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Osteoporosis drugs may raise throat cancer risk

Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 6:02pm CDT

Researchers say new findings shouldn't affect patients taking bisphosphonates, but said the medicines should be watched closely. Other studies have been divided over whether the risk is real.

Osteoporosis - Cancer - Bisphosphonate - Health - Conditions and Diseases
Diabetes drug may keep lung cancer at bay

Posted: September 1st, 2010, 5:11pm CDT

The popular diabetes drug Metformin could stave off lung cancer in smokers and deserves further study, a new study finds.
Cancer - Lung cancer - Health - Lung - Diabetes mellitus
Ovary removal may benefit high-risk women

Posted: August 31st, 2010, 3:02pm CDT

Surgery to remove healthy ovaries gives a triple benefit to high-risk women: It lowers their threat of breast and ovarian cancer, and boosts their chances of living longer, new research suggests.
Cancer - Ovary - Ovarian cancer - Conditions and Diseases - Oophorectomy
Oesophageal cancer rates rise steeply in men

Posted: August 28th, 2010, 6:41am CDT

Rates of oesophageal cancer in men have risen by 50 percent in Britain in a generation, an increase that is probably being driven in part by growing rates of obesity and poor diet, scientists said on Saturday.
Esophageal cancer - Cancer - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Gastrointestinal
Medicare expands coverage to help smokers quit

Posted: August 28th, 2010, 3:07am CDT

They've lived with the health warnings about smoking for much of their lives and doubtless seen the ill effects on friends, relatives and even themselves, yet about 4.5 million older people in the U.S. keep on lighting up.

Medicare - United States - Health - Health care - Tobacco
Esophageal cancer rates rise steeply in British men

Posted: August 27th, 2010, 6:36pm CDT

Rates of esophageal cancer in men have risen by 50 percent in Britain in a generation, an increase that is probably being driven in part by growing rates of obesity and poor diet, scientists said on Saturday.
Esophageal cancer - Cancer - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Gastrointestinal
Doctors look for small tumor, find 56-pounder

Posted: August 27th, 2010, 9:27am CDT

Doctors were shocked when they looked into a woman's uterus searching for an orange-size tumor but found something that resembled a giant rock instead.

Tumor - Cancer - Uterus - Health - Conditions and Diseases
New drug for advanced melanoma shrinks tumors

Posted: August 25th, 2010, 6:14pm CDT

An experimental targeted cancer drug shrank advanced melanoma tumors in 81 percent of patients with the deadly and hard-to-treat cancer, doctors said Wednesday.

Cancer - Melanoma - Tumor - Health - Conditions and Diseases
U.S. advisers to guide breast cancer research

Posted: August 16th, 2010, 6:21pm CDT

The National Institutes of Health named a committee on Monday to help guide research into the environmental and genetic causes of breast cancer.
Breast cancer - Cancer - National Institutes of Health - Health - Conditions and Diseases
Cancer is world's costliest disease, report shows

Posted: August 16th, 2010, 3:45pm CDT

Cancer is the world's top "economic killer" as well as its likely leading cause of death, the American Cancer Society contends in a new report it will present at a global cancer conference in China this week.
Cancer - American Cancer Society - Health - Conditions and Diseases - China
22 disease-fighting superfoods

Posted: August 15th, 2010, 11:51am CDT

New research is uncovering the age-defying, disease-fighting, fat-blasting superpowers of common foods you already love.

Health - Conditions and Diseases - Nutrition and Metabolism Disorders - Cholesterol and Other Fats - Food
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Posted: August 15th, 2010, 11:51am CDT
Breath test may be able to detect common cancers

Posted: August 10th, 2010, 6:39pm CDT

An "electronic nose" could be used as a simple breath test to detect lung, breast, bowel and prostate cancers, Israeli scientists said Wednesday.
Cancer - Prostate - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Prostate cancer
Magnets, sounds now used to combat brain tumors

Posted: August 9th, 2010, 2:38pm CDT

The sophisticated biological systems that protect our brains and keep them running also make it difficult for doctors to treat brain tumors. But a new three-pronged attack developed by researchers could help doctors get past our bodies' defenses.
Brain tumor - Cancer - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Brain and CNS
Cancer cells feed on fructose, study finds

Posted: August 2nd, 2010, 4:58pm CDT

Pancreatic tumor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same.

