Lung cancer comes in two main types: non-small cell and small cell. Each has different patterns, growth rates, and treatment needs. Smoking is the top risk factor, but…
Kidney cancer affects over 80,000 Americans annually, with renal cell carcinoma as the dominant type. Benjamin R. Lee, MD, MBA, outlines current AUA guideline recommendations, including when to…
Kim Hunter-Schaedle, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer of the Children’s Tumor Foundation, discusses the role of the CTF in education and research of neurofibromatosis, a disorder of tumor suppressors.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Women with long-standing hypothyroidism are at increased risk of hepatocellular carcinoma, the results of a case-control study suggest. By contrast, hypothyroidism is not significantly…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Breast cancers that are ER/PR negative and HER-2/neu nonamplified are more likely than those without triple negative status to show a complete pathologic…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The presence of multiple single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with increased prostate cancer risk, coupled with a positive family history, accurately identify men…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – High urinary levels of a carcinogen in tobacco may help predict risk of lung cancer in smokers, according to research reported at the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Overall, women who were treated for cancer during childhood are about 20% less likely to become pregnant than their unaffected sisters, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) results in “excellent 3-year local control and survival rates,” researchers report based…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Although folate fortification of foods may reduce the rate of neural tube defects in target populations, new research from Chile suggests that it…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research suggests that marijuana use may increase the risk of testicular germ cell tumors (TGCTs), primarily nonseminoma types. According to the report…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women with synchronous primary ovarian and endometrial cancers have better survival rates than women with single ovarian cancers do, according to a report…
