Invasive Breast Cancer Detection Up With Abbreviated Breast MRI
Detection rate for invasive breast cancer significantly higher with MRI versus digital breast tomosynthesis.
Diagnosis & Disease Information
Cancer diagnosis often adversely affects mental health
Patients diagnosed with breast cancer, head and neck cancer, and malignant melanoma are particularly at risk for disorders such as anxiety or depression.
Immunosignatures: A powerful, new technique for early diagnosis
Researchers at the Arizona State University Biodesign Institute can developed a new method of early disease detection.
Annual report highlights 2012 cancer advances
The American Society of Clinical Oncology has released a nearly 100-page report detailing the year’s most significant developments in cancer.
Three-way approach demystifies kidney cancer
Researchers looking at multiple different levels of changes in renal cell carcinoma are closer to determining how these tumors grow and survive.
Tomosynthesis sharpens digital mammography results
Adding three-dimensional breast imaging to standard digital mammography increases diagnostic accuracy and reduces false-positive recall rates.
Suppressed protein halted melanoma metastasis
Inhibiting one protein eliminated metastasis of melanoma in lab studies, a finding that could lead to targeted therapies for a range of cancers.
High mortality persists for black women with breast cancer
Black women have the highest death rate from breast cancer of all racial and ethnic groups, and are 40% more likely to die of the disease than are white women, according to a new report from the CDC.
Study suggests 10-year colonoscopy rescreen not needed after first negative result
It may be reasonable to use methods other than colonoscopy to rescreen people who had negative results on their first screening colonoscopy.
Expectations too high for palliative chemotherapy
Many persons who receive chemotherapy for incurable cancers may not understand that the treatment is unlikely to be curative.
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