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Swayze 'Thrilled' With Results in Cancer Battle

Apr 9, 2008 4:34 AM CDT

Swayze 'Thrilled' With Results in Cancer Battle

Star thanks fans, reveals 'excellent' response to treatment

(Newser) - Actor Patrick Swayze is enjoying an "excellent" response to treatment for pancreatic cancer—and is thankful to friends and fans for their support, he and his wife told People. The Dirty Dancing star plans to continue with the same treatment at a California hospital, his doctor said. Swayze announced...

Study: Many Can Safely Skip Chemo for Breast Cancer

Dec 14, 2007 4:02 AM CST

Study: Many Can Safely Skip Chemo for Breast Cancer

Gene test predicts risk of recurrence

(Newser) - Thousands of breast cancer patients could be spared the misery and expense of chemotherapy, or at least get a milder regimen than what's usually prescribed, according to a new study. A new genetic test that predicts women's risk of recurrence shows that up to 40% of patients with early stage...

Lab-Created Mice Resist Cancer

Nov 28, 2007 6:39 PM CST

Lab-Created Mice Resist Cancer

Enhanced activity of a certain gene produces selective cancer cell elimination

(Newser) - A mouse seemingly invulnerable to cancerous tumors has been engineered, Science Daily reports. Researchers at the University of Kentucky introduced a more active version of the Par-4 gene—which appears able to differentiate cancer cells from healthy ones, then kills them—into mouse embryos. They found that the enhanced mice...

Taxol Found Ineffective in Many Breast Cancers

Oct 11, 2007 11:09 AM CDT

Taxol Found Ineffective in Many Breast Cancers

Some women could be spared side effects

(Newser) - A widely prescribed chemotherapy drug isn't effective against the kind of breast cancer it's most commonly used to treat, new research has found. While Taxol worked well for women with overactive HER-2 genes, it didn't significantly help women with the most common form of the disease in which tumors are...

Cancer Patients Gain Fertility Hope

Jul 2, 2007 8:37 AM CDT

Cancer Patients Gain Fertility Hope

Eggs from girls as young as 5 can be frozen before chemotherapy

(Newser) - Prepubescent girls with cancer do not have to give up the prospect of parenthood because of the effects of chemotherapy. Cancer patients as young as 5 can have their eggs removed and frozen before treatment, preserving their fertility, according to research by Israeli scientists. With childhood cancer survival rates climbing,...

Post-Chemo Memory Loss Isn't All in
the Head

Apr 29, 2007 8:00 AM CDT

Post-Chemo Memory Loss Isn't All in the Head

Doctors catch onto "chemo brain"

(Newser) - Docs are finally cluing in to "chemo brain," the fuzzy-headed forgetfulness following treatment that cancer survivors have long suffered—and doctors long denied. The condition, suffered by roughly 15% of breast cancer survivors, refers to a laundry list of memory-loss issues that researchers think result from high levels...