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(HealthDay) -- For patients with esophageal or esophagogastric-junction cancer, treatment with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy followed by surgical resection is associated with improved survival compared with surgery alone, according to a study published in the May 31 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-pre-op-chemoradiotherapy-ups-survival-esophageal.html Cancer Thu, 31 May 2012 10:20:01 EST news257675383 (HealthDay) -- The health risks associated with being overweight and obese are well publicized, but new research may add another condition to this list: leg lymphedema, pain and swelling due to blockage of the lymph nodes in the groin area. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-obesity-odds-painful-leg-condition.html Overweight and Obesity Wed, 30 May 2012 18:00:02 EST news257616947 (HealthDay) -- Patients with esophageal cancer who receive chemotherapy and radiation before surgery have better outcomes, Dutch researchers report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-pre-op-treatments-boost-survival-esophageal.html Cancer Wed, 30 May 2012 17:40:02 EST news257616900 Following a period for public comment, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) released its final recommendation for prostate cancer screening. The Task Force now recommends against PSA-based screening for all men, regardless of age. The final recommendations are being published early online in the May 22 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, the flagship journal of the American College of Physicians (ACP). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-word-task-psa-based-screening-prostate.html Cancer Mon, 21 May 2012 17:00:01 EST news256823670 Black prostate cancer patients may not be getting the same quality of care as white patients, according to a first-of-its-kind study by researchers at Henry Ford Hospital who found racial disparities in the results of surgery to remove diseased prostates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-quality-issues-worse-results-black.html Cancer Tue, 15 May 2012 15:55:57 EST news256316124 Robot-assisted surgery is now both more common and far more successful than radical "open" surgery to treat prostate cancer in the United States, according to a new Henry Ford Hospital study published in the current issue of the medical journal European Urology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-complications-outcomes-robot-assisted-prostate-cancer.html Surgery Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:50:01 EST news254457132 With technological advancements opening the door to less invasive medical procedures, robotic-assisted surgery is becoming increasingly popular, despite being more expensive than traditional surgery. Robotic-assisted surgical removal of the bladder due to cancer is a new approach to the traditional "open" — or more invasive — operation called a radical cystectomy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-deaths-complications-robotic-bladder-cancer.html Surgery Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:36:14 EST news252603362 Rush University Medical Center will begin offering in late March a new stereotactic radiosurgery treatment program with the latest radiation therapy technology available. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-cancer-treatment-sculpts-tumor.html Cancer Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:45:32 EST news251981123 Opioid drugs used to relieve pain in postoperative and chronic cancer patients may stimulate the growth and spread of tumors, according to two studies and a commentary in the 2012 annual Journal Symposium issue of Anesthesiology, the academic journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-evidence-mounts-link-opioids-cancer.html Cancer Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:00:01 EST news251481737 Cytori Therapeutics announced today the publication of RESTORE-2 trial results in the peer-reviewed European Journal of Surgical Oncology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-cytori-breast-reconstruction-cell-therapy.html Cancer Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:24:56 EST news251382289 Patients with epilepsy who underwent brain surgery soon after failing to respond to drug treatment, but who also continued to receive drug therapy, had a lower risk of seizures during the 2nd year of follow-up compared to patients who received drug treatment alone, according to a study in the March 7 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-surgery-failure-drug-treatment-epilepsy.html Neuroscience Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:00:03 EST news250269056 Nearly one in three women who have breast cancer surgery will need to return to the operating room for additional surgery after the tumor is evaluated by a pathologist. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-women-breast-cancer-surgeries-university.html Cancer Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:28:24 EST news249647296 According to the results of a new study published in the January 2012 issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, many early-stage breast cancer survivors lacked knowledge about their disease and were not meaningfully involved in treatment discussions or asked their preferences regarding the approach to treatment. As a result, the study's investigators determined that there is a need for improvements in the quality of the surgical decision-making process for these patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-early-stage-breast-cancer-patients-lack.html Cancer Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:23:45 EST news245420619 A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology shows that most patients who survive for at least five years after oesophageal cancer surgery recover an average quality of life. However, quality of life deteriorates significantly for one in six patients to a level that remains much lower than the average population in the five years after surgery. This suggests, say the researchers, that hospitals must be better at identifying this patient group. