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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, September 04, 2012 10:57 AM PDT Your Health News Alert for [cancer] matched the following stories: Yahoo! Contributor Network via Yahoo! News, Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:19 AM PDT Herceptin Is More Dangerous to the Heart Than Previously Reported http://news.yahoo.com/herceptin-more-dangerous-heart-previously-reported-161900085.html FIRST PERSON | The breast cancer drug Herceptin causes more incidence of heart problems than previously thought. This increase is most noticeable in women over the age of 60 and in women who take a course of chemotherapy with a class of drugs called anthracyclines. There is a choice for patients requiring chemotherapy and Herceptin, but your doctor probably will not tell you. Reuters via Yahoo! News, Tue, 04 Sep 2012 04:23 AM PDT Pfizer kidney cancer drug gets EU approval http://news.yahoo.com/pfizer-kidney-cancer-drug-gets-eu-approval-112332928--finance.html (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc said its oral drug Inlyta received European approval as a second-line treatment for kidney cancer patients who do not respond to an initial chemotherapy. The company said the approval was based on data from a late-stage trial which showed that the drug significantly extended progression-free survival in patients who failed to respond to treatment with Pfizer's Sutent ... ANI via Yahoo! India News, Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:56 AM PDT Housework helps cut breast cancer risk by 13pc http://in.news.yahoo.com/housework-helps-cut-breast-cancer-risk-13pc-075609410.html London, September 4 (ANI): Housework, brisk walking and gardening can help women reduce their risk of developing breast cancer, according to new research. 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=fioqyGcuNLN7SZ9qz.MwWmRLm0_QjEGUy0kSjLEer62wWrnlvjBlmQ8flxy3yd_kAM1aSP168AyWYTirs5.vbOhE.cOso47DD_6n 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.