health - "cancer"

Breast cancer is the most common female cancer in the UK, affecting one in nine women at some point in their life.

BioCon Limited and Abraxis BioScience, Inc. Launch ABRAXANE in India for Treatment of Breast cancer 7/18/2008 BANGALORE, India, & LOS ANGELES-- --Biocon Limited, India's pioneering biotechnology company, and ...

A new cancer Research UK clinical trial has been launched to investigate the best treatment options for men who have had surgery for early stage prostate cancer.

HealthDay - FRIDAY, July 18 (HealthDay News) -- The prevalence of mantle celllymphoma, an aggressive form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, is increasing, andmost patients are diagnosed with advanced stages of the disease, notes astudy by researchers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson CancerCenter.

Breast cancer research needs to investigate how a person's ethnicity influences their response to treatment and its outcome, according to a new Comment piece in today's Lancet by researchers from Imperial ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Black men with early prostate cancer may be less likely to receive aggressive treatment than their white counterparts, a small study has found.

There is a huge variation in cancer survival rates after treatment depending on the fact in which country cancer patients live and to which race patients belong.Professor Michel Coleman from London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine led a team of 100 scientist who examined data from 1.9 million people living in 31 countries in 1990s. Researchers examined the data on cancer survival rates taken from national registries. The study is called CONCORD and it is mainly focused on breast, colon, rectal and prostate cancers.read more

Black men with early prostate cancer may be less likely to receive aggressive treatment than their white counterparts, a small study has found.

Some cancer patients may find that putting their emotions down in writing helps improve their pain and general well-being, a study suggests.

Women who regularly check their breasts for lumps do not decrease their chance of dying from breast cancer, according to research showing it may do more harm than good.