Roughly 30,000 Americans are diagnosed with multiple myeloma each year—a rare but serious cancer of the plasma cells. Historically treated with chemotherapy, patients often faced recurring disease and…
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…
On April 22nd, 2009, people from around the globe gathered at US Cellular Field in Chicago to announce the Learning Living & Loving campaign. This call to action…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Advanced prostate cancer appears to be of a more aggressive type when it occurs in young men, leading to dramatically higher cancer-specific mortality…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In cancer patients accidentally overexposed with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) chemotherapy, the investigational drug vistonuridine (Wellstat Therapeutics Corp) may be lifesaving, according to research to…
Kim Hunter-Schaedle, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer of the Children’s Tumor Foundation, discusses Neurofibromatosis, a complex disorder that affects 1 in 3000 children, making it more common than better…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Contraception, or different reproductive patterns related to contraceptive methods, may affect the risk of some types of cancer, according to findings from the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Long-term adjuvant therapy with pegylated interferon alfa-2b (PEG-IFN-alpha-2b) for advanced melanoma improves recurrence-free survival, investigators report in an early online release from the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Using a new approach to detect tumor-associated plasma proteins, Canadian researchers have discovered a novel biomarker that may improve the diagnosis of lung…
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…
