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(HealthDay) -- The United States spends more on health care than any other country, but those high costs may be paying off in cancer survival, a new report suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-cancer-higher-europe-survival-longer.html Cancer Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:00:01 EST news253207469 (HealthDay) -- Screening people at high risk for lung cancer could be at least as cost-effective as screening for breast, colorectal and cervical cancers, a new study suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-lung-cancer-screening-analysis.html Cancer Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:40:01 EST news253207319 (Medical Xpress) -- Deaths from womb (uterine) cancer have risen by nearly twenty per cent in the last decade, according to new figures from Cancer Research UK today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-womb-cancer-deaths-decade.html Cancer Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:24:28 EST news252833049 Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a very aggressive, often misunderstood type of cancer that is diagnosed more frequently in younger women compared with other types of breast cancer. The five-year survival rate is between 25 and 50 percent—significantly lower than the survival rate for other types of breast cancer. The reason for the poor prognosis is that IBC usually grows rapidly and often spreads quickly to other parts of the body, including the brain, bone and lymph nodes. In an effort to better understand the biology of IBC, researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center have developed a new cell and animal model that holds promise for providing a detailed understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying the disease and for developing effective interventions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-cell-animal-inflammatory-breast-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:45:08 EST news252751500 Patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer treated with the androgen inhibitor abiraterone and who had high baseline hormone levels had longer overall survival compared with patients with low hormone levels, according to data presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2012, held here March 31 - April 4. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-baseline-hormone-survival-metastatic-castration-resistant.html Cancer Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:40:45 EST news252693639 Eating cruciferous vegetables after breast cancer diagnosis was associated with improved survival among Chinese women, according to results presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2012, held here March 31 - April 4. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-cruciferous-vegetable-consumption-linked-breast.html Cancer Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:04:53 EST news252684284 Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., have found – contrary to previous studies linking inferior outcomes in patients with gastrointestinal malignancies to higher body mass index (BMI) – that in their study of BMI and negative outcomes, there was no such link. They concluded that BMI was not associated with either surgical complications or esophageal cancer patient survival. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-bmi-affect-post-surgical-complications-survival.html Surgery Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:49:45 EST news252154172 (HealthDay) -- Women with ovarian cancer who are black, either uninsured or Medicare recipients, or who have annual incomes of less than $35,000 are more likely to receive poorer-quality care, a new study shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-black-women-uninsured-worse-ovarian.html Cancer Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:31:48 EST news252081099 African Americans in Georgia, especially in rural areas, have drastically poorer survival rates from cancer. These disparities are much larger when compared to national data, according to the findings from a study recently published in the journal Cancer by a team of researchers in the University of Georgia College of Public Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-1057ancer-survival-uncovers-wide-racial.html Cancer Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:15:18 EST news250874113 Certain mutations of the gene ATRX were associated with age at diagnosis in children and young adults with advanced-stage neuroblastoma, a cancer that grows in parts of the nervous system, according to a study in the March 14 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-association-genetic-mutation-age-diagnosis.html Cancer Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:00:04 EST news250869158 A study by the Children's Oncology Group (COG) reported that five-year survival for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL, the most common type of pediatric cancer) among children treated through COG clinical trials increased from 83.7 percent during the period 1990-1994 to 90.4 percent in the period 2000-2005. The improvements in survival were observed among all children over age 1 regardless of age, sex, ethnicity, or subtype of ALL. This analysis, which is the largest study to date of ALL survival, showed similar gains in 10-year survival. The findings are published March 12 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-steady-long-term-survival-children-acute.html Cancer Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:00:09 EST news250779264 Despite the rising incidence of cancer in Northern Ireland, the number of people surviving the disease in the country is increasing significantly year on year. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-people-surviving-cancer-northern-ireland.html Cancer Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:00:02 EST news249652069 According to published reports from the Institute of Medicine and the New England Journal of Medicine, roughly one-third of early-stage breast cancer patients undergo mastectomy even though breast conservation surgery with radiation therapy results in equal survival rates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-breast-cancer-treatment-option.html Cancer Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:20:21 EST news248941211 Ovarian cancer, which killed 15,000 American women last year, is one of the deadliest forms of cancer. A team of Wayne State University School of Medicine researchers recently proved that freezing tumors increases survival rates in ovarian cancer patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-tumor-therapy-ovarian-cancer-survival.html Cancer Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:32:22 EST news248628735 Younger women with breast cancer experience a decrease in their health-related quality of life (QOL), associated with increased psychological distress, weight gain, a decline in their physical activity, infertility and early onset menopause, according to a study published January 20 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-younger-breast-cancer-patients-adverse.html Cancer Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:55:06 EST news246304499 Personalized prognostic tools and gene-based therapies may improve the survival and quality of life of patients suffering from glioblastoma, an aggressive and deadly form of brain cancer, reports a new University of Illinois study funded by the NIH National Cancer Institute. