Press Review (January 19, 2013) – Revue de presse (19 janvier 2013)

Segregation Linked in Study With Lung Cancer Deaths

African-Americans who live in highly segregated counties are considerably more likely to die from lung cancer than those in counties that are less segregated, a new study has found.

By Sabrina Tavernise. In New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/health/study-links-segregation-and-lung-cancer-deaths-in-blacks.html?_r=0

Study calls for tobacco profits cap

Setting up an independent regulatory agency to cap cigarette manufacturers's profits would raise an extra £500 million a year, academics say.

In Cancer Research UK

http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-info/news/archive/cancernews/2013-01-17-Study-calls-for-tobacco-profits-cap?view=rss

New mechanism found on how a parasite leads to cancer

About 200 million people across 75 of the poorest countries in the world are now infected by the blood parasite Schistosoma haematobium (S. haematobium). The infection causes severe urogenital disease, but also causes bladder cancer in a number of patients and why this occurs is not clea

By Catarina Amorim. In Medical Xpress

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-mechanism-parasite-cancer.html

U.S. cancer death rates decline

The new year brings good news in the fight against cancer

By Kathryn Roethel. In San Francisco Chronicle

http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/U-S-cancer-death-rates-decline-4196561.php

Nobel laureate urges new direction for cancer research — and warns against antioxidant supplements

Anti-oxidative nutritional supplements “may have caused more cancers than they have prevented”.

By Susan Perry. In MinnPost.com

http://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2013/01/nobel-laureate-urges-new-direction-cancer-research-and-warns-against-antioxid

Scientists Seek out Cancer Cells Hiding from Treatment

Funding to improve leukemia treatment will investigate how cancer cells hide to avoid chemotherapy drugs.

In Science Daily (press release)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130116090121.htm

Breast cancer mortality has not declined in women over 85

Since 1992 the number of deaths linked to breast cancer in Spain has decreased among young and middle aged patients but not among the elderly.

In EurekAlert (press release)

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-01/f-sf-bcm011613.php

New treatment for bowel cancer

Researchers have found for the first time that a complex or proteins (mTorc1) promotes the growth of certain gastrointestinal cancers.

In ScienceAlert

http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20131701-23969.html

Cervical Cancer Awareness: Latinas At Greater Risk, 'Third Most Likely Group To Die Of The Disease'

Cervical cancer most commonly develops in women between the ages of 20 and 50, and according to the American Cancer Society, a low percentage of cases occur in women over the age of 50 and under the age of 65 (approximately 20 percent of cases).

By Hope Gillette. In Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/14/latinas-at-greater-risk-for-cervical-cancer_n_2472472.html

Une piste pour évaluer le risque de cancer de la prostate

Des dosages répétés de PSA permettraient de déterminer les cancers de la prostate les plus dangereux.

Par Damien Mascret. Dans Le Figaro Santé

http://sante.lefigaro.fr/actualite/2013/01/16/19706-piste-pour-evaluer-risque-cancer-prostate

Le bilan en demi-teinte de l'Institut national du cancer

Le coût des soins se stabilise, la mortalité due à certaines tumeurs diminue, mais les inégalités ne cessent de se creuser.

Par Anne Jeanblanc. Dans Le Point

http://www.lepoint.fr/chroniqueurs-du-point/anne-jeanblanc/le-bilan-en-demi-teinte-de-l-institut-national-du-cancer-16-01-2013-1615643_57.php

MAUX CROISÉS – Un cruciverbiste dévoile son cancer dans les réponses à ses mots croisés

Le révérend John Galbraith Graham est une sommité du monde des mots croisés. Sous le pseudonyme d'Araucaria, il crée les grilles particulièrement compliquées qui apparaissent dans le Guardian, le Financial Times ou le magazine spécialisé 1 Across. Quand ses fidèles lecteurs ont commencé les mots croisés n° 25842 parus dans le Guardian en décembre, ils ont progressivement découvert que l'auteur souffrait d'un cancer.

Dans Le Monde  

http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2013/01/14/18-a-un-cruciverbiste-devoile-son-cancer-dans-les-reponses-a-ses-mots-croises/

Cancer de l’oesophage: la caméra-pilule qui pourrait reléguer l’endoscopie

Elle est décrite comme une technique d'imagerie rapide, simple et sans douleur que les patients pourraient largement préférer à l’endoscopie.

Dans Santé Log

http://www.santelog.com/news/diagnostic/cancer-de-l-oesophage-la-camera-pilule-qui-pourrait-releguer-l-endoscopie_9727.htm

Les bêtabloquants, nouvelle piste contre le cancer du poumon NPC ?

Des études prospectives sont nécessaires pour confirmer ces données et appellent à ne pas tirer de conclusions trop hâtives.

Par Zosia Chustecka, Aude Lecrubier. Dans Medscape France

http://www.medscape.fr/oncologie/articles/1494565/