| HOUSTON (The New York Times News Service) -- From his outsider's vantage point, computer scientist Stephen Wong sees a big problem with drug discovery. It's too costly and too slow.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lawmakers broke along party lines on a new aspect of the health care debate Sunday as a former National Institutes of Health chief urged women to ignore guidelines that delay the start of breast cancer screenings.
WASHINGTON (AP)-- First mammograms. Now -- in an apparent coincidence -- Pap smears.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A member of the panel whose new mammogram recommendations have led to confusion is defending the task force's report.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal policy on who should get breast cancer screening has not changed, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday.
SPRING LAKE, N.J. (AP) -- Lying in bed one night in 2007, Peter Criss felt something strange: a small lump on his left breast.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Most women don't need a mammogram in their 40s and should get one every two years starting at 50, a government task force said Monday. It's a major reversal that conflicts with the American Cancer Society's long-standing position.
NEW YORK (AP) -- For many women, getting a mammogram is already one of life's more stressful experiences.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- Lillian Landry always said she wasn't afraid to die. So when death came last week, the 99-year-old was lying peacefully in a hospice with no needles or tubes. Her final days saw her closest friend at her side and included occasional shots of her favorite whiskey, Canadian Mist.
(USA TODAY) -- Nearly half of breast cancer survivors suffer from persistent pain, even two to three years after surgery, a study shows.
MILWAUKEE (Canadian Press) -- Men may protect more than their hearts if they keep cholesterol in line: Their chances of getting aggressive prostate cancer may be lower, new research suggests.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nurses were training women in rural Mexico to examine their breasts for cancer when one raised her hand to object. If she lost her breast, Harvard public health specialist Felicia Knaul recalls the woman saying, "My man would leave me" - and with him, the family's income.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has allowed drugs for cancer and other diseases to stay on the market even when follow-up studies showed they didn't extend patients' lives, say congressional investigators.
(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) -- Pink is the new green.
ATLANTA (AP) -- A second kind of vaccine against cervical cancer may be added to the recommended list for girls and young women after a federal advisory panel voted Wednesday to support it.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine. Yet these mostly unproven treatments are now mainstream and used by more than a third of all Americans. This is one in an occasional series examining their use and potential risks.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Power of pink
TAMPA (The New York Times News Service) -- When Geri Bell lost her breasts to cancer, she joked that at least she wouldn't need a bra. When she lost her hair to chemotherapy, she'd say how her wig made it so easy to get ready in the morning.
CHICAGO (AP) -- A new study suggests less-invasive keyhole surgery for prostate cancer may mean a higher risk for lasting incontinence and impotence when compared with traditional surgery.
(USA TODAY) -- When a mammogram detected a lump in Barbara Laufer's breast, the fear was paralyzing.
MONROE, Ohio (AP) -- A husband and wife are both undergoing treatment for breast cancer in a case that illustrates how the disease can strike both sexes. Mike and Barbara Welsh, of Monroe, in southwestern Ohio, each had surgery this year after separate discoveries that they had breast cancer.
SEATTLE (AP) -- Women in Nicaragua may soon get mammograms while they bank, thanks to the work of two Seattle nonprofit groups.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dr. Christine Daniel promised to her patients what many considered the improbable -- the chance to cure cancer through an herbal treatment.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Estrogen fuels breast cancer yet doctors can't measure how much of the hormone is in a woman's breast without cutting into it. A Canadian invention might change that: A lab-on-a-chip that can do the work quickly with just the poke of a small needle.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal regulators said Thursday an experimental kidney cancer drug from GlaxoSmithKline may cause liver problems, potentially outweighing its ability to slow the disease.
LONDON (AP) -- Being fat in middle age may slash women's chances of making it to their golden years in good health by almost 80 percent, a new study says. American researchers observed more than 17,000 female nurses with an average age of 50 in the U.S. All of the women were healthy when the study began in 1976. Researchers then monitored the women's weight, along with other health changes, every two years until 2000.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Some doctors tell patients they have "stage zero" breast cancer. Others call it a precancer.
