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Federal health regulators say OSI Pharmaceutical's Tarceva slows the progression of lung cancer and extends patients' lives when used as a follow-up to chemotherapy.
Some women with very advanced breast cancer may have a new treatment option. A combination of two drugs that more precisely target tumors significantly extended the lives of women who had stopped responding to other medicines, doctors reported Friday.
New results from a landmark women's health study raise the exciting possibility that bone-building drugs such as Fosamax and Actonel may help prevent breast cancer.
Bryant Gumbel shocked a television audience with the news that he's recovering from cancer surgery and treatment. The former "Today" show anchor, 61, said a malignant tumor and part of his lung were removed two months ago. He revealed his condition to Kelly Ripa while subbing for Regis Philbin on Tuesday's edition of "Live With Regis and Kelly." (Philbin recently had hip replacement surgery.)
Colon cancer deaths could drop dramatically in the next decade because of better screening and treatment, according to an optimistic new prediction by top researchers.
A Costa Rican woman who was on an international most wanted list after a murder 12 years ago until her arrest in the United States has filed a lawsuit over what she says was a lack of health services in a New Jersey jail, so severe that her advanced stage of breast cancer went undetected for months.
Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt says that he has prostate cancer and expects to have surgery in January.
Did you hear an enormous thud around 3 p.m. yesterday? That was the sound of Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius throwing her scientists under a bus.
Lying in bed one night in 2007, Peter Criss felt something strange: a small lump on his left breast.
Former Kiss drummer Peter Criss is speaking out about his recent bout with breast cancer.
For the last 20 years, I — along with most other medical experts — have been saying the same thing over and over about screening for breast cancer: early detection saves lives.
Authorities say a Texas woman lied about having breast cancer and spent $10,000 raised at a benefit to have her breasts enlarged. McLennan County sheriff's investigator James Pack says in court records that 24-year-old Trista Joy Lathern shaved her head to look like a cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy.
Folks in central Texas don’t like being played for boobs — especially by a woman who claimed to have breast cancer when all she really had was a chest that was flatter than she wanted it to be.
New Orleans Hornets owner George Shinn said Friday he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, but remains healthy and is optimistic that he will conquer the disease.
Men may protect more than their hearts if they keep cholesterol in line: Their chances of getting aggressive prostate cancer may be lower, new research suggests.
Nurses were training women in rural Mexico to examine their breasts for cancer when one raised her hand to object. If she lost her breast, Harvard public health specialist Felicia Knaul recalls the woman saying, "My man would leave me" — and with him, the family's income.
Like so many of us, Liliana Huerta wished someone, somehow, could transform the pudge around her middle to something a little more useful.
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his spokeswoman said Sunday.
Joni Lownsdale never thought her 2002 breast cancer diagnosis would land her in the middle of the Obama administration's fight with the health insurance industry.
Through 41 years of marriage, Michael and Barbara Welsh expected to share just about everything, for better or worse. But they never thought one of those things would be breast cancer.
It took a few tablespoons of my blood, a six-week wait to determine the results and only an instant to change my world.
A former chief executive of casino operator MGM Mirage has been diagnosed with cancer.
Pamina Brassey was so nervous before the photo shoot that she made sure she had a little bit of wine on hand, just in case she needed it.
When Felice Austin was just 11 years old, her mother died from breast cancer. That started Austin on a lifelong campaign to lower her risk of the disease that strikes nearly 200,000 women every year.
CAT scan cancer fear: Radiation 'could trigger the disease in one in 80 patients' Having a CT - or CAT - scan puts patients at far greater risk of developing cancer than previously thought, scientists claim. The radiation generated by the scans - an increasingly popular diagnostic tool - may trigger the disease in as many as one in 80 patients.
15,000 will die from CT scans done in 1 yearRadiation from CT scans done in 2007 will cause 29,000 cancers and kill nearly 15,000 Americans, researchers said Monday. The scans have more radiation than previously thought.
CT Scans May Cause CancerMONDAY, Dec. 14 (HealthDay News) — Commonly performed CT scans are exposing patients to far more radiation than previously thought and in doses that could cause tens of thousands of cancers a year, two new studies claim.
