Metastatic cancer News

FRIDAY, April 15 (HealthDay News) -- It's possible that a blood test could be used to predict the risk of cancer spreading, or metastasizing, in people who have melanoma skin cancer, a new study suggests. Researchers from Yale University tested th...

TUESDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- High levels of a certain protein in cancer cells may indicate which tumors are likely to spread, scientists report. In a new study published in the current issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, high le...

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Pancreatic cancer takes much longer to develop than commonly thought, say researchers who found a lag time of at least a decade between the emergence of key mutations and the formation of the first cancer cel...

WEDNESDAY, April 14 (HealthDay News) -- Genetic analysis of a woman with breast cancer has yielded important information about an extremely dangerous type of breast cancer that largely affects blacks and younger women, say U.S. researchers. By com...

MONDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Harvard researchers report what they say is a major advance toward the long-sought goal of a genetic test that can distinguish between aggressive prostate cancers that require urgent treatment and slow-growing t...

SUNDAY, Dec. 6 (HealthDay News) -- The spread of breast cancer cells from the main tumor to other parts of the body is controlled by a growth factor known as TGFb, which may prove a promising target for new drugs to prevent metastatic breast cance...

THURSDAY, Nov. 12 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental drug reduced the spread of breast cancer into bone in mice, researchers say. The drug -- Y27632 -- inhibits a protein called Rho-associated kinase (ROCK), which is over-produced in metastatic b...

TUESDAY, Sept. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Simple blood tests may someday become a noninvasive and cost-effective way to detect colon cancer, two new studies suggest. Researchers were to present studies in Berlin, Germany, on Monday that could offer an...

THURSDAY, Sept. 17 (HealthDay News) -- New insight into how primary lung cancer turns into invasive, or metastatic, cancer could lead to treatments that improve patient survival, U.S. scientists say. The research team at the University of Texas M....

FRIDAY, Sept. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Too much of two proteins can send noninvasive breast cancer into a deadly spread through the body, researchers say. In a study at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, scientists found...

WEDNESDAY, July 15 (HealthDay News) -- Certain types of circulating blood cells appear to be important predictors of the spread of cancer in children, say French researchers. They measured levels of circulating endothelial cells and endothelial pr...

MONDAY, July 6 (HealthDay News) -- A U.S. research team says it has spotted key signals that help breast cancer cells survive in the bone marrow of patients who've undergone treatment. The finding, reported in the July issue of the journal Cancer ...

FRIDAY, July 3 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers say they've found a major cellular flaw that may drive the rapid spread of relapsed lung cancer. When caught early, lung cancer can often be treated. But most cases are not detected until the dis...

MONDAY, June 22 (HealthDay News) -- A protein produced by certain kinds of tumors inhibits the spread of cancer and could potentially be harnessed as a cancer treatment, researchers say. Currently, there is no approved therapy for inhibiting or tr...

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 ...

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." ...

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...

TUESDAY, May 26 (HealthDay News) -- A new study affirms that the chemotherapy drug Abraxane is more effective, with less troublesome side effects, than the current drug of choice for metastatic breast cancer. When compared with Taxotere, Abraxane ...

THURSDAY, Jan. 1 (HealthDay News) -- In a finding that could help doctors fine-tune breast cancer treatments even further, a new study confirms that there are genes that increase the likelihood that the disease will spread throughout a woman's bod...