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-impaired-quality-life-oesophageal-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:41:06 EST news244896048 Papillary thyroid cancer accounts for the majority of all thyroid malignancies, which primarily impact women. A new study indicates that routinely removing lymph nodes in the neck in these cancer patients may help prevent the disease from coming back. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-lymph-nodes-surgery-thyroid-cancer.html Surgery Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:36:03 EST news243617578 Many more lung cancer patients would survive for longer if they had surgery to remove the disease, according to research published in the European Journal of Cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-lung-cancer-patients-survive-longer.html Cancer Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:29:52 EST news240578984 (AP) -- Pancreatic cancer is notoriously lethal - there are almost as many deaths from it each year as there are new cases. The deaths this week of Apple founder Steve Jobs and Nobelist Ralph Steinman bring unusual attention to this less-well-known type of cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-pancreatic-cancer-4th-deadly-treatments.html Cancer Sat, 08 Oct 2011 04:43:51 EST news237267790 (AP) -- There are almost as many deaths from it each year as there are new cases. The deaths this week of Apple founder Steve Jobs and Nobelist Ralph Steinman bring unusual attention to this less-well-known type of cancer that has actually been declining despite no big advances in treatment or finding it early. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-pancreatic-cancer-declining-deadly.html Cancer Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:36:00 EST news237134153 (Medical Xpress) -- A team of nutrition researchers and urologic surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Siteman Cancer Center is conducting two studies to investigate a potential link between cancer and excess protein in the diet. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-diet-role-prostate-cancer.html Cancer Thu, 06 Oct 2011 07:00:01 EST news237101212 Stockholm, Sweden: A major UK trial has produced firm evidence that giving radiotherapy between or during chemotherapy cycles to women with early breast cancer significantly reduces the risk of the cancer recurring in the breast or chest wall. The treatment, known as synchronous chemoradiation, has minimal adverse side-effects and no detrimental effect on the patients' quality of life. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-radiotherapy-chemotherapy-breast-cancer-recurrence.html Cancer Sun, 25 Sep 2011 04:10:31 EST news236142620 Bladder cancer patients who have radical surgery at university hospitals can benefit from excellent local control of the disease, acceptable clinical outcomes and low death rates, according to research in the August issue of the urology journal BJUI. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-radical-surgery-techniques-positive-outcomes.html Cancer Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:10:01 EST news232020214 (Medical Xpress) -- No cancer surgery is easy, but the two operations David Bieszke underwent at Loyola University Hospital to remove an aggressive, 10-inch tumor were especially challenging. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-team-large-aggressive-tumors.html Cancer Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:17:08 EST news230890616 Using a combination of hypnosis and local anaesthesia (LA) for certain types of surgery can aid the healing process and reduce drug use and time spent in hospital, anaesthesiologists have found. The combination could also help avoid cancer recurrence and metastases, according to new research to be presented today (Sunday) at the European Anaesthesiology Congress in Amsterdam. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-hypnosislocal-anesthesia-combination-surgery-patients.html Other Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:32:52 EST news227035948 Surgery death rates have dropped nationwide over the past decade, according to a University of Michigan Health System study that reveals cancer surgeries have seen the most dramatic improvement in safety. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-surgery-deaths-nationwide-high-risk-surgeries.html Health Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:10:01 EST news226169317 Mayo Clinic has developed a screening procedure that could dramatically increase testing for Lynch syndrome, a hereditary genetic disorder that raises cancer risk, particularly for colorectal cancer. An estimated 3 percent of colon cancers can be attributed to Lynch syndrome. At least 80 percent of people with Lynch syndrome develop colorectal cancer, many of them before age 50. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-mayo-clinic-lynch-syndrome-factor.html Cancer Wed, 18 May 2011 12:00:07 EST news224938787