TUESDAY, Feb. 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A mobile “Man Van” screening program detected dozens of prostate cancer cases in disadvantaged neighborhoods of London, researchers report. A team led by Dr. Masood Moghul of Royal Marsden Hospital in London reported its findings at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual GenitorurinaryContinue Reading
SATURDAY, Feb. 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Cancer screenings can save lives by detecting cancer early, when treatment is most effective. With an estimated 2 million new cancer cases expected in 2025, regular screenings are more important than ever, according to the American Cancer Society. February is National Cancer PreventionContinue Reading
Society says that without access to shared federal data, cancer research is compromisedContinue Reading
Key Takeaways Kidney transplant recipients who’ve never been exposed to the Epstein-Barr virus but receive organs from a donor who has been may develop a rare and aggressive cancer As many as 1,200 patients a year could be at risk for that cancer, called post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) This riskContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 13, 2025 (HealthDay News) — You may be less likely to develop an especially lethal form of colon cancer if you’re a longtime consumer of yogurt, new research finds. Folks who ate two or more servings of yogurt per week for years had a 20% lower odds forContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Patients with advanced cancers who checked in daily with their care teams electronically gained a better quality of life, a new study concludes. This “patient-reported outcome” (PRO) strategy did not improve patients’ survival, the study found. But it did help their care teamsContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A survey of hundreds of breast cancer survivors finds that tumor recurrence fear can wreak havoc on a woman’s emotions. “Cancer is all around us. Everything is a trigger,” one survey participant said. “Anniversaries, other family/friends’ diagnosis, commercials about drugs, social media, etc.Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Giving patients with a common form of breast cancer an immunotherapy drug before surgery appears to boost outcomes, a new phase 3 trial finds. The study involved patients with estrogen receptor positive (ER+)/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative (HER2-) breast cancers. That’s aContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 6, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A small, early trial of a vaccine that mobilizes the immune system to battle advanced kidney cancers appears successful, researchers report. The “personalized cancer vaccines” (PCVs) used by the nine patients in the trial were targeted to genes specific to their tumors, explainedContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — It’s tough for a man to know what to do following a diagnosis of prostate cancer. The treatment is often worse than the risk posed by the cancer itself, causing some men to suffer incontinence and impotence even though their tumor wouldn’t haveContinue Reading