Despite conflicting guidelines for cervical cancer screening during the past several years, fewer women received unnecessary Pap tests in 2010 than in 2000, according to a pair of analyses published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report by scientists from… Read More ›
Many people are aware that when an individual develops cancer, especially an early-onset cancer, that event often signals that family members may have a hereditary risk for the malignancy. Now, new research underscores that the appearance of cancer later in… Read More ›
Researchers have linked low levels of a hormone that’s secreted from fat cells with a significant increased risk of pancreatic cancer, a finding that could lead to earlier detection of or new treatment approaches for pancreatic cancer. Using data from… Read More ›
Researchers who zeroed in on specific carotenoids—natural pigments that give some fruits and vegetables their yellow, orange, and red hues—found that lycopene had a more pronounced effect than several others they studied in reducing women’s risk of developing breast cancer…. Read More ›
Certain occupations with potentially high exposures to carcinogens and endocrine disruptors are associated with an increased risk of breast cancer, say researchers whose findings appear today online in Environmental Health. The researchers, using data collected from 2002 to 2008, found… Read More ›
Although some recent studies have hinted that hormone replacement therapy may be beneficial for some postmenopausal women, the US Preventive Services Task Force continues to recommend against its use for the prevention of chronic medical conditions. The task force’s recommendation,… Read More ›
The rate of prostate cancer screening by testing prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels among men age 75 years or older declined just 2 percentage points after a 2008 recommendation from the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) to discontinue such screening… Read More ›
The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) said that it cannot recommend annual screening for ovarian cancer in asymptomatic women because such testing does not reduce the number of deaths from the disease. The recommendation, which appears today in the… Read More ›
New genetic testing developed in Italy may boost the accuracy of thyroid cancer detection while reducing unnecessary diagnostic thyroidectomies by nearly 50%. Investigators at the University of Pisa developed models to measure gene expression levels in 93 thyroid tumor cell… Read More ›
Chemotherapy may induce changes in healthy cells that protect nearby tumors from the effects of such treatment, according to a study published in Nature Medicine Sunday. This discovery came as a surprise to the researchers who were probing the molecular… Read More ›
