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12/16/15 Study examines obesity in relation to breast cancer related ...

12/16/15 Study examines obesity in relation to breast cancer related ...

Medical Xpress

 

"Obesity is an established risk factor not only for breast-cancer related lymphedema but also for breast cancer occurrence, recurrence, and fatality," says Mei R.

12/10/15 - Quick Treatment Saves Women With Breast Cancer - Studies

12/10/15 Quick Treatment Saves Women With Breast Cancer - Studies

NBCNews.com

 

Women with breast cancer may have better survival odds if they get surgery and chemotherapy more quickly, two large U.S. studies suggest. "We are not taking ...

12/8/15 - Researchers unveil relationship between ovarian cancer and obesity

12/8/15 Researchers unveil relationship between ovarian cancer and obesity

News-Medical.net

 

However, the influence of obesity on ovarian cancer metastasis had not been evaluated. Researchers from the University of Notre Dame and its affiliated Harper ...

12/3/15 - Survival improving for women with stage IV breast cancer

12/3/15 Survival improving for women with stage IV breast cancer

UPI.com

 

Although surgeries to remove cancer declined dramatically in the last 25 years because of better drug treatments, women who had surgery were shown to ...

12/2/15 - False Alarm Mammograms May Still Signal Higher Breast Cancer Risk

12/2/15 False Alarm Mammograms May Still Signal Higher Breast Cancer Risk

NPR

 

Women who have an abnormal mammogram should stay vigilant for cancer for for the next decade, even when follow-up tests fail to detect cancer, a study ...

11/20/15 - Cancer Meds Often Bring Big Out-of-Pocket Costs for Patients ...

11/20/15 Cancer Meds Often Bring Big Out-of-Pocket Costs for Patients ...

Medscape

Clare Krusing, spokeswoman for America's Health Insurance Plans, said insurers pick up the majority of the cost of prescription medications in most cases, and ...

11/19/15 - Medi-Cal cancer patients don't fare much better than the uninsured ...

11/19/15 Medi-Cal cancer patients don't fare much better than the uninsured ...

Los Angeles Times

Experts say that worse health outcomes for the Medi-Cal population can also be ... The Medi-Cal program has grown dramatically in that period, with costs ...

11/19/15 - Cancer Meds Often Mean Big Out-Of-Pocket Cost...

11/19/15 Cancer Meds Often Mean Big Out-Of-Pocket Cost...

WebMD

Clare Krusing, spokeswoman for America's Health Insurance Plans, said insurers pick up the majority of the cost of prescription medications in most cases, and ...

11/4/15 - Cost to treat low-risk prostate cancer can vary widely, UCLA study ...

11/4/15 Cost to treat low-risk prostate cancer can vary widely, UCLA study ...

UC Los Angeles

Cost to treat low-risk prostate cancer can vary widely, UCLA study finds ... and bundled payments to curb growing health care expenditures, understanding the ...

10/28/15 - After prostate cancer surgery, blacks have more complications ...

10/28/15 After prostate cancer surgery, blacks have more complications ...

Reuters

Older black men who have surgery for prostate cancer may have more complications and pay higher out-of-pocket costs than white men, ...

10/8/15 - More Cancer Docs Spurn Pricey Drugs

10/8/15 More Cancer Docs Spurn Pricey Drugs

NBCNews.com

Worldwide spending on cancer medicines reached $100 billion in 2014, ... U.S. patients are paying a larger portion of their own health costs, in the form of ...

10/7/15 - PCP/Oncology Partnerships Vital for Cancer Care Wave

10/7/15 PCP/Oncology Partnerships Vital for Cancer Care Wave

MedPage Today

"It would be a great disservice to [cancer patients] to not have the involvement ... The team-based care model of the patient centered medical home (PCMH) has ...

10/6/15 - As HIV Patients Live Longer, Certain Cancer Risks Rise: Study ...

10/6/15 As HIV Patients Live Longer, Certain Cancer Risks Rise: Study ...

WebMD

A study of nearly 90,000 HIV patients revealed a rise in three types of cancer as the AIDS-causing virus has evolved from a probable death sentence into a ...

10/1/15 - Weight-loss surgery may prevent cancer in at-risk obese women

10/1/15 Weight-loss surgery may prevent cancer in at-risk obese women

UPI.com

A study on the effects of bariatric surgery on obese women most at risk for cancer showed it eliminated precancerous ...

9/23/15 - Exclusive: Americans overpaying hugely for cancer drugs - study

9/23/15 Exclusive: Americans overpaying hugely for cancer drugs - study

Reuters

Americans are paying way over the odds for some modern cancer drugs, ... Hill told Reuters he had shared his work on the cost of producing TKIs ... WHO officials have used the findings in determining that the drugs can be ...

9/21/15 - Racial Differences in Breast Cancer Linked to Genes

9/21/15 Racial Differences in Breast Cancer Linked to Genes

U.S. News & World Report

Black women are more likely to develop aggressive forms of breast cancer than white women because of genetic ...

9/16/15 - Hispanic Cancer Rates Show How It Matters Where You Come From

9/16/15 Hispanic Cancer Rates Show How It Matters Where You Come From

NPR

Hispanic people much are less likely to get cancer than non-Hispanic whites, but it's also their leading cause of death. Beneath that puzzling ...

9/14/15 - Report: Pesticide exposure linked to childhood cancer and lower IQ

9/14/15 Report: Pesticide exposure linked to childhood cancer and lower IQ

CNN

"Childhood cancers are increasing year by year in this country, (and) there is disagreement about what is contributing to that, but pesticides have always been ...

9/10/15 - Treating Cancer Differently in Older Patients

9/10/15 Treating Cancer Differently in Older Patients

U.S. News & World Report

A diagnosis of cancer inevitably raises myriad questions for patients, family members and clinicians trying to decide what to do next. For older patients, there's ...

9/9/15 - Young Lung Cancer Patients: Prime for Targeted Therapies

9/9/15 Young Lung Cancer Patients: Prime for Targeted Therapies

Medscap

Young patients with lung cancer may be prime candidates for "personalized medicine," because they tend to have more mutations that can be ...