health - "cancer"

For most people, the first experimental drags on a cigarette bring on nausea, coughing and other signals from the brain that say, 'Turn back.

Testing men for elevated levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in the blood -- the gold standard screening test for prostate cancer -- may be biased against obese men, whose PSA levels tend to be deceptively low. And this bias may be creating more aggressive cancers in this population by delaying diagnosis, according to a new study led by investigators in the Duke Prostate Center and the Durham Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center.

Dr. Theodore Kaufman, here in his Punxsutawney office, holds the MammoSite Targeted Radiation Therapy catheter device.

Shahriyour Andaz, MD, FACS, FRCS, Director of Thoracic Oncology at South Nassau Communities Hospital, is the co-author of two studies that earned honors at the Brooklyn and Long Island Chapter of the American College of Surgeons Murry Friedman Surgical Resident Competition.

UroToday.com - G1-3pTa/1 TCC accounts for up to 80% of all newly diagnosed bladder cancer. Whilst bladder cancer is the 5th commonest cancer it is the most expensive disease to manage because of its propensity to recur and progress. Identifying risk of recurrence and/or progression is essential in order to plan management. Grade, stage, the presence of CIS and behaviour remain the most sensitive markers for progression.