Two million cancer cases each year—or roughly 16 percent of cancers worldwide—are the result of preventable and treatable infections such as human papillomavirus (HPV) and Hepatitis C (HCV), according to the results of a study published in The Lancet Oncology.[1] …
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Women are 30 percent more likely to survive melanoma than men, according to the results of a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.[1] Melanoma is a deadly type of skin cancer that arises from melanocytes, which are cells …
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According to a study of more than 73,000 women, use of tanning beds increases the risk of three common types of skin cancer: basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and melanoma. These results were presented at the 10th AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research. Sun exposure has long been linked with skin [...]
Picking the Cancer Treatment That Works Best for You- Ask the Expert about Personalized Medicine Live Web Chat with David Sidransky, MD, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, click here for bio Dr. David Sidransky is an award-winning oncologist and a world leading authority in the field of molecular diagnostics, targeted therapies and individualized patient treatments. [...]
According to a study presented at the 2011 European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress, children born to women who received chemotherapy during pregnancy do not appear to have an increased risk of heart or cognitive problems. Since relatively few women are diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy, data regarding the effects of chemotherapy during pregnancy are limited. Determining [...]
Among patients with melanoma that has spread primarily to the liver, delivery of chemotherapy directly to the liver through a process known as percutaneous hepatic perfusion (PHP) delayed the progression of liver metastases. These results were presented at the 2011 European Multidisciplinary Cancer Conference. The liver is a common site of cancer spread. Effective treatment [...]
A large proportion of cancer patients do not enroll in clinical trials, and those who do participate may not adequately represent age groups, cancer stages, cancer types, and racial and ethnic groups. These findings were recently reported in the Annals of Surgery. Clinical trials are the process through which medications ultimately become approved by the [...]
The targeted therapy Zelboraf™ (vemurafenib) has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of melanomas that carry a common mutation in the BRAF gene. Of the more than one million new diagnoses of skin cancer each year, roughly 68,000 involve melanoma. More than 8,000 people die of melanoma each [...]
Although the head and neck region is complex and delicate, sentinel lymph node biopsy for melanomas of the head or neck appears to be safe and effective. These results were published in Cancer. Skin cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the United States, with more than one million new diagnoses each year. The [...]
An oral investigational therapy, RG7204 (also known as PLX4032), results in stable disease or reduced tumor size for 82% of metastatic melanoma patients who have failed prior treatment and who have the BRAF V600E mutation. These findings were recently presented at the Seventh Annual International Melanoma Research Congress of the Society for Melanoma Research in [...]
