Cancer

The dreaded question: Did he smoke?

I'm sitting between two of my friends on a bench at the neighborhood playground when one mentions her aunt recently died of lung cancer. I know what's coming next, as surely as I know my kids will boomerang back toward me from the monkey bars, begging for money, when they hear the jingle of the ice ...

New approach would use tobacco to fight cancer

A personalized vaccine made using tobacco plants — normally associated with causing cancer rather than helping cure it — could aid people with lymphoma in fighting the disease, U.S. researchers said on Monday. The treatment, which would vaccinate cancer patients against their own tumor cells, is ...

Prostate cancer therapy tied to cognitive decline

Up to 69 percent of men who receive hormone deprivation therapy for prostate cancer will experience some degree of cognitive impairment, such as in the ability to concentrate, a review of published data suggests. Men with recurrent or advanced prostate cancer may be put on hormone therapy to block ...

Prostate cancer drugs no help for some elderly

A prostate cancer study that could change practice found that widely used hormone-blocking drugs did not improve survival chances for older men whose disease hadn't spread. In fact, men given the drugs alone were slightly more likely to die of prostate cancer during the next six years than men who ....