A new report published today estimates a 5% increase in prostate cancer deaths in 2013 and signal a new trend of fewer men being diagnosed with the disease. Compared to a 15% decrease in prostate cancer deaths in 2012, this year's increase could be attributed to men with aggressive forms of the disease forgoing early detection.

"We must remain vigilant in the fight to end prostate cancer by increasing research funding, raising awareness and education, and continuing to test…

About 5% of all breast cancers are attributed to an inherited mutation in one of two cancer susceptibility genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2. Researchers how now developed a new multiple gene expression profile test was able to predict the presence of either BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations in otherwise healthy women carrying the mutations, according to data published in Cancer Prevention Research, a…

Aspirin, the everyday drug taken by countless people around the world to ward off pain and reduce their risk of developing heart disease, may have a new trick up its sleeve – preventing cancer. A growing body of evidence suggests that taking aspirin may reduce an individual's chances of developing colorectal cancer and perhaps other malignancies, but whether that evidence is strong enough to outweigh the risks of prescribing it to millions of healthy people is the subject of…

A study that used a Utah genealogic database and the Utah Cancer Registry to examine the relationship between Parkinson disease and cancer suggests an increased risk of prostate cancer and melanoma in patients with Parkinson disease and their relatives.

According to a report published Online…

A study published in the online edition of the July 30, 2012 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO) explores the long-term benefits of human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing alone, cytology (Pap testing), and combinations of the two, to predict cervical precancerous disease and invasive cervical cancer risk. Based on the outcome, the researchers concluded that primary…

Documenting a cancer patient’s family history (CFH) of cancer is important in establishing risk for primary and secondary cancer and identifying individuals who may be candidates for genetic counseling and genetic testing. Prior studies have demonstrated low rates of family history documentation and low referral rates for genetic counseling and genetic testing.



In 2011, the American Society for Clinical Oncology's (…

Postmenopausal women who were overweight or obese and lost at least 5% of their body weight had a measurable reduction in markers of inflammation, according to a study published in the May 1, 2012 edition of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research (…

A summary of a study by Dutch investigators published online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology reported that women who received CMF chemotherapy, a combination regimen including the drugs Cyclophosphamide,…

While more men are being diagnosed with the prostate cancer, fewer are dying from the disease. Data from the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries and the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that in 2012, incidence rates of prostate cancer will increase slightly, while death rates from the disease will decrease. In 2011, 33,720 men died from the disease,…

A Danish national fast track system for cancer patients reduced the waiting time between a patient’s initial meeting with a health care provider and their first treatment by four weeks when comparing 2010 to 2002, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, held from January 26-28, 2012 in the Biltmore, Phoenix, Arizona.



Denmark’s health care system is state run. Health care services are funded by taxes with no…

While it is well established that men get cancer more than women, and sometimes at considerably higher rates, few scientists have examined why. In an article published this month in the online version of the European Journal of Epidemiology, a group of American and Swedish researchers, including the Cancer Prevention Institute of California (CPIC),…

Low-educated and immigrant women run a lower risk of breast cancer occurrence than highly educated women and women born in Sweden. However, the risk of dying from breast cancer is higher for those low-educated and immigrant women that do get the diagnose - a development that has occurred in Sweden during the last ten years. This according to a new study from the Karolinska Institutet based on the records of some 5 million women between 1961 and 2007.…

Women with breast cancer who take antiestrogen supplements may be decreasing their risk for melanoma, according to a study published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.



Christine Bouchardy, M.D., Ph.D., professor at the University of Geneva and head of the Geneva Cancer Registry, and colleagues analyzed data from 7,360 women who had breast cancer between 1980 and 2005. About half (54%) of these women…

Women with breast cancer who take antiestrogen supplements may be decreasing their risk for melanoma, according to a study published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.



Christine Bouchardy, M.D., Ph.D., professor at the University of Geneva and head of the Geneva Cancer Registry, and colleagues analyzed data from 7,360 women who had breast cancer between 1980 and 2005. About half (54%) of these women…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has invited Amgen to participate in a meeting of the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) on Feb. 8, 2012 to discuss the supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for denosumab (XGEVA®) to treat men with castration-resistant…

Polysaccharide starch or amylum is a carbohydrate consisting of a large number of glucose units joined together by glycosidic bonds produced by all green plants as an energy store. It is the most common carbohydrate in the human diet and in staple foods as potatoes, wheat, maize (corn), rice, oats, barley and cassava. Researchers have linked increased starch intake to a greater risk for breast cancer recurrence, according to results presented at the 2011 CTRC-AACR…

As many as 49,000 cases of breast cancer and 43,000 cases of colon cancer occurring in the U.S. every year are linked to a lack of physical activity, according to estimates presented today at the American Institute for Cancer Research annual conference. The estimate underscores the critical role that both activity and inactivity play in the development of specific cancers.



At the AICR Annual Research…

A population-based analysis of more than 3,000 families including women with breast cancer, published online October 31, 2011, in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, a tri-monthly peer-reviewed journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), found that close relatives of women who carry mutations in a BRCA gene – but who themselves do not have such genetic…

Drinking plenty of fluids may provide men with some protection against bladder cancer, according to a study presented at the 10th AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research, held in Boston, Massachusetts (USA), Oct. 22-25, 2011.



Although the study did not determine why increased fluid intake might…

Postmenopausal women who reported having used nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for at least 10 years at the time of enrollment in the Women’s Health Initiative study had a lower risk for death from colorectal cancer compared with women who reported no use of these drugs at enrollment, according to data presented at the 10th AACR International Conference on…