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Long durations of exposure to formaldehyde used for embalming in the funeral industry were associated with an increased risk of death from myeloid leukemia, according to a new study published online November 20 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. http://www.physorg.com/news177958809.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:10:01 EST news177958809 Short-term follow-up is a reasonable alternative to invasive biopsy of palpable (capable of being touched or felt) breast lesions with benign imaging features, particularly in younger women with probable fibroadenoma (non-cancerous tumors that often occur in women during their reproductive years), according to a study published in the December issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology. http://www.physorg.com/news177945932.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:00:03 EST news177945932 In patients with unresectable (unable to be removed by surgery) liver cancer, an interventional radiology procedure called triple-drug transcatheter arterial chemoemobolization (TACE) followed by a liver transplant may significantly increase a patient's chance of long-term survival, according to a study published in the December issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology. http://www.physorg.com/news177945840.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:24:39 EST news177945840 Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center and VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine researchers have identified a gene that may play a pivotal role in two processes that are essential for tumor development, growth and progression to metastasis. Scientists hope the finding could lead to an effective therapy to target and inhibit the expression of this gene resulting in inhibition of cancer growth. http://www.physorg.com/news177945339.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:16:30 EST news177945339 Radiation therapy is effective in achieving local control and palliation in patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNTs), despite such tumors being commonly considered resistant to radiation therapy, according to a largest of its kind study in the November 15 issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). http://www.physorg.com/news177943469.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:10:03 EST news177943469 High irradiances of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) should not be used over melanomas. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Cancer studied the pain relieving, anti-inflammatory 'cold laser', finding that it caused increased tumour growth in a mouse model of skin cancer. http://www.physorg.com/news177918201.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:00:01 EST news177918201 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has found that the majority of surgeons treating prostate cancer in the United States have extremely low annual caseloads, potentially leading to increased rates of both surgical complications and cancer recurrence. http://www.physorg.com/news177872932.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:20:01 EST news177872932 Traditional endoscopes provide a peek inside patients' bodies. Now, a University of Florida engineering researcher is designing ones capable of a full inspection. http://www.physorg.com/news177853103.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:01 EST news177853103 There are minimal data assessing the relationship between diabetes with gallbladder, biliary and pancreatic cancer. Recent small studies have suggested an elevated risk of pancreatic cancer only in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). http://www.physorg.com/news177851081.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:40:01 EST news177851081 Contrary to current thinking, a condition called gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) might not develop as a direct result of acidic digestive juices burning the esophagus, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found in an animal study. http://www.physorg.com/news177850880.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:20:01 EST news177850880 (AP) -- A member of the panel whose new mammogram recommendations have led to confusion is defending the task force's report. http://www.physorg.com/news177839578.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:10:01 EST news177839578 Robert Goldman is a geek's geek, a Silicon Valley inventor who likes to know exactly how things work. http://www.physorg.com/news177788426.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:41:50 EST news177788426 (AP) -- Women should continue getting regular mammograms starting at age 40, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday, moving to douse confusion caused by a task-force recommendation two days earlier. http://www.physorg.com/news177783673.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:50:02 EST news177783673 Although morphine has been the gold-standard treatment for postoperative and chronic cancer pain for two centuries, a growing body of evidence is showing that opiate-based painkillers can stimulate the growth and spread of cancer cells. Two new studies advance that argument and demonstrate how shielding lung cancer cells from opiates reduces cell proliferation, invasion and migration in both cell-culture and mouse models. http://www.physorg.com/news177772193.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:10:49 EST news177772193 For cancer patients on chemotherapy, the "cure" can be as deadly as the disease itself. Adverse drug reactions are one of the leading causes of death among patients receiving cancer treatment. http://www.physorg.com/news177769379.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:00:02 EST news177769379 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. http://www.physorg.com/news177769436.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:27:39 EST news177769436 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. At present, patient self-reporting, although important, is not a well studied source of this information. A new longitudinal study from researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center finds that while clinicians' and patients' reporting of treatment side effects are very different from each other, together they provide a more complete, clinically meaningful picture of the treatment experience. http://www.physorg.com/news177702169.