health - "cancer"

Queen Elizabeth II's elderly husband Prince Philip has been diagnosed with prostate cancer but is defying the disease and carrying on with engagements, London's Evening Standard reports.

Oregon woman denied drugs for lung cancer, but offered assisted-death drugs.

UC Davis cancer Center physicians released results of research showing that Vietnam War veterans exposed to Agent Orange have greatly increased risks of prostate cancer and even greater risks of getting the most aggressive form of the disease as compared to those who were not exposed. The findings, which appear online now and will be published in the September 15 issue of the journal cancer, are the first to link the herbicide with this form of cancer.

Cancer researchers at George Mason University's Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular medicine are studying the effects of experimental treatments on living tumor cells taken from multiple myeloma patients who are undergoing a routine diagnostic process. The trial may result in the discovery of novel therapeutic targets for treatment of this incurable form of blood cancer expected to strike nearly 20,000 men and women this year.

Researchers at the Virginia Commonwealth University Massey cancer Center and the VCU Institute of Molecular medicine have published findings that implicate a new chemoprevention gene therapy (CGT) for preventing and treating pancreatic cancer, one of the most lethal and treatment-resistant forms of cancer.

Medarex, Inc. (Nasdaq: MEDX) announced the allowance of an investigational new drug application (IND) filed with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for MDX-1105, for the treatment of patients with selected advanced or recurrent solid tumors, specifically renal cell carcinoma, melanoma, non-small cell lung cancer or epithelial ovarian cancer.

AP - New advice that men over 75 should not be screened for prostate cancer won't quell the long-standing controversy over the usefulness of the blood test for the disease, cancer experts said Tuesday.

Minority men and women who perceived discrimination from their health care providers were less likely to be screened for colorectal or breast cancer, according to a report in the August issue of cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, a journal of the American Association for cancer Research 'We have yet to achieve bias-free health care.

When I first heard that actress Christina Applegate had breast cancer , I wondered how the 36-year-old's tumor was detected.