November 25, 2006 – 2:20 pm
Scientists at the University of California in San Francisco say they have found a vaccine made from the patient’s own tumour that triggers immune responses.
The vaccine is designed for glioma tumours, a recurrent cancer of the central nervous system that usually occurs in the brain.
November 25, 2006 – 2:19 pm
Canada’s health system can’t seem to cast off the built-in complacency that is the mark of the second-rate. Take waiting times for prostate-cancer patients. Canada’s health ministers set a goal of four weeks wait for radiation treatment for cancer. But 70 per cent of hospitals surveyed don’t meet that goal for prostate patients. Apparently the […]
November 25, 2006 – 2:15 pm
A woman’s risk for breast cancer declines as she grows older, Mayo Clinic researchers conclude.
That’s because as women age, their milk-producing glands (lobules) start to shut down. This natural process is called lobular regression, or involution. Since it’s believed that breast cancer originates in the lobules, a reduction in their size and number reduces cancer […]
November 25, 2006 – 2:15 pm
Marathoners face heightened odds for skin cancer, including melanoma, new European research shows.
The study “confirms things we already know,” said Dr. Robin Ashinoff, chief of dermatologic, Mohs, and laser surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, N.J. “We should be counseling these people to try and do their outside activities not when the sun […]
November 25, 2006 – 2:11 pm
Lymphoma - a kind of blood cancer - is a misunderstood condition, a new survey has found, with most Australians knowing little about the disease or its impact.
It’s the fifth most common cancer, affecting more women than ovarian and cervical cancers and killing more Australians than melanoma.
November 25, 2006 – 2:10 pm
Switching patients with early breast cancer from a standard drug to a newer treatment helps them live longer and improves their odds of remaining free of the disease, German researchers said Friday.
Although tamoxifen has been the standard treatment following surgery for women with hormone sensitive tumors, they said changing to a newer class of drug […]
November 25, 2006 – 2:10 pm
Washington, D.C. - American Institute for Cancer Research - infoZine -Experts at the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) in Washington, the nation’s leading authority on the diet-cancer connection, said today that the studies seem promising.
Their findings will need to be published to allow the research community a chance to review them in detail, but […]
November 19, 2006 – 1:43 pm
Cooking meats in on open-flame grills or with other forms of direct heat creates tasty bits of char but also carcinogens called heterocyclic amines or HCA.
However, researchers have found that aspirin may reduce the cancer-causing effects of flame-broiled and grilled foods in women who eat the seared meats often.
In a study of 312 women with […]
November 19, 2006 – 1:43 pm
SKIN cancer afflicts almost five times as many NSW residents as all other cancers combined, and young sports enthusiasts are most at risk.
Statistics show the State has an annual rate of 145,000 cases of skin cancer, compared with 30,600 cases of other cancers, including breast, lung and prostate.
November 19, 2006 – 1:42 pm
The Federal Government is taking action to try and cut the number of deaths from skin cancer in Australia.
