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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, October 12, 2012 10:57 AM PDT Your Health News Alert for [cancer] matched the following stories: Associated Press via Yahoo! Singapore News, Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:06 AM PDT Comic opens set for ages: 'Hello. I have cancer.' http://sg.news.yahoo.com/comic-opens-set-ages-hello-cancer-165746116.html A frightfully nervous Tig Notaro stood just offstage at the Los Angeles club Largo while Ed Helms introduced her. Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News, Fri, 12 Oct 2012 08:59 AM PDT Cancer patients may misunderstand goal of chemo http://ca.news.yahoo.com/cancer-patients-may-misunderstand-goal-chemo-155958970.html NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When doctors recommend chemotherapy to people with incurable cancer, many of those patients may not understand that the treatment won't save their lives, a small study finds. Cancer chemotherapy can have different goals. Often, the aim is a cure. But chemo can also be "non-curative." For some patients, chemotherapy can control the growth of the cancer for a while and ... Reuters via Yahoo! News, Fri, 12 Oct 2012 08:47 AM PDT Lexicon bowel drug meets main goal of mid-stage trial, shares rise http://news.yahoo.com/lexicon-bowel-drug-meets-main-goal-mid-stage-135848050--finance.html (Reuters) - Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc said its experimental bowel disorder drug met the main goal of reducing bowel movements in patients with gastrointestinal cancer in a mid-stage study, sending its shares up as much as 13 percent on Friday. The drug telotristat etiprate is being studied to treat carcinoid syndrome, a secondary condition that develops in patients with tumors in the ... Reuters via Yahoo! News, Fri, 12 Oct 2012 07:16 AM PDT FDA approves Celgene's Abraxane for lung cancer http://news.yahoo.com/fda-approves-celgenes-abraxane-lung-cancer-134043695--finance.html (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators on Friday widened the approved use of Celgene Corp's breast cancer drug Abraxane to include treatment for non-small cell lung cancer, the most common form of lung cancer. Abraxane is currently approved to treat patients with metastatic breast cancer who have failed to respond to other treatments. Celgene hopes to win approval to market it for several other ... Reuters via Yahoo! India News, Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:51 PM PDT With lung cancer, quitters do better than smokers http://in.news.yahoo.com/lung-cancer-quitters-better-smokers-015104056.html REUTERS - Younger people with advanced lung cancer who quit smoking more than a year before their diagnosis survive longer than those who continued smoking, according to a U.S. study. However, quitters who were older or who had earlier stages of lung cancer did not have an advantage, said the researchers, whose findings appeared in the journal Cancer. It's known that people who never smoked are ... The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News, Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:36 PM PDT Mastectomy or lumpectomy? Choice for breast cancer varies across country: report http://ca.news.yahoo.com/mastectomy-lumpectomy-choice-breast-cancer-varies-across-country-193618396.html TORONTO - A new report shows there are substantial variations across the country in mastectomy and lumpectomy rates to treat breast cancer. Reuters via Yahoo! News, Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:30 PM PDT Therapy, exercise aid in chemo-related menopause http://news.yahoo.com/therapy-exercise-aid-chemo-related-menopause-193012430.html NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Younger women who are thrust into menopause because of breast cancer treatment may get some relief from talk therapy and regular exercise, a new study from the Netherlands suggests. Symptoms including hot flashes and vaginal dryness often come on gradually for women who go through natural menopause, as the body's production of hormones slowly dwindles. But that's not ... 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