Cancer Staging Affects Patients' Survival
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MONDAY, Sept. 25 (HealthDay News) -- People whose stomach cancers are not staged correctly may die sooner, according to a new study.
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Doctors are closer to predicting which cancer patients can skip chemotherapy and avoid the brutal side effects of that staple of cancer care, doctors at a major medical meeting said on Tuesday.
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SUNDAY, Oct. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Men diagnosed with prostate cancer in the summer and fall have a better chance of survival than those diagnosed in the spring and winter, a new study of Norwegian men suggests.
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NEW YORK  - Elderly women with invasive  cervical carcinoma are less likely to receive aggressive  treatment than younger patients, and are more likely to die  from the disease, a new study shows.
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NEW YORK  - People with advanced cancer may suffer substantial emotional distress, but relatively few may be discussing it with their doctors, new research suggests.
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Doctors are closer to predicting which  cancer patients can skip chemotherapy and avoid the brutal side  effects of that staple of cancer care, doctors at a major  medical meeting said on Tuesday.
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A 20-year follow-up of a breast-cancer treatment trial shows that radiation, given in addition to surgery and chemotherapy, can increase women's survival prospects.
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NEW YORK  - Authors of a report released this week encourage women who survive breast cancer to address all of the modifiable risk factors they have for heart disease, because breast cancer therapy can damage the heart.
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More breast cancer patients are being offered chemotherapy before surgery instead of afterward &#151; amid much debate about how to do it right and when it's a good option. Doctors have long known that having chemo first sometimes shrinks an advanced tumor enough that a woman can undergo smaller surgery and keep her breast.
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 15 (HealthDayNews) -- A blood test could be the best way to predict survival in patients with recurring ovarian cancer, suggests a Danish study in the Sept. 13 online issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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NEW YORK  - The use of herbal medicine is common among patients with advanced cancer who are participating in early-stage clinical trials (phase I) of experimental drugs, according to a new study.
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The presence or absence of a protein in   lung cancer cells can help doctors predict whether chemotherapy   will help patients live longer after surgery, European   researchers reported on Wednesday.
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eople who survive cancer appear to get worse care than the general population when it comes to other diseases, a study released last week concluded.
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NEW YORK  - When a person is first diagnosed with cancer and undergoes treatment, their work may suffer; but in the long run, most people who survive cancer work a similar number of hours as anyone else, new study findings show.
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When a person is first  diagnosed with cancer and undergoes treatment, their work may  suffer; but in the long run, most people who survive cancer  work a similar number of hours as anyone else, new study  findings show.
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THURSDAY, Dec. 20 (HealthDay News) -- People diagnosed with cancer who don't have health insurance are more likely to die because they are less likely to get screening tests and so are typically diagnosed with advanced disease, a new study from the American Cancer Society finds.
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TUESDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDayNews) -- People who have survived cancer struggle with a lower quality of life, loss of productivity and more health limitations than those who never had the disease, researchers report.