health - "cancer"

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 11 (HealthDay News) -- Subtle changes in theDNA's chemical coding may make the bowel more susceptible to cancer bymaking the cells addicted to turning the switch on in abnormal genes, anew study suggests.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 11 (HealthDay News) -- A drug already approved toreduce the risk of breast cancer in high-risk women also seems to cut therisk for other women.

Some characteristics of mammography facilities are associated with the accuracy of interpretation of screening mammograms, according to a study published online June 10 in the Journal of the National cancer ...

Another key adviser of Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams testifying at the Cameron inquiry Wednesday couldn't recall much about when he was first told about breast cancer mistakes, and his forgetfulness clearly frustrated the judge in charge.

A Leeds woman who lost a leg to bone cancer is suing her GPs after the disease was not diagnosed for six months.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A high-tech X-ray called a spiral CT scan may help reduce lung cancer deaths in smokers and former smokers, but only reduces their overall risk of premature death by 4 percent, researchers reported on Tuesday.Heart disease, respiratory disease and other types of cancer are still highly likely to kill smokers and former smokers early, the team at Harvard Medical School and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, found.Their study, published in the journal Radiology, will likely add to a debate on the value of screening smokers for lung cancer.

A new surgical procedure could be helping men with incontinence induced by stress or urge.

The Coalition on Abortion/Breast cancer notes the publication of the study, DeLellis Henderson et al. 2008, in the journal Contraception, which purports to examine the abortion-breast cancer (ABC) link. [1] 'This fraudulent study provides further strong evidence of the continuing, willful misrepresentation by prominent scientists of the well-established link between abortion and breast cancer,' said Joel Brind, Ph.D., president of the Breast cancer Prevention Institute.

New analysis of a drug approved for osteoporosis prevention and treatment has provided definitive evidence that the medication is also effective as a breast cancer preventative for certain cancers.

The case of Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), who has been diagnosed with brain cancer, is 'identical from a regulatory standpoint to the plight of hundreds of thousands of other Americans' and 'shouts to the heavens the humane necessity of urgent reform in the drug approval process to make it work better for people who have serious and terminal diseases,' according to a Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Steven Walker and Ronald Trowbridge, chief adviser and adjunct scholar, respectively, of the Abigail Alliance for Better Access to Developmental Drugs.