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
MONDAY, Feb. 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A person’s lifetime risk of cancer might be partly established before they are even born, a new mouse study says. Researchers identified two distinct genetic states that arise during fetal development and are linked to cancer risk, according to a report published recentlyContinue Reading
SATURDAY, Feb. 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — If you’ve experienced so-called “senior moments,” brain blips or brain freezes, you’re not alone. Many people worry about their future brain health. So many, in fact, that the American Academy of Neurology suggests that everyone consider 12 factors that influence long-term brainContinue Reading
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THURSDAY, Jan. 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) — People of color now have less access to prescription opioid painkillers than white patients, an unintended consequence of efforts to stem America’s opioid epidemic. Communities of color have a 40% to 45% lower distribution of commonly prescribed opioids, compared to majority white communities,Continue Reading