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Steep rise in obesity increasing cancer risk in younger generations
Cancers linked to obesity are rising at a faster rate in millennials than in older generations in the US, BBC News reports the American...
NSAIDs increase survival in some head and neck cancer patients
Regular use of a common type of medication, such as aspirin and ibuprofen, significantly improves survival for a third or more patients with head...
Drug sponges protect against toxic chemo agents — animal trial
US researchers found the introduction of the absorbers into the blood of swine models enabled the capture of an average 64% of a liver...
False positive mammogram result may be a clue to later disease
Women who experience a “false positive” result after a mammogram are twice as likely to end up developing cancer as those who get a...
Breakthrough AI tools to detect cancers in women
A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool from the UK Institute of Cancer Research scans tumour cells to pick out women with especially aggressive...
Bacon-cancer link: Outgoing UN agency head defends its work
The head of the UN agency that provoked a massive outcry and some ridicule when it declared that bacon, red meat and glyphosate weedkiller...
Quick and easy blood or tissue test to detect cancer
A quick and easy Australian test to detect cancer from blood or biopsy tissue has proved to be up to 90% accurate in tests...
Chemo and immune inhibitor combo increases survival in AML patients
A combination of the standard-of-care chemotherapy drug known as azacitidine, with nivolumab, an immune checkpoint inhibitor, demonstrated an encouraging response rate and overall survival...
Cervical cancer survival rates determined by race in SA
A study has found that black women in South Africa are almost six times more likely to die of cervical cancer than white women...
Radiotherapy plus standard treatment improves prostate cancer survival
Radiotherapy on top of standard treatment, hormone therapy, could significantly increase survival in metastic prostate cancer, according to results from the Stampede trial of...
Pregnancy before 29 helps decrease later breast cancer risk
A large study points to the protective effect of pregnancy on breast cancer risk arising precisely at the 34th pregnancy week, but additional protection...
Immunotherapy better than chemo for advanced head and neck cancer
Immunotherapy on its own is better than aggressive chemotherapy as a first-line treatment for advanced head and neck cancer, according to surprising new data...
Immunotherapy plus chemo increases breast cancer survival rates
Women with an aggressive type of breast cancer lived longer if they received immunotherapy plus chemotherapy, rather than chemo alone, a major study has...
New drug with hormone therapy significantly extends breast cancer survival
Combining the newly developed drug palbociclib with hormone therapy substantially extends the lives of women with advanced breast cancer. The study was presented at...
Bowel cancer in younger women linked to obesity
Obesity was associated with an increased risk of early-onset colorectal cancer (CRC) among younger women, according to a large, 14-year study by Washington University researchers.
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3D mammograms detect more invasive breast cancers
After screening 15,000 women over a period of five years, a major clinical study in Sweden has shown that 3D mammography, or breast tomosynthesis,...
Newer oral contraceptives linked to reduced ovarian cancer risk
New types of combined oral contraceptives (containing both lower doses of oestrogens and newer progestogens) are associated with a reduced risk of ovarian cancer,...
Biomarker may predict response to ovarian cancer therapy
An international research team has identified an independent prognostic factor – cancer/testis antigen 45 (CT45) – as being associated with extended disease-free survival for women with...
Device shows promise as point-of-care detector of cancer
About half the size of a lunch box, the Tiny Isothermal Nucleic acid quantification sYstem (TINY) has shown promise as a point-of-care detector of...
Lower nutritional quality food associated with cancer risk
The consumption of foods with higher scores on the British Food Standards Agency nutrient profiling system (FSAm-NPS), reflecting a lower nutritional quality, is associated...
Breast cancer screening does not reduce mortality
Fewer and fewer women die from breast cancer in recent years but, surprisingly, the decline is just as large in the age groups that...
IARC report shows rising global toll of cancer
One in five men and one in six women around the world develop cancer during their lifetime. The Guardian reports that this is according...
Drinking from an early age linked to aggressive prostate cancer later in life
A study out of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found a link between early-life alcohol consumption and aggressive, high-grade prostate...
Blood test predicts how lymphoma respond to treatment
A blood test can predict which patients with a type of cancer called diffuse large B cell lymphoma are likely to respond positively to...
Experimental drug may help to prevent SOM
A new drug, called GC4419, although still in clinical trials, has already been designated by the US Food and Drug Administration as a "breakthrough...
Predictor indicates the potential success of melanoma treatment
In a study, researchers developed a gene expression predictor that can indicate whether melanoma in a specific patient is likely to respond to treatment...
Breast cancer deaths dropping but lung cancer deaths rising in women
An analysis of World Health Organisation data concludes that lung cancer deaths among women are set to rise by 43%.between 2015 and 2030, while...
Cancer patients using alternative therapies decrease survival chances
Cancer patients who use alternative therapies are be more likely to shun conventional treatments and risk their chances of survival, a study of 1,290...
Improving survival rates for patients with colorectal cancer
Patients with colorectal cancer tumours on the right side may have poorer five-year survival rates than those whose tumours are located on the left...
Blood test predicts specific prostate cancer treatment response
An international collaborative study between Lawson Health Research Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, the Royal Marsden Hospital and Epic Sciences is one of...
Testosterone effective in combating cachexia in cancer patients
In patients with advanced cancer undergoing early standard of care therapy, adjunct testosterone improved lean body mass and was also associated with increased quality...
Antibody blood test to detect melanoma in its early stages
Australian researchers are claiming a breakthrough with a blood test for early stage melanoma. In a trial involving 105 patients with melanoma and 104 healthy...
Mammogram screening study supports the exclusion of low-risk women
A UK modelling study concluded that excluding the screening of low risk women would improve the quality of life gained, reduce over-diagnosis and save...
Ultrasound may be superior for treatment of prostate cancer
Using high energy ultrasound beams to destroy prostate cancer tumours may be as effective as surgery or radiotherapy, but with fewer side effects, a...
Fivefold improvement in glioblastoma survival with polio-virus therapy
A genetically modified poliovirus therapy developed at Duke Cancer Institute shows significantly improved long-term survival for patients with recurrent glioblastoma, with a three-year survival...
Environment predicts men's testosterone levels
Men's testosterone levels are largely determined by their environment during childhood found a UK study, challenging the theory that testosterone levels are controlled by...
Vitamin D linked to reduced breast cancer risk
Researchers at University of California – San Diego School of Medicine suggest higher levels of vitamin D are associated with decreasing risk of breast...
Higher body fat link to lower breast cancer risk in pre-menopausal women
While obesity has been shown to increase breast cancer risk in post-menopausal women, a large-scale study co-led by a University of North Carolina Lineberger...
Personalised glioblastoma vaccine may increase long-term survival
An international Phase III study led by researchers at the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA) and at Northwest Biotherapeutics Inc has found...
Study on first birth cohort to receive HPV vaccine
Girls in the first birth cohort to receive the HPV vaccine showed a lower degree of dysplasia which may eventually lead to cervical cancer...