health - "cancer"

Cancer patients are three times more likely to think they would be 'better off dead' or to contemplate suicide than the rest of the population - a cancer Research UK study reports online today.

Women who survive breast cancer for five years after treatment have a relatively low risk of the disease recurring, according to a U.S. study published on Tuesday.

Some say new research could give women the wrong idea about breast cancer.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, American Airlines and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson cancer Center are targeting one of the most aggressive and elusive forms of breast cancer in a unique multi-million dollar partnership announced today.The three announced that American will raise $8 million over eight years, which will fund Komen for the Cure's first Promise Grant - a $7.5 million grant to study and treat inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) at M. D. Anderson's Morgan Welch Inflammatory Breast cancer Research Program and Clinic in Houston.read more

M. D. Anderson-led team finds breast cancer five-year survivors may benefit from additional therapy.Breast cancer patients and their physicians may make more informed, long-term treatment decisions using risk assessment strategies to help determine probability of recurrence, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson cancer Center reported in the Aug. 12 online issue of the Journal of the National cancer Institute.read more

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Men with early prostate cancer who have their prostate glands surgically removed are less likely to die from the disease than those who take a more passive, wait-and-see approach, researchers said on Tuesday.

Chemists are pulling cancer onto a sucker punch by getting infected cells to drop their guard - according to research published today. They are using the metal ruthenium as a catalyst to a cancer-busting reaction which calls up an old cellular enemy - oxidants - as an ally.

HealthDay - TUESDAY, Aug. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Postmenopausal women withbreast cancer who are receiving endocrine treatment may be at increasedrisk of joint issues, including arthritis, a new study finds.

While some cancer screening tests clearly save lives, the benefits of other screening tests are less clear.

AP - A Philadelphia veterans hospital says it may have given insufficient radiation treatment to more than 100 prostate-cancer patients.