WEDNESDAY, April 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Using AI to track fragments of tumor-associated DNA in the blood, scientists say they may be close to an accurate test for a silent killer: Ovarian cancer. It’s the fifth leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Ovarian tumors are oftenContinue Reading
TUESDAY, April 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Are you one of the estimated 104,000 Americans who lives within six miles of factories that spew organic chemicals into the air? New rules issued Tuesday by the Environmental Protection Agency might make your life healthier, agency officials said. The new rules “willContinue Reading
TUESDAY, April 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Health care cost and access are not the only barriers women face in getting lifesaving mammograms, a new government report finds. Food insecurity, lack of transportation, less hours at work and feelings of isolation also can keep women from getting screened for breastContinue Reading
TUESDAY, April 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Some slow-growing cases of leukemia don’t need constant surveillance by cancer specialists, a new study claims. Low-risk patients with slow-growing chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and no symptoms fared well even after they stopped seeing doctors for specialized blood tests, researchers report. The patientsContinue Reading
TUESDAY, April 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Removal of armpit lymph nodes can leave many breast cancer patients with lingering lymphedema, a painful and unsightly swelling of the arm. Now, new Swedish research may help narrow down which patients require extensive lymph removal, based on the number and size ofContinue Reading
TUESDAY, April 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A custom-made anti-tumor vaccine added to standard immunotherapy was twice as likely to shrink liver cancer as when a patient received immunotherapy alone, a new study shows. The vaccine could help liver cancer patients live longer, as fewer than one in 10 surviveContinue Reading
MONDAY, April 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A blood test appears capable of detecting early-stage pancreatic cancers with up to 97% accuracy, a new study reports. The test looks for eight small RNA particles and eight larger DNA markers shed by pancreatic cancers, which together create a genetic “signature” forContinue Reading
MONDAY, April 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Younger generations are aging more rapidly, and this could be leading to an increased risk of cancer, a new study says. People born in or after 1965 are 17% more likely to be experiencing accelerated aging compared to seniors born between 1950 andContinue Reading
MONDAY, April 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — New research questions the effectiveness of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s accelerated drug approval program after finding that many cancer drugs remain unproven five years later. The study, published Sunday in the Journal of the American Medical Association and presented simultaneously atContinue Reading
MONDAY, April 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A pancreatic cancer vaccine has continued to protect a small group of patients from their cancer coming back, three years after receiving the jab, a new study says. Eight patients have not had their pancreatic cancer recur for three years after their immuneContinue Reading
MONDAY, April 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Pancreatic cancer patients may do better if they receive an immunotherapy drug as well as chemotherapy in preparation for surgery, new research suggests. Pancreatic cancer is one of the toughest to treat. Only 12% of patients live more than five years after diagnosis.Continue Reading
FRIDAY, April 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — As the world’s population ages, a new report warns that the number of people with cancer could climb 77% by 2050. In the report, published Thursday in the journal CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, researchers from the American Cancer Society found there wereContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 4, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Cancer cases will continue to climb for the next two decades, spurred on by an aging worldwide population, a new report shows. An estimated 20 million new cancer cases were diagnosed in 2022, and 9.7 million died from cancer around the globe, theContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, April 3, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Three anti-smoking groups announced Tuesday that they have sued the U.S. government yet again after it missed its latest deadline for enacting a ban on menthol cigarettes. This is the second lawsuit that the plaintiffs — the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council,Continue Reading