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-personalized-gene-therapies-survival-brain.html Cancer Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:40:03 EST news245330965 (Medical Xpress) -- Researchers from Newcastle University have identified a gene variation carried by 20% of the population which can significantly affect how patients with a rare type of blood cancer will respond to treatment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-scientists-genetic-key-cancer-patients.html Cancer Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:20:01 EST news244976719 A simple online calculator could offer family GPs a powerful new tool in tackling two of the most deadly forms of cancer, say researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-simple-bowel-pancreatic-cancer-thousands.html Cancer Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:49:43 EST news243078563 Gynaecological cancer survival rates have improved in Eastern England following the reorganisation of services and multidisciplinary team working finds a new study published today (14 December) in the gynaecological oncology themed issue of BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-survival-gynecological-cancer-anglia-region.html Cancer Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:40:01 EST news243059035 Post-menopausal women with hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer may have a new treatment option that could lengthen their lives, according to results of a study by the SWOG clinical trials network that were presented at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-anti-estrogen-combo-drug-hormone-sensitive-breast.html Cancer Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:26:21 EST news242475965 (Medical Xpress) -- Scientists at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) of the Novartis Research Foundation have elucidated the mechanisms underlying the repair of UV-induced damage in DNA, which frequently causes skin cancer. The protein structures additionally determined by these researchers will improve our understanding of how the body protects itself against skin cancer. These studies lay the foundations for the development of a new class of anti cancer agents. The findings were published today in Cell. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-internal-skin-cancer-uv.html Cancer Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:55:16 EST news241343677 A potential breakthrough in treating late-stage ovarian cancer has come from University of Guelph researchers who have discovered a peptide that shrinks advanced tumours and improves survival rates for this deadly but often undetected disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-discovery-late-stage-ovarian-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:00:03 EST news240662556 For prostate cancer patients with bone metastases, repeated administrations of radionuclide therapy with 188Re-HEDP are shown to improve overall survival rates and reduce pain, according to new research published in the November issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-radionuclide-therapy-prostate-cancer-patients.html Cancer Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:21:45 EST news239361694 The "Lance Armstrong effect" could become a powerful new weapon to fight cancer cells that develop resistance to chemotherapy, radiation and other treatments, scientists say in a report in the ACS journal Molecular Pharmaceutics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-cancer-cells-lance-armstrong-effect.html Cancer Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:14:46 EST news238248878 It is known that the unmarried are in general more likely to die than their married counterparts and there is some indication that the divide is in fact getting worse. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Public Health looks at the changes in cancer survival over the past 40 years and show that the difference in mortality between the married and never married, especially between married and never married men, has also increased. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-men-die-cancer.html Health Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:26:24 EST news237785068 African-American patients with resected stage II and stage III colon cancer experienced worse overall and recurrence-free survival compared to whites, but similar recurrence-free intervals, according to a study published Oct. 12 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-survival-disparities-african-american-white-colo-rectal.html Cancer Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:40:44 EST news237656433 (Medical Xpress) -- People in lower paid jobs are pessimistic about the benefits of diagnosing cancer early and more scared than affluent people to see a doctor about an unusual symptom, new research shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-poor-people-view-cancer-fatal.html Cancer Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:26:17 EST news237457566 Treating women with early stage breast cancer with a combination of chemotherapy and the molecularly targeted drug Herceptin significantly increases survival in patients with a specific genetic mutation that results in very aggressive disease, a researcher with UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center reported Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-survival-early-stage-breast-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:54:07 EST news237056037 With the advent of personalised medicine, gains in cancer survival over the long term could be improved by running smaller, faster trials with less stringent evidence criteria, a researcher told the 2011 European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress today (Monday 26 Sept). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-smaller-faster-trials-cancer-patient.html Cancer Mon, 26 Sep 2011 04:35:36 EST news236230524 Stockholm, Sweden: Results from the longest-running trial comparing tamoxifen with the aromatase inhibitor letrozole show unequivocally that letrozole has withstood the test of time and continues to prevent breast cancer recurrences and reduce the risk of death in post-menopausal women with hormone receptor-positive early breast cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-aromatase-inhibitor-letrozole-breast-cancer.html Cancer Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:13:58 EST news236175212