WEDNESDAY, March 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Opting for a lumpectomy during breast cancer treatment can protect a woman’s future sex life, a new study suggests. Breast-conserving therapy (BCT) is associated with better sexual well-being, compared to mastectomy followed by breast reconstruction, researchers found. In fact, sexual well-being improved amongContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Breast cancer survivors treated with chemotherapy tend to suffer a longer-lasting decline in their physical health, compared to women who receive hormone therapy or other cancer treatments. Chemotherapy patients reported a physical decline that extended more than two years after their diagnosis withContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Many Americans remain unaware of the cancer risk for both men and women posed by human papillomavirus (HPV), a new Ohio State University poll has found. Most people don’t know much about HPV and its long-term cancer risks, and also have key misperceptionsContinue Reading
MONDAY, March 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — As electric vehicles (EVs) become more common on roads, they bring new health concerns for firefighters and the community, new research shows. Researchers at the University of Miami’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center found that EV fires expose firefighters, vehicle owners and community residentsContinue Reading
MONDAY, March 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — People who land in the ER after using hallucinogens are more than twice as likely to die in a handful of years, a new study says. Psychedelics users treated at a hospital are 2.6 times more likely than average folks to die fromContinue Reading
SUNDAY, March 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Learning that your child has cancer is overwhelming, and talking to them about it can feel just as difficult. But experts stress that open and honest communication is key to helping children cope with their diagnosis and treatment. It may feel natural toContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 26, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A rapid experimental genetic test can help guide the hands of surgeons as they delicately remove tumors from patients with brain cancer, new research suggests. The test can measure the level of cancer cells in a tissue sample within 15 minutes, quick enoughContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 26, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Where a young American woman lives could play a role in her risk for breast cancer, a new study suggests. In fact, the breast cancer risk associated with a young woman’s locale is comparable to that from other known factors, such as genetics,Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 25, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Night shift workers face an increased risk of cancer, as their disrupted sleep cycle causes wear and tear on their DNA. But taking melatonin might help ward off this risk, a new study suggests. Folks on the night shift taking melatonin had aContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 25, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Breast cancer deaths are expected to increase during the next quarter-century, largely impacting the world’s poorest nations, a new international study says. About 1.1 million breast cancer-related deaths are projected to occur in 2050 worldwide, an increase of 68% from 2022, researchers estimated.Continue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Frequent exercise can help colon cancer survivors live longer, perhaps even outlasting average folks, a new study suggests. Colon cancer patients who were very physically active had three-year survival rates that were slightly higher than the general population, researchers report in the journalContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Many patients with incurable cancer aren’t getting care that could ease their suffering at the end of life, a new study suggests. Close to half of patients with advanced cancer received aggressive cancer treatment within six months of their death, researchers found —Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 21, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Adding a personalized mRNA vaccine to standard treatment could offer new hope for pancreatic cancer patients, a small yet promising study from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The study followed 16 patients, including Barbara Brigham, who joined the trial after a routine scanContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 21, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Cancer deaths among Black men and women in the U.S. have declined during the past decade in the United States, a new American Cancer Society (ACS) report says. The cancer death rate decreased 49% among Black men and 33% among Black women betweenContinue Reading