News tagged with cancer recurrence
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Prognosis after cystectomy not affected by smoking
(HealthDay)—Despite the link between cigarette smoking and the development of bladder cancer, the prognosis of people with bladder cancer after undergoing a cystectomy is not affected by cigarette smoking, ...
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Oct 15, 2012 |
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Additional medicines can reduce recurrence risk, but come with their own issues
After surgeons removed the tumor from her breast last November, Karen Hajiaskari, of Hamburg, N.Y., was deemed cancer-free. But for the next five years she will take a drug called tamoxifen, a medication that's commonly used ...
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Oct 07, 2012 |
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Improving confidence keeps breast cancer survivors exercising
(Medical Xpress)—More than 40 percent of older breast cancer survivors are insufficiently active after leaving a supervised program. But new research shows that those women who developed behavioral skills such as self-confidence ...
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Oct 04, 2012 |
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First study of clonal evolution in Maxillary Sinus Carcinoma
Knowing how tumors evolve can lead to new treatments that could help prevent cancer from recurring, according to a study published today by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Scottsdale Healthcare.
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Sep 28, 2012 |
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Aggressive cancer exploits MYC oncogene to amplify global gene activity
Whitehead Institute researchers have determined the mechanism used by c-Myc to increase the expression of all active genes in cancer cells. Elevated levels of c-Myc are linked to increased rates of metastasis, disease recurrence, ...
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Sep 27, 2012 |
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Short-, long-course therapy comparable in T3 rectal cancer
(HealthDay)—There are no statistically significant differences in the rates of local recurrence (LR), distant recurrence, relapse-free survival, overall survival, or late toxicity in patients treated with ...
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Sep 27, 2012 |
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Breast cancer treatment brings sexual difficulties for postmenopausal women
Women treated for breast cancer after menopause with aromatase inhibitors have very high levels of sexual difficulties, including low interest, insufficient lubrication, and pain with intercourse. It is an important and underestimated ...
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Sep 24, 2012 |
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Denosumab reduces burden of giant-cell tumor of the bone
Treatment with denosumab, a drug targeted against a protein that helps promote bone destruction, decreased the number of tumor giant cells in patients with giant-cell tumor of the bone, and increased new bone formation, according ...
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Sep 21, 2012 |
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Novel therapeutic targets identified for small cell lung cancer
Newly discovered molecular differences between small cell lung cancer and nonsmall cell lung cancer have revealed PARP1 and EZH2 as potential therapeutic targets for patients with small cell lung cancer, according to the ...
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Sep 06, 2012 |
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Pretreatment PET/CT imaging of lymph nodes predicts recurrence in breast cancer patients
Disease-free survival for invasive ductal breast cancer (IDC) patients may be easier to predict with the help of F-18-fludeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) scans, according to research ...
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Sep 04, 2012 |
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Potential drug for treating deadly brain cancer
(Medical Xpress)—A*STAR scientists have identified a biomarker of the most lethal form of brain tumours in adults − glioblastoma multiforme. The scientists found that by targeting this biomarker and depleting ...
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Sep 04, 2012 |
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Exercise can help cancer patients, but few oncologists suggest it
Numerous studies have shown the powerful effect that exercise can have on cancer care and recovery. For patients who have gone through breast or colon cancer treatment, regular exercise has been found to reduce recurrence ...
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Aug 28, 2012 |
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Team finds biological indicator of aggressive, recurrent forms of prostate cancer
(Medical Xpress)—In a study to decipher clues about how prostate cancer cells grow and become more aggressive, Johns Hopkins urologists have found that reduction of a specific protein is correlated with the aggressiveness ...
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Aug 27, 2012 |
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Lack of sleep found to be a new risk factor for aggressive breast cancers
Lack of sleep is linked to more aggressive breast cancers, according to new findings published in the August issue of Breast Cancer Research and Treatment by physician-scientists from University Hospitals Case Medical Center's ...
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Aug 27, 2012 |
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Obese and overweight women face increased risk of recurrence of most common type of breast cancer
Extra pounds—even within the overweight but not obese range—are linked to a higher risk of recurrence of the most common type of breast cancer despite optimal cancer treatment, according to a new study published early ...
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