Obama & Clinton Offer Healthcare Solutions to Provide Health Insurance for Illegal Immigrants & American Households Earning More than $50,000 per Year (05/14/2008) Cancer patients, take notice: in this election year, the healthcare debate thus far between the democratic candidates has focused on what they have referred to as a “healthcare crises with 47 million Americans without health insurance.
Screening Ultrasound Improves Breast Cancer Detection in Dense Breasts (05/13/2008) The addition of ultrasound for the screening of breast cancer significantly improves detection rates among women who have dense breast tissue. These results were recently reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Smoking and Heavy Alcohol Consumption Reduce Survival in Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (05/13/2008) Patients diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) who smoke tobacco products and/or drink large quantities of alcohol have a reduced chance of optimal survival. These results were recently published in the International Journal of Cancer.
Mammography Can Measure Growth Rate of Breast Cancer Tumor (05/12/2008) New research indicates that screening mammography may provide estimates of breast cancer tumor growth rates. These findings from the Norwegian Breast Cancer Screening Program were recently published in Breast Cancer Research.
Stem Cell Transplant Procedures Vary Throughout the World (05/09/2008) Stem cell transplant practices vary substantially among physicians treating adults and children with hematologic malignancies (cancers of the blood or bone marrow such as leukemias and lymphomas). These findings were published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Genetic Variation Associated with Risk of Neuroblastoma (05/09/2008) Individuals with a common genetic variation (change in DNA) on the chromosome band 6p22 have a significantly increased risk of developing neuroblastoma, as well as an increased risk for disease relapse and advanced disease. These results were recently published in an early online article in the New England Journal of Medicine.