March 28, 2007 – 10:55 am
WASHINGTON – Republican presidential front-runner Rudy Giuliani said Monday that his health is excellent despite battling prostate cancer in 2000.
“I’m doing great,” the former New York City mayor said in an interview on CNBC’s “Kudlow & Company.” “My PSA is low, nonexistent. I’m cancer-free, I have been for six years. I’m extremely healthy and energetic.”
March 28, 2007 – 10:55 am
CHARLESTON — Presidential hopeful John Edwards will be making a stop in the Mountain State this week for a private fundraiser.
The Democratic candidate announced last week that his wife Elizabeth’s breast cancer had returned, but the couple would continue their run at the White House.
It’s a decision many cancer survivors and research advocates are […]
March 28, 2007 – 10:54 am
WASHINGTON — A powerful podium like Tony Snow’s and wealth like Elizabeth Edwards’ mean nothing to cancer cells. A disease that afflicts the comfortable along with everyone else, cancer casts a large shadow in this presidential campaign, and now in the White House.
The back-to-back revelations that President Bush’s spokesman and the wife of Democratic presidential […]
March 28, 2007 – 10:54 am
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Testing for the prostate cancer gene 3 (PCA3) in urine may improve screening for prostate cancer, new research suggests.
Screening for prostate cancer usually involves measuring a protein in the blood called prostate specific antigen or PSA. High PSA levels suggest that cancer may be present and a biopsy is […]
March 28, 2007 – 10:53 am
When his wife died of colon cancer almost seven years ago, retired Silicon Valley executive Jim Smaha set out on a learning expedition about the disease.
What he found out stunned him: With a simple, painless procedure called colonoscopy, the disease can be prevented.
March 28, 2007 – 10:53 am
Former New York Yankee slugger Bobby Murcer has been cleared of a malignant brain cancer, the team said Tuesday.
Murcer was diagnosed with brain cancer on Christmas Eve. He had surgery to remove the tumor shortly after the cancer was discovered. Tests completed last week at the MD Andersen […]
March 28, 2007 – 10:52 am
TUESDAY, March 27 (HealthDay News) — Blueberries, already touted as a super food because they may protect against memory loss and heart disease, could help stop the development of colon cancer, a new study finds.
The study showed that a natural compound called pterostilbene — found in blueberries and other fruits — helped prevent pre-cancerous colon […]
Health plan members who receive preventive health examinations, as opposed to going to a physician only when they are sick, appear more likely to undergo testing for colorectal, breast and prostate cancers, according to a report in the March 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Accessing high-quality health information on the Internet may improve breast cancer patients’ opinions about their doctors, according to a new study conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center of Excellence in Cancer Communications Research, funded by the National Cancer Institute.
MONDAY, March 26 (HealthDay News) — U.S. breast cancer patients with a particularly deadly form of the disease are more likely to be poor, black or Hispanic, and under 40 years of age, new research shows.
Patients diagnosed with “triple-negative” breast cancer lack three key hormonal cancer markers that are present in most other forms of […]
