Copyright (c) 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/health/diseases-conditions/cancer health Health - Cancer en-us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:38:10 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/health/diseases-conditions/cancer http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100210/hl_nm/us_cancer_lung_mutations nm/20100210/us_cancer_lung_mutations Reuters health Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:38:10 GMT Reuters - Lung cancer is often dramatically different in women than it is in men, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday in another study that suggests ways to tailor treatment for cancer patients. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100210/hl_hsn/paxilblockstamoxifenlowerssurvivaloddsagainstbreastcancer hsn/20100210/paxilblockstamoxifenlowerssurvivaloddsagainstbreastcancer HealthDay politics Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:04:24 GMT HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Women with breast cancer who take both tamoxifen and the antidepressant Paxil may increase their risk of dying because Paxil reduces tamoxifen's effectiveness, Canadian researchers report. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100210/hl_hsn/genesplayroleinprognosiswithnonsmallcelllungcancers hsn/20100210/genesplayroleinprognosiswithnonsmallcelllungcancers HealthDay health Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:04:10 GMT HealthDay - TUESDAY, Feb. 9 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. scientists have discovered there are genetic profiles that play a part in prognosis with non-small cell lung cancers, and those profiles differ depending on the age and gender of the patient. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/hl_nm/us_cancer_tobacco nm/20100209/us_cancer_tobacco Reuters health Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:00:30 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/hl_nm/us_cancer_tobacco"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r2943550170.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=Yr7HM4k1MXpOz6gtYFOZVQ--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="A man smokes a cigarette in central London, February 1, 2010. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Old tobacco smoke does more than simply make a room smell stale -- it can leave cancer-causing toxins behind, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/hl_nm/us_cancer_tobacco"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r2943550170.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=Yr7HM4k1MXpOz6gtYFOZVQ--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="A man smokes a cigarette in central London, February 1, 2010. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100209/hl_hsn/softdrinkscouldboostpancreaticcancerrisk hsn/20100209/softdrinkscouldboostpancreaticcancerrisk HealthDay health Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:49:41 GMT HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- People who down two or more soft drinks a week may have double the risk of developing deadly pancreatic cancer, compared to non-soda drinkers, new research suggests. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100209/hl_hsn/financialwoesaddanxietytobreastcancerdiagnosis hsn/20100209/financialwoesaddanxietytobreastcancerdiagnosis HealthDay politics Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:49:35 GMT HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Financial pressure puts low- and medium-income women at particularly high risk for anxiety and depression after being diagnosed with the noninvasive breast cancer ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a U.S. study has found. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/hl_afp/healthdrinkcancer afp/20100209/healthdrinkcancer AFP health Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:33:23 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/hl_afp/healthdrinkcancer"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265652814100-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=MFXlhkuHkw.O4oukpJTyUg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A Cambodian scavenger (L) collects empty cans of soft drink and bottles of drinking water as a school child (R) sits next to her drinking a soft drink in 2008. People who drink at least two sugary soft drinks a day have an increased risk of contracting cancer of the pancreas, a study published Monday shows.(AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy)" border="0" /></a>AFP - People who drink at least two sugary sodas a week have an increased risk of developing cancer of the pancreas, and researchers suspect the culprit is sugar, a new study shows.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/hl_afp/healthdrinkcancer"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265652814100-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=MFXlhkuHkw.O4oukpJTyUg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A Cambodian scavenger (L) collects empty cans of soft drink and bottles of drinking water as a school child (R) sits next to her drinking a soft drink in 2008. People who drink at least two sugary soft drinks a day have an increased risk of contracting cancer of the pancreas, a study published Monday shows.(AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/hl_afp/healthdiseasecancerbreastserotonin afp/20100209/healthdiseasecancerbreastserotonin AFP politics Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:28:46 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/hl_afp/healthdiseasecancerbreastserotonin"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265675303663-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=UW_N1SbhPdYExvTwu.Mnog--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="The shadows of participants a fund raiser for breast cancer are cast on a poster. A common antidepressant weakens or cancels the beneficial effects of a standard treatment for breast cancer, according to a study released Tuesday.(AFP/File/Jay Directo)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A common antidepressant weakens or cancels the beneficial effects of a standard treatment for breast cancer, according to a study released Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/hl_afp/healthdiseasecancerbreastserotonin"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265675303663-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=UW_N1SbhPdYExvTwu.Mnog--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="The shadows of participants a fund raiser for breast cancer are cast on a poster. A common antidepressant weakens or cancels the beneficial effects of a standard treatment for breast cancer, according to a study released Tuesday.