Poor Pain
Control for Cancer Patients
Recounting
her father’s struggle with cancer was difficult for the young woman, even
several years after his death. He’d endured first surgery and then chemotherapy
and radiation, she told me, and the cancer had gone into remission. He was
thrilled, but the aggressive treatment left him with chronic, debilitating
pain. Once active, he struggled to get around in his own home. “It wasn’t the
cancer that got him,” the daughter said. “It was the pain.”
By Pauline W. Chen. In The New York
Times (blog)
Smoking and
Drinking Linked to Earlier Pancreatic Cancer
People who
smoke or drink heavily may develop pancreatic cancer at a younger age than
those who don't, according to a recent study of 811 pancreatic cancer patients.
By Jaimie Dalessio. In Huffington
Post
Least
Aggressive Breast Cancer Still Poses Long-Term Risk, Study Finds
Women with
common tumor types might die of disease a decade later, affecting treatment
decisions.
In U.S.
Cancer
surpasses heart disease as cause of death among Hispanics
Cancer is
now the leading cause of death among Hispanics in the United States, surpassing
deaths due to heart disease, researchers reported Monday.
By Michael Muskal. In Los
Angeles
Merck
KGaA pulls second lung cancer drug filing
German
drugmaker Merck KGaA has withdrawn its second attempt to win European approval
for use of its Erbitux drug against lung cancer, capping a string of setbacks
in its drug development.
In
Reuters
Quality-of-life
program may help cancer patients
A therapy
program focused on improving quality of life can help people being treated for advanced
cancer, researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, have found.
In
Reuters
Cancer de la prostate : le traitement Zytiga confirme son
efficacité
Une étude internationale publiée mardi indique qu'une
nouvelle molécule connue sous le nom de Zytiga et composée d'acétate
d'abiratérone aurait la propriété d'améliorer la qualité de vie de patients
atteints de cancer avancé de la prostate.
Dans Maxisciences
Cancer du sein : les limites du
dépistage
Près de 20 % de cancers pourraient
survenir dans l'intervalle entre deux dépistages organisés, affirment des
spécialistes.
Dans Le Point
Cancers : que faire si l'on vient
d'une famille à risques ?
Les consultations oncogénétiques,
comme celles en pré et en postnatal, s'adressent à des personnes bien ciblées.
Par Nathalie Szapiro-Manoukian. Dans
Le Figaro
Le sel favoriserait le cancer de l'estomac
Limiter sa consommation de sel est bénéfique non seulement
au chapitre de la pression artérielle, mais aussi du cancer de l’estomac..
Par Marie-Claude Ouellet. Dans Agence Science-Presse
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