Twelve years ago, then 28-year-old graduate student Brian Zikmund-Fisher was forced into the toughest choice of his life: Die from a blood disorder within a few years or endure a bone marrow transplant that could cure him ...
Sep 29, 2010
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Existing evidence from randomised controlled trials does not support routine population screening for prostate cancer, concludes a study published in the British Medical Journal today.
Sep 15, 2010
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Women at increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer because of inherited mutations of the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes who had prophylactic mastectomy or salpingo-oophorectomy (removal of the fallopian tubes and ovaries) had an ...
Aug 31, 2010
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(AP) -- More older Americans are getting tested for colon cancer, with nearly two out of three getting recommended screenings.
Jul 06, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Japan are developing a new touch screen system, the HIRO III, that incorporates a robot hand that could offer a new way of simulating the touching of virtual objects and receiving ...
Jul 02, 2010
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Should we spend more money urging women to use mammography screening on a regular basis or should those dollars and effort be used for discovering and developing better early detection tests?
Jun 29, 2010
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Polarised arguments about the benefits and harms of breast screening are not helping women to make an informed decision, argues a senior doctor in the British Medical Journal today.
Jun 24, 2010
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A population-based study of 2,071 Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) survivors over 15 years has discovered that while many survivors had multiple X-rays and CT scans years after treatment was finished, they often did not receive recommended ...
Jun 10, 2010
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Researchers analyzing 2.5 million screening mammograms performed on nearly one million women found discrimination of cancerous from non-cancerous lesions improved over a nine-year period. Results of the study are published ...
May 26, 2010
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Reported mid-life increase in body mass index (BMI) may lead to substantially higher risk of postmenopausal breast cancer, according to results of a prospective cohort study presented at the American Association for Cancer ...
Apr 20, 2010
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Screening younger women for breast cancer is fairer and makes sound economic sense, according to new research by the University of East Anglia.
Apr 02, 2010
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(AP) -- Are doctors overtreating breast cancer? At a breast cancer conference Friday in Barcelona, experts discussed how to implement mammogram screening programs across Europe, balancing fighting cancer ...
Mar 26, 2010
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A study from Denmark published in the British Medical Journal today finds no effect of the Danish screening programme on breast cancer deaths.
Mar 24, 2010
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Do we need a revision of current recommendations for breast cancer screening? According to a recent prospective multicenter cohort study published in the "Journal of Clinical Oncology", this appears advisable at least for yo ...
Feb 26, 2010
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The incidence of advanced breast cancer diagnosis among black women remained 30 percent to 90 percent higher compared to white women between 1992 and 2004, according to new findings by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer ...
Feb 09, 2010
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