Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) found that patients who received a later stage cancer diagnosis were likely to be living in an unsafe neighborhood, using public transportation and traveling at least 45 minutes to get to a doctor’s office.
Researchers at George Mason University are investigating a remarkable use of nanotechnology that might change the way doctors monitor patients for cancer-indicating biomarkers.
A series of quietly exhaled breaths might indicate whether or not a patient is at risk for lung cancer, according to researchers from the New York State Department of Health.
Eating such foods as broccoli and soy are believed to offer some protection against cancer, but how this occurs is not well-understood.
Epidemiologists have unexpectedly found that African Americans had a higher rate of recurrence following prostate cancer surgery than did whites, regardless of whether or not patients received surgery at hospitals or by surgeons who performed a high number of such operations.
A survey of stomach and kidney cancer patients in Los Angeles revealed that those who were diagnosed in a late stage of disease ? when cancer is harder to treat successfully ? were likely to be older, living in an unsafe neighborhood and traveling at least 45 minutes to get to the doctor.
Having a mother or sister with breast cancer significantly increases the risk for young African American women to develop breast cancer, according to the analysis of questionnaires answered by approximately 59,000 African American women enrolled in the Black Women’s Health Study.
In preliminary findings, researchers have identified differences in the expression of two genes in normal breast tissue from African American and white women that could predispose the former to develop more aggressive tumors and poorer prognoses.
Women can encounter environmental factors that increase their risk of breast cancer at various periods of their physical development, beginning before birth and extending until menopause.
Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a new imaging technique that can measure the effectiveness of treatment for prostate cancer that has spread to the bones. The technique involves measuring diffusion of water within tumors.