Health News: [cancer]

Sponsored Link Special Offer - Free Trial of Blockbuster.com Rent Movies from Blockbuster.com. Delivered Direct To Your Mailbox. Click here to start today. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, September 29, 2012 10:57 AM PDT Your Health News Alert for [cancer] matched the following stories: Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News, Sat, 29 Sep 2012 02:24 AM PDT Ariad lung cancer drug shrinks tumors in small trial http://ca.news.yahoo.com/ariad-lung-cancer-drug-shrinks-tumors-small-trial-092450032--finance.html (Reuters) - A small early-stage trial of Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc's experimental pill AP26113 showed it shrank tumors in eight out of 11 lung cancer patients with a genetic mutation in a gene known as ALK. The drug, called '113 for short, is being tested in patients with non-small cell lung cancer who test positive for the abnormal ALK gene, as well as those with a specific mutation in a gene ... Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News, Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:49 PM PDT Aetna expands coverage of Dendreon drug; stock jumps http://ca.news.yahoo.com/aetna-expands-coverage-dendreon-drug-stock-jumps-185942516--finance.html (Reuters) - Health insurer Aetna Inc said on Friday it will pay for a greater number of patients to receive Provenge, the prostate cancer drug made by Dendreon Corp, sending Dendreon's shares up as much as 10 percent. Aetna will now provide coverage for patients with metastatic prostate cancer who have failed to respond to hormone therapy and whose disease has spread to the lungs or the brain ... Reuters via Yahoo! News, Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:27 PM PDT Sex problems common with breast cancer drugs http://news.yahoo.com/sex-problems-common-breast-cancer-drugs-192711346.html NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women treated with hormone-blocking drugs to stave off breast cancer recurrences are often dissatisfied with their sex lives, a new study from Sweden has found. More than half of older women treated with so-called aromatase inhibitors said sex was almost always painful and they frequently had "insufficient lubrication," researchers reported in the journal Menopause ... ABC News via Yahoo! News, Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:19 PM PDT Doctors Grow New Ear on Cancer Victim's Arm http://gma.yahoo.com/doctors-grow-ear-cancer-victims-arm-191904326--abc-news-health.html Sherrie Walter Lost Her Ear to Cancer 2 Years Ago See more health stories that match your keyword at: http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?fr=yalerts-health&c=&p=cancer+%2bcat%3ahealth&ei=utf-8 Visit Yahoo! Health: http://health.yahoo.com/ You received this email because you subscribed to Yahoo! Alerts. Use http://us.rd.yahoo.com/alerts/b/email/unsubscribe/*http://alerts.yahoo.com/unsubscribe.php?id=NhQvsjUuNLOCo1RLnNA3axDKhBxG6m8mDMZ1iX.HwnVWK7_mec0T4e5E_iHTS0ojqeWL74PZIcEEr7JrVtYAGW5PHYa52xJe1Mza to unsubscribe from this alert. To change your communications preferences for other Yahoo! business lines, please visit your Marketing Preferences: http://login.yahoo.com/config/login_verify2?.done=http://subscribe.yahoo.com/showaccount . To learn more about Yahoo!'s use of personal information, please read our privacy policy at http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/ . Yahoo! is located at 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089.