Neuroblastoma News
The daily neuroblastoma cancer news is a unique cancer news service that evaluates all aspects of neuroblastoma cancer research and reports on the developments that are most important to cancer patients and health care providers. The daily cancer news provides information about emerging options for neuroblastoma cancer prevention, early detection and neuroblastoma cancer treatment, as well as advances in supportive care and personalized medicine. Supportive care improves quality of life by making neuroblastoma cancer treatment more tolerable, and personalized medicine offers the potential for improved treatment outcomes by using specific characteristics of the patient or the cancer to guide cancer treatment decisions. In addition, interested individuals can search the Cancer Consultants Neuroblastoma Cancer News Archives to find the results of the cancer studies that led to the care they have been offered.
Recent Neuroblastoma News
Cancer Deaths on the Decline (February 11, 2013)
Overall cancer death rates continue to decline in both men and women and across major ethnic and racial groups, according to the annual Status of Cancer report published in the Journal of the National... Continue Reading
The targeted agent Xalkori® (crizotinib) appears to drastically reduce the size of tumors in children with refractory anaplastic large cell lymphoma, according to the results of a phase I study that will... Continue Reading
Two million cancer cases each year—or roughly 16 percent of cancers worldwide—are the result of preventable and treatable infections such as human papillomavirus (HPV) and Hepatitis C (HCV), according... Continue Reading
A combined analysis of 51 randomized trials found that daily aspirin use reduces the risk of new cancer diagnoses as well as the risk of cancer death. These results were published in The Lancet. A growing... Continue Reading
Live Web Chat with Barrie R. Cassileth, PhD, Chief, Integrative Medicine Service; Laurance S. Rockefeller Chair Integrative Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), click here for Dr.... Continue Reading
According to a study presented at the 2011 European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress, children born to women who received chemotherapy during pregnancy do not appear to have an increased risk of heart... Continue Reading
A large proportion of cancer patients do not enroll in clinical trials, and those who do participate may not adequately represent age groups, cancer stages, cancer types, and racial and ethnic groups.... Continue Reading
People who are at high risk of cancer as a result of their family history may be advised to undergo earlier or more intensive cancer screening. Because family history of cancer can change over time, it’s... Continue Reading
Children who survive cancer have an increased risk of developing cancer later in life. These findings were recently reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. The good news about childhood cancer is... Continue Reading
In the most recent version of the National Toxicology Program’s Report on Carcinogens, two new substances have been classified as “known human carcinogens” and six others have been classified as... Continue Reading
