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Topic: Cancer

Will all doctors one day be like this oncologist: Using holistic healing with traditional medicine?

Will all doctors one day be like this oncologist: Using holistic healing with traditional medicine?

June 16, 2013 1:48 pm by | 0 Comments

YORK, Pa -- After 10 years battling persistent cysts and tumors that formed in her breasts, Karen Muro opted for breast reduction surgery in February 2010.Although the growths were always ... Read more
There is a silver lining for Myriad in the Supreme Court gene patents case

There is a silver lining for Myriad in the Supreme Court gene patents case

June 16, 2013 9:30 am by | 0 Comments

While the Supreme Court's decision to forbid patents on human genes knocked out Myriad Genetics' long-guarded patent on two genes linked to breast cancer, the Utah-based company's stock still rose ... Read more
Molecular, genomic diagnostic service lab raising $900K to enable personalized medicine

Molecular, genomic diagnostic service lab raising $900K to enable personalized medicine

June 11, 2013 3:55 pm by | 0 Comments

Using DNA sequencing to help doctors and pharmaceutical companies personalize treatments for disease has netted a South Carolina startup a small seed round of capital.According to a recent SEC filing, ... Read more
Low-tech program helps cancer patients get to the doctor

Low-tech program helps cancer patients get to the doctor

June 4, 2013 1:39 pm by | 0 Comments

Getting better begins with getting there.The appointments, treatments and exams that cancer patients must endure -- ones that typically take place during the workday -- can be difficult for friends ... Read more
Mainstream medicine moves beyond a one-size-fits-all approach to prostate cancer screening

Mainstream medicine moves beyond a one-size-fits-all approach to prostate cancer screening

June 2, 2013 4:09 pm by | 0 Comments

For nearly a quarter century, doctors have ordered annual PSA tests for men of a certain age to screen for prostate cancer, despite a lack of evidence that the benefits outweighed ... Read more
Simple vinegar screening associated with 31% fewer cervical cancer deaths in India study

Simple vinegar screening associated with 31% fewer cervical cancer deaths in India study

June 2, 2013 11:13 am by | 0 Comments

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A simple screening program for cervical cancer using vinegar and visual exams helped reduce deaths caused by the cancer by 31 percent in a group of 150,000 ... Read more
Experimental AZN drug is first to demonstrate tumor shrinkage in melanoma of the eye

Experimental AZN drug is first to demonstrate tumor shrinkage in melanoma of the eye

June 1, 2013 9:33 am by | 0 Comments

CHICAGO (Reuters) - In his first few weeks as head of the melanoma group at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center seven years ago, a young man walked into Dr. Gary Schwartz's ... Read more
A deep dive into digital conversations about cancer finds big gaps in online dialogue

A deep dive into digital conversations about cancer finds big gaps in online dialogue

May 30, 2013 11:59 am by | 0 Comments

A new healthcare social media project is tracking digital conversations about cancer and finding huge gaps in what’s being talked about online and what’s actually ailing America.The MDigital Life Social ... Read more
Biotech partnered with NCI rounds up $20M to advance cancer immunotherapies into the clinic

Biotech partnered with NCI rounds up $20M to advance cancer immunotherapies into the clinic

May 29, 2013 10:00 am by | 0 Comments

Boosted by a partnership with the National Cancer Institute and $20 million in new funding, a California biotech startup is advancing new personalized immunotherapies for cancer.Kite Pharma Inc. disclosed in ... Read more
Fearless teen scientists are building PCR machines & finding better ways to detect cancer

Fearless teen scientists are building PCR machines & finding better ways to detect cancer

May 22, 2013 1:30 pm by | 0 Comments

At one point during my trip to FutureMed earlier this year, I found myself seated next to a young man — noticeably younger than many of the entrepreneurs and doctors-in-training ... Read more
When payers will pay more: Calculating — and justifying — the ROI of expensive treatments

When payers will pay more: Calculating — and justifying — the ROI of expensive treatments

May 22, 2013 11:53 am by | 0 Comments

Calculating the return on investment of expensive drugs and surgeries can mean good news for patients. A recent conversation among decision makers at big insurance companies also showed that payers ... Read more
Biotech spinoff using rabbit antibody platform to develop new cancer drugs raises $15M

Biotech spinoff using rabbit antibody platform to develop new cancer drugs raises $15M

May 21, 2013 12:08 pm by | 0 Comments

A spinoff of Epitomics (now owned by Abcam) that’s using the biotech’s rabbit monoclonal antibody technology to discover and develop new cancer drugs has raised at least $15 million.According to ... Read more
GE offers an inside look at how it’s innovating in cancer care (video)

GE offers an inside look at how it’s innovating in cancer care (video)

May 20, 2013 10:34 am by | 0 Comments

Remember back in the fall of 2011 when GE committed $1 billion to cancer research and development? A new video put out by the GE Global Research Center commemorating National ... Read more
Chimeric antigen receptor therapy may be like penicillin for leukemia

Chimeric antigen receptor therapy may be like penicillin for leukemia

May 19, 2013 4:40 am by | 0 Comments

It is vanishingly rare for an experimental treatment to wipe out advanced, recurrent cancer, then keep the disease from coming back.Yet therapies driven by CARs have been doing exactly that ... Read more
Less education and lower incomes keep cancer rates high among African Americans

Less education and lower incomes keep cancer rates high among African Americans

May 19, 2013 4:40 am by | 0 Comments

To understand both the simplicity of disparities in health care and the complexity of eliminating them, consider this:In the late 1970s and early '80s, black and white death rates for ... Read more