Tumors

Good dogs: The list

2011-07-18 00:00:00

They're more than man's best friends: They're friends with benefits. Here are a few ways dogs are helping to make our lives healthier, safer and longer. Search and rescue: When disaster strikes, search-and-rescue dogs are never far behind. After the...

Baruj Benacerraf dies at 90; Nobelist made key discoveries about immune system

2011-08-07 00:00:00

Dr. Baruj Benacerraf, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his pioneering work explaining why some people are able to fight off infections and tumors while others are not, died Tuesday at his Boston home. He was 90. The cause was...

Cellphones, kids and cancer: Don't worry, be happy?

2011-07-28 11:49:00

The first-ever study comparing brain cancer incidence in kids who use cellphones with those who do not has found no difference, suggesting that children's long-feared vulnerability to brain cancer with early cellphone use does not exist. In a four-...

FDA approves first oral drug to slow multiple sclerosis progression

2010-09-22 12:04:00

A failed anti-rejection drug got a new purpose and a new lease on commercial life Wednesday as the Food and Drug Administration approved the medication fingolimod -- to be marketed as Gilenya -- to slow the progression of disability in multiple...

Many men with low-risk prostate cancer overtreated, study finds

2010-07-27 09:39:00

About three-quarters of men with low-risk prostate tumors that can safely be ignored for months or years receive aggressive treatment, despite the risk of complications, researchers reported Monday. The findings, published in the Archives of Internal...

Hanoi's famous Hoan Kiem turtle is captured to receive veterinary care

2011-04-05 21:35:26

Pregnant breast cancer patients more likely to survive

2010-09-30 15:45:00

There may be few pregnancy nightmares worse than finding a lump in one’s breast, given the dueling fears that if it’s cancer, treatment could harm the developing fetus, while delay and pregnancy hormones could fuel a tumor’s growth....

Kim Hill dies at 44; woman's childhood cancer battle inspired creation of Ronald McDonald House

2011-03-09 00:00:00

Kim Hill, whose childhood battle with leukemia was the catalyst for the creation of the first Ronald McDonald House in Philadelphia in 1974, has died. She was 44. Hill died Saturday at UCI Medical Center in Orange, said her father, Fred Hill. Radiation...

Radiation exposure and the effects on human health

2011-03-15 19:47:00

As engineers have fought to avert a meltdown at the earthquake- and tsunami-crippled Fukushima No. 1 (Daiichi) power plant, nuclear authorities have reported that spikes of radiation have escaped from the facility at levels that can be dangerous to...

Steve Jobs medical leave: experts speculate but Apple quiet

2011-01-17 21:34:40

Drumming up support for Tasmania's unsexy beast

2011-03-27 22:04:00

'The Emperor of All Maladies' by Siddhartha Mukherjee

2010-12-19 00:00:00

The Emperor of All Maladies A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee Scribner: 572 pp., $30 Siddhartha Mukherjee's "The Emperor of All Maladies," a remarkable history of the 4,000-year-old war on cancer, shines a focused beam of light on a disease...

Christian Stilwell, 17, of Algonquin, who died in his sleep in April, had a cystic lesion on his brain that had gone undetected. It is unknown whether the lesion was related to his migraines.

2011-06-13 14:30:13

Exemestane, sold as Aromasin, can reduce the risk of tumors in high- and moderate-risk post-menopausal women by 65% over a three-year period, researchers reported June 4 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

2011-06-10 12:08:39

PLX4032, or vemurafenib, is the first chemotherapy agent directed at a specific mutation involved in the formation of skin tumors , which occurs in about half of melanoma patients. Ipilimumab, marketed as Yervoy, stimulates the immune system to fight tumors, and has proven to be more effective than

2011-06-10 11:13:22