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If you're undergoing chemotherapy and you feel more forgetful than ever, it's not all in your head.

Ten years ago this week, "Fight Club" was released to theaters. I was there on that opening weekend, sure I'd see something special, and I wasn't wrong.

Guidelines released Monday by the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force saying mammograms before age 50 and breast self-exams are unnecessary is bunk, says breast cancer survivor Suzanne Payne, 61, Appleton.

A group of local doctors say they'll still recommend mammograms and self-exams for their patients, despite new guidelines released this week by a government task force.

An encapsulation breakthrough by researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology may enable doctors to deliver anti-cancer drugs directly to tumors over extended periods of time, while preventing the systemic side effects of chemotherapy and other current cancer treatments.

For cancer patients on chemotherapy, the "cure" can be as deadly as the disease itself.

Main Category: Breast Cancer Also Included In: Radiology / Nuclear Medicine Article Date: 19 Nov 2009 - 3:00 PST A radiation breakthrough to treat breast cancer patients in one day, as opposed to the current average of six weeks, has arrived at Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Philadelphia.

Women should continue getting regular mammograms starting at age 40, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday, moving to douse confusion caused by a task-force recommendation two days earlier.

The only cancer drug shown to extend the lives of patients with an aggressive form of liver cancer has been turned down by the NHS medicines watchdog.

People with advanced liver cancer will be denied a new drug on the NHS under draft guidance which has been published.

YM BioSciences Inc. , a life sciences product development company, has released positive trial results for its breast cancer antibody treatment.

Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp. , a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing small molecule drugs to treat severe medical conditions, today announced that preclinical data presented at the AACR-NCI-EORTC Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics shows that STA-9090, a novel, synthetic inhibitor of ...

U.S. Rep. Parker Griffith, D-Alabama, condemned on Wednesday the panel recommending that women delay a first mammogram until age 50 and get checkup every two years rather than annually.

A diagnosis of breast cancer usually means having chemotherapy to stop the cancer coming back.

In clinical trials for cancer, it is standard for clinicians rather than patients to report adverse symptom side effects from treatments, such as nausea and fatigue.

What: The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer will hold an expert roundtable and Web cast announcing the recent publication and impact of the IASLC's Staging Manual in Thoracic Oncology containing the recently released 7th Edition of TNM in Lung and Pleural Tumours.

Washington, Nov 17 : A new study has revealed that use of a combination of PET-CT imaging techniques can help predict patients' response to head and neck cancer treatment.

A team led by University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences researchers on the cutting edge of nanotechnology has found a way to capture tumor cells in the bloodstream that could dramatically improve earlier cancer diagnosis and prevent deadly metastasis.

People who received daily text messages reminding them to apply sunscreen were nearly twice as likely to use it as those who did not receive such messages, a new study led by a UC Davis Health System dermatologist has found.

A 40-year-old rhinoceros at the Los Angeles Zoo is battling skin cancer and she's getting some cutting edge treatment in her fight.