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New Heart Scans Pose Small Cancer Risk by Medline Plus Posted Wed 01 Dec 2010 5:31pm population, the lifetime risk of developing cancer from one scan is small. Depending on the specific type of scan, there would be an estimated 2 to 25... Wednesday, December 1, 2010 By Lynne Peeples NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The added cancer risk Read on »

Small bowel cancer by Dr. Anshu Gupta Patient Expert

Posted Tue 02 Jun 2009 4:39pm lymphoma. Causes of small bowel cancer The cause of most small bowel cancers is unknown. However, some people with non-malignant (non-cancerous) bowel conditions may... to destroy cancer cells while doing as little harm as possible to normal cells. It is not commonly used in the treatment of small bowel cancers. However, it may be used following Read on »

PET in small bowel cancer by Mark Levin Posted Fri 31 Jul 2009 11:41am The small bowel represents approximately 75% of the length of the overall GI tract and contains 90% of the gastrointestinal tract surface area but < 5% of GI cancers occur in the small bowel. 1997 epidemiologic data from the United States demonstrated 131,200 large bowel cancers, 22,400 stomach cancers but only 4,900 small bowel cancers. PET scan Read on »

Saturated Fat Linked to Small Intestine Cancer... by DiseaseProof Medical Doctor

Posted Mon 17 Nov 2008 4:26am A new study in Cancer Research claims eating foods high in saturated fat, like red meat, may heighten the risk of cancer in the small intestine. HealthDay News Reports... meat and fat intake and cancer of the small intestine. During the study, 60 adenocarcinomas and 80 carcinoid tumors of the small intestine were diagnosed among the participants Read on »

“Huge leap” forward is just a small step for cancer vaccine research by Cancer Research UK Patient Expert

Posted Tue 18 May 2010 12:00am Headlines can be misleading This weekend, newspaper headlines announced that “Cancer Scientists hail ‘huge’ leap towards jab that targets tumours” and “’Holy Grail’ cancer vaccine that blasts tumours in weeks hailed as huge leap in fighting disease” . Not only are these headlines overhyped and misleading, but the stories themselves Read on »

Gefitinib for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Trial by Cancer.gov Posted Tue 22 Feb 2011 11:14pm ... Read on »

Chemotherapy and Twice-Daily Radiation Improves Small Cell Lung Cancer Survival by Cancer.gov Posted Tue 22 Feb 2011 11:11pm ... Read on »

New study links meat to cancer of small intestine by Yusuf Posted Sun 30 Nov 2008 12:00am linked to cancers of the small intestine. This study show yet again what natural health advocates have said for years ago about eating red meat and diets high in animal fats... suggests eating diets high in red meat, animails and other saturated fats is associated cancer of the small intestine as well – a kind of cancer that has been steadily increasing Read on »

Single agent Taxol for relapsed small cell lung cancer by Mark Levin Posted Fri 28 May 2010 4:10pm Small cell lung cancer that progresses after first line chemotherapy has a poor prognosis. A variety of treatments are available, among them single agent Taxol.The... small cell lung cancer.Anticancer Res. 2006 Jan-Feb;26(1B):777-81. Graziano SL, Herndon JE 2nd, Socinski MA, Wang X, Watson D, Vokes E, Green MR; Cancer and Leukemia Group Read on »

New therapeutic approaches for small cell lung cancer by Mark Pool, MD Posted Sun 13 Dec 2009 12:00am . Hurwitz J, McCoy F, Scullin P, Fennell D. New advances in the second-line treatment of small cell lung cancer. Oncologist. 2009;14(10):986-994. ... I am currently working on a project with our lung cancer research group at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago in which we are looking at expression Read on »