SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - Larry King will receive the True Grit Award next month from the John Wayne Cancer Institute.
The 73-year-old host of CNN’s “Larry King Live” will receive the honour at the annual Odyssey Ball, to be held April 14 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Jamie Lee Curtis will host the event. “How […]
WASHINGTON - Sam Monismith was prepped and ready to begin his colonoscopy when health workers brought the university professor awkward news: His insurance wasn’t going to cover the colon cancer check. They wanted a signed promise to pay, or the test was off.
Monismith hesitated only briefly — and the test uncovered nine polyps, precancerous growths […]
The Food and Drug Administration gave the status — which is designed to speed a drug through the approval process if it addresses a significant unmet medical need — for use of Nuvelo’s drug known as rNAPc2 as both a first-line treatment and second-line treatment, both in combination with chemotherapy, against metastatic colorectal cancer.
The […]
Seattle-based biotech Dendreon is hoping to get U.S. approval for the first cancer drug that would train the body to fight off cancer on its own, with few side effects. But researchers, statisticians and Wall Street analysts are fiercely debating whether there is enough data about this radical new treatment.
Dendreon’s Provenge is a so-called cancer […]
Researchers affiliated with the Nurses’ Health Study have reported that low to moderate doses of aspirin are associated with a lower all cause mortality. A modest benefit on cancer deaths was only seen after 10 years of usage. The details of this study appeared in the March 26, 2007 issue of the Archives of Internal […]
DURHAM, N.C., March 28 — Biopsies may underestimate the severity of prostate cancer in obese men, a team of investigators found. In a study comparing biopsy results and surgical specimens in more than 1,100 men who underwent radical prostatectomy, obese men were significantly more likely than men of normal weight to have cancers that […]
In women newly diagnosed with cancer in one breast, an MRI can find the disease in the opposite breast more effectively than standard mammography or clinical examination, scientists said.
MRI, which stands for magnetic resonance imaging, detected cancers that had been missed by the other methods in 3.1 percent of patients in a large clinical study, […]
RALEIGH, N.C. - Elizabeth Edwards’ sobering diagnosis of incurable cancer has triggered a nationwide outpouring of support, including a surge of donations to her husband’s presidential campaign.
The amount of money given to Edwards’ campaign via the Internet has jumped by about 50 percent since the couple announced last week that Elizabeth Edwards’ cancer had returned. […]
March 28, 2007 – 10:57 am
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Annual computed tomographic (CT) screening for lung cancer resulted in the identification of a high proportion of patients who had early-stage disease, researchers report in the journal Radiology.
Principal investigator Dr. Claudia I. Henschke told Reuters Health that when CT screening is performed it is important to use an approach that […]
March 28, 2007 – 10:56 am
Some three million teenage girls in Germany are to be urged to take part in a mass vaccination campaign to help to stamp out cervical cancer.
The go-ahead for the jabs — in effect Germany’s first nationwide anticancer immunisation — is likely to nudge other EU countries, including Britain, to consider similar steps. Germany is Europe’s […]
