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AP - As a doctor, Ron Davis knew what it meant when he got a diagnosis of advanced pancreatic cancer earlier this year.

ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - Dr. Jack McAninch led the panel on recto-urethral fistula (RUF). About 1% of patients undergoing any type of treatment for localized prostate cancer form a RUF. Dr. Hull, a colorectal surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic discussed their role in the management of these patients. They can perform fecal diversion to reduce inflammation in the fistula area.

When 12-year-old Janna Zuckerman lost a close family friend, Michelle Offsie, to breast cancer six years ago, she channeled her frustrations into a Walk for Hope, which soon became an annual event raising more ...

ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - During carcinogenesis, angiogenesis is a fundamental process allowing both tumor growth and metastatic spread. Actors of the angiogenesis pathways are targets for the new promising targeted therapies already used in several malignancies. In bladder cancer, anti-angiogenic molecules could also add to already existing treatment options.

WOMEN who smoke are no more likely than men to get lung cancer but, among non-smokers, women appear to have a higher risk than men, United States researchers reported on Friday.

ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - One third of recurring non-invasive bladder cancer will be invasive. To date, there is no way of identifying those patients who will have this clinical outcome. The goal of this study was to identify a microRNA (miRNA) signature in bladder cancer capable of differentiating non-invasive from invasive disease and to determine the prognostic value of such an expression profile.

Health experts say thousands of Australian women could avoid getting breast cancer, if the Federal Government helps fund a new treatment regime.

In 1954, Mr. Moore and colleagues published a pioneering study of male patients with cancer of the mouth, connecting the use of chewing tobacco with the disease.

'Support'Photo © Michele TarasWhat does the face of cancer look like? Isn't it all of us? We've all known someone, or been the patient, or heard of some...

CHICAGO (AP) -- As a doctor, Ron Davis knew what it meant when he got a diagnosis of advanced pancreatic cancer earlier this year....