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Web Tool Helps Track or Treat Prostate Cancer
While up to half of prostate cancer cases are not life threatening, most patients choose to treat the disease with surgery or radiation. A new web-based program aims to help reduce unnecessary treatment.
A Son Honors His Mother Lost To Breast Cancer
Esmeralda Werbeck’s biggest fear was that she’d be forgotten – that no one would remember her. Her son has made sure that will never happen.
Living With a Once Deadly Leukemia
Chronic myeloid leukemia – CML – is a relatively rare blood cancer that’s diagnosed in about 5,000 Americans every year. It used to be a dire diagnosis with a poor outlook. Not anymore, though.
Breast Cancer Drug Gets Green Light for Lung Cancer
Since 2005, Abraxane (paclitaxel) has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat breast cancer. Now the drug can also be used for first-line treatment of advanced lung cancer.
Let’s Get Naked For Skin Cancer
Now, there is a simple checklist that anyone can follow to check for signs of skin cancer. Take your clothes off, grab a mirror and have a good look-see to stay healthy and cancer free!
5 Easy Ways to Reduce Your Breast Cancer Risks
We won’t be seeing NFL players wearing pink shoes, gloves, sweatbands, using pink towels and displaying pink ribbons on their helmets for another year now. Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2012 is over.
"The Great Masquerader" - Gallbladder Cancer
During a recent visit to The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, dailyRx News had the privileged opportunity of sitting down and talking with specialists in cancers that aren’t so common.
Lung Cancer Has a New Enemy
One of the most deadly illnesses current and past smokers can face is squamous cell lung cancer. Until now, though, no drugs have targeted the gene mutations that cause this disease
Talking to Kids About Cancer
Nick Gonzalez is a Child Life Specialist. He talks and plays with kids who have cancer every day.
These infants, toddlers, kids, adolescents and young adults come to the Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin, Texas to be treated - mostly for leukemia, or for brain tumors or soft tissue cancers.
An Intimate Cancer
Ladies, if you were asked what your vulva is, would you be able to say? Don’t tell anyone, but this health reporter could not have done so a while back.