Jul 5 - By Stephanie Nano, AP Writer
Stomach cancer patients live longer if they get chemotherapy before and after surgery, British researchers report.
Jul 4 - By Associated Press
Women who survived cancer during childhood are at risk of premature menopause, researchers report Tuesday.
Jun 29 - By Mike Stobbe, AP Writer
Taking up a sensitive issue among religious conservatives, an influential government advisory panel Thursday recommended that 11- and 12-year-old girls be routinely vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.
Jun 28 - By Marilynn Marchione, AP Medical Writer
Scientists have developed a simple formula that can help find colon cancer patients with certain inherited bad genes — information that can help determine the best course of treatment and identify family members at risk of developing the disease, too.
Jun 25 - By Mike Stobbe, AP Writer
Being overweight hurts men's chances of having successful radiation treatment for prostate cancer, according to a study released Monday.
Jun 23 - By Frank Eltman, AP Writer
A multiyear study of elevated breast cancer rates in several Long Island communities found no environmental factors contributing to the spike, the state Health Department announced Friday.
Jun 22 - By Mike Stobbe, AP Writer
Your parents may still tell you to take your vitamins, but a cancer doctor might be less enthusiastic. A recent study that found calcium and vitamin D supplements don't reduce the odds of developing breast cancer is the latest to deflate the cancer-prevention claims of some vitamin proponents.
Jun 19 - By Marilynn Marchione, AP Medical Writer
Icelandic women with a bad gene that raises their risk of breast cancer were virtually certain to develop the disease if they also had a mutation in a second gene, scientists reported Monday.
Jun 19 - By Lauran Neergaard, AP Medical Writer
Pancreatic cancer killed William Schunk. Now scientists are using his body to fight back. Within about an hour of his death, researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center began collecting the Omaha veteran's organs as part of a unique "rapid autopsy" program. The goal: To create a library of tissue that could finally point scientists to new ways to diagnose and treat this most lethal of cancers.
Jun 18 - By Alicia Chang, AP Science Writer
Mike Slabaugh doesn't have a stomach. Neither do his 10 cousins. Growing up, they watched helplessly as a rare hereditary stomach cancer killed their grandmother and some of their parents, aunts and uncles.
Jun 15 - By Associated Press
A former special education teacher who faked having cancer and spent $37,000 in donations on a vacation and jewelry was sentenced Thursday to serve two years.
Jun 15 - By Associated Press
A drug already used to fight ovarian and lung cancers received expanded federal approval Thursday as part of a combined treatment for late-stage cervical cancer.
Jun 12 - By Nedra Pickler, AP Writer
The United States will work with nations in the Middle East to help spread awareness and research about the growing problem of breast cancer in a region where discussing it can be a cultural taboo, first lady Laura Bush said Monday.
Jun 12 - By Lauran Neergaard, AP Medical Writer
Claudia Lowry had a scary decision: Could she safely skip chemotherapy after surgeons removed her breast cancer? Tens of thousands of women undergo chemo for breast cancer every year when they don't really need it, but doctors don't have an easy way to tell who can gamble on skipping the harsh drugs.
Jun 9 - By Doug Ferguson, AP Golf Writer
Judy Rankin, a Hall of Famer and golf analyst with ABC Sports, has breast cancer and is undergoing treatment that will keep her out of work for an indefinite period.
Jun 8 - By Andrew Bridges, AP Writer
The first vaccine against cervical cancer will be available to girls as young as 9 later this month. Its manufacturer, Merck & Co. Inc., is already taking orders for Gardasil. The three-shot series costs $360.
Jun 6 - By Associated Press
There is evidence that asbestos can cause cancer of the larynx, the Institute of Medicine reported Tuesday.
Jun 6 - By Carla K. Johnson, AP Writer
Younger black women who get breast cancer are far more likely than other afflicted women to have a particularly aggressive and lethal form of the disease, a study found.
Jun 5 - By Marilynn Marchione, AP Medical Writer
Final results from a big study comparing two drugs for preventing breast cancer in high-risk women reveal surprises that challenge the government's claim that one is clearly better.
Jun 4 - By Mike Stobbe, AP Writer
Women going through treatment for breast cancer felt better when they tried yoga, according to one of the first scientific studies of its kind.
Jun 4 - By Marilynn Marchione, AP Medical Writer
For decades, it has been one of cancer's great mysteries: Why do about 4 percent of kidney tumors spontaneously disappear?
Jun 2 - By Marilynn Marchione, AP Medical Writer
Women with advanced breast cancer soon may have another treatment option: A novel experimental drug delayed the growth of tumors nearly twice as long as standard chemotherapy did in patients who had stopped responding to Herceptin, doctors reported Saturday.
Jun 2 - By Marilynn Marchione, AP Medical Writer
Doctors are reporting a disturbing rise in the number of cancer patients getting chemo and other aggressive but futile treatment in the last days of their lives.
Jun 1 - By Associated Press
Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert, who has battled cancer in recent years, will undergo cancer surgery again, according to a published report.
May 25 - By Associated Press
Thalidomide received federal approval Thursday for treatment of bone-marrow cancer, marking the further rehabilitation of a drug originally banned more than 40 years ago after it caused thousands of birth defects.
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