National Cancer Institute Releases Backgrounder On Cancer Survivorship Cancer, once considered incurable, is no longer a certain death sentence. Since the 1971 National Cancer Act, much of the research into early cancer detection and treatment has paid off. Mortality rates for most major cancers...
US FDA: FDA Approves New Drug For Brain Cancer FDA has approved temozolomide, a cancer treatment for adult patients diagnosed with a form of brain
cancer -- anaplastic astrocytoma -- who have relapsed following chemotherapy including a nitrosourea...
Exercise Programs Help Cancer Patients Most cancer patients could benefit from exercise programs even while they are undergoing chemotherapy or radiation treatment, according to a survey of 24 studies in the medical literature...
New Chemical May Prevent Cancer Therapy Side Effects A chemical that blocks p53, a gene that triggers cell death, protects normal mice from the toxic effects of anticancer therapy without reducing the effectiveness of the treatments...
Ultrasound Tracks Cancer Therapy Progress A Canadian research team reports that a new ultrasound technique has the potential to reduce the time it takes to monitor the effectiveness of cancer therapy from weeks and months to hours and days...
Health Tips RADIATION AFTER PROSTATE CANCER SURGERY: A study suggests prostate cancer patients at high risk of a relapse can benefit from radiation treatments after surgery...
Gene Therapy May Stop Asbestos-Related Cancer Gene therapy that boosts the body`s immune system appears to be effective at preventing mesothelioma -- a lethal tumor of the lining of the chest -- from growing in mice...
