Study Finds Fewer Cancer Research Deaths
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Patient deaths from experimental cancer drugs during initial human studies declined dramatically from 1991 to 2002, suggesting that better oversight and less-toxic medicines have made cancer research safer, a study found.
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Breast cancer screening has nearly halved the number of deaths from the disease, according to a study of women seen on the NHS published today
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 12 (HealthDay News) -- If you have a college degree, you have up to a 76 percent reduced risk of dying from cancer, a new study found.
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Blacks still have a much higher  death rate from cancer than whites even though U.S. cancer  death rates are down overall and among blacks as well, the  American Cancer Society said on Thursday.
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People who have cancer surgery at facilities designated by the US government as &quot;centers of excellence&quot; are less likely to die soon after the operation.
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Women with early-stage breast tumors can undergo a shorter course of radiation without a greater risk that their cancer will come back years later, the largest study to test this suggests.
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Smoking greatly reduces the chances of survival for people with head and neck cancer, says new research in the Oct. 1 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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Death rates from cancer are continuing to decline but scientists have uncovered a surprising jump in cases of thyroid cancer.
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TUESDAY, Sept. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Breast cancer death rates continue to decline more than 2 percent annually, a long-running trend that can be traced to early detection and better treatments, according to a new American Cancer Society report.
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The U.S. death rate from cancer has  continued a steady decline that began in the early 1990s but it  will still kill a projected 565,650 Americans this year, the  American Cancer Society said on Wednesday.
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Genome researchers say humans have about 10,000 or 20,000 fewer genes than they originally estimated.
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A new study under way at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and at five other cancer centers in the United States will examine outcome, satisfaction with cancer
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Breast cancer cases have soared in the last three decades in England - but death rates are reducing.
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Only 20 percent of children growing in poor countries survive a battle with cancer, despite progress made in recent decades in the fight against the disease in the industrialized world, scientists said.
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Screening women under 50 years old for breast cancer does not significantly reduce deaths from the disease, British researchers said on Friday.
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Death rates from cancer have  continued to drop in the United States, with Hispanics showing  lower-than-average rates of most cancers, according to the  latest statistics published on Wednesday.
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A small study shows its cancer treatment is comparable to others in terms of usefulness. Safety data is unknown.