Cure rate tops 90 percent for most thyroid cancers
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Thyroid cancer, a disease that afflicts about 23,600 people in the United States each year, usually is curable, except for a rare variety that is among the deadliest of all tumors.
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THURSDAY, Nov. 18 (HealthDayNews) -- Even though they account for 60 percent of cancer patients in the United States, patients aged 65 and older make up just 36 percent of participants in cancer clinical trials, claims a study in the Nov. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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Two experimental drugs are showing strong early results in treating patients with a blood cancer that has grown resistant to the most commonly prescribed medicine, doctors reported here on Sunday.
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About 23,600 people are diagnosed with thyroid cancer each year in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society. There are several types and it was not immediately known which type Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has.
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Men suffering from localized prostate cancer have better survival rates when they are treated with a combination of radiation and short-term hormone treatment, according to a new study.
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Pfizer Inc&#39;s experimental oral  biotechnology drug axitinib demonstrated substantial anti-tumor  activity in patients with advanced thyroid cancer in a small,  mid-stage clinical trial, according to data released at a major  cancer meeting on Saturday.
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THURSDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. scientists are pointing to the full, 18-month-long remission of two melanoma patients as the first evidence that gene therapy can work to beat back cancer.
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A breakthrough in treatment could cure as many as 40% of patients with bowel cancer, say experts.
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TREATING prostate cancer with a combination of radiation and hormone therapy could cut the death rate from the disease by half.
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BELGRADE, Sep 11 (IPS) - Serbian health authorities have finally confirmed  what was long suspected -- the nation tops the list in Europe for  lung cancers.
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U.S. Chief Justice William  Rehnquist, 80, the leader of the Supreme Court's conservative  majority, was recently diagnosed with thyroid cancer and is in  the hospital after undergoing throat surgery, a court  spokeswoman said on Monday.
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Thousands more lung cancer patients each year could be offered surgery or other aggressive therapy under a new system that classifies many tumors as more treatable than in the past.
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About 30,000 Americans each year contract oral cancer, and 8,000 of them will die, but people remain ignorant of a disease that can be cured if caught in the early stages, a University of Medicine &amp; Dentistry of New Jersey official said Wednesday.
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MONDAY, Sept. 27 (HealthDayNews) -- A national coalition of nine academic medical centers has been created to test new cancer treatments in children who don't respond to traditional therapies.
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Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in American women. The American Cancer Society estimates 215,990 new cases will be diagnosed in the US this year.
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Although the US Supreme Court has not indicated what type of thyroid cancer Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has, some experts in the field said they hope news of his illness will spark
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William H. Rehnquist, the US chief justice since 1986, was hospitalized and treated for thyroid cancer, a Supreme Court spokesman said.