Projections that assume cancer rates hold steady put annual cancer deaths at 13.2 million by 2030, up from 7.6 million in 2008. Melanoma death rates in men have doubled over three decades, and one study found women with a farming history faced higher breast cancer risk.
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Cancer
Cervical Cancer: Should Women be Tested Less Often?
Despite guidance allowing three-year intervals after a normal Pap and HPV DNA test, a survey of 1,212 physicians suggests few are stretching out cervical cancer screening. The disease kills about 4,900 US women a year of the 15,700 newly diagnosed.
Cancer
Breast cancer survivors should take vitamin D - report
Mayo Clinic authors writing in Nutrition recommend breast cancer survivors keep adequate vitamin D stores for life, citing evidence that intake runs inversely to breast cancer risk, that higher levels track with better survival, and that up to 75 percent of patients are insufficient.
Cancer
Some Cancer Patients Skip Care due to Finances
Wake Forest researchers examined surveys from 110,000 people, 6,600 of them cancer survivors, and found survivors under 65 were 1.5 to 2 times more likely to put off care over cost. About 2 million of 12 million adult survivors had; 10 percent skipped filling prescriptions.
Cancer
Nexavar Falls Short of Goal
Bayer says Nexavar missed its main goal of extending survival in a trial of advanced lung cancer, though it met a secondary goal of slowing progression. The drug is already approved for late-stage kidney and liver cancer, and testing continues in other cancers.
Cancer
Support After Breast Cancer Relapse Invaluable
Women who received emotional support plus relaxation and stress-reduction training after a breast cancer recurrence lived about six months longer than those without it, researchers say. The 227 participants, diagnosed at Stage II or III, also learned strategies for handling specific stressors.
Cancer
Cancer Drug Enables Immune System
Bristol-Myers Squibb's experimental ipilimumab, an engineered human protein, blocks a molecule that restrains the immune system. In Stephen Hodi's trial, 20 percent of advanced melanoma patients were alive two years on. Researchers say the right drug combination still needs working out.
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Plant-based diet good for breast cancer survivors
In a small crossover study, 81 percent of breast cancer survivors who began with an olive oil-rich plant-based diet lost more than 5 percent of body weight, against 31 percent on the National Cancer Institute low-fat diet. Twenty-eight of 44 women completed both eight-week diets.
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One Time Radiation Hit Promising
A nine-country study begun in 2000 compared a single dose of radiation after breast cancer surgery with a full daily course. After four years, recurrence risk was about the same. Researchers note the disease often returns after five years and plan to follow patients to eight.
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Big Tobacco Takes on NYC
Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds and Lorillard sued the New York City Board of Health over its rule requiring graphic anti-smoking posters near cigarette registers, calling it a First Amendment restriction on speech about a lawful product. The health department defends the posters as deterring teens.
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Breast Cancer Vaccine Promising
Cleveland Clinic researchers vaccinated mice bred to develop breast cancer against a protein found in most breast cancer cells, and none developed the disease, while all the placebo mice grew tumors. Lead researcher Vincent Tuohy stresses the human result is still unknown.
Diet
Mediterranean diet linked to low cancer risk
A Greek case-control study of 239 patients and 194 controls found that rising two units on a 9-point Mediterranean diet score was associated with a 30 percent lower risk of upper aerodigestive tract cancers. No single dietary component explained the link.
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Cigarette Ads Target Women Worldwide
WHO surveyed 151 countries and found half reported as many young girls smoking as boys. The agency warns that tobacco marketing increasingly targets women and girls in developing countries, and is especially concerned about China.
Disease
Severe diabetes means higher cancer risk
German Cancer Research Center scientists compared 125,126 Swedes hospitalized for type 2 diabetes between 1964 and 2007 with the general population, and found pancreatic and liver cancer risks raised about sixfold and fourfold. Prostate cancer and melanoma risks ran lower.
Food
Drinking alcohol boosts risk of death from cancer
Following 6,291 Korean residents aged 55 and older for two decades, researchers found heavy drinkers were 5.62 times more likely to die of esophageal cancer and 4.59 times more likely to die of colon cancer than abstainers. Among women the difference was not statistically significant.
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Rats on Junk Food Pass Cancer Down the Generations
Research presented at a 2010 AACR meeting found rats fed a fatty diet in pregnancy had daughters and granddaughters at greater breast cancer risk, even when the second generation ate well. New Scientist reports a fatty diet may cause heritable epigenetic DNA changes.
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Broccoli compound fights breast cancer
University of Michigan researchers injected sulforaphane from broccoli into mice with breast cancer and counted fewer cancer stem cells in the tumors. Cells from treated mice could not seed new tumors, and human breast cancer cells behaved similarly.
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New evidence: Vitamin D supplements reduce breast cancer risk
In a Canadian case-control study of 3,101 breast cancer patients and 3,471 controls, women taking 400 IU of vitamin D a day had 24 percent lower risk than non-users. Vitamin D from food showed no association, and calcium supplements were not significantly linked to risk.
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