Black women in particular need to be more aware of the symptoms of uterine cancer to stem the rise in the incidence and mortality rates of uterine cancer in the US, warn CDC experts. Medscape Medical News
Related topics: Cancer, Oncology, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention
THURSDAY, Dec. 6, 2018 -- The incidence of uterine cancer and uterine cancer deaths has increased since 1999, according to research published in the Dec. 7 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly...
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(MedPage Today) -- Bariatric surgery appeared to normalize neoplastic endometrium in some women
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Women with ovarian or endometrial cancer who followed the ketogenic diet for 12 weeks lost more body fat and had lower insulin levels compared to those who followed the low-fat diet recommended by the American Cancer Society, according to a new...
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An expedited short-term analysis finds no increased risk for cancer in patients who took NDMA-contaminated valsartan, but uncertainty remains for colorectal and uterine cancer. The EMA weighs in. Medscape Medical News
Related topics: Cancer, Colon Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, Oncology
TUESDAY, Aug. 14, 2018 -- Most women with postmenopausal bleeding (PMB) will not be diagnosed with endometrial cancer, according to a review published online Aug. 6 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Megan A. Clarke, Ph.D., from the National Cancer...
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A 38-year-old woman is evaluated in follow-up after recent surgery for endometrial cancer. Her family history is significant for colon...
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Flight attendants had increased rates of breast, uterine, cervical, gastrointestinal, skin and thyroid cancers.
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(MedPage Today) -- Call for careful monitoring, risk management for up to 10 years after cancer diagnosis
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WEDNESDAY, April 18, 2018 -- For patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)/neu-positive uterine serous carcinoma, adding intravenous trastuzumab to treatment with carboplatin-paclitaxel is associated with increased...
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Dr. Alesandro Santin Discusses Treatment for Endometrial Cancer
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A California court ruling this week that a cancer warning label should be required on coffee has left the scientific community puzzled. There is plenty of research showing that coffee doesn’t cause cancer, and can actually prevent liver and...
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(MedPage Today) -- Activity in resistant ovarian, mutated endometrial cancers
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Cervical fluid samples gathered during routine Papanicolaou (Pap) tests are the basis of a new screening test for endometrial and ovarian cancers.
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New research from Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah (U of U) indicates steroid and hormone receptors are simultaneously active in many endometrial cancer tissues. The findings, published today in the journal Cell Reports,...
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The effect is especially evident in smokers, the obese and those who exercise infrequently.
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Researchers reveal how nanoparticles filled with two anti-cancer drugs targeted and killed tumor cells in mice with aggressive endometrial cancer.
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Some scientists have suspected that the most common form of ovarian cancer may originate in the fallopian tubes, the thin fibrous tunnels that connect the ovaries to the uterus. Now, results of a study of nine women suggest that the genomic roots of...
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There are several types of gynecologic cancers that affect the female reproductive system, including endometrial, ovarian, cervical, vaginal and vulvar cancer.
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In a new phase III trial report from the National Clinical Trial Network group, NRG Oncology, recurrence-free and overall survival rates for women with stage I-II high-risk endometrial cancer were not superior following vaginal cuff brachytherapy...
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