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by alysiak
Posted: Thu., July 10, 2008, 07:01 pm
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A study published in the July 10 online edition of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology states that the number of melanoma cases among women has increased 50% between 1980 and 2004, while the rates for men leveled off. The study was conducted on men and women aged 15-39 and suggests that there has been no significant result of skin cancer education upon young women.
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by hernews
Posted: Sat., June 14, 2008, 07:37 am
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(HealthDay News) -- Women who smoke are just as likely to get lung cancer as men who smoke, a large U.S. study found.
But, women who never smoked appear to be at greater risk of lung cancer than men who never smoked, according to the report from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
"It has been known for a long time that smoking is strongly associated as a cause of lung cancer," said lead researcher Neal Freedman, a cancer prevention fellow at NCI. "But there has been quite a bit of debate about whether the association is similar in men and women."
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by hernews
Posted: Fri., June 13, 2008, 11:30 pm
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By Steven Reinberg
EmpowHer's HealthDay Reporter
FRIDAY, June 13 (HealthDay News) -- Women who smoke are just as likely to get lung cancer as men who smoke, a large U.S. study found.
But, women who never smoked appear to be at greater risk of lung cancer than men who never smoked, according to the report from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
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by hernews
Posted: Sat., May 31, 2008, 03:36 pm
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Erbitux Plus Chemo Improves Lung Cancer Outcomes
byBy Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter
SATURDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) -- The long-awaited results of a trial of the biologic drug Erbitux on patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer show it prolonged survival by about five weeks when combined with chemotherapy.
Medical professionals have known the drug improved survival, but the question has been by how much.
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by hernews
Posted: Tue., May 13, 2008, 08:55 pm
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By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY
Screening women with both ultrasounds and mammograms allows doctors to find more breast cancers than if they rely on mammograms alone, a new study shows. However, the combination also leads to many more unnecessary biopsies, and experts don't recommend it to most patients.
Researchers involved in a study of more than 2,600 women in today's Journal of the American Medical Association focused on women at high risk, such as those who have had previous breast tumors.
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