic biomarker MCT4 directly links clinical outcomes with a new model of tumor metabolism that has patients "feeding" their cancer cells. Their findings were published online March 15 in Cell Cycle. To validate the prognostic value of the biomarker, a research team led by Agnieszka K... Read More
Discovery Could Lead To Novel Drugs To Prevent Cancer Metastasis
Mar 16, 2012
A Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine study has revealed details of the complex molecular process involving a protein that enables cancer cells to establish tumors in distant parts of the body. The finding could lead the way to new drugs to prevent breast cancer and other cancers from spreading to new sites... Read More
For Leukemia Patients, Genetic Profiling Can Help Doctors Predict Prognosis And Guide Treatment Decisions
Mar 16, 2012
Researchers have identified a set of genetic abnormalities in patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) that doctors can use to more accurately predict patients' prognoses and select treatments that are most likely to benefit them. The study, led by investigators at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, will be published in the March 22 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine... Read More
Declines In Smoking And Lung Cancer Mortality In The US: 1975-2000
Mar 16, 2012
Although changing smoking behaviors have had a major impact on lung cancer mortality in the U.S., the numbers of lung cancer deaths averted are only a small fraction of deaths that could have been avoided had all smoking ceased following the 1964 Surgeon General's Report... Read More
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