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How Obesity Affects Cancer Screening
Jan 11, 2012
Researchers in Family and Community Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University recently found that obesity was linked to higher rates of prostate cancer screening across all races/ethnic differences and lower rates of cervical cancer screening, most notably in white women... Read More
How Obesity Affects Cancer Screening
Jan 11, 2012
Researchers in Family and Community Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University recently found that obesity was linked to higher rates of prostate cancer screening across all races/ethnic differences and lower rates of cervical cancer screening, most notably in white women... Read More
Sharing Breast Cancer Results With Children Is Popular
Jan 10, 2012
An investigation published online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society has discovered that many parents share their breast cancer test results with their children, even if they are very young. Furthermore, the researchers discovered that the majority of parents believe that their children are not distressed when they find out about the test results... Read More
PSA Screening Does Not Help Mortality
Jan 10, 2012
A study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute reveals that there is no difference in mortality rates between men participating in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer (PLCO) Screening Trial, and men who receive usual care after 13 years follow-up. In November 1993, the multi-center, two-arm, PLCO Trial, began enrollment with follow-up, through December 2009... Read More
Following Genetic Testing For Breast Cancer Genes, Most Parents Share Results With Their Children
Jan 10, 2012
A new study has found that when parents get tested for breast cancer genes, many of them share their results with their children, even with those who are very young. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study also revealed that most parents think that their children are not distressed when they learn about the test results... Read More
Circulating Tumor Cells Analyzed In Patients With Lung Cancer
Jan 10, 2012
Researchers have developed a method to analyze circulating tumor cells in the blood of patients with non-small cell lung cancer. This method, which can analyze a sample size as small as three cells, may allow clinicians to track cancer progress and treatments and could help them develop new therapies... Read More
News From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation: Jan. 9, 2012
Jan 10, 2012
ONCOLOGY: KRAS provides maintenance for pancreatic cancer The outlook for individuals diagnosed with the most common form of pancreatic cancer, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA), is very poor; the average time of survival after diagnosis is less than 6 months. New therapeutic approaches are therefore much needed... Read More
Sorafenib Effective In Patients With Non-small Cell Lung Cancer, But Low Survival Rates Reported
Jan 10, 2012
Sorafenib was effective in patients with non-small cell lung cancer and a KRAS mutation, but survival rates were reportedly "unsatisfactory," according to data presented at the AACR-IASLC Joint Conference on Molecular Origins of Lung Cancer: Biology, Therapy and Personalized Medicine, held Jan. 8-11, 2012... Read More
Genetic Composition Of Multicentric Lung Tumors Appears To Be Similar
Jan 10, 2012
Multicentric carcinogenesis with the same genetic mutation appears to occur in lung adenocarcinoma, according to data presented at the AACR-IASLC Joint Conference on Molecular Origins of Lung Cancer: Biology, Therapy and Personalized Medicine, held Jan. 8-11, 2012... Read More
Potential Genetic Origins, Pathways Of Lung Cancer In Never-Smokers, Mapped By Researchers
Jan 10, 2012
Researchers have begun to identify which mutations and pathway changes lead to lung cancer in never-smokers - a first step in developing potential therapeutic targets. Never-smokers (defined as an individual who smoked fewer than 100 cigarettes in his or her lifetime) are estimated to account for 10 percent of lung cancer cases... Read More
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