health - "cancer"

Curbing the activity of a substance called 'platelet-derived growth factor receptor A' dramatically reduced aggressiveness of an often untreatable childhood muscle cancer in mice and cells, a new study from The University of Texas health Science Center at San Antonio and partner institutions shows.

(Ludwig Institute for cancer Research) Investigators from the Melbourne Center of the international Ludwig Institute for cancer Research and Pacific Edge Biotchnology Ltd today reported that they have developed a test to predict whether a patient will progress rapidly from Stage III melanoma to metastatic Stage IV cancer and death.

An article published in The Lancet Oncology reports that postmenopausal women with breast cancer who are on endocrine treatment are likely to experience arthralgia and arthritis (joint symptoms) if they previously have used hormone replacement therapy (HRT), received a hormone-receptor positive tumor diagnosis, undergone chemotherapy, received treatment with anastrozole versus tamoxifen, or been obese.

Cancer patients in Scotland are being 'failed' by the NHS because of the focus on the disease rather than the whole person, researchers said yesterday.