First Ovarian Transplant Deemed Success For the first time, surgical re-implantation of previously frozen ovarian tissue has restored menstrual function to a woman who lost her ovaries to an earlier medical condition...
Recurrent Breast Cancer Linked To Breast Cancer Genes Young breast cancer patients who carry one of two genes linked to breast cancer and opt for breast-conserving therapy have a high risk of developing another malignant breast tumor, either at the same site or in the other breast...
Stable PSA Levels Suggest Prostate Cancer Cure Prostate cancer patients treated with radiation therapy are highly likely to be cured if they do not experience fluctuations in levels of prostate-specific antigen -- PSA...
"Vaccine` Pits Immune System Against Prostate Cancer By injecting prostate cancer patients with a genetically engineered `vaccine,` researchers have activated the immune system to do battle against the disease...
Breast Cancer Radiation Therapy Not Linked To Heart Disease Radiation therapy after mastectomy does not appear to increase the risk of heart disease in breast cancer patients, according to Danish researchers reporting in The Lancet this week...
Radiation Therapy Keeps Arteries Unclogged Each year in the United States, about a million people undergo a procedure called angioplasty, in which plaque is cleared from clogged coronary arteries using a balloon-like device...
Breast Cancer In Elderly Undertreated Doctors said Monday elderly women who develop breast cancer should be treated aggressively with chemotherapy and radiation because most of them die of their cancer, not some other disease of old age...
