People worried about the effects of workplace stress on their health can probably relax on one count: research appearing today in BMJ suggests that work-related stress is unlikely to be an important risk factor for cancer. About 90% of cancers… Read More ›
Higher exposures to diesel exhaust increase the likelihood of dying from lung cancer, according to 2 new studies of workers at 8 underground mines in the United States. Released today by the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the data… Read More ›
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today it warned 19 medical practices that they may have purchased and used counterfeit versions of bevacizumab, a cancer therapy known more widely by its trade name, Avastin. Sixteen of the medical… Read More ›
Patients who received annual chest radiography for 4 years were no less likely to die of lung cancer than those who received usual care, according to findings from a large randomized trial published online today in JAMA. In an accompanying… Read More ›
Using computers to scour publicly available gene expression databases, scientists have identified new potential uses for a pair of old drugs, according to two studies published today in Science Translational Medicine. Atul J. Butte, MD, PhD, of the Stanford University… Read More ›
Screening heavy smokers for lung cancer with a form of computed tomography (CT) reduced deaths by 20% compared with screening using x-ray techniques. But the experts who reported the findings say more information about the costs and the benefits of… Read More ›
Cancer deaths in the United States have decreased steadily during the past 2 decades, but the news is not all good. Among the least educated individuals, cancer death rates are more than twice as high as among the most educated,… Read More ›