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:50:03 EST news177702169 Neurosurgeons from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center performed the world's first intra-arterial cerebral infusion of Avastin (bevacizumab) directly into a patient's malignant brain tumor. This novel intra-arterial (IA) technique may expose the cancer to higher doses of the drug therapy, while possibly sparing the patient common side effects of receiving the drug intravenously (IV) or throughout their body. http://www.physorg.com/news177692474.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:20:06 EST news177692474 Research into the controversial drug thalidomide reveals that the mechanism through which the drug causes limb defects is the same process which causes it to damage internal organs and other tissues. The article, published in Bio-Essays, outlines the challenges surrounding thalidomide research and claims that confirmation of a 'common mechanism' could lead to new treatments for Leprosy, Crohn's Disease, AIDS and some forms of cancer. http://www.physorg.com/news177679646.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:50:01 EST news177679646 (PhysOrg.com) -- While an elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test can be frightening news for men, new research shows that sometimes the levels are caused by a naturally occurring hormone, and may not indicate a need for a biopsy. http://www.physorg.com/news177671228.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:09:52 EST news177671228 A comprehensive analysis of various mammography screening schedules suggests that biennial (every two years) screening of average risk women between the ages of 50 and 74 achieves most of the benefits of annual screening, but with less harm. The results represent a unanimous consensus of six independent research groups from various academic institutions. Their findings are published in the November 17, 2009 Annals of Internal Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news177663689.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:40:01 EST news177663689 Risk of bladder cancer for smokers has increased since the mid-1990s, with a risk progressively increasing to a level five times higher among current smokers in New Hampshire than that among nonsmokers in 2001-2004, according to a new study published online November 16 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Furthermore, researchers found that among individuals who smoked the same total number of cigarettes over their lifetime, smoking fewer cigarettes per day for more years may be more harmful than smoking more cigarettes per day for fewer years. http://www.physorg.com/news177620245.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:30:01 EST news177620245 Targeting the normal cells that surround cancer cells within and around a tumor is a strategy that could greatly increase the effectiveness of traditional anti-cancer treatments, say researchers at The Wistar Institute. http://www.physorg.com/news177620266.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:00:03 EST news177620266 A combination of imaging tests conducted six to eight weeks after patients complete chemoradiotherapy for head and neck cancer may help identify patients who will respond to treatment and those who will require surgical follow-up, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery. http://www.physorg.com/news177618910.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:30:02 EST news177618910 (AP) -- For many women, getting a mammogram is already one of life's more stressful experiences. Now, women in their 40s have the added anxiety of trying to figure out if they should even be getting one at all. http://www.physorg.com/news177617858.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:10:02 EST news177617858 A powerful new breast cancer treatment could result from packaging one of the newer drugs that inhibits cancer's hallmark wild growth with another that blocks a primordial survival technique in which the cancer cell eats part of itself, researchers say. http://www.physorg.com/news177603580.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:50:02 EST news177603580 Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health have identified a molecular mechanism that allows two powerful signaling pathways to interact and begin a process leading to colorectal tumors. http://www.physorg.com/news177359577.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:50:02 EST news177359577 A new study from the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota shows that patients who have acute leukemia and are transplanted with two units of umbilical cord blood (UCB) have significantly reduced risk of the disease returning. This finding has the potential to change the current medical practice of using one unit of UCB for treatment of patients who are at high risk for recurrence of leukemia and other cancers of the blood and bone marrow. http://www.physorg.com/news177359380.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:40:01 EST news177359380 (PhysOrg.com) -- One difficulty with fighting cancer cells is that they are similar in many respects to the body's stem cells. By focusing on the differences, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have found a new way of tackling colon cancer. The study is presented in the prestigious journal Cell. http://www.physorg.com/news177325678.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:08:53 EST news177325678 Cervical cancer patients with specific changes in the cancer genome have a three- or fourfold increased risk of relapse after standard treatment compared to patients without these changes, according to a study by Norwegian researchers published November 13 in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics. The research suggests that specific genetic changes are crucial steps in the progression of the disease towards an aggressive and treatment-resistant state. http://www.physorg.com/news177315445.html Medicine & Health - Cancer Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:00:01 EST news177315445