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GRACE, LUNGevity announce free webinar program to highlight lung cancer research

LUNGevity Foundation and GRACE announce a free webinar program to provide the highlights in lung cancer research from the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting held June 3-6, 2011 in Chicago.

20 Jun 2011

Genomic study identifies MCU that regulates calcium transport into mitochondria

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leading RNAi therapeutics company, and collaborators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), the Broad Institute, and the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), today announced new findings published in Nature.

20 Jun 2011

Two thirds of women with breast cancer more likely to die from cardiovascular disease

Breast cancer accounts for almost a third of all cancer cases reported in women. However advances in the treatment for breast cancer, and early detection, have improved the chances of survival from the disease.

20 Jun 2011

Australians getting fatter but living longer and smoking less: Health report card

Experts formulating a report on Australia’s health related figures say that Australian men and women are living longer than ever thanks to a drop in deaths from notorious diseases and cancer, but the rising weight has left the door open to a host of new health problems. The key finding of a major study released today was that excess weight carried by one in four children and more than 60 per cent of adults was contributing to an increase in chronic diseases across the country.

19 Jun 2011

UK’s first larynx transplant

In a first, UK will get its voicebox or larynx transplant in less than a year after the Royal College of Surgeons gave its seal of approval for trials to take place. A report by the college said the pioneering procedure could help people who had cancer of the larynx to speak and breathe normally again.

19 Jun 2011

FDA approves NULOJIX

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved NULOJIX, the first selective T-cell costimulation blocker indicated for the prophylaxis of organ rejection in adult patients receiving a kidney transplant, in combination with basiliximab induction, mycophenolate mofetil (MMF), and corticosteroids.

18 Jun 2011

Counselling can help men overcome fears over sexual performance after prostate surgery

Men worried that prostate surgery will automatically mean an end to their sex lives are mistaken and shouldn't be put off seeking medical help, according to experts at The Prostate Centre in London.

18 Jun 2011

Surgery plus exercise and diet might help reduce weight in obese people

Each year more than 200,000 people with morbid obesity undergo gastric bypass surgery, but research shows that more than half of patients regain at least 20 percent of the weight lost.

18 Jun 2011

Cancer Statistics 2011 report finds progress has not benefitted all segments of the population equally

A steady reduction in overall cancer death rates translates to the avoidance of about 898,000 deaths from cancer between 1990 and 2007, according to the latest statistics from the American Cancer Society.

18 Jun 2011

HPV vaccine shows success in young Australian women, study says

"A vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, triggered by the human papillomavirus (HPV), has helped reduce the number of teenage girls developing abnormalities in their cervix by as much as 50 percent in a study in Australia," according to a report published Friday in the Lancet, Reuters reports.

18 Jun 2011

Controversy over F.D.A.-Avastin decision to reignite June 28-29 with new round of hearings

Controversy over the F.D.A.'s proposal to withdraw approval of Avastin for breast cancer treatment will reignite June 28-29 with a new round of hearings. One oncologist who will be monitoring the hearings is Dr. Frederick C. Tucker Jr. of Fredericksburg Oncology in Virginia, whose recent New York Times op ed defended the F.D.A.'s position on scientific grounds.

18 Jun 2011

Low levels of education, poverty and other social factors contribute to many U.S. deaths

How researchers classify and quantify causes of death across a population has evolved in recent decades. In addition to long-recognized physiological causes such as heart attack and cancer, the role of behavioral factors-including smoking, dietary patterns and inactivity-began to be quantified in the 1990s. More recent research has begun to look at the contribution of social factors to U.S. mortality.

18 Jun 2011

Pancreatic Cancer Action Network calls on federal government to make research a national priority

The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network is calling on the federal government to make pancreatic cancer research a national priority, as the incidence and death rates for the fourth leading cause of cancer death in our country continue to increase according to "Cancer Facts & Figures 2011," a report released today by the American Cancer Society.

18 Jun 2011

PDA urges public to undergo screening for oral cancer

Oral cancer claims more lives than leukemia, Hodgkin's lymphoma, laryngeal cancer, testicular cancer, thyroid cancer, or skin cancer. In 2010, approximately 36,540 Americans were diagnosed with this largely preventable type of cancer that affects the mouth and throat; 7,880 died of the disease. Early detection is essential to dramatically reduce the number of deaths from oral cancer.

18 Jun 2011

Scientists create first roadmap to understand estrogen signaling in breast cancer cells

The first roadmap to mathematical modeling of a powerful basic "decision circuit" in breast cancer has been developed and published in Nature Reviews Cancer.

18 Jun 2011

CRMH hosts educational conference to close the gap in health disparities

Health care reform, environmental disasters and access to care are just a few of the topics offered at the 9th Annual Disparities in Health in the Global Context Summer Workshop.

18 Jun 2011

News highlights: Report urges smoke-free laws; N.J. state workers rally against pension and health care changes

A million people would quit smoking, nearly 400,000 teenagers would never start, and more than 700,000 lives would be saved if the 27 U.S. states that don't have good antismoking laws would adopt them, the American Cancer Society projected on Wednesday.

18 Jun 2011

OptumHealth names Women & Infants as Center of Excellence for Reproductive Resource Services

Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island has been named a Center of Excellence for Reproductive Resource Services by OptumHealth, an independent audit company.

18 Jun 2011

Celgene announces data from REVLIMID plus rituximab Phase II study on malignant lymphomas

Celgene International Sàrl announced that clinical data from a Phase II study, conducted by investigators from the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX, evaluating the combination regimen of REVLIMID plus rituximab (R2) in untreated, advanced stage, indolent B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, were presented at the 11th International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma in Lugano, Switzerland.

18 Jun 2011

Niclosamide drug effective against colon cancer metastasis

A compound that for about 60 years has been used as a drug against tapeworm infection is also apparently effective against colon cancer metastasis, as studies using mice have now shown.

18 Jun 2011

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Latest Cancer News and Research

GRACE, LUNGevity announce free webinar program to highlight lung cancer research

Genomic study identifies MCU that regulates calcium transport into mitochondria

Two thirds of women with breast cancer more likely to die from cardiovascular disease

Australians getting fatter but living longer and smoking less: Health report card

UK’s first larynx transplant

FDA approves NULOJIX

Counselling can help men overcome fears over sexual performance after prostate surgery

Surgery plus exercise and diet might help reduce weight in obese people

Cancer Statistics 2011 report finds progress has not benefitted all segments of the population equally

HPV vaccine shows success in young Australian women, study says

Controversy over F.D.A.-Avastin decision to reignite June 28-29 with new round of hearings

Low levels of education, poverty and other social factors contribute to many U.S. deaths

Pancreatic Cancer Action Network calls on federal government to make research a national priority

PDA urges public to undergo screening for oral cancer

Scientists create first roadmap to understand estrogen signaling in breast cancer cells

CRMH hosts educational conference to close the gap in health disparities

News highlights: Report urges smoke-free laws; N.J. state workers rally against pension and health care changes

OptumHealth names Women & Infants as Center of Excellence for Reproductive Resource Services

Celgene announces data from REVLIMID plus rituximab Phase II study on malignant lymphomas

Niclosamide drug effective against colon cancer metastasis

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