Cancer

Don’t Rush to Surgery for Prostate Cancer

Apr 24, 2017 · · Cancer
After skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS)—and six cases in 10 occur in men age 65 and older. For some men, prostate cancer can be an aggressive disease, but for most, the disease is slow growing—in fact, men … Read More

New Technique for Detecting Skin Cancer Improves Survival

Apr 17, 2017 · · Cancer
Research at UCLA on a technique for detecting the earliest spread of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, has confirmed that the procedure significantly prolongs patients’ survival rates compared with traditional “watch and wait” techniques. The technique, called sentinel-node biopsy, allows doctors to quickly determine whether the disease has … Read More

Newsbriefs: Breast Cancer Drug; Junk Food Diet; Bone Fractures in Ethnic Women

Apr 12, 2017 · · Cancer
Drug doubles positive effect in hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer Researchers from UCLA recently announced final clinical trial results that showed the amount of time pa-tients were on treatment without their cancer worsening (called “progression-free survival”) was doubled in women with advanced breast cancer who took the experimental drug palbociclib. Palbociclib is … Read More

Sugar and Cancer—Is There a Link?

Mar 28, 2017 · · Cancer
You may have seen the headlines, “Sugar Causes Cancer,” but is the sweet substance that is so tough to avoid really linked to an increased cancer risk? Does it exacerbate an existing cancer diagnosis? If you cut out the sugar can you, in effect, cut down your cancer risk? Inside … Read More

Keep Cancer from Coming Back

Mar 22, 2017 · · Cancer
After kicking cancer, you might worry it will return. That’s understandable. Cancer survivors are at significantly higher risk for cancer recurrence and for developing new cancers. But, that doesn’t mean there’s nothing you can do about it. Although many factors affect cancer risk and survival, following a healthy diet and … Read More

Newsbriefs: Lung Cancer; Knee Arthritis

Mar 21, 2017 · · Cancer
Few Who Need Lung Cancer Screening Get It The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) began recommending in December 2013 that people at high risk for lung cancer have yearly screening with low-dose CT scans. However, few people who could benefit from lung cancer screening—mostly current and former smokers—are getting … Read More

Ovarian Cancer Remains Difficult to Diagnose

Mar 21, 2017 · · Cancer
More than 21,000 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the U.S. each year, and more than 14,000 die from it. The current five-year survival rate for the disease is less than 46 percent, though this is an improvement on the 36 percent of women who survived for five years … Read More

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