Cancer News

Abu Dhabi // Deaths from cancer in the region could almost triple over the next 10 years unless early detection and treatment measures are improved, according to the World Health Organisation.

Actress SUZANNE SOMERS has backtracked over remarks she made about the late PATRICK SWAYZE's cancer treatment, insisting her comments were misconstrued in the press.

It's not very uncommon for a fundraising event to raffle a luxury car, but the Lexus being raffled Saturday night at the 23rd annual Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Gala has a story behind it that exemplifies the drive to survive.

Researchers have reduced breast cancer metastasis to bone using an experimental agent to inhibit ROCK, a protein that was found to be over-expressed in metastatic breast cancer.

Anecdotal evidence suggests breast cancer is on the rise in Pakistan but budgetary constraints, bogus healers and a lack of awareness is hampering early diagnosis, according to healthcare professionals.

Oncology treatments Doctors start to include vitamin D in fight against cancer With new studies showing the sun vitamin may slow come cancers, some physicians are eager to add it to treatment programs Martin Mittelstaedt Environment Reporter From Friday's Globe and Mail Published on Thursday, Nov.

At the American Society of Clinical Oncology's Breast Cancer Symposium held in San Francisco recently, researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center made an announcement that at first glance may seem startling -- at least it may startle people who are unaware of the preventive and healing power of nutrients.

What: Now in its 32nd year, the CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium remains the top venue for research and discovery in breast cancer.

A 3-year-old girl fighting leukemia has died from swine flu after getting the virus while in the hospital in Orlando.

What do patients want from their radiation oncologists? The most significant preference is that more than one-third of female cancer patients prefer to have their hands held by their radiation oncologists during important office visits, compared to 12 percent of men, according to a randomized study presented November 4, 2009, at the 51st Annual ...

Covidien, a global provider of healthcare products, hasannounced that its subsidiary, Mallinckrodt Inc., has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of its Abbreviated New Drug Application for Oral Transmucosal Fentanyl Citrate .

Researchers have reduced breast cancer metastasis to bone using an experimental agent to inhibit ROCK, a protein that was found to be over-expressed in metastatic breast cancer.

Nov. 2, 2009 - Stereotactic body radiation therapy should be considered a new standard of care for early-stage lung cancer treatment in patients with co-existing medical problems, according to results from a national clinical trial led by UT Southwestern Medical Center physicians.

Actually, it's a compound in Curry. From Yahoo News: A molecule found in a curry ingredient can kill esophageal cancer cells in the laboratory, suggesting it might be developed as an anti-cancer treatment, scientists said on Wednesday.

Women with a relatively uncommon type of breast cancer are significantly more likely to face its recurrence and spread, but researchers now say these women may benefit from treatment with the breast cancer drug Herceptin.

Nov. 3, 2009 - Alexandra Wilson was just 4 when she was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia, a cancer affecting blood and blood marrow.

OKLAHOMA CITY a ' Attorney General Drew Edmondson wants the state tobacco trust's board of directors to help fund a cancer research and treatment center at the University of Oklahoma.

Study results: MIT cancer biologists have identified a subpopulation of cells that can give rise to pancreatic cancer.

New research to be presented in November at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Annual Meeting in Los Angeles reveals that tumor-penetrating microparticles have been specifically designed to break through hard-to-infiltrate barriers and deliver drugs more effectively and efficiently than the standard form of chemotherapy such as ...

The legal saga of Danny Hauser, the 13-year-old boy from Sleepy Eye who fled the state with his mother last May to avoid chemotherapy, is set to end next week when his cancer treatments are complete.