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Y! Health Cancer & Chemotherapy News
Y! Health Cancer & Chemotherapy News, updated continuously.

• Kidney Cancer Vaccine Shows No Boost in Survival (HealthDay)

  Posted on 3 Jul 2008 at 11:47 pm
  HealthDay - FRIDAY, July 3 (HealthDay News) -- The new vaccine vitespen didn't increase recurrence-free survival among kidney cancer patients who'd had surgery, say U.S. researchers.
  

• Kidney cancer vaccine falls short in clinical trial: study (AFP)

  Posted on 3 Jul 2008 at 7:02 pm
  AFP - A new kidney cancer vaccine failed in last-phase clinical trials to improve the odds of avoiding remission after tumour-removing surgery, according to a study released Friday.
  

• Smokeless Tobacco Products Do Raise Cancer Risk (HealthDay)

  Posted on 2 Jul 2008 at 11:47 pm
  HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Smokeless tobacco products (STPs), which include products such as snuff and chew tobacco, do increase the user's risk of cancer -- just not as much as smoking does.
  

• New Drug Slows Thyroid Cancer (HealthDay)

  Posted on 2 Jul 2008 at 11:47 pm
  HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental drug that inhibits tumor blood vessel formation slows the progression of metastatic thyroid cancer in some patients, an international study finds.
  

• Circulating Tumor Cells Reveal Insights Into Lung Cancers (HealthDay)

  Posted on 2 Jul 2008 at 11:47 pm
  HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- A new technique for finding and analyzing stray cancer cells in the blood of lung cancer patients may make it possible for doctors to one day not only determine the genetic "signature" of particular tumors but to monitor changes in those cells and adjust treatments accordingly.
  

• Doctors extract cancer cells from blood sample (Reuters)

  Posted on 2 Jul 2008 at 5:33 pm
  Reuters - An experimental process that snags lung cancer cells from a blood sample could give doctors real-time feedback on the most effective therapy, researchers reported on Wednesday.
  

• Tumor-starving pill helps thyroid cancer: study (Reuters)

  Posted on 2 Jul 2008 at 5:07 pm
  Reuters - Amgen's once-a-day pill to starve tumors can help many patients with hard-to-treat thyroid cancer, either by shrinking tumors or slowing their growth, researchers reported on Wednesday.
  

• Biomarkers needed to gauge passive smoke exposure (Reuters)

  Posted on 2 Jul 2008 at 2:48 pm
  Reuters - Biological indicators, or "biomarkers" of exposure to secondhand smoke that can be analyzed in blood, tissue or other samples, or through imaging scans are needed to examine whether exposure to secondhand smoke may cause lung cancer.
  

• New study shows how broccoli helps reduce cancer risk (AFP)

  Posted on 2 Jul 2008 at 2:45 pm
  AFP - A scientific study published here Wednesday sheds light on why men who eat a lot of broccoli are less likely to develop prostate cancer.
  

• High fat diet may abet prostate cancer progression (Reuters)

  Posted on 2 Jul 2008 at 1:37 pm
  Reuters - Diets high in saturated fat may increase the risk of prostate cancer progression, researchers from the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston report.