Cancer

Lung Transplants: Bridging the Gap Reported May 12, 2010 NEW YORK (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Imagine struggling for every breath and feeling exhausted after just a few steps. That's the reality for people with severe cystic fibrosis, a disease that causes the body to produce thick mucus that clogs the lungs. About 150 patients get a new … [Read more...]

Early Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis Remains ElusiveReported July 28, 2009 HOUSTON, July 28 -- The inability to detect small ovarian tumors emphasizes the need for cancer-specific biomarkers that can detect more tumors at a curable stage, researchers suggested after analyzing statistical models of cancer growth, progression, and detection. To achieve even 50% … [Read more...]

Combo Therapy Zaps Stubborn Leukemia Cells Reported May 18, 2010 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A combination of drugs may prove to be an effective treatment for a lethal form of leukemia. The new therapeutic strategy effectively targets notoriously intractable leukemia stem cells that often escape standard treatment and are a main factor in … [Read more...]

Breast Cancer: Fighting Disease in 3-D Reported May 21, 2010 ATLANTA (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- One in eight women will develop breast cancer at some point in her lifetime, but more than a quarter of them have dense breast tissue, which means standard mammograms don't always find the tumor. A new experimental 3-D scanner is showing promise for identifying cancers … [Read more...]

Cancer Medical Costs Doubled In Past Two Decades Reported May 10, 2010 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- As cancer treatments have advanced over the past two decades, their price has also skyrocketed. The cost of treating cancer has almost doubled over the past 20 years, a new study shows. The team of researchers, led by Florence Tangka, Ph.D., … [Read more...]

Father-Daughter Liver Transplant Reported May 17, 2010 NEW YORK (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- There are more than 106,000 people waiting for a liver transplant and less than 15,000 available donors. Doctors want to turn those numbers around by offering living donors a less-invasive surgery. A new transplant helped an entire family survive … [Read more...]

Colon Cancer: No Link to Coffee, Soft Drinks Reported May 12, 2010 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Despite the questionable effects on your overall health of drinking large amounts of coffee and sugar-sweetened, carbonated soft drinks, you can take colon cancer off your list of worries. A new study has shown there is no specific link between … [Read more...]

Whole Body MRI Targets Breast Cancer Metastases Reported May 07, 2010 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- International researchers nail down a viable method of pinpointing breast cancer metastases: using whole body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A new study says the method is highly accurate, and can detect bone metastases even before a … [Read more...]

Cancer the biggest public health challenge in IndiaReported May 03, 2009 Cancers in all forms are causing about 12 per cent of deaths throughout the world. In the developed countries, cancer is the second leading cause of death accounting for 21% (2.5 million) of all mortality. In the developing countries, cancer ranks third as a cause of death and accounts for 9.5% … [Read more...]

Targeted Therapy: It's All About Me Reported May 04, 2010 NEW YORK, N.Y. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- You know the routine, go to the doctor and get medication to treat the problem. But not everybody reacts the same way. What if the prescription was designed specifically for you? It's the idea behind what some doctors call a medical … [Read more...]

Imaging Costs Growing Twice as Fast as Cancer Care Reported April 28, 2010 (Ivanhoe Newswire) – According to new research imaging is now the fastest growing expense for Medicare and has surpassed overall cancer care costs.   Researchers at Duke University examined the use and costs of eight different imaging devices among 100,000 cancer patients between 1999 and … [Read more...]

Starving Out Colon Cancer Reported April 29, 2010 (Ivanhoe Newswire) – New research shows that many of the colon cancer cells that form tumors can be killed by inhibiting the cells' ability to absorb a key nutrient.   Normal adult stem cells are able to renew themselves by dividing almost without limit. Cancer stem cells, or CSCs, are believed to be the result … [Read more...]

Estrogen Affects Prostate Cancer Risk Reported April 26, 2010 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A high level of one type of estrogen in a man's body might increase his risk of developing prostate cancer. At the same time, high levels of another kind -- the kind that fuels breast cancer -- might offer a protective benefit against prostate cancer. The health of the prostate has … [Read more...]

CTRC study is testing viral therapy for lung cancerReported April 10, 2010 SAN ANTONIO – A virus that destroys cancer cells but leaves normal cells unharmed may offer hope to those affected by one of the most deadly forms of lung cancer, according to investigators from the Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC) at The University of Texas Health Science Center … [Read more...]

Test predicts smokers' lethal lung cancerReported April 08, 2010 Smoking kills. But a new screening technique can predict about three-quarters of the smokers who will develop lethal lung cancers, authors of a groundbreaking study say. What's more, the biochemical signatures captured by the diagnostic screen in most cancer-prone smokers could be blocked by a … [Read more...]

