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Promising Treatments for Pelvic Cancers
DON DIZON: Hi. Don Dizon. I’m a professor of medicine and professor of surgery at Brown University, and I treat pelvic cancers. And I’m here at ASCO ’23. And one of the studies that was presented was called the SHAPE Trial, and it looked at people presenting with early cervical cancer. This was disease that …
Targeted Drug May Lower Odds for Breast Cancer’s Return in Some Patients
By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, June 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Here’s some good news for women with the most common type of breast cancer: Adding a targeted breast cancer drug to hormonal therapy reduced the risk of cancer returning by 25% for women with early-stage disease, a new clinical trial shows. Hormone-receptor (HR) …
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Breast Cancer’s Unique Impacts on Younger Women; It’s (More) Complicated
Breast cancer is more common when you’re older. But it happens to young women, too. When it does, it’s more complicated and affects them differently. In the WebMD webinar “Diagnosed Under 40: Breast Cancer’s Unique Impacts on Younger Women; It’s (More) Complicated,” Ann H. Partridge, MD, MPH, discussed those treatment and lifestyle challenges. “When young women …
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Digital Rectal Exams Could Miss Early Prostate Cancers: Study
March 9, 2023 – Every now and then, new research comes along that questions the normal standard of care in medicine. In this case, a study out of Germany raises a concern about the value of digital rectal examinations for detecting prostate cancer, particularly in its early stages. Investigators enrolled 46,495 men screened for prostate …
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Some Animal Cancers Spread Through Contact and Are Potentially Lethal
During a time when the global coronavirus pandemic is still a threat, the thought of cancer being as contagious as COVID-19 is unbearable. While there are no reported transmissible cancers in humans, the animal kingdom hasn’t been so lucky. Photo Credit: Pixabay The canine transmissible venereal tumor (CTVT), a disease that affects both sexes of …
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U.S. Cancer Deaths Decline Overall, But Prostate Cancers Make Rebound
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Jan. 12, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Cancer deaths continue to decline, dropping 33% since 1991 and saving an estimated 3.8 million lives, according to the American Cancer Society’s annual statistics report. But individual trends within that overall success story highlight the struggle to find the best ways to prevent, …
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Most Cancers Not Found Through Screenings
Dec. 15, 2022 — Just 14.1% of cancer cases in the United States are diagnosed through recommended screening tests, a new report says. Instead, most cancers are found when someone seeks medical attention for something else, according to the information posted by the nonprofit research organization NORC at the University of Chicago. “I was shocked that …
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Prostate Cancer’s ‘Elephant in the Room’
Nov. 2, 2022 – Mark Lichty, 73, said it took a decade for him to overcome the anxiety, fear of death, and uncertainty about the future after he was diagnosed with low-grade prostate cancer in 2005. Lichty, of East Stroudsburg, PA, channeled some of this anxious energy into launching Active Surveillance Patients International (ASPI), which …
Can You Get Two Cancers at the Same Time?
Jennifer Schmid had just learned she had pancreatic cancer and that she would need surgery to remove part of her pancreas, stomach, and intestines. Schmid’s oncologist recommended she have a CT scan to check for cancer anywhere else in her body. That’s how doctors found the spot on her lung. To 61-year-old Schmid, of Newhall, …
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Weight-Loss Surgery May Greatly Lower Odds for Many Cancers
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, June 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Dropping a load of pounds through weight-loss surgery can significantly decrease your risk of developing or dying from cancer, according to three new studies. Obese folks who underwent bariatric surgery were at least two times less likely to develop certain types of cancer …
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Some Younger Women With Early-Stage Breast Cancers Might Skip Radiation
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Tens of thousands of breast cancer patients could safely go without radiation therapy after their tumor has been removed, a new study argues. Gene testing helped doctors identify a group of women who skipped radiation therapy because their cancer showed very low risk …
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