http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress provides the latest news from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Doctors at Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Norris Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC) have found a combination of drugs to potentially treat chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) more effectively. The research was published online on May 3, 2013, and it will appear as a letter in the journal Leukemia, a publication of the prestigious Nature Publishing Group. The study helps address a basic problem of treating CLL. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-leukemia-treatment-dartmouth.html Cancer Mon, 13 May 2013 16:53:27 EST news287682797 Dartmouth scientists showed that more than half of all the SNPs associated with breast cancer risk are located in distant regions and bound by FOXA1, a protein required for estrogen receptor-α (ER) function according to a paper published in the journal Nature Genetics in November. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-snps-breast-cancer-affinity-factor.html Cancer Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:17:02 EST news278180216 Dartmouth scientists have demonstrated the importance of the gene Plvap and the structures it forms in mammalian physiology in a study published in December by the journal Developmental Cell. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-plvappv1-critical-formation-diaphragms-endothelial.html Cancer Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:44:12 EST news276446646 Results from a phase III clinical trial comparing a newer chemotherapy agent called eribulin mesylate with capecitabine, a standard drug used for chemotherapy today in women with previously treated metastatic breast cancer, showed that eribulin demonstrated a trend toward improved overall survival. This study was presented today by Peter A. Kaufman, M.D., during the 2012 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-standard-treatment-women-breast-cancer.html Cancer Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:40:18 EST news274098654 Dartmouth researchers have found that duration of ibuprofen use was associated with a reduced risk of bladder cancer in patients in northern New England, which has a high mortality rate of this disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-explore-popular-pain-relievers-bladder.html Cancer Wed, 07 Nov 2012 13:09:19 EST news271516148 A new probe developed collaboratively at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering uses an innovative fluorescence-reading technology to help brain surgeons distinguish cancerous tissue from normal tissue. The probe tool, now already in use at the Cancer Center for brain surgery, may one day be used for surgeries for a variety of cancers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-probe-vital-brain-cancer-surgery.html Cancer Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:24:17 EST news262362251 New research from Norris Cotton Cancer Center estimates, for the first time, the impact of an R rating for movie smoking. James Sargent, MD, co-director of the Cancer Control Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center, emphasizes that an R rating for any film showing smoking could substantially reduce smoking onset in U.S. adolescents -- an effect size similar to making all parents maximally authoritative in their parenting, Sargent says. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-onset-teens.html Health Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:35:27 EST news261063307 Overdiagnosis poses a significant threat to human health by labeling healthy people as sick and wasting resources on unnecessary care, warns Ray Moynihan, Senior Research Fellow at Bond University in Australia, in a feature published on BMJ today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-overdiagnosis-poses-significant-threat-human.html Health Wed, 30 May 2012 17:11:17 EST news257616666 Five leading health systems are changing aspects of how they perform total knee replacements, as a result of data they collected that showed variations in length of stay, length of operating room time, and in-hospital complications. The voluntary testing of clinical measures and processes they identified as potential "best practices" is a step toward their goal of higher quality care, at lower cost. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-quality-variations-health.html Health Thu, 10 May 2012 11:25:34 EST news255867901 Research led by vascular surgeons at Dartmouth-Hitchcock may offer new hope to sufferers of peripheral artery disease, the cause of nearly 60,000 lower-limb amputations annually, through the use of a patient's own stem cells. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-peripheral-artery-disease.html Medical research Wed, 02 May 2012 12:30:03 EST news255176579