New study confirms HRT helps ward off colon cancer Reported April 09, 2010 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) cuts a woman's risk of developing colon cancer, new research confirms. Millions of women stopped taking HRT when a Women's Health Initiative study showed in 2002 that the hormones raised the risk of stroke, heart … [Read more...]

Blood test can detect cancer four times earlierReported April 16, 2010 DUBAI // A blood test that promises to save lives by detecting breast cancer in its early stages could be available in the UAE within six months. The newly developed test, which is initially being used with traditional scans in Britain, can spot signs of the disease three or four times earlier than … [Read more...]

Alcohol Raises Risk of Cancer Reported April 22, 2010 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Excessive alcohol use has been linked to the acceleration of deteriorating telomere DNA, found at the end of chromosomes, which researchers say increases the risk of cancer. Researchers say telomeres are an important part of the DNA that genetically stabilizes cells. As people age, … [Read more...]

Kid-Safe Chemo Protects Hearts Reported April 21, 2010 MIAMI, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Kids are winning the battle against cancer. The survival rate is now 90 percent, but the powerful treatments come at a price. Researchers may have a solution to kick cancer and protect the rest of the child’s growing body. Daniela Leon battles cancer with a style all her own. … [Read more...]

Supplements Reduce Breast Cancer Risk? Reported April 22, 2010 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Vitamins and calcium supplements taken over time may reduce the risk of breast cancer. "It is not an immediate effect," Jaime Matta, Ph.D., professor at the Ponce School of Medicine in Puerto Rico, was quoted as saying. "You don't take a vitamin today and your breast cancer risk is … [Read more...]

Shadow Diseases Reported April 15, 2010 PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- It’s difficult enough to deal with just one chronic disease and then you add another, often more serious one on top of it. Researchers are learning more and more about why two diseases that don’t seem to be related at all travel in pairs. These are some common shadow diseases that … [Read more...]

Breast Cancer Clues: Better Biopsies Reported April 16, 2010 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Researchers say they have found clues to molecular markers on breast tumors that may predict which cancers will metastasize to the lymph node system. Predicting breast cancer spread from a sentinel lymph node removed during surgery can be a hit or miss affair, and false negatives are … [Read more...]

Cancer Drug Stops Spread in One Punch Reported April 16, 2010 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Cancer patients reeling from metastasis may be on the verge of a major victory. Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College say new anti-cancer agents may stop metastasis -- or the migration of cancer cells from a tumor to other parts of the body -- dead in its tracks. “More than … [Read more...]

Cancer: From Patient to Doctor Reported March 18, 2010 LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- There are about 902 million doctors' visits each year in the United States. People come who suffer from everything from a cold to cancer. If you're like me, sometimes you wonder if your doctor understands what you're going through. Well, one oncology doctor we spoke to … [Read more...]

Study: Infertility Increases a Man's Risk for Prostate Cancer Reported March 22, 2010 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Infertile men have a higher risk of developing high grade prostate cancer, which is more likely to grow and spread quickly, according to a new study. Researchers studied the risk for prostate cancer in a group of 22,562 men who were evaluated for … [Read more...]

New Research Aims to Snuff Out Smoking-Related Diseases Reported March 22, 2010 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- New preliminary research shows promising results in reducing lung inflammation caused by cigarette smoke. Researchers at the University of Melbourne, Australia used mice to show that, by blocking a certain protein, they can reduce lung inflammation associated with … [Read more...]

Prostate Cancer Treatment in a Virus? Reported March 10, 2010 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A common respiratory virus, called a reovirus, may provide a new, safe approach to treating prostate cancer. The reovirus is a non-attenuated, environmental virus that has oncolytic potential -- the ability to cause cancer cell death -- against many types of cancer, specifically … [Read more...]

Immunotherapy to Fight Mesothelioma? Reported March 08, 2010 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A vaccine that uses a patient's own cells may be able to fight a rare cancer and increase length of survival. Mesothelioma is a type of cancer associated with asbestos exposure. Asbestos has been banned in the U.S. for decades, but diagnosis of the cancer can take place up to 50 … [Read more...]

Obesity and Colon Cancer a Deadly Combination Reported March 11, 2010 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Obese patients with colon cancer may have a greater chance of dying from the disease compared to those at a normal weight. Every year in the United States, roughly 150,000 people are diagnosed with colon cancer. A new study involved 4,381 patients with stage II or II colon … [Read more...]

Surviving The Deadliest Cancer Reported March 04, 2010 WASINGTON, D.C. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- It kills about 160,000 people in the United States every year. One of the biggest problems is that one quarter of lung cancer patients are too sick, too old or too weak to survive surgery. Until recently, there were few options, but now doctors are finding ways to help … [Read more...]