News tagged with invasive therapy
Study finds breast cancer incidence rates no longer declining in US women
A sharp decline in breast cancer incidence rates among non-Hispanic white women in the U.S. after a dramatic drop in the use of postmenopausal hormone therapy did not continue through 2007, according to a new study from the ...
Feb 28, 2011 |
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Limited lymph node removal for certain breast cancer does not appear to result in poorer survival
Among patients with early-stage breast cancer that had spread to a nearby lymph node and who received treatment that included lumpectomy and radiation therapy, women who just had the sentinel lymph node removed (the first ...
Feb 08, 2011 |
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Reduced hormone therapy linked with drop in breast cancer rates
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new UCSF study of more than 2 million mammogram screenings performed on nearly 700,000 women in the United States, scientists for the first time show a direct link between reduced hormone therapy and ...
Nov 30, 2010 |
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Chemotherapy plus radiation prevents bladder cancer recurrences
Adding chemotherapy to radiation therapy for muscle invasive bladder cancer allows 67 percent of people to be free of disease in their bladders two years after treatment. This compares to 54 percent of people who receive ...
Oct 25, 2010 |
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Sonic Hedgehog variations linked to recurrence, survival and response to therapy of bladder cancer
Genetic variations in the Sonic Hedgehog pathway increase the likelihood of recurrence, reduce survival time and limit response to therapy for people with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer, scientists from The University ...
Dec 09, 2009 |
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How can clinicians help patients make decisions consistent with their values?
Communication in healthcare: how can clinicians help patients make decisions consistent with their values?
Aug 25, 2009 |
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Varying reductions in breast cancer suggest hormone therapy to blame
The recent decline in invasive breast cancer in the US was significantly less pronounced in the poor and those who live in rural areas. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Medicine suggest this may be due to ...
Jun 26, 2009 |
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Researchers Isolate Protein Domain Linked to Tumor Progression
(PhysOrg.com) -- When a promising cancer drug reached clinical trials in the 1990s, researchers were disappointed by the debilitating side effects that limited the trials. The drug inhibited a family of enzymes known as matrix ...
Feb 17, 2009 |
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