LONDON (AP) -- Being fat could become the leading cause of cancer in women in Western countries in the coming years, European researchers said Thursday.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Adults with a common form of leukemia had a better chance of remission if they got a double dose of a long-used cancer drug, two new studies found.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Mary Foust knew something was wrong eight years ago.
LONDON (AP) -- A common treatment for prostate cancer may slightly increase patients' risk of heart problems, new research says.
GENEVA (AP) -- The World Health Organization on Tuesday drastically reduced the amount of radon from natural sources that countries should allow to accumulate in buildings, given the fatal lung cancer it can cause.
LONDON (AP) -- People with a genetic susceptibility to colon cancer could cut their chances of developing the disease in half by taking a daily dose of aspirin, researchers said Monday.
ATLANTA (AP) -- One in three teenage girls have rolled up their sleeves for a vaccine against cervical cancer, but vaccination rates vary dramatically between states, according to a federal report released Thursday.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Cell phones may be hazardous to your health.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Drugmaker Merck likely will face U.S. competition for its vaccine Gardasil, after federal experts recommended rival GlaxoSmithKline's Cervarix also be approved to prevent the virus that causes most cervical cancers.
CHICAGO (AP) -- A new study links hormone therapy for prostate cancer with a higher risk of death in older men who've had serious heart problems.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Four years after the government severely restricted its use, the lung cancer drug Iressa may be poised to make a comeback: A study concludes it can slow the deadly disease better than standard chemotherapy in certain patients.
ATLANTA (AP) -- U.S. life expectancy has risen to a new high, now standing at nearly 78 years, the government reported Wednesday.
(USA TODAY) -- Asking nurses to reach out to people who have advanced cancer -- even if only by phone -- can improve patients' mood and quality of life, a study in today's Journal of the American Medical Association reports.
WASHINGTON (The New York Times News Service) -- Obesity is the elephant in the room of health care reform, a public health catastrophe that kills well over 100,000 Americans a year.
(Associated Press) -- Breast cancer survivors have been getting bum advice. For decades, many doctors warned that lifting weights or even heavy groceries could cause painful arm swelling. New research shows that weight training actually helps prevent this problem.
(Associated Press) -- Breast cancer patients with even the tiniest spread of the disease to a lymph node have a much higher risk of it recurring years later and may need more treatment than just surgery, new research suggests.
PHILADELPHIA (McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- A worldwide shortage of radioactive isotopes is causing delays in some imaging tests for cancer and heart patients at area hospitals, doctors say.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Score another win for the humble aspirin. A study suggests colon cancer patients who took the dirt-cheap wonder drug reduced their risk of death from the disease by nearly 30 percent.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal regulators on Tuesday added stronger warnings to a group of best-selling drugs used to treat arthritis and other inflammatory diseases, saying they can increase the risk of cancer in children and adolescents.
TAMPA (The New York Times News Service) -- For the estimated 50,000 women a year who have one or both breasts removed through surgery, mastectomy usually means a disfiguring scar or reconstructive surgery to mask it.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Myrtle Jones of Raleigh has been soaking up rays for almost 60 years and doesn't plan on stopping -- not even in the face of a new report that moves tanning beds and ultraviolet radiation into the top category of cancer risk.
LONDON (AP) -- International cancer experts have moved tanning beds and other sources of ultraviolet radiation into the top cancer risk category, deeming them as deadly as arsenic and mustard gas. For years, scientists have described tanning beds and ultraviolet radiation as "probable carcinogens."
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- The Veterans Administration's top expert on a prostate cancer treatment method told a congressional committee Wednesday that a program at the VA Medical Center in Philadelphia should have been stopped immediately when a computer malfunction occurred.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Scientists have found seven key genes in the type of brain tumor affecting Sen. Edward Kennedy that together can predict how aggressive a patient's cancer will be.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Numerous times after Amy Brannock was diagnosed and treated for ovarian cancer, a screening test showed her illness remained in remission.
