Cell phone use and cancer
PRI Public Radio International Mon, 29 Mar 2010 05:46 AM PDT
Public health advocates say there's enough information linking cell phone use to cancer to warrant warning labels. |
Video: Weight, Breast Cancer Risk
CBS News Mon, 29 Mar 2010 05:39 AM PDT
Dr. Jennifer Ashton spoke to Maggie Rodriguez about a new study that shows overweight women have a higher risk for breast cancer. |
WATCH: Scientists Blast FDA Over CT Scans
ABC News Mon, 29 Mar 2010 05:37 AM PDT
Report claims colon cancer screenings put healthy patients at risk for cancer. Cancer - Colorectal cancer - Health - Conditions and Diseases - X-ray computed tomography |
Paired Drugs Kill Precancerous Colon Polyps, Spare Normal Tissue
Medical News Today Mon, 29 Mar 2010 05:37 AM PDT
A two-drug combination destroys precancerous colon polyps with no effect on normal tissue, opening a new potential avenue for chemoprevention of colon cancer, a team of scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reports in the advance online edition of the journal Nature. The regimen, tested so far in mouse models and on human colon cancer tissue in the lab, appears to ... |
Diabetes Raises Risk Of Death In Cancer Surgery Patients
Medical News Today Mon, 29 Mar 2010 05:37 AM PDT
People with diabetes who undergo cancer surgery are more likely to die in the month following their operations than those who have cancer but not diabetes, an analysis by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests. The study, to be published in the April issue of the journal Diabetes Care, finds that newly diagnosed cancer patients - particularly those with colorectal or esophageal tumors - who also ... |
Childhood Cancer Patients Enrolled In Clinical Trials Need Clearer Communication About Their Role In Research
Medical News Today Mon, 29 Mar 2010 05:36 AM PDT
A small study of children with cancer enrolled in therapeutic clinical research trials shows that they don't fully understand what physicians and parents tell them about their participation, nor do they feel they are genuinely involved in the choice to take part. The study, led by Yoram Unguru, M.D., an associate faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, will be ... |
ATTRACT-1 Phase III Trial Of ASA404 Halted Following Interim Analysis
Medical News Today Mon, 29 Mar 2010 05:35 AM PDT
Antisoma plc (LSE: ASM; USOTC: ATSMY) announces that the planned interim analysis of data from the ATTRACT-1 phase III trial of ASA404 in previously untreated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has shown that continuation of the trial would be futile, as there is little or no prospect of demonstrating a survival benefit with ASA404 in this setting. The ATTRACT-1 trial will therefore be halted ... |
Broker snap: Wounded Antisoma may be bid target
ShareCast Mon, 29 Mar 2010 05:34 AM PDT
LONDON (SHARECAST) - The decision by Novartis to halt a late-stage trial of Antisoma ’s lung cancer drug ASA404 has made KBC Peel Hunt wonder how long the Swiss drugs giant will stick by the British cancer specialist. |
Helmholtz Zentrum München, SIRION BIOTECH partner to develop new therapeutic approaches against lymphoid tumors
News-Medical-Net Mon, 29 Mar 2010 05:34 AM PDT
Helmholtz Zentrum München has launched a new cooperative project with SIRION BIOTECH GmbH in Martinsried to develop new therapeutic approaches against lymphoid tumors. With a two-year grant from the Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology, the two partners will seek to further develop lentiviral vector systems to better understand the disease mechanisms of this cancer form and to devise ... |
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