Editorial Comment: Drugs and value - Financial Times
The decision by the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice), the UK s medicines advisory body, to reject several new cancer treatments is a warning to drug companies and healthcare systems alike. Both need to adapt. Nice barred
Teen cancer victim visits Rays clubhouse - St. Petersburg Times
PITTSBURGH Manager Joe Maddon may have found another motto after meeting his special guest Saturday. Last week, Maddon was in his Fort Lauderdale hotel room when he saw an ESPN segment on John Challis , a Pittsburgh area teen who had an
Baby to be born free of breast cancer after embryo screening - Times Online
A woman has conceived Britain s first baby guaranteed to be free from hereditary breast cancer. Doctors screened out from the woman s embryos an inherited gene that would have left the baby with a greater than 50% chance of developing the cancer
Faulty DNA Repair May Increase Lung Cancer Risk In Nonsmokers - Medical News Today
People who have never smoked but whose cells cannot efficiently repair environmental insults to DNA are at higher risk of developing lung cancer than those with effective genomic repair capability, according to researchers from the Department of
Non-smoking cancer patients may have a genetic link to cancer. - Denver Post
For men and women who do not smoke, the risk of getting lung cancer may be heavily influenced by their family history of the disease. Researchers from The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center looked at the incidence of lung cancer in 2,465
Viruses used for good in cancer-killing experiments - Detroit Free Press
WASHINGTON — Viruses aren’t always the bad guys. Sure, they can cause colds, measles, AIDS and other miseries. But with some tinkering, these tiny organisms may become a new and better way to treat cancer. In the last few years, scientists have been