Oncology News

A mammogram and biopsy in Tampa confirmed stage two breast cancer in her right breast last year.

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Kansas state lawmakers heard testimony this week saying there is a link between abortion and breast cancer.

Money raised through public donations for a nine-year-old Nelson boy with a rare form of cancer will be used for surgery abroad if treatments in New Zealand are no longer available, says his mother, Renea Pidduck.

It doesn't have to be a death sentence: Breast cancer mother and twins survive after she refuses abortion and has chemo instead Zoila Leiva was four-and-a-half months pregnant and looking forward to having twins when she received some terrible news - she had breast cancer.

Chemotherapy for breast cancer can be safe during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy, according to a new report in The Lancet .

Newswise - PHILADELPHIA-Curcumin, an active component of the Indian curry spice turmeric, may help slow down tumor growth in castration-resistant prostate cancer patients on androgen deprivation therapy , a study from researchers at Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center suggests.

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Researchers followed the progress of 70 children whose mothers had chemotherapy while they were in the womb and found the treatment had not harmed the children's development.

Researchers have encouraging news for women who find themselves in a very frightening situation: having cancer while pregnant.

Oncologist Lucy Gilbert, head of the McGill University Health Centre's gynecological division, and her research team have honed a testing method that detects high-grade serous malignant cells before they spread to the ovaries - in relatively healthy women.

A New Hampshire guardsman with terminal cancer traveled to Capitol Hill on Thursday to urge House Speaker John Boehner to stop defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

An advisory panel on Wednesday recommended that U.S. health regulators reject the use of Amgen Inc's drug Xgeva to delay the spread of prostate cancer to the bone, dimming the chance of a wider use for one of the company's key growth drivers.

MORE than half of men diagnosed with cancer in Australia are turning to complementary and alternative medicine for a cure, or to improve their health, according to research from the University of Adelaide.

The pioneering proton beam therapy, which eight-year-old Molly tavelled to America for, has shrunk the tumour to half its original size.

The American Society for Radiation Oncology has developed a guideline on the radiotherapeutic and surgical management for newly diagnosed brain metastases.

Here's what really gets me about Susan G. Komen's PR fiasco: the breast cancer charity managed to shoot itself in the foot just as it was starting to really make a scientific difference.

The study in Science Translational Medicine , part of the Science family of journals, found that five out of eight cancer types in mice responded to fasting alone: Just as with chemotherapy, fasting slowed the growth and spread of tumors.

For the fifth year in a row, Susan G. Komen for the Cure has awarded the Southern Ohio Medical Center Cancer Center with funding to support the Hands of Hope grant program.

This summer, Foundation Medicine will launch what could be described as the next generation of cancer diagnostics.