Cancer Diagnosis In The News

(WLOX)-- Cancer will hit one in two men in his lifetime and one in three women. So it's very possible that you ...or someone you know.... will likely battle the disease. How would you react in the hours after a diagnosis? Your actions could save your life.

UroToday.com - The current gold standard for diagnosis of prostate cancer is the Transrectal Ultrasound (TRUS) guided prostate biopsy, initiated by elevated PSA-levels or a Digital Rectal Examination (DRE) suspicious for prostate cancer. However TRUS and TRUS-guided biopsies are known to have high false-negative rates, up to 30% with random sextant biopsies 1, 2.

London, November 28 : A study conducted by researchers at St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, has revealed that cancer cells that cause a type of childhood leukaemia to recur are often already present in patients, when they are first diagnosed with the disease.

The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) heralds the recent news of a decline in U.S. cancer deaths and incidence rates, with colorectal cancer among the top three cancers with significant declines.

For so long, and so many people, the word cancer was a death sentence. But thanks to a New Castle patient and doctor, new drugs and research have really taken off. It's taking breast cancer from "treatable" to beatable.

CHICAGO -- The U.S. has passed an important milestone in the fight against cancer, researchers reported Tuesday: For the first time, the recorded rate of new cancer cases has fallen for both men and women.

Third study confirming the benefit of Avastin in breast cancer shows that Avastin can be effectively combined with commonly used chemotherapies Roche announced that the Avastin study RIBBON-1 met its primary endpoint of increasing the time women with breast cancer lived without their disease advan

Zapf home in North College Hill will be lit up, despite illness

For so long, and so many people, the word cancer was a death sentence. But thanks to a New Castle patient and doctor, new drugs and research have really taken off.

Lung cancer continues to be a most deadly enemy for African Americans and other minorities. Despite recent improvements in diagnosis and treatment, lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death among African Americans.