Cancer - Tumor - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Gastrointestinal
Gene variants in Japanese prostate cancer patients

Posted: August 1st, 2010, 12:02pm CDT

A large study in Japan into possible genetic causes for prostate cancer has uncovered five new gene variants which have never been seen in previous studies in Caucasians, researchers said on Monday.
Cancer - Prostate cancer - Research - Health - Conditions and Diseases
Prostate cancer 'cell of origin' identified

Posted: July 29th, 2010, 6:09pm CDT

For researchers, a key to studying any cancer is finding its "cell of origin." Now scientists at the University of California at Los Angeles say they've found just that -- a specific type of cell that gives rise to prostate cancer.
Cancer - Prostate cancer - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Genitourinary
No link seen between coffee, prostate cancer risk

Posted: July 21st, 2010, 12:18pm CDT

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Men who enjoy their morning cup of coffee can drink a little easier. A new research review finds that java lovers appear no more likely to develop prostate cancer than other men.

Prostate cancer - Cancer - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Genitourinary
Panel withdraws support for breast cancer drug

Posted: July 20th, 2010, 5:36pm CDT

A panel of cancer experts said Tuesday that the government should remove its endorsement of Roche's drug Avastin for breast cancer after follow-up studies failed to show benefits for patients.
Breast cancer - Health - Cancer - Food and Drug Administration - Tumor
Darker skin doesn't mean melanoma immunity

Posted: July 20th, 2010, 4:15pm CDT

Melanoma is on the rise among certain groups of dark-skinned Floridians, new research shows.
Melanoma - Cancer - Skin - Health - Conditions and Diseases
Panel votes to withdraw approval for breast cancer drug

Posted: July 20th, 2010, 3:46pm CDT

Federal health advisers say unanimously that a follow-up study of the Roche drug Avastin failed to show meaningful benefits for breast cancer patients.
Breast cancer - Food and Drug Administration - Bevacizumab - Health - Cancer
FDA panel: Breast cancer drug's risks outweigh benefits

Posted: July 20th, 2010, 1:35pm CDT

Federal health advisers say unanimously that a follow-up study of the Roche drug Avastin failed to show meaningful benefits for breast cancer patients.
Breast cancer - Food and Drug Administration - Bevacizumab - Health - Cancer
NY mulls indoor tanning rules, cites cancer risk

Posted: July 19th, 2010, 8:31am CDT

New York health officials are ramping up their regulation of more than 2,000 tanning salons and gyms offering indoor ultraviolet rays even as health advocates push for a law banning exposure by anyone under 18.

Health - Cancer - Ultraviolet - New York - Law
Study: Test-tube kids face increased cancer risk

Posted: July 19th, 2010, 4:28am CDT

A large study suggests a higher rate of childhood cancer among test-tube babies, but researchers say the reason probably has nothing to do with how the infants were conceived.
Cancer - Health - Conditions and Diseases - In vitro fertilisation - Organizations
FDA says breast cancer drug did not extend lives

Posted: July 16th, 2010, 10:00am CDT

Federal health scientists say follow-up studies of a Roche breast cancer drug show it failed to slow tumor growth or extend patient lives, opening the door for a potential halt in sales.
Breast cancer - Health - Cancer - Food and Drug Administration - Tumor
U.S. groups target 20 possible causes of cancer

Posted: July 15th, 2010, 3:16pm CDT

The American Cancer Society and three federal agencies named 19 chemicals and shift work on Thursday as potential causes of cancer that deserve more investigation.

Cancer - American Cancer Society - United States - Health - Conditions and Diseases
Mom searches China for life-saving donor

Posted: July 15th, 2010, 3:41am CDT

Sherrie Cramer has gone to China desperately searching for a bone marrow donor to save the life of her daughter, adopted from there as a baby, who may die within weeks of leukemia.

Leukemia - Bone marrow - Health - Hematology - Medicine
Lifesaving chemo may put workers' lives at risk

Posted: July 11th, 2010, 11:44am CDT

The same powerful chemotherapy drugs that have saved hundreds of thousands of patients’ lives for decades have at the same time taken a potentially deadly toll on the hospital and clinic workers who handled them.

Chemotherapy - Hospital - United States - Health - Cancer
Fish oil may lower risk of breast cancer

Posted: July 8th, 2010, 3:00pm CDT

Women who take fish oil supplements may have a lower risk of developing breast cancer than those who don't, a study published Thursday suggests.

Fish oil - Breast cancer - Cancer - Health - Omega-3 fatty acid
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Posted: July 8th, 2010, 3:00pm CDT