According to a study published in the journal Cancer, second-line treatment (treatment given when initial treatment doesn’t work) with the chemotherapy drugs paclitaxel and carboplatin resulted in a partial reduction of cancer or stable disease in 45% of patients with metastatic melanoma.
According to a recent article published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, women with lung cancer who have taken hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may have a significantly poorer overall survival than those who have never taken HRT.
According to results presented at the 47th annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), patients 60 years of age and over diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) do not benefit from increased doses of the commonly used chemotherapy agents daunorubicin (Cerubidine?) or cytarabine (Cytosar-U?); as well, increasing the number of treatment courses of subsequent chemotherapy does not provide benefit.
According to a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the risk of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (a subtype of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma) is elevated among patients with rheumatoid arthritis, Sj?gren syndrome, systemic lupus erythematosus, or celiac disease. Some of these conditions were also linked with marginal zone lymphoma, lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma, and T-cell lymphoma.
A comparison of two clinical trials suggests that the chemotherapy drug cisplatin is more effective against metastatic osteosarcoma than the chemotherapy drug carboplatin. These results were published in the journal Cancer.
In AIDS patients, Kaposi’s sarcoma is considered an opportunistic infection, i.e., a disease that is able to gain a foothold in the body because the immune system has been weakened. With the rise of AIDS in Africa, where KSHV is widespread, Kaposi’s sarcoma has become the most frequently reported cancer in some countries, such as Zimbabwe.
Basal-cell skin cancers constitute 80 percent of all skin cancers, not including the most serious skin cancer – melanoma.
Each year more than 1 million cases of skin cancer are reported. The most common type of skin cancer is basal cell cancer, which accounts for 80 percent of all skin cancers. The other types of skin cancer includes squamous and melanoma.
The caspase-8 gene plays a critical role in suppressing metastasis (spread) of neuroblastoma, and the expression of this gene is frequently absent in cancer cells that are aggressively metastasizing, according to investigators at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). Neuroblastoma is a tumor of the nervous system and is the most common tumor in infants younger than 1 year of age; it accounts for 7-10 percent of childhood cancers.
Adding fish oil supplements to the diet can prevent the constriction of the airways brought on by exercise in asthmatics, a very common problem in this patient group, new research shows.