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News: May 28, 2012
Brain Tumor Vaccine Shows Promise in Early Trial
TUESDAY, April 17 (HealthDay News) -- A vaccine made from brain cancer patients' own tumor cells led to a nearly 50 percent improvement in survival times for those stricken with glioblastoma multiforme, the same malignancy that claimed the life of...
Ovarian Tumors May Develop Years After Fertility Therapy
THURSDAY, Oct. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Women who undergo ovarian stimulation to produce extra eggs for in-vitro fertilization (IVF) are at increased risk for a type of growth known as "borderline ovarian tumors," new research suggests. Borderline o...
Cancer Drug Avastin Makes Inroads Against Ovarian Tumors
SATURDAY, June 4 (HealthDay News) -- Two new studies indicate that a common cancer drug, Avastin, may benefit both early stage ovarian cancer patients and women whose cancer has recurred. In both studies, presented Saturday at the annual meeting o...
Chronic Tylenol Use May Be Linked to Blood Cancer, Study Suggests
TUESDAY, May 10 (HealthDay News) -- Those who take acetaminophen -- best known as Tylenol -- regularly for some time might be putting themselves at an increased risk for developing certain blood cancers, University of Washington researchers report...
Microchip Spots Cancerous Tumors Within an Hour, Study Shows
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists say they have developed a microchip that can be attached to a smart phone and diagnose cancerous tumors within an hour, from the patient's bedside. The so-called microNMR chip, which uses magnetic ...
Gene Research Brings Insight Into Deadly Childhood Brain Tumor
THURSDAY, Dec. 16 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. scientists have unraveled the genetic code for the most common type of brain cancer in children. Gene sequencing reveals that this tumor, medulloblastoma, or MB, possesses far fewer genetic abnormalities ...
Pregnancy May Protect Breast Cancer Survivors
THURSDAY, March 25 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests that women who become pregnant after having had breast cancer may actually improve their survival odds, a notion contrary to what some medical experts had thought. The finding is signifi...
Freezing Tumors Shows Promise Against Prostate, Breast Cancer
TUESDAY, March 16 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have succeeded in freezing away breast and prostate tumors in a small number of patients, opening a promising door to a new generation of cancer treatments. In two separate studies to be presented ...
New Scan May Help Find Aggressive Prostate Tumors
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 27 (HealthDay News) -- A new imaging technology promises to achieve the long-sought goal of singling out prostate cancers that are life-threatening and require the most aggressive treatment, researchers report. Magnetic resonance s...
Quitting Smoking Doubles Survival in Early Stage Lung Cancer
THURSDAY, Jan. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Quitting smoking after a diagnosis of early stage lung cancer doubles the odds that a patient will live another five years, a new study finds. "The results are quite dramatic. I don't think anybody would have ...
Obesity Tied to Common Kidney Cancer
FRIDAY, Jan. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Obesity increases the risk of developing a common and virulent form of kidney cancer, a new study finds. Researchers looked at 1,640 patients, average age 62, with kidney tumors and found that obese patients wer...
Strides Made in Lung Cancer Treatment
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Advances in genetics and biomarker identification and testing are finally bearing fruit in the battle against lung cancer, a new set of studies suggests. Until now, lung cancer has lagged behind other maligna...
New Target May Be Eyed in Kids' Brain Cancer
MONDAY, Dec. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists have identified oncogenes that play a role in a particularly aggressive type of childhood brain tumor. Known as central nervous system primitive neuroectodermal tumors (CNS-PNETs), the discovery of the...
Exercise in Adolescence May Cut Risk of Deadly Brain Tumor
TUESDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Exercising during adolescence may help guard against a deadly form of brain tumor in adulthood, new research suggests. The study also found that avoiding obesity during the teen years was associated with a lower...
Cancer Drug Shrinks Benign Tumors That Steal Hearing
FRIDAY, Sept. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Last year, Edith Garrett could no longer hear her mother's voice or the sound of a dog barking. She was 22. Four years earlier, Garrett learned she had neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2), a condition characterized ...
New Compound Shrinks Skin Cancers
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 2 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental cancer drug that switches off the so-called "Hedgehog" pathway beat back tumors in more than half of patients with advanced basal cell carcinoma, a type of skin cancer. The drug also helped a ...
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy Dies at 77
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the last surviving brother in a unique American political dynasty and one of the most influential senators in history, died late Tuesday night at his summer home on Cape Cod after a 15...
Drug Shows Promise in Nervous-System Tumor Treatment
WEDNESDAY, July 8 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers report the first successful drug treatment of tumors in patients with neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2). In people with NF2, benign tumors develop throughout the nervous system. The most common t...
Cell Protein Could Help Spur Malignancy
THURSDAY, June 25 (HealthDay News) -- A protein called STAT3 plays a major role in the change of normal cells into cancerous cells, according to U.S. researchers, who say the finding could lead to new cancer treatments. STAT3, which has a role in ...
New Cancer Drug Fights Tumors in Those With BRCA Mutations
WEDNESDAY, June 24 (HealthDay News) -- A new cancer drug called olaparib worked well in an early clinical trial against breast, ovarian and prostate cancers in individuals who were genetically vulnerable to developing these malignancies. Women who...
Many Childhood Cancer Survivors Not Checking for Second Malignancies
MONDAY, June 1 (HealthDay News) -- Many childhood cancer survivors aren't following recommended guidelines on screenings for second cancers as they reach adulthood. And some survivors suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder years after beating ...
New Insights, Inroads Against Breast, Ovarian Cancers
SUNDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) -- "It's nice to be here. It's nice to be anywhere," singer and actress Olivia Newton-John, a self-described 17-year breast cancer "thriver," told reporters at one of the world's largest gatherings of cancer special...
Avastin Shows No Benefit Against Early Stage Colon Cancer
SATURDAY, May 30 (HealthDay News) -- The cancer drug Avastin, widely used for lung, breast and metastatic colorectal cancers, appears ineffective for patients with early stage colon cancer, a result the trial's lead author called "disappointing." ...
Science Makes Inroads Against Prostate, Other Cancers
SUNDAY, April 19 (HealthDay News) -- Harnessing cutting-edge techniques, a variety of human, animal and laboratory studies are suggesting innovative new ways to beat cancer. Brain, prostate, and pancreatic cancer are some of the specific targets o...
New Prostate Cancer Drug May Hold Promise
TUESDAY, April 7 (HealthDay News) -- A new drug with a radically different way of attacking prostate cancer has done well in an initial trial and is ready for larger-scale testing, researchers report. One standard treatment for the malignancy is t...
Brain Tumor Drug May Help Spur Cancer's Return
THURSDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) -- Temozolomide, a standard treatment for brain cancer, may boost the aggressiveness of surviving cancer cells, making tumor recurrence more likely, a new study suggests. The research team, from Memorial Sloan-Ke...
Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg Faces Tough Battle Against Pancreatic Cancer
FRIDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will face tough challenges following her surgery on Thursday for early-stage pancreatic cancer, experts say. At this point, it's not clear exactly what type of pancr...
Researchers Zero In on GI Cancers
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 14 (HealthDay News) -- New research may one day help physicians identify those patients with gastrointestinal cancers who are most likely to benefit from certain treatments. The discoveries, paving the way toward an era of personal...
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