Balloon Juice (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
From the NY Times: New guidelines for cervical cancer screening say women should delay their first Pap test until age 21, and be screened less often than recommended in the past. The advice, from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, is meant to decrease unnecessary testing and potentially harmful treatment, particularly in teenagers and young women. [...]
Physorg (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
High irradiances of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) should not be used over melanomas. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Cancer studied the pain relieving, anti-inflammatory 'cold laser', finding that it caused increased tumour growth in a mouse model of skin cancer.
Newswise (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Radiation therapy is effective in achieving local control and palliation in patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNTs), despite such tumors being commonly considered resistant to radiation therapy, according to a largest of its kind study in the November 15 issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official journal of the American Society for Radiation...
Fox News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Women in the United States should start cervical cancer screening at age 21 and most do not need an annual Pap smear, according to new guidelines issued Friday that aim to reduce the risk of unnecessary treatment.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In response to a recent New York Times article that questions why currently available medications designed to treat and prevent some cancers are being ignored, ECRI Institute, an independent nonprofit organization, is offering a roadmap to the evidence on Finasteride for Prevention of Prostate Cancer for free download.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Although morphine has been the gold-standard treatment for postoperative and chronic cancer pain for two centuries, a growing body of evidence is showing that opiate-based painkillers can stimulate the growth and spread of cancer cells. Two new studies advance that argument and demonstrate how shielding lung cancer cells from opiates reduces cell proliferation, invasion and migration in both cell-culture...
Musings of a Distractible Mind (Free subscription) | yesterday
Breast cancer makes me quite emotional. My mother and two of my sisters have had breast cancer; all were picked up with mammograms. A good friend of ours was diagnosed in her forties with aggressive breast cancer through mammography. She is currently doing well. I don’t like breast cancer and am definitely against women dying from it. This [...] Related posts: Avandia and HRT Dr. Nissen is going...
Salon.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
On Wednesday, Broadsheet's Mary Elizabeth Williams laid out some good reasons to be skeptical of The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's new guidelines for breast cancer screening, which suggest mammograms every two years for women 50-74, as opposed to every year for women over 40. Although "the report does make a persuasive case that not all cancers are life-threatening, and that 'over detection'...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
Patients with heart disease in Norway, a country with no fortification of foods with folic acid, had an associated increased risk of cancer and death from any cause if they had received treatment with folic acid and vitamin B12, according to a study in the November 18 issue of JAMA.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY), a leading RNAi therapeutics company, announced new pre-clinical data from its ALN-VSP program presented at the AACR-NCI-EORTC Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics International conference being held November 15 - 19, 2009 in Boston, Mass.
Perspective Journal: News and Polit (Free subscription) | yesterday
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
ACWORTH, Ga., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A rare blend of events including an afternoon playing tennis paired with a refreshing wine tasting will set the stage for a most unique breast cancer fundraising taking place on Sunday, November 22nd from 1- 4PM in Acworth, Georgia.
The Healthcare Transformation (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
This week, US Preventive Services Task Force panel of independent experts issued a guide line for cancer screening and prevention. The guideline is based on real data and takes into account effectiveness of screening, radiation risks due to screening, and risk of being missed. The recommendation has been approved and supported by experts in the field. [...]
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Experts agree that the urological cancer patient will benefit greatly if the delivered treatment is the result of a combined effort. Collaboration of experts from various fields is, therefore, necessary to take cancer-related research and medical practice to the next level.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
The pedal-to-the-metal signals driving the growth of several types of cancer cells lead to a common switch governing the use of glucose, researchers at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University have discovered. Scientists who study cancer have known for decades that cancer cells tend to consume more glucose, or blood sugar, than healthy cells.
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bharatbook | yesterday
The total UK market for pharmaceuticals was worth an estimated £13.65bn in 2007. Prescription-only medicines accounted for most of this figure, with a smaller share being taken by over-the-counter (OTC) pharmaceuticals. ( http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=75736&rt=Pharmaceutical-Industry-Market-Review.html ) The UK is home to the most important pharmaceutical industry in Europe in terms of development
obi jo | 11/17/2009
http://benkazie.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/confusion-no-mammograms-until-age-50-no-teaching-breast-self-examination/ Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed type of cancer in women. An estimated 192,370 new cases of invasive breast cancer in women and 1,910 cases in men will occur in 2009. Some 40,170 breast cancer deaths will have also occurred during 2009. The risk factors for breast cancer include...
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When was this panel formed? (prior or after President Obama took office)
aarkstore | 11/17/2009
Overview: This PARP Research Products market report explores are a superfamily of 18 proteins, of which PARP-1 is the best characterized. They are enzymes that are activated by DNA breaks to facilitate DNA repair. Currently, there is a great deal of research being done on this family of polymerases, because its activity is linked to serious disease conditions, including cancer, ischemia, diabetes,...
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