A new study led by UNC researchers that looks at newly diagnosed lung cancer patients and follows them from diagnosis forward is one of the first to give reasons why patients don’t go to lung surgery and why surgery happens less often in blacks. Source: General Cancer News Articles Provided by [...]
Despite hopes that higher blood levels of vitamin D might reduce cancer risk, a large study finds no protective effect against non-Hodgkin lymphoma or cancer of the endometrium, esophagus, stomach, kidney, ovary, or pancreas. In this study, carried out by researchers from the NCI and many other research institutions, data based on blood samples originally [...]
African-Americans and women are less likely than Caucasians and men to undergo bone marrow transplantation to treat cancers of the blood. That is the conclusion of a new analysis published early online in Cancer, a peer- reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. Source: General Cancer News Articles Provided by Cancer Compass
Scientists have identified a group of surface markers on cells linked to an aggressive type of breast cancer called estrogen receptor-negative cancer. The research, conducted by scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, appeared online May 18, 2010, and in print June 1, 2010, in Cancer Research. Source: NCI [...]
Men living in deprived areas are far less likely to be treated with the most common types of radical treatment for prostate cancer than those in more affluent places, says a study published on bmj.com today. Source: General Cancer News Articles Provided by Cancer Compass
New results from a major initiative on the quality of cancer care in the United States show that patients with a common type of colon cancer — especially older patients — often are not treated as aggressively with chemotherapy as research shows is necessary to improve survival. Source: General Cancer News [...]
Following a negative complete colonoscopy, those who had their colonoscopies at a hospital and had their procedures performed by a non- gastroenterologist may be at a significantly increased risk of developing subsequent colorectal cancer (CRC), according to a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official journal of [...]