THURSDAY, Oct. 9, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The financial hit from cancer care can prove fatal to some patients battling the dread disease, a new study says. Patients whose credit rating drops after their cancer diagnosis are more likely to die fighting their malignancy, researchers reported Tuesday at the AmericanContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 8, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Rectal bleeding could be a powerful early warning sign of colon cancer among younger adults, a new study says. Such bleeding increased more than eightfold the odds of a colon cancer diagnosis among people younger than 50, researchers reported Tuesday at the AmericanContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 8, 2025 (HealthDay news) — A rare but dangerous form of breast cancer is on the rise in the United States, a new report says. Lobular breast cancer rates are rising three times as fast as all other breast cancers combined, 2.8% per year versus 0.8% per year,Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Fighting cancer can leave patients tired to their bones and researchers now think they might know why. Inflammation was linked to fatigue among nearly 200 women with early-stage breast cancer during and after treatment with radiation or chemotherapy, researchers reported Oct. 6 inContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A genetic risk score can help predict which women will develop invasive breast cancer after abnormal cells have been found in their breast tissue, researchers said. Women who scored high on the genetic blood test were twice as likely to develop breast cancerContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — People with aching knees might receive relief from a course of low-dose radiation therapy, a new study suggests. People with mild to moderate wear-and-tear knee arthritis felt less pain and had better mobility after radiation treatment, researchers reported Sunday at a meeting ofContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Targeted radiation therapy might be a safer way to treat a potentially dangerous heart rate problem, a new study says. Radiation therapy treated ventricular tachycardia as well as a standard but complicated procedure called catheter ablation, researchers reported Sept. 29 in the InternationalContinue Reading
Approval is for adults with ER-positive, HER2-negative, ESR1-mutated advanced or metastatic breast cancerContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A cutting-edge robot-assisted bronchoscope can reach very small tumors growing in the lung’s deepest recesses, according to clinical trial results presented at a European Respiratory Society meeting in Amsterdam. The device uses a specialized CT scanner to find tumors buried deep in hard-to-reachContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — About 19 million U.S. adults take fish oil supplements, often to protect against chronic diseases. But new research suggests their ability to lower colon cancer risk may depend on a single gene. Scientists at the University of Michigan and the University of TexasContinue Reading