News tagged with 'Cancer'

The FDA has allowed many drugs that were fast-tracked to stay on the market while no post marketing surveillance has been undertaken and none have been pulled off the market, criticizes the Government Accountability Office in this report.

In a landmark long-term study, the World Health Organization (WHO) is about to announce that long-term cell phone use is linked to a higher risk of developing brain cancer.

Cervarix has been approved for use in girls and women to fight cervical cancer, the FDA announced on Friday, the same day that Gardasil got approval for expanded use in boys and men to fight genital warts.

In 2007, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared October 13 Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day. An estimated 155,000 women in the United States are currently living with metastatic breast cancer.

XMRV is a retrovirus that embeds in the body and is linked to both chronic fatigue syndrome and prostate cancer. Whether it is a cause or a correlation remains a mystery.

There is good new and bad news to report about breast cancer, but overall, the American Cancer Society in this 2009-2010 report says that the deaths rates have been steadily declining about 2 percent a year.

Researchers are very encouraged about a new drug treatment for melanoma that showed 19 out of 27 patients had a dramatic reduction in tumor size. Larger trials will be conducted.

While more girls are getting the first shot of Gardasil in 2008 than a year earlier, fewer than one in five completes the three-shot series, reports the CDC.

Actor, Patrick Swayze died of pancreatic cancer this week. Among his good habits that may have added to his 20-month survival, were his love of work, and physical fitness from dancing. Among the lifestyle factors that may have raised his risk - cigarettes and alcohol.

Metformin, the diabetes drug, may be useful to stop the reoccurence of cancer cells by starving them of sugar for growth.

If the Food and Drug Administration follows the advice of its panels, Gardasil could soon be approved for use in boys and young men.

Each millimeter of bone loss from chronic periodontitis was linked to a fourfold risk of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, especially in the mouth and throat, according to this study on mouth health and cancer.

A virus may be linked to the most aggressive form of prostate cancer. If a test can be developed, it will potentially help identify which cancers should be treated, and which can progress under watchful waiting.

The PSA test for prostate cancer is not specific enough to determine if a cancer is fast growing or not, and as a result, many men are treated aggressively for prostate cancer, which carries its own risks and side effects.

Sen. Edward Kennedy died Tuesday night of a malignant glioma, the most common type of brain cancer, which kills about 13,000 patients a year.