Tag Archives: Cancer

Cancer symptoms: Signs the deadly disease is multiplying in the large bowel – full list

If cancer is diagnosed, treatment will depend on whether it’s colon or rectal cancer, and the stage of the cancer. The main treatment options for colon cancer are surgery and chemotherapy. Surgery In the early stages of colon cancer, the surgeon can remove the cancer from the bowel along a border of healthy tissue; this… Read More »

An emerging treatment option for men with recurring prostate cancer after radiation therapy

Prostate cancer is often a multifocal disease, meaning that several tumors can be present in different parts of gland at the same time. Not all of these tumors are equally problematic, however. And it’s increasingly thought that the tumor with the most aggressive features — called the index lesion — dictates how a man’s cancer… Read More »

Marlboro maker Altria asks FDA to spread the word that nicotine doesn’t cause cancer

A Marlboro cigarette. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Marlboro parent Altria is asking the Food and Drug Administration to help it spread the word that nicotine doesn’t cause cancer. CNBC on Thursday obtained a copy of a letter Altria sent to the FDA asking the agency to help get the message out about… Read More »

Biden says U.S. will seek to ‘end cancer as we know it’ after Covid pandemic

President Joe Biden said Friday that once the coronavirus pandemic has been defeated, his administration will target another deadly disease: cancer. “I want you to know that, once we beat Covid, we’re going to do everything we can to end cancer as we know it,” Biden said in a speech after touring Pfizer’s massive coronavirus… Read More »

Women with HIV have six-fold increase in risk of cervical cancer

Vaccination, screening and treatment could achieve elimination with a decade, say World Health Organization Women with HIV have a six-fold increase in the risk of cervical cancer compared to their HIV-negative peers, investigators report in The Lancet Global Health. They also found that globally 6% of all cases of cervical cancer are in women with… Read More »