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Moffitt Cancer Center Researchers Link Stigma to Depression Among Lung Cancer Patients
Studying the role of social stigma in depression for lung cancer patients, researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., have found that depression can be heightened by a lung cancer patient’s sense of social rejection, internalized shame...Breast Cancer Screening And Better Treatment Both Help to Save Significant Numbers of Lives
A Dutch study of the effectiveness of breast cancer screening shows that, even with improved treatments for the disease, population-based mammography programs still save a significant number of lives. The finding, presented (Wednesday) at the eighth European...MRI Screening for Women with a Family History of Breast Cancer But No Genetic Predisposition
Adding magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to standard breast cancer screening approaches is expensive, though it could be cost effective for a group of women who may not have inherited the breast cancer susceptibility genes, but who have a familial risk...Stanford Researchers Boost Potency, Reduce Side Effects of IL-2 Protein Used to Treat Cancer
The utility of a naturally occurring protein given, sometimes to great effect, as a drug to treat advanced cancers is limited by the severe side effects it sometimes causes. But a Stanford University School of Medicine scientist has generated a mutant...Antidepressant Tranylcypromine Shows Promise As Cancer Treatment
A retinoid called all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA), which is a vitamin A-derivative, is already used successfully to treat a rare sub-type of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), however this drug has not been effective for the more common types of AMLs. Team...Researchers Reveal Ways to Make Personalized Cancer Therapies More Cost Effective
As scientists continue making breakthroughs in personalized cancer treatment, delivering those therapies in the most cost effective manner has become increasingly important. Now researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine have identified...National Institutes of Health Study Links Childhood Cancer to Developmental Delays in Milestones
Infants and toddlers who have been treated for cancer tend to reach certain developmental milestones later than do their healthy peers, say researchers at the National Institutes of Health and in Italy. The findings show that delays may occur early in...
Scientists Uncover Mechanism Behind Melanoma Drug Resistance
Cancer is tough to kill and has many ways of evading the drugs used by oncologists to eliminate it. Now, researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have uncovered how an advanced form of melanoma gets around an inhibitor called Zelboraf,...
