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cancer stories: 335 news summaries

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Tasmanian Devils Face Extinction

Iconic marsupials
hit by contagious
facial cancer

May 7, 07 8:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tasmanian Devils, the largest marsupial carnivore and the island's main tourist attraction, are threatened with extinction due to a contagious and fatal form of facial cancer spreading rapidly through the population. "Once they've got a lump, it's a one way trip,"  one expert  says. More »

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cancer • Australia • disease • Tasmanian Devil • Tasmania • extinction • facial cancer • animal

Post-Chemo Memory Loss Isn't All in
the Head

Doctors catch onto "chemo brain"

Apr 29, 07 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Docs are finally cluing in to "chemo brain," the fuzzy-headed forgetfulness following treatment that cancer survivors have long suffered—and doctors long denied. The condition, suffered by roughly 15% of breast cancer survivors, refers to a laundry list of memory-loss issues that researchers think result from high levels... More »

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cancer • health • breast cancer • chemotherapy • chemo brain • cancer treatment • memory loss

Embryos Screened for Cancer Risk

Targeting breast cancer gene raises fears
of "designer babies"

Apr 26, 07 10:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - The British government is poised to OK a procedure that screens embryos for genes that greatly increase the risk—but do not necessarily cause—breast cancer. Two couples with strong family histories of the disease are expected to pioneer the technique, already approved in principle, and crank up the debate... More »

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cancer • breast cancer • genetics • science • designer baby • in vitro fertilization • genetic testing • genetic screening • embryo

Critic Carries Flag for Cancer Survivors

Roger Ebert maybe mute and bandaged, but he'll be at film festival as always

Apr 25, 07 8:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Roger Ebert will show up at his ninth annual Overlooked Film Festival in Urbana, he writes in the Sun-Times, although he's recovering from cancer surgery that's left him temporarily mute and heavily bandaged. "We spend too much time hiding illness," Ebert writes. "I'm not going to miss... More »

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cancer • film • illness • Overlooked Film Festival • Roger Ebert

Breast Cancer Decline Tied to Hormone Drop

Study links 'colossal'  reduction in cancer to women skipping estrogen

Apr 19, 07 9:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Researchers are linking a dramatic drop in the number of breast cancer cases to the decline in estrogen consumption by menopausal women. Women dropped hormone replacement therapy en mass after a 2002 study tied it to breast cancer risk. Other scientists argued that the decline—about 16,000 fewer new... More »

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cancer • medicine • health • breast cancer • women's health • women • hormone replacement therapy • ovarian cancer • estrogen • hormones • medical study

Vaccine May
Not Prevent
Cervical Cancer

Mandated for all girls
in some states, HPV vaccine fails to deliver 

Apr 16, 07 8:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pharma behemoth Merck is defending what it touted as a miracle cervical-cancer vaccine against charges of ineffectiveness. Merck lobbied states to mandate Gardasil for young girls—Texas and Virginia did—and got a glowing endorsement from the CDC. But new studies show that it works only to prevent sexually-transmitted HPV,... More »

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cancer • health • cancer vaccine • Merck • HPV • cervical cancer • Gardasil • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • pharmaceutical companies • pharma • vaccine • STD

Thompson Discloses Cancer

Could-be candidate
says he had lymphoma in 2004, but is in remission

Apr 12, 07 7:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fred Thompson has non-Hodgkins lymphoma—but it's in remission, the senator-turned-TV star said yesterday. Strategists see the surprise revelation as a sign that Thompson is preparing to enter the contest for the Republican presidential nomination. A new Los Angeles Times poll, conducted just before the announcement, puts him in second... More »

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cancer • Mitt Romney • John McCain • Republican • Fred Thompson • lymphoma • Election 2008

Cheap Anticancer Drugs Are Ignored

Why? They don't make pharmeceutical companies enough money

Apr 5, 07 9:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ralph Moss writes about why inexpensive cancer treatments get no research dollars. The publisher of a newsletter that covers both conventional and alternative cancer therapies, Moss blames the inability to patent already discovered and available chemicals and drugs for the situation. More »

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cancer • medicine • medical breakthrough • health • drugs • research • treatment

 Docs Tell Younger Women: Avoid Mammograms

Younger women should think twice before x-raying breasts, docs say

Apr 3, 07 8:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Forty-something women should consider skipping their annual mammograms, the American College of Physicians is suggesting after a new review of research. Docs point to danger from radiation and unnecessary biopsies, surgery and chemotherapy, thanks in part to a high rate of false positives.  "We don't think the evidence... More »

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cancer • technology • health • breast cancer • American Cancer Society • women • science • mammogram

How We Fight: In Public and
In Private

Jonathan Alter relives his own struggle with cancer

Apr 2, 07 4:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fit and under fifty when diagnosed with a rare form of lymphoma, Newsweek reporter Jonathan Alter talks about his own battle with cancer in the wake of a week of high-profile recurrences. Now in remission, as Elizabeth Edwards and Tony Snow were until last week, Alter  describes managing the fear... More »

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cancer • health care • Elizabeth Edwards • health • Tony Snow • lymphoma • disease

FDA Panel Passes First Cancer Vaccine

Prostate treatment recruits immune system
to fight tumors

Mar 30, 07 11:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - A cancer drug that's the first to harness the body's immune system to destroy tumors got a thumbs-up from  the FDA's advisory panel, the New York Times reports. If approved, Provenge, a prostate cancer treatment, would be the first of the "cancer vaccines"—experimental therapies that commandeer a... More »

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cancer • FDA • health • prostate cancer • cancer vaccine • vaccine • Provenge

Tony Snow's Cancer Recurs

Mar 28, 07 7:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - White House press secretary Tony Snow has cancer again, and this time it's spread to his liver. Doctors discovered the recurrence when they removed a  growth from his lower abdomen yesterday. Snow, who's 51, underwent surgery and chemotherapy for colon cancer two years ago. More »

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cancer • Bush administration • health • Tony Snow • White House • press • Fox

New Breast Scan Beats Mammogram

Uses near-infrared rays to illuminate tumors and sort benign from malignant

Mar 27, 07 12:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - A new type of breast scan promises to pick up the tumors mammograms often miss and to distinguish between benign and malignant masses—without surgery. The technology relies on harmless near-infrared light to illuminate the masses, which glow when exposed to a particular chemical combination. More »

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cancer • medicine • medical breakthrough • health • breast cancer • Harvard Medical School • mammogram

Elizabeth Edwards's
Cancer Recurs

2008 candidate will continue his campaign

Mar 23, 07 8:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Presidential contender John Edwards and his wife Elizabeth announced today that the breast cancer she battled after the last election cycle has recurred and advanced to Stage IV. The cancer has spread to her bones, a lung, and possibly other organs, her oncologist explained,  and is now inoperable. The... More »

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cancer • John Edwards • Democrats • Elizabeth Edwards • health • breast cancer • presidential campaign • medical research • cancer research • Election 2008

Lung Scans Fail To Cut Deaths

New study disputes  value of CT scans for early detection

Mar 7, 07 7:52 AM CST
(Newser) - CT scans, once hailed as a breakthrough in early detection of lung cancer, fail to save lives, according to research published yesterday. In a study of 3,246 smokers or former smokers, the scans led to the discovery of more tumors—and more surgeries—than in a control group, but... More »

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cancer • technology • health • lung cancer • CT scans • medical study

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