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Although British citizens have excellent access to medical care, the country lags behind other countries when it comes to cancer survival rates according to a very large study. The Eurocare-4 study looked at 2.7 million cancer patients diagnosed between 1995 and 1999. Not only is that number statistically significant, it covered patients in 23 European [...]
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The study marks the first time that Avastin has been tested against brain tumors, the researchers said. The drug, whose chemical name is bevacizumab, currently is used to treat lung and colorectal cancers. The researchers tested the effectiveness of Avastin in conjunction with a standard chemotherapy agent in patients with recurrent cancerous brain tumors called [...]
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Agendia has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the company’s MammaPrint(C) breast cancer diagnostic test. MammaPrint® is a gene expression profiling service to assess the risk of recurrence in breast cancer patients. The US Food and Drug Administration has approved MammaPrint, a new genetic test that can help predict whether [...]
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When women and men have lung cancer of the same stage and are given the same treatment, the women are more likely to survive, according to the findings published in the journal of Chest. Lung cancer “is the number one cause of cancer deaths in both men and women worldwide,” Dr. Robert James Cerfolio and [...]
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In previous studies there has not shown to be an increase in survival when adding chemotherapy after surgery for gastric cancer compared with surgery alone. Most U.S. patients that are diagnosed with cancer of the stomach or lower esophagus have locally advanced disease that is hard to cure.The MAGIC trial represents a landmark study in [...]
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Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center specialists have figured out how to accurately test drive chemotherapy drugs to learn in advance which drug treatments offer each individual pancreatic cancer patient the best therapeutic journey.Test driving cancer drugs is used widely to test cancer therapies, the Hopkins design is personalized to each patient who has relapsed after [...]
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Olympic Gold Medallist figure skater and breast cancer survivor Peggy Fleming spoke at a Surviving and Thriving luncheon sharing her breast cancer experience. Fleming told the audience of breast cancer survivors attending the luncheon that the breast cancer diagnosis was a shock considering her identity as an athlete was based on health. After the shock [...]
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Chemobrain, a term used to describe the mental fog and confusion some women experience after chemotherapy treatment, is very real and researchers who studied the frontal lobe brain activity of women suffering from the occurrence have an explanation for why chemobrain happens. Based on a study done by University of California researchers, chemotherapy drugs disrupt [...]
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Bicalutamide (Casodex) is an antiandrogen or hormonal therapy. Daily treatment with bicalutamide is shown to cut the risk of progression of prostate cancer by 44 percent. It can also reduce the overall risk of death by 35 percent. The study was done on 1370 patients who were randomized to receive either radiation and a placebo [...]
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As per the new study, women have a better chance of survival from breast cancer, if they exercise regularly for at least a year prior to diagnosis. Page Abrahamson, who lead the research, says “We found a beneficial effect of survival for exercise undertaken in the year before diagnosis, particularly among women who were overweight [...]
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