O'Reilly Slams Law & Order Dialogue Comparing Him, Limbaugh, Beck to a 'Cancer Spreading Ignorance and Hate'On Thursday's The O'Reilly Factor, FNC host Bill O'Reilly slammed Dick Wolf, the left-wing executive producer of NBC's Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, because Wednesday's episode – featuring a killer who targeted the children of illegal immigrants – contained dialo …
Lance Armstrong Posts On Change.Org In Favor of Health Insurance ReformThe economic downturn that began in 2007 is only now showing signs of easing. Our government has made history-setting stimulus efforts to stabilize our financial systems. It would be easy to simply say, "Sorry…we have to wait to fight cancer."
Poor turned away from free cancer screeningsAs the economy falters and more people go without health insurance, low-income women in at least 20 states are being turned away or put on long waiting lists for free cancer screenings.
The Missing Element | Foreign Policythe effects of a particular canadian nuclear reactor going down on american healthcare
Former half term Alaska Governor and losing vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is scheduled to speak at a fundraiser for, the Juravinski Cancer Centre and St. Peter's Hospital in Canada. Along with cancer research the Juravinski Cancer Centre and St.
Chemo boosts cancer survival in older womenChemotherapy helps improve breast cancer survival in post-menopausal women, adding to a long-standing debate about how best to treat these women, U.S. researchers said.
Drug combo lengthens breast cancer survivalWomen with very advanced breast cancer may have a new treatment option. A combination of two drugs that more precisely target tumors significantly extended the lives of women who had stopped responding to other treatments, doctors reported Friday.
Finding the Achilles' heel of cancer | Eureka! Science NewsA never-approved drug developed to prevent the death of nerve cells after a stroke can efficiently kill cancer cells while keeping normal cells healthy and intact, an international team led by a Tel Aviv University researcher is reporting in the journal Breast Cancer Research.
Alcohol may raise risk of breast cancer returnPost-menopausal women who have three to four alcoholic beverages a week of any sort have a significantly higher risk that their breast cancer will come back, researchers found.
Bone drugs may help prevent breast cancerNew results from a large women's health study suggest that bone-building drugs such as Fosamax and Actonel might help prevent breast cancer.
Palestinians Fake Cancer to Escape GazaThe citizens of Gaza are trapped in the largest prison in the world. Blockaded, poor, destitute and desperate, they are willing to try anything to leave a homeland that has nothing left to offer them. Their only wish is for a better life for themselves and for their children.
Coffee could help cut prostate cancer risk, says studyDrinking coffee could help to cut the risk of advanced prostate cancer, a US study suggests.
What Your Government Knows About Cannabis And Cancer -- And Isn't Telling YouSenator Ted Kennedy is putting forward a brave face following his recent surgery but the sad reality remains.
Study finds benefits of soy after breast cancerIs soy food helpful or harmful for women with breast cancer? Studies have yielded mixed results. A new study published today suggests that breast cancer survivors may benefit from eating moderate amounts of soy products.
Compound In Beer Could Prevent Prostate Cancer In Men And Breast Cancer in Women, Scientists Say Tests have revealed that men who drink beer may reduce their chances of developing prostate cancer, say scientists.
Navy Vet Screwed Over by VA, Welcome to Gov. Managed Health CareDavid Cohen was denied Cancer Screen, now has Stage 4 Cancer and Two Years to live!
Annual Report Shows Overall Decline in U.S. Cancer Incidence and Death RatesAnnual Report Shows Overall Decline in U.S. Cancer Incidence and Death Rates; Feature Focuses on Cancers with Recent Increasing Trends
Colon cancer deaths could make big dropThe colon cancer death rate in 2020 could be half of what it was in 2000, due to better screening and treatment, says a new report from the Amererican Cancer Society.
'Risky donor' kidney transplants prove successfulSurgeons say they have had success with a controversial transplant technique that uses risky donor kidneys containing cancerous masses.
Watchdog group: Zhu Zhu Pets unsafe A consumer watchdog group says one of a U.S. company's Zhu Zhu Pets robotic hamsters contains an unsafe level of the chemical antimony.
Cancer From the Kitchen? Columnist discusses potential link between certain diseases, endocrine disruptors.
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