ATLANTA, May 14: A set of reports published Monday said more than 200 chemicals, including some in products such as shampoo and French fries, cause breast cancer in animals.
Seventy-three of the chemicals identified by researchers in a supplement to the journal Cancer are either in consumer products or are food contaminants, the Los Angeles Times […]
We at ACSH are accustomed to media reports about trace exposure to “chemicals” causing a spectrum of diseases — including cancer. Usually these claims come from self-appointed “consumer”/”environmental” groups like the Environmental Working Group — and even some savvy people in the media and the general public know to take the assertions with a significant […]
NORMAN, Okla., May 14: A new cancer treatment developed by two University of Oklahoma professors has offered new hope in its reported ability to stop the spread of cancer cells.
The Oklahoman newspaper reported Monday that professors Thomas Pento and Roger Harrison have discovered a new treatment that does not harm healthy normal cells in the […]
Scientists believe the drugs work by blocking an enzyme behind two out of five cases of the cancer.
The drugs have already been clinically tested for safety for their original use, meaning they could be fast-tracked for trials on breast-cancer patients, and reach the market more quickly. A new drug would take many years to research […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on May 14th proposed limiting Medicare payments for use of biologic anemia drugs in treating certain cancers and related conditions.
The proposed national coverage decision (NCD) relating to use of anti-anemia biologics– Amgen’s Epogen and Aranesp and Johnson & Johnson’s Procrit — was made in response to a Food […]
A new vaccine aimed at preventing cervical cancer is nearly 100 percent effective against the two types of the human papillomavirus (HPV) responsible for most cases of cervical cancer. Results of a nationwide study of the vaccine are published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Cervical cancer is the second most common cause of cancer […]
U.S. researchers report the rate of women getting mammograms to screen for breast cancer fell 4 percent from 2000 to 2005, according to a study at the U.S. National Cancer Institute.
According to background information in the study, mammographies are the best way to catch breast cancer early. Since the 1980s, widespread […]
Cancer patients must be allowed to pay for non-NHS drugs in an attempt to head off a funding crisis in treatment of the disease, specialists said yesterday.
Under the current guidelines cancer sufferers in England who wish to use drugs that are not available free on the NHS can only pay for them if they are […]
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The state legislature has successfully squashed Governor Rick Perry’s mandate requiring an anti-cancer vaccine for young girls.
“They have had an opportunity to eliminate the leading cause of the second-most common cancer in women,” Perry said. “They chose not to.”
Washington, May 9 ; Researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and Baylor College of Medicine have revealed that people infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) are at an increased risk of developing certain lymphomas (cancers of the lymphatic system)
