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Drug can extend leukaemia patients' lives: study
November 21, 2008
ZURICH (Reuters) - Roche Holding AG said on Friday its top-selling cancer drug MabThera helped patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL) to live longer without their disease getting worse, according to a second late-stage study.
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Study backs Finland's colon cancer screening
November 21, 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - A national screening program in Finland has detected about 40 percent of colon cancers early, showing that such tests can make a difference, Finnish researchers reported on Friday.
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Lung cancer pill may get second chance after tests
November 21, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The lung cancer pill Iressa has shown surprising results for patients with advanced disease where it has been at least as effective as a standard chemotherapy treatment, researchers reported on Thursday.
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Removing small colon polyps costly, unnecessary
November 20, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The surgical removal of small colon polyps found during computed tomography imaging of the colon, or CT colonography, is costly and unnecessary, according to a new study.
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Gender and age impact stomach cancer prognosis
November 19, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older men and younger women fare worse with stomach, or "gastric" cancer than patients in other gender and age groups, research shows.
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Avastin raises risk of blood clots in veins: study
November 19, 2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The popular cancer drug Avastin raises the risk of blood clots in the veins by a third when added to chemotherapy, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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Canola oil diet lowers cancer risk for mom, baby
November 18, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Replacing corn oil with canola oil may lower cancer risk not only for women, but for their unborn babies, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
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Diabetes drugs tied to lower prostate cancer risk
November 18, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Drugs used to control diabetes may lower the risk of prostate cancer, investigators at the University of Tampere in Finland report.
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Too little sleep tied to increased cancer risk
November 18, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Regular exercise can reduce a woman's risk of cancer, but the benefits may slip away if she gets too little sleep, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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New study backs solvent, leukemia link
November 18, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Research from Italy provides new evidence that exposure to the industrial solvent benzene increases a person's risk of developing multiple myeloma.
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Women may ignore cancer-related lymphedema: survey
November 18, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many women who experience abnormal swelling of the arm or shoulder area following treatment for breast cancer -- a bothersome condition called lymphedema -- suffer in silence, a new survey indicate.
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Magnesium impacts calcium's anti-cancer effect
November 17, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In the Calcium Polyp Prevention Study, calcium supplementation reduced the risk of recurrent colorectal adenomas -- growths or polyps that can become cancerous - only in men with a low dietary ratio of calcium to magnesium.
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Family history key in figuring breast cancer risk
November 17, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women with a family history of breast cancer but who test negative for two genetic mutations commonly linked to it still have a very high risk of developing the disease, Canadian researchers said on Monday.
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Smoking plus gene variant raises breast cancer risk
November 17, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women with a particular gene mutation linked to breast cancer may further raise their risk of the disease if they smoke, a study has found.
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Smoking, drinking linked to throat, stomach cancer
November 17, 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes appear to increase the risk of certain common throat and stomach cancers, Dutch researchers reported on Monday.
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Aspirin may mask prostate cancer, study hints
November 17, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Middle-aged men who take aspirin or other "nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug" (NSAID) have significantly lower levels of a blood protein used to spot prostate cancer than men who don't take these widely used drugs, a study shows.
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Discovery offers way of tracking cancer in blood
November 17, 2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tiny sacs released from tumor cells and circulating in the blood carry genetic information about the tumor, offering a new way to track and treat the cancer, U.S. researchers said on Sunday.
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Liver cancer patients have high diabebes prevalence
November 14, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have a significantly higher prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) compared to the general population, according to findings from a case-control study conducted in Italy.
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Modern cancer drugs more likely to get to market
November 14, 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly one in five cancer drugs entering development now reach the market, a remarkably good success rate given the high level of failures in other disease areas, British researchers said on Friday.
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Embryo preservation often works for cancer patients
November 13, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Freezing embryos before undergoing cancer treatment that may cause infertility is as successful for women with cancer as it is for women without cancer, new study findings indicate.
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