Sunday, November 5, 2006

Cancer sufferer back to 'walk the rim' (Prostrate cancer)

With 56 minutes on the clock before kickoff, the Apache Band and Apache Belles are loud behind the visitors' side at Tyler Junior College's homecoming. Band members scramble for their instruments; Belles, past and present, hug each other and smile big red-lipstick smiles for photographs just minutes before they "walk the rim" around the top of the stadium.
Prostate cancer patients treated with either radiation or surgery who use hormone therapy for longer than six months do not survive any longer than patients who use the treatment for a shorter amount of time, according to a study presented November 5, 2006, at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology's 48th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.
Title: Journal Retracts Fraudulent Oral Cancer Studies Category: Health News Created: 11/3/2006 2:05:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 11/3/2006 2:05:08 AM
It would take a great deal to endure so much of what Sandie Kramer has in recent years and still come out feeling lucky. "I've had ovarian cancer for three years," she said. "That's pretty high for ovarian. So I do feel lucky, thank you very much."
Title: Best Cancer Test: HPV vs Pap Smear Category: Health News Created: 11/3/2006 Last Editorial Review: 11/3/2006
Prostate cancer patients treated with either radiation or surgery who use hormone therapy for longer than six months do not survive any longer than patients who use the treatment for a shorter amount of time, according to a study presented Nov. 5, at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology's 48th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.
BUSBY - Jordan Wolfname came home. Today he's back on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, recovering from a rare form of lymphatic cancer. Family members announced his return on a weathered board hanging from a barbed-wire fence outside their home. Words were painted on it: Welcome Home Jordan.
Negative perceptions about radiation therapy can strongly influence a prostate cancer patient's choice to avoid external beam radiation therapy, even though studies have proven the treatment to be as safe and effective as other treatments for the disease, including surgery, according to a study presented November 5, 2006, at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology's 48th
There is no known cure for multiple myeloma, so its diagnosis means high-dose chemotherapy followed by repeated treatments with each relapse of the cancer -- a watch and wait approach. A new approach of providing patients with continuous therapy to keep the cancer at bay was explored by a team of international researchers from France, Switzerland and Belgium. Their findings will be published in
There is new hope for some of the most seriously ill colon cancer patients today, following the release of a consensus statement by 72 leading oncology surgeons from 14 countries, including the United States. The Peritoneal Surface Malignancy Group (PSMG), including doctors from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas; H. [click link for full