International Business News - Cancer http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif The rate of new cancer cases finally may be inching down--cautiously optimistic news but a gain that specialists worry could be derailed by economic turmoil. Death rates from cancer have been dropping slowly for years, thanks to earlier detection and better treatments. But preventing cancer is the ultimate goal, and Tuesday's annual "Report to the Nation" on cancer also shows a small but encouraging change: The rate of new diagnoses among men dropped 1.8 percent a year between 2001 and 2005. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081126/encouraging-dip-in-rate-of-new-cancers-deaths.htm Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:43:58 EST The rate of new cancer cases finally may be inching down--cautiously optimistic news but a gain that specialists worry could be derailed by economic turmoil. Death rates from cancer have been dropping slowly for years, thanks to earlier detection and better treatments. But preventing cancer is the ultimate goal, and Tuesday's annual "Report to the Nation" on cancer also shows a small but encouraging change: The rate of new diagnoses among men dropped 1.8 percent a year between 2001 and 2005. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081125/encouraging-dip-in-rate-of-new-cancers-deaths.htm Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:05:16 EST Some advanced lung cancer patients already treated with chemotherapy might be able to skip some of the bad side effects of another series of chemo by taking a pill instead, a study suggests. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081121/pill-as-good-as-chemo-on-lung-cancer-but-costlier.htm Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:25:25 EST Some advanced lung cancer patients already treated with chemotherapy might be able to skip some of the bad side effects of another series of chemo by taking a pill instead, a study suggests. An international study showed patients on Iressa, an expensive, newer targeted treatment, survived about as long as those on another course of chemotherapy. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081120/pill-as-good-as-chemo-on-lung-cancer-but-costlier.htm Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:03:32 EST If breast cancer runs in the family, women can be at high risk even if they test free of the disease's most common gene mutations, sobering new research shows. The genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are linked with particularly aggressive hereditary breast cancer, and an increased risk of ovarian cancer, too. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081117/family-history-can-trump-breast-cancer-gene-test.htm Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:28:49 EST Vitamin C or E pills do not help prevent cancer in men, concludes the same big study that last week found these supplements ineffective for warding off heart disease. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081116/study-vitamin-c-or-e-pills-do-not-prevent-cancer.htm Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:43:46 EST General Electric Co. is putting its medical imaging technology to work in cancer treatment centers to be established overseas. GE Healthcare and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, which together operate a medical business, on Thursday announced plans to tap into a global market to treat as many as 10 million new cancer cases a year. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081113/ge-hospital-to-establish-overseas-cancer-centers.htm Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:30:14 EST Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings has stopped selling an ovarian cancer screening test that received Food and Drug Administration scrutiny after a loophole allowed it to be marketed without formal FDA approval. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081112/labcorp-ends-sale-of-ovarian-cancer-test.htm Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:23:52 EST Scientists have pinpointed the molecular on-off switch that the powerful drug tamoxifen uses to attack breast cancer and which prevents it from working in some women. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081112/key-switch-found-for-popular-breast-cancer-drug.htm Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:00:28 EST Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll says she has left a hospital where she received intensive treatment for cancer but now is in a physical therapy program to deal with an infection. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081105/pa-lt-gov-released-from-cancer-treatment.htm Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:18:52 EST The former chief administrative officer at a cancer center in Grand Forks is accused of stealing about $110,000 from the company. Grand Forks police say 59-year-old Michael Fishbein was arrested on Monday in Bozeman, Mont., on a felony theft charge. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081104/cancer-center-executive-accused-of-theft.htm Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:19:24 EST In the largest effort of its kind, scientists have identified 26 genes that, when damaged, appear to promote lung cancer. It's a step toward developing new treatments that can be tailored to specific patients. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081022/scientists-find-26-genes-promoting-lung-cancer.htm Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:03:32 EDT An ailing Democratic fundraiser has obtained an experimental cancer-fighting drug through the Mayo Clinic, according to his son, despite the drug maker's refusal to sanction the treatment. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081017/ailing-democratic-donor-obtains-experimental-drug.htm Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:58:45 EDT Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor is undergoing intensive treatment for cancer. Gov. Ed Rendell said Thursday that Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll has been at a cancer center in Baltimore for about two weeks. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/153960-knoll-cancer.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081016/pennsylvanias-no-2-official-treated-for-cancer.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081016/pennsylvanias-no-2-official-treated-for-cancer.htm Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:21:40 EDT Most people over 75 should stop getting routine colon cancer tests, according to a government health task force that also rejected the latest X-ray screening technology. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/task-force-colon-cancer-screenings-can-stop-at-75.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:01:35 EDT A leading New York cable television operator and media company is putting its resources behind a campaign to raise public awareness of the fight against pancreatic cancer. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080930/cablevision-supports-cancer-awareness-campaign.htm Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:28:56 EDT Science Applications International Corp. said Monday that its subsidiary SAIC-Frederick Inc. has won a contract potentially valued at $5.2 billion to help operate and provide technical support to the National Cancer Institute's research and development center in Frederick, Md. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080929/saic-wins-5-2-billion-deal-from-cancer-institute.htm Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:45:24 EDT Federal regulators on Thursday charged that a California biotech company lured 300 investors in 25 states with bogus claims that it was on the verge of curing cancer. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080926/feds-calif-firms-cancer-claim-lured-investors.htm Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:07:40 EDT OSI Pharmaceuticals and Genentech Inc. have added new warnings to their cancer drug Tarceva after two patients died of liver damage while taking the medication. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080923/2-patients-taking-cancer-drug-die-of-liver-damage.htm Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:36:19 EDT A study six years in the making of nearly 224,000 current and former workers shows that the rates of cancer deaths at jet engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney is the same or lower than in Connecticut and the U.S., researchers said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/133736-pratt-cancer-study.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080918/study-no-higher-death-rates-among-pratt-workers.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080918/study-no-higher-death-rates-among-pratt-workers.htm Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:32:16 EDT