Health News: [cancer]

ACS revises guideline formation process for cancer screening News-Medical-Net Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:02 AM PST The American Cancer Society has revised its guideline formation process to achieve greater transparency, consistency, and rigor in creating guidance about cancer screening. Children of childhood cancer survivors do not have increased risk for birth defects News-Medical-Net Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:01 AM PST A large, retrospective study of the children of childhood cancer survivors who were treated with radiation therapy and/or some forms of chemotherapy found that the offspring do not have an increased risk for birth defects compared to children of cancer survivors who did not receive such treatments. Improvements in survival of gynecological cancer in the Anglia region of England PhysOrg Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:52 AM PST Gynaecological cancer survival rates have improved in Eastern England following the reorganisation of services and multidisciplinary team working finds a new study published today (14 December) in the gynaecological oncology themed issue of BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Lifestyle and environmental factors may increase risk of cancer News-Medical-Net Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:46 AM PST It has been well established that certain lifestyle habits relate to the risk of certain cancers (e.g., smoking and lung cancer). In a well-done analysis, the authors estimate the proportion of cancer in the population associated with a variety of lifestyle and environmental factors. They find that smoking has, by far, the largest effect on the risk of cancer, with 19.4% of cancer cases in the ... Europe adds by-election interest My Village Stokenewington Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:41 AM PST The poll was brought about by the death of the sitting Labour MP, Alan Keen, who had been suffering from cancer. In recent times, the Conservatives had been chipping away at Mr. Keen's majority. They halved it in 2005 and there was a further 4.5% swing away from Labour to the Tories in 2010. Old Catton woman in bid to raise awareness about cancer after family tragedy Evening News 24 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:39 AM PST A woman from Old Catton, near Norwich, has vowed, together with her mother and two sisters, to raise awareness of cancer in memory of her father who died from the disease. CTI, Chroma announce final results from tosedostat phase II study on AML News-Medical-Net Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:31 AM PST Cell Therapeutics, Inc. and Chroma Therapeutics Ltd. announced that final results from the phase II OPAL study of tosedostat in elderly patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) were presented by Jorge Cortes, M.D. of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center during the Acute Myeloid Leukemia - Therapy, excluding Transplantation: Clinical Studies session at the ... Researchers create vaccine that reduces tumors in mice News-Medical-Net Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:16 AM PST Researchers at Mayo Clinic in Arizona and the University of Georgia (UGA) have developed a vaccine that dramatically reduces tumors in a mouse model that mimics 90 percent of human breast and pancreatic cancer cases - including those that are resistant to common treatments. George David Guiles, 56 Coeur d'Alene Press Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:09 AM PST George David Guiles passed away Nov. 21, 2011, in Coeurd'Alene at the age of 56 after a long and hard-fought battle with cancer. He lived a full life and loved every minute of it. Bristol Evening Post published Cancer-stricken mum's heartfelt plea: Give us a home for my last... This is Bristol Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:04 AM PST Article

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