November 19, 2006 – 1:41 pm
In the corridors of Scottsdale Memorial Hospital-North in 1993, women who ranked among the best golfers in the world took turns walking to the bedside of a young rival, Heather Farr, to listen to her confidently plot her return to the L.P.G.A. Tour.
November 19, 2006 – 1:39 pm
WASHINGTON - The breast cancer drug Herceptin received expanded federal approval Thursday to include treatment of some women after they have undergone surgery.
November 19, 2006 – 1:38 pm
Smoking cigarettes while infected with a virus linked to cervical cancer increases the risk for the disease, researchers have found.
The risk of cervical cancer — of the type confined to the surface layer of the cervix — was higher among smokers with high levels of human papillomavirus Type 16, which is most closely linked to […]
November 17, 2006 – 4:09 pm
Up to 200 people a year die from lung cancer caused by high levels of radon gas in Ireland – way above the global average, health organisations revealed today.
Between 6% and 15% of annual lung cancer deaths across the world are caused by exposure to the gas, which equates to up to 170,000 deaths, according […]
November 17, 2006 – 3:37 pm
NEW YORK: Soprano Dawn Upshaw began treatment for early-stage breast cancer Thursday, canceling her engagements through January 2007, her manager said.
Upshaw, 46, who had been scheduled to give a performance in Vienna, Austria, on Thursday of Osvaldo Golijov’s “Ayre” with the Kronos Quartet, was being treated in New York, said Alec Treuhaft, the singer’s New […]
November 17, 2006 – 3:34 pm
The Irish Cancer Society has urged the Government to push up the price of cigarettes by €2 a packet in the coming Budget, in a bid to reduce the incidence of cancer.
The society told the Oireachtas Health Committee that young people were very susceptible to the price of tobacco, so that a significant price rise […]
November 17, 2006 – 3:33 pm
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women in the sunnier regions of the world have a much lower risk of ovarian cancer than those who dwell in colder climates, a new study has found.
The findings, say researchers, suggest that sun exposure — and, more precisely, vitamin D production in the body — help prevent this […]
November 17, 2006 – 3:27 pm
THURSDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) — Tiny “nanoparticles” can be loaded with high concentrations of drugs to kill brain cancer, U.S. researchers report.
Researchers at the University of Michigan (U-M) Comprehensive Cancer Center incorporated the drug Photofrin into nanoparticles (about one-billionth of a meter in size) that would target brain tumors.
November 16, 2006 – 11:18 am
Lung cancer kills more Americans than colon, breast and prostate cancers combined.
HealthFirst reporter Leslie LoBue says some doctors say winning this battle is less about treatment and more about catching the cancer early.
November 16, 2006 – 11:17 am
MORE than half of all breast cancers are diagnosed before the tumour has spread beyond the breast tissue, compared with only 30 per cent of bowel cancers, NSW statistics show.
They highlight the growing importance of early detection as the number of new cancer cases increases.
