June 2011 | Oncology & Biotech News

July 07, 2011

New data suggest that, contrary to expectation, the use of supplements containing one-carbon nutrients like folate and vitamins B2, B6, and B12 appears to be associated with an increased risk of type II endometrial cancer.

July 06, 2011

New findings suggest that long-term, regular acetaminophen use may be associated with a lower risk of prostate cancer.

July 05, 2011

A new study suggested that black patients with cancer are less hesitant to spend all their financial resources on treatments that prolong life than white patients with cancer.

July 01, 2011

A recent study showed that a patient-navigation-based intervention may help increase the rate of CRC screening in typically underserved groups, including low-income, ethnically diverse patients.

June 30, 2011

Researchers have reported that acute myocardial infarction (MI) patients who are exposed to low-dose ionizing radiation from imaging and therapeutic procedures may be at increased risk of cancer.

June 30, 2011

Extracorporeal photopheresis takes approximately 3 to 4 hours to complete and involves leukapheresis, separation of the buffy coat, photoactivation, and finally reinfusion.

June 28, 2011

Population stratification refers to differences in allele frequencies between cases and controls, resulting from systematic differences in ancestry, as opposed to associations between genes and disease.

June 22, 2011

Over the past 25 years, multiple lung cancer chemoprevention trials have missed the mark with agents that looked good on paper but lacked the molecular biology support to make a difference.

June 21, 2011

Older women with estrogen receptor (ER)-negative metastatic breast cancer have a 39% lower risk of all-cause mortality if they receive chemotherapy within 6 months of their diagnosis.

June 21, 2011

Results of a phase II trial showed that former smokers had significant regression of endobronchial dysplasia when treated with iloprost.

June 21, 2011

Breast cancers with similar clinicopathologic characteristics may have strikingly different outcomes.

June 20, 2011

Investigators in a large cohort study reported that heavy alcohol consumption, particularly beer, significantly increases the risk of gastric cancer.

June 20, 2011

Patients with basal cell carcinoma had an eightfold decrease in lesion area when treated with GDC-0449

June 17, 2011

A search for potential chemopreventive agents for prostate cancer uncovered an unlikely candidate in digoxin, one of the oldest drugs for cardiovascular disorders

June 17, 2011

Long-term use of talc-based powder significantly increased the risk of invasive ovarian cancer in a large case-control study

June 15, 2011

New results appear to undercut the longstanding notion that individuals who smoke menthol cigarettes have a higher risk of lung cancer than those who smoke nonmenthol cigarettes

June 15, 2011

Both industry and clinical sources agree that cancer vaccine research is finally on the right track to achieve major advances in treatment.

June 14, 2011

Recently, significant attention has been focused on dark energy, despite our inability to directly detect it, because it represents 72% of everything in the universe