Cancer News - Studies/Clinical Trials/Research

Evaluating More Lymph Nodes May Not Improve Identification Of Late-stage Colorectal Cancer

ScienceDaily (Aug. 26, 2009) — Surgically removing and evaluating an increasing number of lymph nodes does not appear to identify a greater number of patients with stage III colorectal cancer, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090720163546.htm

Unlocking The Body's Defenses Against Cancer

ScienceDaily (Aug. 25, 2009) — Scientists have discovered a way of allowing healthy cells to take charge of cancerous cells and stop them developing into tumours in what could provide a new approach to treating early-stage cancers.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090825100649.htm

Breast Cancer Trial Examines Shorter Radiation Course

Researchers at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) have launched a clinical trial that focuses on a shorter course of radiation treatment for those with early-stage breast cancer. CINJ is a Center of Excellence of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/161544.php

Fine-tuning An Anti-cancer Drug

ScienceDaily (Aug. 18, 2009) — Cancer remains a deadly threat despite the best efforts of science. New hopes were raised a few years ago with the discovery that the uncontrolled growth of cancer cells could be thwarted by blocking the action of proteasomes. Biochemists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) have illuminated a reaction pathway that does just that, in collaboration with researchers from Nereus Pharmaceuticals, based in San Diego, California.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090818130433.htm

Cancer Patients Who Are Separated When Diagnosed Have Worse Survival Rates

ScienceDaily (Aug. 24, 2009) — Among unmarried cancer patients, those who are separated at the time of diagnosis do not live as long as widowed, divorced, and never married patients. That is the conclusion of a new study to be published in the November 1, 2009 issue of Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The authors of the study say its results suggest that the stress associated with marital separation may compromise an individual's immune system and lead to a greater susceptibility to cancer.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090824081113.htm

Postoperative Radiation May Be Beneficial in Vulvar Cancer
Rates of cancer-related death, local relapses are reduced compared to pelvic node resection

MONDAY, Aug. 24 (HealthDay News) -- In patients with groin node-positive vulvar cancer who have undergone radical vulvectomy and inguinal lymphadenectomy, postoperative radiation is associated with a significantly lower rate of cancer-related death than postoperative pelvic node resection, according to a study in the September issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology

http://www.modernmedicine.com/modernmedicine/Pathology/Postoperative-Rad...

Better Pap Smear Follow-Up Needed Among Lower-Income Women

THURSDAY, Aug. 20 (HealthDay News) -- In the Canadian province of Ontario, fewer than half of women with abnormal Pap tests receive proper follow-up care and low-income women are less likely to be screened for cervical cancer than high-income women, a new study has found.

http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=104846

Adjuvant Chemotherapy Little Help for Urothelial Cancer
Few patients offered this option after surgery; minimal impact on odds of survival

FRIDAY, Aug. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Patients treated surgically for upper tract urothelial carcinoma are not usually offered adjuvant chemotherapy, and for those who are, the treatment does not seem to have much impact on the odds of survival, according to a study published in the September issue of the Journal of Urology.

http://www.modernmedicine.com/modernmedicine/Modern+Medicine+Now/Adjuvan...

Metastatic Cancer And Macrophages: Cells Thought To Protect Against Cancer May Actually Promote It

ScienceDaily (Aug. 17, 2009) — The deadliest part of the cancer process, metastasis, appears to rely on help from macrophages, potent immune system cells that usually defend vigorously against disease, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University report.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810174303.htm

Long-term Health And Social Outcomes For Neuroblastoma Survivors

ScienceDaily (Aug. 20, 2009) — Survivors of the childhood cancer neuroblastoma are eight times more likely to have chronic health conditions, less likely to be married, and more likely to have lower incomes than their siblings, according to a study published online July 31 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090731191140.htm