Oncology News

TOKYO: A Japanese cancer specialist said Wednesday she has started the world's first clinical trial of a powerful, non-surgical, short-term radiation therapy for breast cancer.

This March, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that the Medicare FFS Program is slated for a reduction in payments due to the sequestration order which was recently signed into law.

Professor Parvaneh Vosough, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Mahak Subspecialty Cancer Hospital has died yesterday at age 78.

IBM thinks that they can revolutionize customer service using their Watson supercomputer.

Ken Buck, a Republican who has been DA since 2004 and who recently ran for U.S. Senate, shared the following good news on his Facebook page late Monday night: Praise the Lord! I went to my doctor today and after blood tests, a CT scan and a PET scan the consensus from the Radiologist and Oncologist is that I am in remission.

Derek Rodriguez broke into a happy dance last month in a corridor at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport as he and other members of the Arlington High School Band waited to board a flight to New York.

An attack on glioblastoma brain tumor cells that uses a modified poliovirus is showing encouraging results in an early study to establish the proper dose level, researchers at Duke Cancer Institute report.

Dr. Tolga Tuncer , a native of the United States who was raised in Ankara, Turkey, has joined the center, which is a collaboration of Borgess Health and Bronson Healthcare Group Tuncer completed four medical fellowships, the most recent in hematology and oncology at the University of Arizona Cancer Center in Tucson.

Pfizer Inc, which has been on a hot streak with three recent approvals of cancer drugs, stumbled on Monday, saying it was halting a late-stage trial of a drug for aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma after independent monitors found it was not likely to improve survival.

Cancers of all types become most deadly when they metastasize and spread tumors throughout the body.

It is well known that HPV can lead to deadly cervical cancer in women, but the virus is causing cancer in men as well.

AstraZeneca announced that three of its cancer compounds - moxetumomab pasudotox, olaparib and selumetinib - will be moving forward to Phase III clinical development.

The costly form of radiation therapy that has become the norm for prostate cancer in the United States may be no better than the older, cheaper variety -- at least for some men, a new study suggests.

Ignyta, Inc. announced today that it has acquired Actagene Oncology, Inc., effective May 20, 2013.

Bendigo Health has been named as one of this year's Dry July beneficiaries, with money to go towards a revamp of its oncology unit.

Genome sequencing of head and neck cancers may quickly-and soon-spur new therapies.

Two-year-old Heaven Mesa of Victorville, was all smiles as Walter's Children's Charity Classic founders, Steve and Cathy Kienle, presented Loma Linda University Children's Hospital with a check for $172,500 on Tuesday, April 23, 2013.

It happened seven years ago, but Mary Hemrajani still tears up when she recounts her breast cancer ordeal.

Middle-aged men who stayed fit were less likely to die from three common cancers after being diagnosed than those who were out of shape, research found.

Charity Long said she underwent a double mastectomy in December 2009 months after she detected a lump on her right breast.