Monthly Archives: August 2011

The Kristen Forbes EVE Foundation, Marion County Public Health Department and the Indiana Fever WNBA basketball team have joined forces to fight HPV and cervical cancer.

Acclaimed practitioner of natural healing for cancer patients, Grandmaster Hong Liu is set to host a one day workshop in Colorado on September the 17th.

WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — The FDA has approved crizotinib (Xalkori), a novel targeted therapy for late-stage non-small cell lung cancer.

(MedPage Today) — Rabies viruses engineered to include an Ebola virus antigen protected against both diseases in mouse models. Also in this week’s Lab Notes, researchers found a new member of the interleukin protein family that may shut down inflammatory … Continue reading →

(MedPage Today) — A cancer survival scale based on readily available clinical and laboratory variables reliably predicted whether patients in palliative care had days, weeks, or months to live, British investigators reported.

(MedPage Today) — The resignation of Steve Jobs as CEO of technology giant Apple has sparked widespread speculation that he’s losing his battle with pancreatic neuroendocrine disease and related comorbidities.

The Editor in Chief, Dr Goberdhan P. Dimri, is pleased to announce a new call for papers for Breast Cancer: Basic and Clinical Research.  Submissions are being accepted now.All published articles appear in Pubmed and gain high visibili…

(MedPage Today) — Older patients with advanced ovarian cancer may have a substantially greater mortality risk following cytoreductive surgery than previously reported, a review of a National Cancer Institute database suggested.

(MedPage Today) — Breast cancer patients treated with endocrine therapy might improve their odds for survival by starting with tamoxifen and then switching to an aromatase inhibitor, authors of a meta-analysis concluded.

(MedPage Today) — Computed tomography using radiation doses as low as one-thirtieth of standard doses may be sufficient for monitoring lung nodules, a new study suggested.