LONDON (AP) -- The World Health Organization has approved a cervical cancer vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline, meaning U.N. agencies and partners can now officially buy millions of doses of the vaccine for poor countries worldwide.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eat less, live longer? It seems to work for monkeys: A 20-year study found cutting calories by almost a third slowed their aging and fended off death.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Feeling angry with or abandoned by God increases depression in women with breast cancer, according to a survey by Pittsburgh doctors, which advises clinicians to ask patients questions about their religion and guide them to use spirituality to cope.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- The largest-ever trial for a cervical cancer vaccine shows that the drug Cervarix protects women from five of the most common cancercausing viruses, a University of New Mexico researcher said Tuesday.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Patients often assume if they don't receive a letter or phone call after a medical test that everything is OK.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Erica Harris thought her Prineville home would be finished this summer. Instead, the suburban home has no flooring. Rugs and furniture lie atop subfloor. There are no kitchen cabinets, and steps that will someday lead from one room to another are not there. Harris' appliances are being stored in her garage.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- All Vermont workplaces become smoke free today as a new state law goes into effect, banning the designated smoking areas that were allowed under the previous law.
ATLANTA (AP) -- In a perverse twist of medical fate, Farrah Fawcett has become the poster girl for anal cancer, a rare disease often linked to a sexually transmitted virus.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Irregular heartbeat. Prostate cancer. Back pain. Hearing loss. The government is about to spend millions to try to uncover the best treatments for scores of ailments -- and how to handle these four biggies leads a list of top 100 questions that doctors need answered.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) - A new study suggests children and adolescents who are physically abused have a greater chance of developing cancer later in life than those who are not abused.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Farrah Fawcett, a reigning symbol of American pop culture who never quite managed to escape the one electrifying role that made her that symbol -- as one of "Charlie's Angels" -- has died. She was 62 and had been suffering from anal cancer, which had recently spread to her liver.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- The University of Pennsylvania radiation oncologist at the center of the controversy about the Philadelphia VA Medical Center's prostate cancer program has taken a leave from Penn's medical school.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- If caught in time, anal cancer isn't typically deadly and doesn't require surgery.
WASHINGTON (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- Dr. Jerri Nielsen Fitzgerald, who battled cancer in 1999 while stationed at the South Pole, died at home Tuesday in Southwick, Massachusetts, after a second bout with the disease, local media reported.
LONDON (AP) - Women who have their stomachs stapled not only lose weight, they also may reduce their cancer risk by up to 40 percent, new research says. In a study of more than 2,000 obese people who had surgery to reduce the size of their stomachs, Swedish researchers found women who had the procedure were less likely to get cancer than those who did not.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Daniel Hauser, the 13-year-old cancer patient from Sleepy Eye, Minn., is making "better than satisfactory progress" in his medical treatment but still needs to remain under court supervision, a Brown County judge said Tuesday.
(USA TODAY) -- The government's latest snapshot of air pollution across the nation shows residents of New York, Oregon and California faced the highest risk of developing cancer from breathing toxic chemicals.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Marijuana smoke has joined tobacco smoke and hundreds of other chemicals on a list of substances California regulators say cause cancer.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Four years ago, after talking to doctors at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center, the Rev. Ricardo Flippin opted for a radiation therapy that would precisely target his prostate cancer and leave nearby organs unharmed.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs' prospects are good in the wake of his liver transplant two months ago, medical experts said Saturday, calling the procedure an effective strategy to contain a cancer that has likely spread.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Ninety-two veterans were given incorrect radiation doses in a common surgical procedure to treat prostate cancer during a six-year period at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia, according to newspaper reports Sunday.
(Associated Press) -- Two of the most popular and promising dietary supplements -- vitamin D and fish oil -- will be tested in a large, government-sponsored study to see whether either nutrient can lower a healthy person's risk of getting cancer, heart disease or having a stroke.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- The only hope for dogs suffering from a common form of canine cancer used to be a pricey cancer drug for people.
