WEDNESDAY, July 3, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The Mediterranean diet can help cancer survivors maintain their heart health and live longer, a new study says. Cancer patients whose eating patterns stuck closely to the Mediterranean diet tended to live longer and have a reduced risk of heart-related death, researchers reportContinue Reading
TUESDAY, July 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Simple exercises performed during rounds of chemotherapy can help people avoid nerve damage normally associated with the cancer-killing drugs, a new study suggests. About twice as many cancer patients on chemo wound up with long-lasting nerve damage if they didn’t exercise, compared withContinue Reading
TUESDAY, July 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Ultrasound cannot reliably rule out endometrial cancer in Black women given how readings are now assessed, a new study argues. Transvaginal ultrasound is commonly used to screen for cancer by measuring the thickness of the endometrium, the inner wall of the uterus. ThisContinue Reading
MONDAY, July 1, 2024 (HealthDay news) — A 14-year study of testicular cancer survivors suggests that a chemotherapy drug could greatly raise patients’ long-term odds for hearing loss. The drug in question, cisplatin, has been a mainstay of cancer chemotherapy for decades. It’s often used to fight a range ofContinue Reading
MONDAY, July 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Current screening standards could miss early-stage prostate cancer in transgender women, a new study warns. Prostate cancer tests look for prostate-specific antigen (PSA), a protein produced by the small gland. Blood levels of PSA tend to be elevated in people with prostate cancer.Continue Reading
MONDAY, July 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Tai Chi appears to improve sleep, and as a result reduces inflammation and boosts the immune systems of breast cancer survivors, a new study says. The ancient Chinese martial arts practice relies on slow, precise movements performed as the person breathes deeply andContinue Reading
FRIDAY, June 28, 20204 (HealthDay news) — An immunotherapy/chemotherapy combo drug can help early-stage breast cancer patients remain cancer-free following treatment, a new trial shows. The combo drug, Kadcyla, is already approved to treat patients with advanced HER2-positive breast cancer, researchers said. The new results show that stage 1 breastContinue Reading
THURSDAY, June 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Acupuncture can help breast cancer patients deal with the hot flashes that often accompany hormone therapy, a new clinical trial says. Nearly 2 in 3 women who got acupuncture during hormone therapy reported fewer and less intense hot flashes, results show. Hormone therapyContinue Reading
TUESDAY, June 25, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Losing weight can protect you against cancers related to obesity, a new study finds. Obesity has been linked to higher risk of at least 13 types of cancer, researchers said. This is largely due to excess levels of hormones like estrogen and insulin.Continue Reading
MONDAY, June 24, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Giving people with pancreatic cancer chemotherapy both before and after a tumor-removing surgery brought better outcomes than if they got the drugs only after the surgery, new research shows. Researchers at the Yale Cancer Center (YCC) and Yale School of Medicine focused onContinue Reading
MONDAY, June 24, 2024 (HealthDay News) — U.S. children with inoperable brain tumors appear to die sooner and find it harder to get care if they live in poorer neighborhoods, a new study finds. Children from higher-income areas had more than double the average survival time than kids from poorerContinue Reading
FRIDAY, June 21, 2024 (HealthDay News) — An experimental cancer treatment regimen is achieving full remissions in some patients with aggressive B-cell lymphoma, researchers report. The five-drug combination does not include chemotherapy. Rather, it simultaneously zeroes in on several molecular pathways that diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) tumors rely onContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, June 20, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Prostate medications might help reduce the risk of a specific type of dementia, a new study suggests. People were less likely to develop Lewy body dementia when taking drugs designed to treat urinary symptoms caused by an enlarged prostate, researchers reported June 19Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, June 19, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A new AI-driven blood test could improve detection of liver cancer, which is one of the most fatal cancers because early diagnosis is difficult. The test looks for “fusion genes” — two different genes that have become bound together, producing proteins that canContinue Reading