Though STD awareness should be an all-year campaign, April was STD Awareness Month. When I read and think STD, the first thing that comes to my mind is human papilloma virus (HPV) and cervical cancer....

© +lyn Daily intake of aspirin may lower women's risk of developing estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancers only and not in other types. Around 75% of breast cancers are estrogen...

April will be over soon, but i still would like to mention that April is Cancer Control Month. © pingnews.com Over at b5media's Health and Wellness Channel, the theme day is all about cancer....

The American Cancer Society (ACS) has a got a service that offers free temporary housing for cancer patients that need to travel away from home to get their cancer treatments. The said service is Hope...

The American Cancer Society (ACS) has launched an online video community called SharingHope.tv. A lot like YouTube, but the essence is that, it is a venue where cancer patients, survivors and their...

Are you a health blogger? If not, maybe you know someone who is. In that case you might wanna checkout Hart-Empire-Network's post needing two bloggers: one for Battling Cancer and one for Battling...

According to health experts, Merck's novel vaccine Gardasil for the prevention of cervical caner in young girls - is gaining the reputation of being the most painful of childhood shots. Health...

A signaling protein that is key to prostate cancer cell growth is turned on in nearly all recurrent prostate cancers that are resistant to hormone therapy - Stat5 - has been found by scientists at...

Such were the highly positive results reported from the first nationwide clinical study showing the benefits of an antiangiogenic agent in breast cancer therapy. The study enrolled 722 women with...

The Fentanyl Skin Patch is a transdermal system, an adhesive patch that delivers a potent pain medicine through the skin. Containing the opioid fentanyl (a potent narcotic) was approved by the FDA in...

A new light-activated platinum-based compound that is up to 80 times more powerful than other platinum-based anti-cancer drugs and which can use "light activation" to kill cancer cells in...

I have always said that when you do not have enough money or have not enough insurance for health care, you'll just die of whatever disease you have before you'll be able to afford the best...

A combination of lapatinib - a targeted therapy - and capecitabine - a chemotherapy agent - has been found to shrink metastatic brain tumors by at least 50 percent in one-fifth of patients with...

At least according to a new study led by Duke University Medical Center researchers. A test for four blood proteins may provide a less-invasive follow-up for patients who have suspicious lesions on...

Here again is another study that states racial differences with regards to cancer... Analysis by Dr. Liana Castel of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and colleagues found that...

Also known as cryotherapy or cryosurgery - cryoablation - is a procedure in which extreme cold is applied to the tumor using a cryoprobe (a hollow needle-like device filled with argon gas) - the gas...

According to scientists from at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, CBD (a compound from Cannabis Sativa) may prove to be effective at helping stop the spread of breast cancer...

According to researchers at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, results from two large, international clinical trials showed that with the oral drug lenalidomide...

Originally approved in 2005 for the treatment of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (a form of kidney cancer) - Nexavar® (sorafenib) has recently been approved by the FDA for use in...