TUESDAY, Oct. 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Fighting cancer can leave patients tired to their bones and researchers now think they might know why. Inflammation was linked to fatigue among nearly 200 women with early-stage breast cancer during and after treatment with radiation or chemotherapy, researchers reported Oct. 6 inContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A genetic risk score can help predict which women will develop invasive breast cancer after abnormal cells have been found in their breast tissue, researchers said. Women who scored high on the genetic blood test were twice as likely to develop breast cancerContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — People with aching knees might receive relief from a course of low-dose radiation therapy, a new study suggests. People with mild to moderate wear-and-tear knee arthritis felt less pain and had better mobility after radiation treatment, researchers reported Sunday at a meeting ofContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Targeted radiation therapy might be a safer way to treat a potentially dangerous heart rate problem, a new study says. Radiation therapy treated ventricular tachycardia as well as a standard but complicated procedure called catheter ablation, researchers reported Sept. 29 in the InternationalContinue Reading
Approval is for adults with ER-positive, HER2-negative, ESR1-mutated advanced or metastatic breast cancerContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A cutting-edge robot-assisted bronchoscope can reach very small tumors growing in the lung’s deepest recesses, according to clinical trial results presented at a European Respiratory Society meeting in Amsterdam. The device uses a specialized CT scanner to find tumors buried deep in hard-to-reachContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — About 19 million U.S. adults take fish oil supplements, often to protect against chronic diseases. But new research suggests their ability to lower colon cancer risk may depend on a single gene. Scientists at the University of Michigan and the University of TexasContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Though most guidelines recommend mammograms up to age 74, new research suggests they can be valuable for women in their 80s, detecting breast cancer earlier and increasing chances of survival. The research — published in the Annals of Surgical Oncology — reviewed medicalContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Women with dense breasts could benefit from an advanced cancer screening procedure called molecular breast imaging (MBI), a new study says. The procedure more than doubled the detection of advanced breast cancers when combined with 3D mammography, researchers reported Sept. 23 in theContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The fight against America’s opioid crisis does not appear to have cost cancer patients the painkillers they need, a new study says. There was a decline in opioid prescriptions among cancer patients between 2016 and 2020, researchers reported in the October issue ofContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Liliana “Lili” Casteneda had what she thought was her first period at the age of 14, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. But then her monthly bleeding turned into daily bleeding, and the bleeding got so bad Casteneda soaked through pads inContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Remote monitoring of cancer patients can improve their recovery after surgery, a new study says. People whose health team tracked their symptoms remotely wound up recovering more quickly from surgery, researchers reported in the journal npj Digital Medicine. “The first two weeks afterContinue Reading
MONDAY, Sept. 22, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A Los Angeles-area dad is surviving leukemia thanks to his 10-year-old son, who earlier this year became the youngest-ever stem cell donor at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Stephen Mondek’s donation provided a brand-new immune system for his father, Dr. Nick Mondek, who has beenContinue Reading
MONDAY, Sept. 22, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Getting that tattooed arm sleeve or back design of your dreams might protect you against deadly skin cancer, a new study says. People who’ve had two or more sessions under the tattoo needle show a lower risk of melanoma, according to a recentContinue Reading