BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters Health) Mar 22 – Intraoperative radiotherapy reduces, and could eliminate, the need for external radiotherapy, according to the results presented at the
BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters Health) Mar 22 – Based on preliminary results of a phase II study presented Thursday at the 3rd European Breast Cancer Conference
NEW YORK (MedscapeWire) Mar 25 For the first time, researchers offer comprehensive, biological evidence to support the observation that younger women diagnosed with breast
BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) Mar 20 – Tamoxifen, a drug used successfully for years to treat breast cancer, can also prevent the disease in healthy women
Approximately 52 percent of patients with recurrent nasopharyngeal cancer survive overall, disease-free, for five years, a follow-up study indicates. Local control at five years is
Genetic testing for the enzyme thymidylate synthase could identify patients who are more likely to have a poor outcome if they are diagnosed with acute
BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) Mar 20 – Scientists have developed a new high-speed technique to determine if breast cancer has spread by looking at how light
LONDON (Reuters) Mar 15 – A breast cancer drug that experts say could help thousands of British women finally won the backing of the UK's
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Mar 15 – Fine needle aspiration (FNA) tissue samples from primary hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma in the liver can be easily
Carefully selected patients who have localised prostate cancer and are treated by radical prostatectomy have a high rate of cure. Researchers in the United States
NEW YORK, NY — March 18, 2002 — A prospective study was performed of 32 patients with esophageal carcinoma who underwent, laparoscopic esophagectomy. David E.
TORONTO, ON — February 28, 2002 — Health Canada has approved Gemzar® (gemcitabine HCI) in combination with cisplatin as an effective new treatment for advanced
ROCHESTER, MN — March 15, 2002 — A Mayo Clinic study indicates that Prozac® (fluoxetine) can safely and significantly relieve hot flashes in women who
BRIDGEWATER, NJ — March 15, 2002 — Two studies published today in the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO) showed promising response rates in patients treated
Girls who were previously treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia have higher body fat than both girls treated for other malignancies and healthy controls. This difference
Laurie Barclay, MD NEW YORK (MedscapeWire) March 11 A new microscopy technique described in the February issue of the Journal of the American Academy
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Mar 11 – German and Italian investigators have uncovered a previously unrecognized type of mutation in which a small deletion within
RESTON, VA — March 7, 2002 — Positron emission tomography (PET imaging) can reassure previously treated women that they are breast cancer free, and can
SEATTLE, WA — March 5, 2002 — The first published treatment algorithm for relapsed or refractory acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL) reinforces that arsenic trioxide is
NEW YORK (MedscapeWire) Mar 07 Skin color may have a larger effect on quality of cancer care than tumor size, according to a study