Women insistent on cancer screening
USA Today - Tue Nov 24, 1:11 am ETThe vast majority of women in the USA say they will get a mammogram before age 50, in keeping with American Cancer Society recommendations.
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The vast majority of women in the USA say they will get a mammogram before age 50, in keeping with American Cancer Society recommendations.
LINCOLN – In a reception featuring nearly 100 volunteers from all corners of the Nebraska, the American Cancer Society recognized its volunteer leadership in the first-annual ACS Volunteer Recognition Celebration held last month.
Though the use of fertility drugs does not seem to generally increase uterine cancer risk, a Danish study identified small increases in risk from certain fertility drugs used for longer duration.
TUESDAY, Nov. 24 (HealthDay News) -- The world of cancer screening has been upended in the past two weeks.
Newly compiled data suggest that “excess body fat alone is responsible for more than 100,000 cancer cases in the U.S.” The report comes from the American Institute for Cancer Research, which said its data included cases of endometrial, esophageal, pancreatic, kidney, gallbladder, breast and colorectal cancer. No one has pinned down exactly how body fat might increase cancer risk. Researcher ...
Video Body Nearly two million federal dollars will be used to help fight cancer in underserved members of the community. Congressman Mike McIntyre presented the Zimmer Cancer Center at New Hanover Regional Medical Center a check for $450,000 from the National Cancer Institute Tuesday. The cancer center will receive a total of $1.9 million over the next five years. The hospital will use the money ...
Police in Pennsylvania have been searching for someone who mugged a 71-year-old cancer patient in her own driveway.
CALDWELL – The American Cancer Society is looking for volunteers and teams for Caldwell’s first-ever Relay For Life to be held in May, 2010 at James Caldwell High School.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.----Constellation Pharmaceuticals, Inc., today announced that the American Cancer Society has awarded the Medal of Honor to Edward E. Harlow, Jr., Ph.D., the company’s Chief Scientific Officer, and Arnold J.
Nancy Brinker, the breast cancer activist who painted the world pink, was feeling blue.
( American Association for Cancer Research ) Researchers have found that hormones produced during pregnancy induce a protein that directly inhibits the growth of breast cancer. This protein, alpha-fetoprotein, may serve as a viable, well-tolerated agent for the treatment and prevention of breast cancer, according to findings published in Cancer Prevention Research.
Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt says that he has prostate cancer and expects to have surgery in January.
By Vicky Eckenrode Vicky.Eckenrode@StarNewsOnline.com Wilmington cancer researchers have received a second round of federal funding to address the disease’s unequal burden on minority and underserved groups.
( Children's Hospital & Research Center at Oakland ) A study conducted by Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland scientists identifies a new class of therapeutic agents found naturally in soy that can prevent and possibly treat colon cancer, the third most deadly form of cancer. Sphingadienes are natural lipid molecules found in soy that research shows may be the key to fighting colon ...
Image Caption: This image shows the effect of gene therapy combined with cytotoxic agents in E spheroids derived from breast cancer cell line MCF-7. A. Control; B. Doxorubicin 10nm, C. Paclitaxel 10nm, D. Docetaxel 10nm, combined with gene E. Credit: University of Granada
South Lyon -- A boy who touched thousands of lives while battling neuroblastoma cancer has died.
MONDAY, Nov. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Insomnia and sleep disorders affect more than three-quarters of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, a rate nearly three times higher than that of the general population, a new study finds.
MONDAY, Nov. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Body weight and co-existing health problems don't explain why black colon cancer patients have lower survival rates than whites, U.S. researchers say.
ROANOKE RAPIDS — New guidelines regarding mammography and self-examinations for breast cancer detection have stirred up controversy nationwide. While a government panel believes detection efforts may be delayed from current recommendations, local cancer survivors and educational specialists believe there was nothing wrong with the old ways of doing things and call the new approach “appalling.”
Three areas of concern to cancer patients and the people who care for them will be addressed during the American Cancer Society's I Can Cope teleconferences over the next three months.
A jury in Philadelphia has ordered Wyeth Pharmaceuticals to pay a woman $75 million in punitive damages after finding a link between her breast cancer and a hormone-replacement drug.