07.19.11 | Run Raises Money For Lung-Cancer Research
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06.28.11 | FDA Unveils Graphic Images for Cigarette Packs
TUESDAY, June 21 (HealthDay News) -- In a dramatic bid to get more Americans to quit smoking, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday released nine graphic warning labels that will appear on all packs of cigarettes by no later than September 2012....
06.09.10 | Long-term Avastin use helps keep ovarian cancer in check
Long-term therapy with the blockbuster drug Avastin — already used to treat breast, lung and colorectal cancers — also appears to help women with advanced ovarian tumors, a study shows.
In the study, presented Sunday at the American Society of Clinical Oncology,...
07.07.10 | Immune therapy is promising
An experimental immune therapy may provide a new way to fight advanced melanoma, a devastating cancer that often kills patients within six months.
In a study of two novel treatments — a therapeutic vaccine called gp100 and an immune stimulator called ipilimumab — ipilimumab...
06.07.10 | Progress on the cancer front
Szabo reports on the major studies presented over the weekend at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago.
An experimental drug is causing dramatic recoveries in a small number of people with lung cancer, the world's leading cancer killer, scientists...