(AFP/File/Jay Directo)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/hl_nm/us_cancer_breast_paxil nm/20100209/us_cancer_breast_paxil Reuters politics Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:04:12 GMT Reuters - The popular antidepressant drug Paxil may interfere with breast cancer treatments, making patients more likely to relapse and die, researchers in Canada reported on Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/hl_nm/us_breast_cancer nm/20100208/us_breast_cancer Reuters health Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:15:29 GMT Reuters - Only a small number of U.S. women at high risk of breast cancer have chosen to use the drug tamoxifen to lower that risk, according to a study published Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_he_me/eu_britain_cancer_care ap/20100208/eu_britain_cancer_care AP health Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:08:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_he_me/eu_britain_cancer_care"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.5f3725dcb5c44cd1a0e1ae419a566263.britain_health_brown_llp103.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=f1NtVJ6Z528w1wqqk91aLg--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="British Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivers a speech on social and personal care, in London, Monday Feb. 8, 2010. In a major pre-election speech, to the health think-tank the King's Fund, Brown will pledged a broad reform of community healthcare, giving people the option of chemotherapy and dialysis without having to travel to a clinic or hospital, and said that it would also be easier to access palliative care and care for the elderly at home.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, pool)" border="0" /></a>AP - You know an election is coming when British politicians suddenly promise sweeping improvements to the National Health Service, a simultaneous source of national pride and worry.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_he_me/eu_britain_cancer_care"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.5f3725dcb5c44cd1a0e1ae419a566263.britain_health_brown_llp103.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=f1NtVJ6Z528w1wqqk91aLg--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="photo" title="British Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivers a speech on social and personal care, in London, Monday Feb. 8, 2010. In a major pre-election speech, to the health think-tank the King's Fund, Brown will pledged a broad reform of community healthcare, giving people the option of chemotherapy and dialysis without having to travel to a clinic or hospital, and said that it would also be easier to access palliative care and care for the elderly at home.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, pool)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/hl_nm/us_health_soy nm/20100208/us_health_soy Reuters health Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:36:05 GMT Reuters - Men who don't smoke and eat a lot of soy may have a lower risk of lung cancer, according to a new study. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/hl_nm/us_cancer_bladder_medicare nm/20100208/us_cancer_bladder_medicare Reuters health Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:17:05 GMT Reuters - Medicare's move in 2005 to pay doctors to do bladder cancer surgery in their offices rather than in hospitals dramatically raised the number of procedures and overall health costs, U.S. researchers said on Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/hl_nm/us_cancer_pancreas_sodas nm/20100208/us_cancer_pancreas_sodas Reuters health Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:15:25 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/hl_nm/us_cancer_pancreas_sodas"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100208/i/r175871192.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=SsVrlqtwBoVlykyGjPeYNw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Tumor cells from the pancreas tainted with an immunocytochemical stain and magnified 400 times in an undated image. REUTERS/NCI/Handout" border="0" /></a>Reuters - People who drink two or more sweetened soft drinks a week have a much higher risk of pancreatic cancer, an unusual but deadly cancer, researchers reported on Monday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/hl_nm/us_cancer_pancreas_sodas"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100208/i/r175871192.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=SsVrlqtwBoVlykyGjPeYNw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Tumor cells from the pancreas tainted with an immunocytochemical stain and magnified 400 times in an undated image. REUTERS/NCI/Handout" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100207/hl_nm/us_astrazeneca_cancer nm/20100207/us_astrazeneca_cancer Reuters health Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:05:20 GMT Reuters - AstraZeneca has struck a deal with the commercial arm of a British charity to try and develop a new class of a "cancer metabolism" drugs. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100205/sc_livescience/tinybubblesdestroycancercells livescience/20100205/tinybubblesdestroycancercells LiveScience.com health Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:02:32 GMT LiveScience.com - Tiny bubbles can pack quite a punch - creating nanoscale explosions that destroy cancer cells. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100204/hl_nm/us_hormone_colon nm/20100204/us_hormone_colon Reuters health Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:19:06 GMT Reuters - Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can carry serious health risks, but a new study adds to evidence that menopausal women who use the hormones may have lower odds of developing colon cancer. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100204/hl_nm/us_healthcare_usa_cancer nm/20100204/us_healthcare_usa_cancer Reuters health Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:15:36 GMT Reuters - Changes to Medicare, the federal health plan for the elderly, may be damaging important aspects of cancer care in the United States, according to a study released on Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100204/hl_nm/us_japan_cancer nm/20100204/us_japan_cancer Reuters health Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:07:15 GMT Reuters - Researchers in Japan have identified 25 different spots on leukemia cells, each of which could be used to design a new drug to fight the disease. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100204/hl_hsn/prostatecancerdiagnosisraisessuiciderisk hsn/20100204/prostatecancerdiagnosisraisessuiciderisk HealthDay health Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:50:05 GMT HealthDay - TUESDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) -- A diagnosis of prostate cancer can be unnerving enough to up a man's odds for either suicide or fatal heart attack, new research indicates.