Merck & Co. stops its campaign to get state legislatures to order cervical cancer vaccinations for adolescent girls.
WESTFIELD - For the Cancer House of Hope, January marked a true celebration. Ten years have passed since Gaetana Aliotta, who herself had undergone treatment for breast cancer, realized there was a need for a place where cancer patients, survivors and families and friends could come.
AVAX Technologies, Inc. (OTCMarket:AVXT.OB) today announces it has executed a collaboration and production agreement with Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Inc.
DRESDEN Students at Tri-Valley High School wore the color pink as part of Pink Day, a one-day annual fund raiser that supports the American Cancer Society.
Treatments for childhood cancer have resulted in a current overall cure rate of over 70 percent. However, long-term survivors of childhood cancer are at a higher risk of developing a secondary cancer than the general population.
African and African American women are more likely to die of breast cancer than their white counterparts because they tend to get the disease before the menopause, suggests new research from the University of East Anglia and the Childrens Hospital Boston in collaboration with researchers in the US and Italy.
A jury in Philadelphia awarded $3 million to an Ohio woman who claimed a hormone replacement drug made by Wyeth caused her breast cancer. Jennie Nelson, 67, of Dayton was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001 after taking Prempro for five years to treat symptoms of menopause.
OGDEN - Jack Behnken, a Pennsylvania native who started a pet-food company in Utah, has died. He was 80. American Nutrition Inc. makes food for cats and dogs under labels such as Atta Boy and Atta Cat. Behnken, president and chief executive, died of cancer Sunday, just weeks after it was diagnosed, a son said. He started American Nutrition in 1972 - Animal Nutrition at the time - ...
TRENTON, N.J. Pediatricians, gynecologists and even health insurers all call Gardasil, the first vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, a big medical advance.
One of the leading minority breast cancer researchers in the country, Funmilayo (Funmi) I. Olopade, M.D., FACP a professor and researcher at the University of Chicago, gave a presentation this past Tuesday as part of Black History Month.