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	Hycamtin Combination Approved for Advanced Cervical Cancer
	Date: 2007-01-13 23:28:34 Clicks: 0 Comments: 0
THURSDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- The first combination of drugs to treat late-stage cervical cancer received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval Thursday. Hycamtin (topotecan hydrochloride) -- already approved to treat cancers of the ova


	FDA Approves Cervical Cancer Vaccine
	Date: 2007-01-13 23:28:26 Clicks: 0 Comments: 0
THURSDAY, June 8 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. health officials approved on Thursday the first vaccine that protects against the human papillomavirus (HPV), known to cause most cervical cancers. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Merck &


	HPV Vaccine Approved; Prevents Cervical Cancer Protects Against Vagin
	Date: 2007-01-13 23:28:21 Clicks: 0 Comments: 0
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first vaccine against human papillomavirus, or HPV, the virus responsible for most cases of cervical cancer. It gave the green light to Merck\'s Gardasil Thursday, just a few weeks after an


	Chest X-Rays May Boost Breast Cancer Risk for Some
	Date: 2007-01-13 23:28:19 Clicks: 0 Comments: 0
MONDAY, June 26 (HealthDay News) -- Exposure to chest X-rays may put women who are genetically susceptible to breast cancer at an even greater risk for the disease, a European study finds. And being exposed to any X-rays before the age of 20 may boo


	Older Women Not Getting Needed Mammograms
	Date: 2007-01-13 23:28:18 Clicks: 0 Comments: 0
TUESDAY, June 20 (HealthDay News) -- Older American women are not getting as many mammograms as they say -- or think -- they are, new research finds. The study also found that black, Asian-American and Hispanic women are receiving even fewer screen


	Treatment Order Won't Affect Aggressive Breast Cancer Survival
	Date: 2007-01-13 23:28:18 Clicks: 0 Comments: 0
TUESDAY, June 20 (HealthDay News) -- Switching the order in which treatments were administered did not improve survival for patients with aggressive inflammatory breast cancer, a new study found. Inflammatory breast cancer affects about 2.5 in ever


	Targeted Therapies Aim for Cancer's 'Achilles Heel' Combining Drugs M
	Date: 2007-01-13 23:28:17 Clicks: 0 Comments: 0
Every night before bed, retired school teacher Paul Graves takes 4 pills that help keep him alive. The medication is Gleevec (imatinib), and it has kept Graves\' chronic myeloid leukemia in remission for 4 years with virtually no side effects. \"I


	Aromatase Inhibitors: Bone Effects Can Be Serious Bone Loss May Be Tw
	Date: 2007-01-13 23:28:16 Clicks: 0 Comments: 0
Aromatase inhibitors can cause significant bone loss over the long term, according to new research presented in Atlanta at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Although researchers have known that this new class of hor


	Hope for Breast Cancer When Herceptin Fails Lapatinib and Capecitabin
	Date: 2007-01-13 23:28:13 Clicks: 0 Comments: 0
An innovative new drug combination may help women with advanced breast cancer that no longer responds to trastuzumab (Herceptin), researchers report. The investigational drug lapatinib (Tykerb) slows cancer growth by about 50% when given with the d


	Younger Black Women Prone to an Aggressive Breast Cancer
	Date: 2007-01-13 23:28:13 Clicks: 0 Comments: 0
TUESDAY, June 6 (HealthDay News) -- Premenopausal black women are twice as likely to get basal-like breast tumors -- a particularly virulent form of breast cancer -- than other women, either black or white, a new study found. Premenopausal black wom


	Studies: Drugs slow kidney cancer growth - Cancer - MSNBC.com
	Date: 2007-01-13 23:28:11 Clicks: 0 Comments: 0
Two new drugs slow growth of kidney cancerCompany research shows up-to-6-month delay in deadly form of diseaseBOSTON - Two new drugs developed by Bayer AG , Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Pfizer Inc.� help slow the growth of the most common form of ki


	Weight tied to prostate cancer death - Cancer - MSNBC.com
	Date: 2007-01-13 23:28:10 Clicks: 0 Comments: 0
Weight gain linked to prostate cancer deathObese men less likely to get disease but more likely to die of it, study saysNEW YORK - Excess weight may not raise a man's risk of developing prostate cancer, but it may make him more likely to die of the d


	Cancer back in teen caught in custody battle - Cancer - MSNBC.com
	Date: 2007-01-13 23:28:08 Clicks: 0 Comments: 0
Cancer returns in teen caught in custody battleParents fought with state over medical treatment for their daughterHARLINGEN, Texas - A young cancer patient whose parents fought a bitter custody battle with the state over their daughter's treatment wa


	Cancer costs $2.3 billion in lost time - Cancer - MSNBC.com
	Date: 2007-01-13 23:28:07 Clicks: 0 Comments: 0
Fighting cancer costs $2.3 billion in lost time100s of hours are spent waiting for treatment in just first year, study saysWASHINGTON - The hours spent sitting in doctors' waiting rooms, in line for the CT scan, watching chemotherapy drip into veins:


	Losing 11 lbs. cuts prostate cancer risk - - MSNBC.com
	Date: 2007-01-13 23:28:06 Clicks: 0 Comments: 0
Losing 11 pounds lowers prostate cancer riskStudy: Men who lost weight cut odds of getting aggressive form of diseaseATLANTA - Here's another reason for men to avoid packing on extra pounds over the holidays: A new study has found that losing weight

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