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (McClatchy-Tribune Information Services)-- At the 1999 U.S. Open that provided the lasting image of Payne Stewart, runner-up Phil Mickelson also captured America's imagination. He played that week knowing his wife, Amy, was expecting their first child at any time. He kept telling everyone he was going to leave the moment he found out she'd gone into labor.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- As the hottest months of summer approach, dermatologists say people need to take extra precautions when working and having fun in the sun.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Anh Reiss got the first inkling of trouble when her doctor and best friend, Xiaodong Zhou, called her on a Saturday morning in mid-January.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- The human placenta could be an important source of stem cells for curing leukemia, sickle cell disease and other blood-related disorders, a new study reveals.
SLEEPY EYE, Minnesota (Canadian Press) -- X-rays show the tumour in the chest of a 13-year-old boy who resisted treatment has shrunk significantly after two courses of court-ordered chemotherapy, a family spokesman said Monday.
(AAP) -- Young people with a sibling who has cancer are more prone to depression and psychological distress, a new Australian study has found.
BALTIMORE (AP) -- At one of the nation's top trauma hospitals, a nurse circles a patient's bed, humming and waving her arms as if shooing evil spirits. Another woman rubs a quartz bowl with a wand, making tunes that mix with the beeping monitors and hissing respirator keeping the man alive.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- With much of her lower body consumed by cancer, Leslee Flasch finally faced the truth: The herbal supplements and special diet were not working.
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) -- Vince Palella's brother got him started on supplements.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- As a criminal defense lawyer, Meg Gaines valued evidence. But as a 38-year-old mom with ovarian cancer that had spread to her liver, evidence took a back seat to emotion as she desperately sought a cure.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Leslee Flasch worked in a hospice. She had seen cancer treatments fail. Now doctors were saying she needed her colon removed to treat her rectal cancer. Barely 50 years old, she would have to wear a colostomy bag for the rest of her life.
TAMPA (The New York Times News Service) -- After learning her ovarian cancer was back, Lois Kreditor faced what amounted to a medical game of roulette.
(USA TODAY) -- The race to craft stem cells that have the virtues, but not the notoriety, of their embryonic brethren faces its final hurdle: becoming safe enough to help patients.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Breast cancer survivors risk having their disease come back if they use certain antidepressants while also taking the cancer prevention drug tamoxifen, worrisome new research shows.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- First there was surgery, then chemotherapy and radiation. Now, doctors have overcome 30 years of false starts and found success with a fourth way to fight cancer: using the body's natural defender, the immune system.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- There's more troubling news about hormone therapy for menopause symptoms: Lung cancer seems more likely to prove fatal in women who are taking estrogen-progestin pills, a study suggests.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Adult survivors of childhood cancer who most need mammograms and other tests to watch for second cancers are less likely to follow screening recommendations than the general public or even their healthy siblings, a new study finds.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Baby-protecting folic acid is getting renewed attention: Not only does it fight spina bifida and some related abnormalities, new research shows it also may prevent premature birth and heart defects.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- A popular cancer drug, ushered into use on a wave of promise five years ago because it chokes off a tumor's blood supply, appears to raise the risk of intestinal perforations, a team of Long Island scientists has found.
(USA TODAY) -- Margo Adler-Libstag isn't cancer-free.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- After a week on the run, 13-year-old Daniel Hauser was facing his first court-ordered chemotherapy in relatively good spirits after meeting with cancer specialists Wednesday at Children's Hospital in Minneapolis, said his family's lawyer, Calvin Johnson.
HAYWARD, Calif. (AP) -- If Nick Glasgow were white, he would have a nearly 90 percent chance of finding a matching bone marrow donor who could cure his leukemia.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Zapping away abnormal, precancerous cells in the throat may lower the risk of later developing esophageal cancer, the first major study to test this technique finds.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- The push to legalize medical marijuana in Illinois has taken a big step forward.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The U.S. cancer death rate fell again in 2006, a new analysis shows, continuing a slow downward trend that experts attribute to declines in smoking, earlier detection and better treatment.
LONDON (AP) -- When a cancer patient from Singapore traveled to the United States last year, he discovered an unusual side effect of his medication: missing fingerprints.
NEW ULM, Minn. (AP) -- A 13-year-old cancer patient and his mother who spent nearly a week on the run to avoid chemotherapy must again place the boy's medical fate in the hands of a judge. And this time, an attorney said she believes they'll do what the court orders.
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