Posts Tagged ‘Survival Rates’

Black Liver Cancer Patients Face Worst Odds

27th January 2010 by admin No Comments

Even though they receive equal treatment, black patients with liver cancer have lower survival rates than patients of other races, a new U.S. study finds.
Researchers analyzed data from 20,920 patients in the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) registry who were diagnosed with liver cancer between 1973 and 2004. The researchers [...]

Lifestyle Factors Increase Risk of Second Breast Cancer

29th September 2009 by admin 1 Comment

Researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have reported that obesity, alcohol consumption, and smoking significantly increase the risk of second breast cancers among breast cancer survivors. The details of this study appeared in the Journal of Clinical Oncology early online on September 8, 2009.
Approximately 200,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year [...]

Endoscopic Surgery As Effective Open Surgery For Nasal Cancer

7th July 2009 by admin No Comments

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have shown that endoscopic surgery is a valid treatment option for treating esthesioneuroblastoma (cancer of the nasal cavity), in addition to traditional open surgery and nonsurgical treatments.
Esthesioneuroblastoma is a very rare cancer that develops in the upper part of the nasal cavity and thought to derive from [...]