Category Archives: Cancer

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(MedPage Today) — After President Obama ordered new measures to fight shortages of key drugs last October, the FDA has dramatically improved its management of such shortages, the agency asserted Tuesday.

(MedPage Today) — An investigational drug that targets areas of oxygen starvation within a tumor had promising results against advanced pancreatic cancer in a phase IIb clinical trial, the drug’s maker reported.

(MedPage Today) — Having more dermatologists in a geographic area may substantially cut down on deaths from melanoma, researchers found.

(MedPage Today) — Endometriosis confers a two- to threefold increased risk of three types of ovarian cancer, pooled data from an international consortium showed.

(MedPage Today) — Half of patients with previously treated metastatic melanoma responded to the targeted agent vemurafenib (Zelboraf), data from a phase II trial showed.

(MedPage Today) — In a long-term study, deaths from colorectal cancer were only half as common among people who had precancerous intestinal polyps removed during colonoscopy as in the general population.

Libertas is pleased to announce that Breast Cancer: Basic and Clinical Research has now been added to the Scirus directory.Scirus is a scientific search engine operated by Elsevier which contains over 440 million science-specific websites t…

(MedPage Today) — Patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and early-stage lung cancer had better 30-day survival when treated with stereotactic body radiotherapy instead of surgery, investigators reported.

(MedPage Today) — Manufacturing problems at Bedford Laboratories’ now-closed Ben Venue manufacturing plant have forced the recall of another important cancer drug, cytarabine.