Too Few Elderly in Cancer Clinical Trials
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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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Doctors are missing key information they need to make decisions for cancer patients because some drug companies are not publishing clinical trials.
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Patients volunteering for early trials of experimental cancer drugs may be far safer today than their counterparts were a decade ago.
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Cancer is less common in adolescents and young adults than in older people. But in some ways it is more alarming.
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TUESDAY, Sept. 12 (HealthDay News) -- The fear that the new Medicare drug plan would limit access to medicines hasn't come true, as least as far as cancer treatment is concerned, a new report finds.
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Radiation treatments routinely given  after surgery to remove small breast tumors may not be  necessary for women over 70 if they are taking the cancer drug  tamoxifen, according to researchers.
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Older European breast cancer patients  without access to the Internet are not well informed about  hormone treatments that can reduce the risk of a recurrence,  researchers said on Saturday.
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A large new study is challenging the common practice of recommending that elderly men forego treatment for early prostate cancer and instead wait to see whether the malignancy progresses.
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Close relatives of cancer patients are often at substantially higher risk than the population at large of developing cancer themselves, a study of 32,000 cancer patients over nearly 50 years has revealed.
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Radiation treatments routinely given after surgery to remove small breast tumors may not be necessary for women over 70 if they are taking the cancer drug tamoxifen, according to researchers.
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Every other year may be enough for women over 50 to have a mammogram, US researchers said on Tuesday. A study of nearly 8,000 women showed that those who let a two-year interval
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Doctors deny older people treatments they would offer younger patients, a study says.
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Older women with lung cancer live  longer than men the same age, U.S. researchers reported on  Saturday, and said their finding suggests that estrogen might  affect chemotherapy.
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Experts remain undecided about screening 40 to 50-year-old women for breast cancer.
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This lung cancer drug is not as effective as once hoped.
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Postmenopausal women with early breast cancer who take tamoxifen for five years appear to have a 30 percent lower risk of dying from coronary heart disease than
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NEW YORK  - Breast cancer screening in the US is common among women 80 years of age or older, but it is of little benefit to the majority of them, according to a new study.