News tagged with secondary cancer


ASCO issues recommendations to improve cancer survivor care

(HealthDay)—The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has presented recommendations for promoting high-quality cancer survivorship care in a report published online Jan. 7 in the Journal of Clinical On ...

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Common data determinants of recurrent cancer are broken, mislead researchers

In order to study the effectiveness or cost effectiveness of treatments for recurrent cancer, you first have to discover the patients in medical databases who have recurrent cancer. Generally studies do this ...

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Prostate cancer: Curcumin curbs metastases

Powdered turmeric has been used for centuries to treat osteoarthritis and other illnesses. Its active ingredient, curcumin, inhibits inflammatory reactions. A new study led by a research team at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität ...

Cancer created Oct 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Should aspirin be used to prevent cancer?

Aspirin, the everyday drug taken by countless people around the world to ward off pain and reduce their risk of developing heart disease, may have a new trick up its sleeve –-preventing cancer.

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Researchers find little secondary cancer risk from multi-detector CT scans in Medicare population

The secondary cancer risk from multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) scans is low among older adults, according to a study from Stanford University in the April issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiolog ...

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Vitamin B and omega-3 supplementation and cancer: new data

Researchers from the Nutritional Epidemiology Joint Research Unit have just published a study showing that, in men with a previous history of cardiovascular pathologies, supplementation with B vitamins and omega-3 polyunsaturated ...

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Nipping metastases in the bud: A novel strategy for fighting cancer targets secondary tumors

The proliferation of metastases is often the main cause of complications and death from cancer. For the first time, researchers are looking very closely at the development of these metastases themselves, instead ...

Cancer created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Risk of second cancer in cancer survivors mainly confined to the same cancer type as the first

Cancer survivors have more than double the risk of a second primary cancer of the same type, according to a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal), whereas the risk of a second primary cancer of ano ...

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A third of women with secondary breast cancer are needlessly living in pain, research shows

(Medical Xpress) -- New research released today by Breast Cancer Care and the University of Southampton reveals that more than a third (34 per cent) of women with secondary breast cancer are unnecessarily living with uncontrolled ...

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