NEW YORK, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- One out of 5 older women may delay or not finish treatment following breast cancer surgery, U.S. researchers said.
NEW YORK, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Administering radiation therapy prior to surgery nearly doubles survival in pancreatic cancer patients with operable tumors, U.S. researchers found.
COLOGNE, Germany, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Women with breast cancer who develop a feeling of heaviness, heat and swelling in an arm should get treatment for lymphedema, German researchers say.
NEW YORK, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- A U.S. cancer specialist says there is little public awareness about a common cancer therapy side effect -- oral mucositis.
BOSTON, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- Early-stage breast cancer patients with limited lymph node involvement may not require post-surgery radiation therapy, U.S. researchers said.
BOSTON, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say proton therapy patients have a two-fold lesser risk of developing a secondary cancer compared with being treated by photon radiation.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- A predictive measurement -- preoperative endocrine prognostic index, or PEPI score -- may help women choose breast cancer treatment, U.S. researchers said.
LOWELL, Mass., Sept. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. doctors say their free online computer tool helps cancer specialists access the latest prostate cancer research to better individualize treatment.
UMEA, Sweden, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Men with locally advanced prostate cancer will survive substantially longer when radiation is added to their treatment plan, Swedish researchers said.
BOSTON, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- A type of radiation seed implants offers more convenience for early-stage breast cancer patients by shortening radiation therapy, U.S. researchers said.
BOSTON, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- A magnetic resonance imaging scan could replace exploratory surgery for women whose breast cancer has spread to the lymph nodes, U.S. researchers said.
BOSTON, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- Women with breast cancer treated with lumpectomy and radiation report a high level of overall quality of life years after treatment, U.S. researchers said.
BOSTON, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers suggest standard radiation therapy for some breast cancer patients may not be medically required and cause unnecessary side effects.
HOUSTON, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- African-American women with breast cancer who have a lumpectomy are less likely to receive radiation compared to white women, U.S. researchers said.
HOUSTON, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Breast cancer survivors may still have a substantial risk of disease recurrence five years after treatment, Houston researchers warn.
