health - "cancer"

While Maria Lyzen was being treated for breast cancer, she found she couldn't concentrate or decipher information, and just functioning day-to-day at home was difficult.

AMDL has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a letter of substantial equivalence to an existing predicate device and granted clearance to market the AMDL-ELISA DR-70(R) (FDP) as a safe and effective blood test for monitoring patients who have been previously diagnosed with colorectal cancer (CRC).

Kidney cancer patients generally have one option for beating their disease: surgery to remove the organ. But that could change, thanks to a new molecule found by Stanford University School of medicine researchers that kills kidney cancer cells. Ideally, the researchers said, a drug created from this molecule would help fight the life-threatening disease while leaving patients' kidneys intact.

According to new research women who are at risk of developing type 2 diabetes also have a much greater chance of being diagnosed with advanced breast cancer.

The hope is that Gardasil will prove to be a lifesaver, preventing deadly cervical cancer. But today Merck's HPV vaccine is dealing with a growing number of reports of serious side effects, Sharyl Attkisson reports.

Using mouse embryonic stem cells, researchers at the National cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of health, have developed a new method to evaluate which mutations, or changes, in a gene known to increase breast cancer susceptibility, may lead to cancer. The new test, called a functional assay, is more comprehensive and reliable than most current methods.

A Northern California family claims a vaccine designed to protect against a virus known to cause cervical cancer paralyzed their 13-year-old daughter.

The cancer medication Avastin has been called a wonder drug, but may be less effective than U.S. regulators believed when they approved it.

Drug treatment which stops a woman's periods may protect against the effects of chemotherapy, a study suggests.

Her parents think it might be, but the drug's maker denies it. The vaccine was approved by federal officials to protect against the virus that causes many cases of cervical cancer.