Oncology News

Dr. Raymond Facco says Parkview Comprehensive Cancer Center diagnosed 25 women under 50 with breast cancer this year.

Breast cancer is the 2nd leading cause of death amongst women in the United States and early detection is vital for treatment.

Family caregivers can significantly reduce suffering in cancer patients at home through use of simple touch and massage techniques.

Experts agree that the urological cancer patient will benefit greatly if the delivered treatment is the result of a combined effort.

Neurosurgeons from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center performed the world's first intra-arterial cerebral infusion of Avastin directly into a patient's malignant brain tumor.

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.

Local oncologists are fuming over the release of recommendations that would lead to fewer mammographies for women over the age of 40 if the medical profession were to adopt them.

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.

Comment about "First phase of Oncology Centre gets green light" Phone Name Comment 0 Thursday, 19th November 2009 - 11:40CET First phase of Oncology Centre gets green light The first phase of the construction of the Oncology Centre at Mater Dei Hospital was approved by the Mepa board this morning.

Main Category: Cancer / Oncology Also Included In: GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology CytRx Corporation , a biopharmaceutical company, today announced plans to initiate an open-label, multinational Phase 2 clinical trial with its doxorubicin prodrug INNO-206 as a second-line treatment in patients with advanced gastric cancer.

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.

The pedal-to-the-metal signals driving the growth of several types of cancer cells lead to a common switch governing the use of glucose, researchers at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University have discovered.

Main Category: Breast Cancer Also Included In: Cancer / Oncology Article Date: 17 Nov 2009 - 17:00 PST NCI appreciates the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's careful review and analysis of the evidence regarding breast cancer screening for women at average risk.

A federal jury has convicted a Virginia Beach physician on nearly 30 counts in a fraudulent-billing scheme that bilked government health programs out of $1.2 million.

Despite new recommendations that most women start breast screening at 50 rather than 40, many doctors said Tuesday that they were simply not ready to make such a drastic change.

Doctors are in uproar over a recommendation to raise the age of breast cancer screening, saying that more women will die from the disease, which claims 40,000 lives each year.

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.

A Mid-South oncologist was instrumental in a clinical trial that will help women nationwide.

Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill are blasting new guidelines from a government task force that recommends against routine mammograms for women under 50, questioning whether they are tantamount to health care "rationing" in the fight against the No.

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