May 19, 2008
ASCO: Needles May Ease Morbidities of Head-and-Neck Cancer Treatment 

By Peggy Peck, Executive Editor, MedPage Today

CHICAGO, June 5 -- Acupuncture may reduce shoulder pain and the dry mouth associated with treatment of head-and-neck cancer, according to a small randomized trial reported here.    <READ MORE>

CHICAGO, June 1 -- Vaginal brachytherapy is as effective in preventing a recurrence of endometrial cancer after surgery in intermediate- to high-risk women as external-beam pelvic radiotherapy but with less GI toxicity, Dutch researchers reported here.
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CHICAGO, May 30 -- The National Cancer Institute's budget has been squeezed to the tune of $500 million since 2004, with little possibility of significant assistance before 2011.  <READ MORE>

SAN DIEGO, May 27 -- The evidence for supplementing cancer radiation or chemotherapy with antioxidants is "equivocal at best" in the face of serious concerns about potential harm, researchers here said. <READ MORE>

ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 13 -- In patients with advanced oropharyngeal cancer, elevated levels of human papillomavirus (HPV) identify a potentially large subgroup that has a high likelihood of response and favorable prognosis, investigators here found.  <READ MORE>

SAN DIEGO, April 21 -- In patients with advanced rectal carcinoma, adding bevacizumab (Avastin) to neoadjuvant chemotherapy and radiation led to 100% local control at four years, investigators in a small clinical study reported here. <READ MORE>

SAN DIEGO, April 15 -- Eight of nine patients with metastatic basal cell carcinoma had durable clinical benefit with minimal toxicity when treated with an investigational compound that inhibits signaling in the Hedgehog pathway.  <READ MORE>

SAN DIEGO, April 14 -- The effectiveness of antiangiogenic cancer therapy may be keyed to specific patterns of circulating endothelial progenitor cells that are stimulated by the treatment, according to findings reported here.  <READ MORE>

ROME, April 14 -- For colon cancer screening, computed tomography outperforms colonoscopy with or without ultrasonography because of the added benefit of detecting extracolonic lesions, results of a computerized model suggest.  <READ MORE>

MIAMI (Reuters) - Dr. Tomoaki Kato had to remove a lot more than a cancerous tumor during an unprecedented operation on a 63-year-old Florida woman earlier this month.  <READ MORE>

TAMPA, Fla., March 24 -- The National Cancer Institute's cooperative groups seem to have a reasonably good batting average taking treatments through phase III trials into clinical practice.  <READ MORE>

BOSTON, March 20 -- Occult malignancies in patients with Li-Fraumeni syndrome have more difficulty hiding from whole-body fluorodeoxyglucose F18 (FDG) PET/CT imaging, results of a preliminary clinical evaluation suggest.  <READ MORE>

Pancreatic cancer, which claimed the life of famed tenor Luciano Pavarotti just a year after diagnosis, is the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S. for both men and women.  <READ MORE>

TAMPA, Fla., March 13 -- Blacks with uterine cancers have an increased risk for death and recurrence, even when they receive the same level of care as white women, suggested two studies reported here.  <READ MORE>

KISSIMMEE, Fla., Feb. 18 -- For opioid-tolerant cancer patients, a fentanyl buccal tablet appears to relieve breakthrough pain rapidly, reported researchers here.  <READ MORE>

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 17 -- Lack of access to clinical trials figures prominently in the inferior cancer cure rates seen in adolescents and young adults compared with children, investigators here have found.  <READ MORE>

SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 11 -- Here's a look at intriguing prospects still in early trials in five areas of breast cancer research presented at the recent San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.  <READ MORE>

Jan 3, 2008
No Improvement Made in Access to Cancer Treatment for Black Patients

NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 7 -- Racial disparities in treatment of the most common types of cancer remained virtually unchanged a decade after they first came to light.  <READ MORE>

Jan 3, 2008
Risks of Anemia Drugs in Chemotherapy Patients Are Bolstered

ROCKVILLE, Md., Jan. 3 -- More research has strengthened an association between erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) and an increased risk of mortality when the drugs are used for chemotherapy-induced anemia, the FDA said today.  <READ MORE>

Dec 10, 2007
KEEPING AT-RISK CELLS FROM DEVELOPING CANCER

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered that cancers arising from epigenetic changes - in this case the inappropriate activation of a normally silent gene - develop by becoming addicted to certain growth factors.  <READ MORE>

Oct 30, 2007
ASTRO: Routine Shots Get Short Shrift for Cancer Patients

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30 -- Routine vaccinations for cancer radiotherapy patients may be slipping through the cracks, a researcher said here.  <READ MORE>

Oct 24, 2007
AACR-NCI-EORTC: Low Side Effect Chemotherapy in the Works

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24 -- An investigational chemotherapeutic agent may be less likely to cause some of the most common side effects of similar drugs, according to an early-phase study.  <READ MORE>

Oct 15, 2007
Colorectal Cancer Leads Decline in Cancer Death Rates

ATLANTA, Oct. 15 -- Cancer death rates fell by about 2.1% per year from 2002 to 2004, compared with a 1.1% per year decline from 1993 through 2002, according to the annual report to the nation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute, and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries.  <READ MORE>

Oct 11, 2007
GENOME UPDATE DEFINES LANDSCAPE OF BREAST AND COLON CANCERS

One year after completing the first large-scale report sequencing breast and colon cancer genes, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center scientists have studied the vast majority of protein-coding genes which now suggest a landscape dominated by genes that each are mutated in relatively few cancers.  <READ MORE>

Sept 10, 2007
HOW VITAMIN C STOPS THE BIG “C”

Nearly 30 years after Nobel laureate Linus Pauling famously and controversially suggested that vitamin C supplements can prevent cancer, a team of Johns Hopkins scientists have shown that in mice at least, vitamin C - and potentially other antioxidants - can indeed inhibit the growth of some tumors ? just not in the manner suggested by years of investigation.  <READ MORE>

Aug 14, 2007
Flaxseed might benefit cancer treatment: study

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