Medical News on Cancer
For older men, robot-assisted prostate cancer surgery as safe as but more expensive than open surgery
May 21, 2014
Minimally invasive robot-assisted surgery, which has become the main choice for surgically removing cancerous prostate glands during recent years, is as safe as open surgery for Medicare patients... Read More
Important findings presented by Mount Sinai at the 2014 American Urological Association Meeting
May 20, 2014
Immune response to prostate-specific antigen, live birth rate adversely affected by increasing paternal age, comparison of treatment modalities for benign prostatic hyperplasia, understanding... Read More
Suppressing prostate cancer progression with MicroRNA
May 20, 2014
About one in seven men will develop prostate cancer over the course of a lifetime, and about one in 36 men will die from it. Read More
Dogs 'sniff out prostate cancer with 98% accuracy,' study finds
May 19, 2014
New research finds that two highly trained dogs were able to detect prostate cancer in human urine samples with up to 98% accuracy, opening the doors for a new screening method. Read More
CRYSTAL analysis shows clinical benefit of Erbitux in RAS wild-type mCRC patients
May 19, 2014
Merck Serono, the biopharmaceutical division of Merck, has announced new biomarker findings from a retrospective analysis of the completed Phase III study CRYSTAL that compared Erbitux®... Read More
UCLA study finds "low-risk" prostate cancer often not low-risk when targeted biopsy is used
May 19, 2014
More and more men who believe they have low-risk prostate cancers are opting for active surveillance, forgoing treatment and monitoring the cancer closely with prostate-specific antigen (PSA)... Read More
Could breastfeeding, birth control pills reduce risk of ovarian cancer?
May 15, 2014
Breastfeeding, oral contraceptives and tubal ligation may reduce the risk of ovarian cancer for women with mutations in the BRCA genes, according to new research. Read More
Array Biopharma Phase 3 MILO study evaluating binimetinib in ovarian cancer enrolling globally
May 15, 2014
Array BioPharma Inc. continues recruitment for its ongoing Phase 3 clinical study in patients with low-grade serous ovarian cancer (LGSOC). Read More
Cancer Council Australia welcomes new bowel cancer screening and medical research investment
May 15, 2014
At least 35,000 Australian bowel cancer deaths will be prevented thanks to a $95.9 million, four-year plan to finalise Australia's National Bowel Cancer Screening Program in the 2014-15 budget. Read More
Link discovered between colon cancer and metabolism
May 15, 2014
More than 60 years ago Otto Warburg recognized that cancer cells differ from normal cells in the metabolic pathway they use for the oxidation of sugar. Read More
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