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May 30, 2013

Hormone Therapy Increases Ovarian Cancer Risk

PHILADELPHIA Women who take hormones to relieve symptoms of menopause could be increasing their risk of developing ovarian cancer no matter what type of hormones, according to new research. Researchers found women who used hormone replacement therapy for a nine-year period faced a 29 percent higher risk of developing ovarian...

May 30, 2013

Fallopian Tube Removal May Lower Risk of Deadly Ovarian Cancer

Women who are considering getting their fallopian tubes tied should instead have them removed altogether, some doctors say. And, they add, perhaps even women undergoing any type of abdominal surgery should also have their tubes removed, as long as they don't want any more children. That's because recent research suggests...

May 30, 2013

5 Things Women Should Know About Ovarian Cancer

Introduction (Image credit: Dreamstime)Ovarian cancer is the fifth most common cancer among women, and it causes more deaths than any other type of female reproductive cancer. Here are five things every woman should know about ovarian cancer. The numbers (Image credit: Woman's abdomen photo via Shutterstock)Ovarian cancer is a relatively...

Aug 26, 2013

New Ovarian Cancer Screening Test Seems Promising

A new test to screen for ovarian cancer appears to detect the disease in early stages, and if confirmed in clinical trials, the test could become a routine screening for women. In the study, researchers tested the strategy on more than 4,000 women over an 11-year period. The women underwent...

Dec 4, 2013

New Test May Help Predict Ovarian Cancer Survival

A sensitive new DNA test can predict how long ovarian cancer patients will survive, and guide personalized treatment decisions, according to new research. The technology, called QuanTILfy, counts the number of cells called tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in a cancer patient's tumor biopsy. Cancer patients with more of these cells in...

Oct 26, 2011

Lung Cancer Deaths Unchanged by Annual Chest X-Rays

Patients at high risk for lung cancer who are screened annually with chest X-rays are no less likely to die from the disease, a large trial has found. The new results come following a separate study that found screening patients instead with computed tomography (CT) scans does decrease the lung...

Sep 4, 2012

Lung Cancer Cases On the Rise in Non-Smokers, Study Suggests

Lung cancer rates are increasing among women and people who have never smoked, a new study finds. Researchers from the French College of General Hospital Respiratory Physicians studied 7,610 lung cancer patients and 7,610 new cases of lung cancer in France in 2010. The study found non-smokers made up 11.9...

Jan 23, 2013

Women's Lung Cancer Death Risk Rises

Female smokers are more likely to die from lung cancer now than a few decades ago, a new study says. In the 1960s, female smokers were 2.7 times more likely to die from lung cancer compared with women who didn't smoke. By the 1980s, women who smoked were 12.6 times...

Feb 25, 2013

CT Scans for Lung Cancer May Save Lives

Screening heavy smokers for lung cancer with a CT scan could potentially prevent thousands of deaths from lung cancer a year, a new study suggests. According to the study researchers, if all current and former smokers who meet certain criteria were regularly screened using low-dose computed tomography (LDCT), 12,000 deaths...

May 30, 2013

Breast Cancer Drug Linked With Drop in Lung Cancer Deaths

The breast cancer drug tamoxifen may decrease women's risk of dying from lung cancer, according to a new study. Women with breast cancer who took tamoxifen and also developed lung cancer were 87 percent less likely to die from their lung cancer than people in the general population with lung...

May 30, 2013

Tuberculosis Linked to Lung Cancer

While lung cancer is typically related to smoking, a new study finds evidence of increased lung cancer risk among people with tuberculosis. A clear link has yet to be established, the scientists report in the January issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology. Researchers at China Medical University and Hospital...

May 30, 2013

HPV More Prevalent in Lung Cancer Patients

People with lung cancer are more likely to have several high-risk forms of the human papillomavirus (HPV) than people without lung cancer, according to a new study. There are 150 different strains of HPV, but only certain kinds are associated with a high risk of cancer. Researchers found that people...

May 30, 2013

How Green Tea May Thwart Lung Cancer

A new study shows for the first time how a compound in green tea might work to suppress lung cancer. A compound found in green tea, called EGCG, was already known to have anti-cancer properties. But researchers are still trying to figure out all the ways EGCG acts to suppress...

May 30, 2013

CT Scans of Heavy Smokers Reduce Lung Cancer Deaths

Researchers have confirmed that screening heavy smokers through the use of computer tomography (CT) can detect early signs of lung cancer and reduces deaths by around 20 percent. The study verifies and expands upon the preliminary results of the National Lung Screening Trial that were announced in November. It opens...

May 30, 2013

Lung Cancer May Be Different Disease in Smokers and Nonsmokers

PHILADELPHIA Lung cancer that develops in smokers is not the same disease as lung cancer that develops in people who've never touched a cigarette, a new study finds. There are nearly twice as many DNA changes in the tumors of people who have never smoked than in the tumors of...