Insurance Company Cuts Rates For Breast Cancer Patients Oct 5, 2005
More than 211,000 cases of breast cancer among women in the United States are expected this year, and more than 40,000 are expected to die, according to the National Cancer Institute. Copyright 2005 by. (NBC4. CA)
US Cancer Death Rates Keep Falling Oct 5, 2005
Lung cancer remains the leading cancer killer for both sexes, according to the Annual Report to the Nation, a collaborative effort by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Cancer Society and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries ... The report appears in the Oct. 5 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. (Forbes)
US Cancer Death Rate Dropping Oct 5, 2005
That s progress, write the researchers in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute ... The annual report is a joint project of the American Cancer Society, the CDC, the National Cancer Institute, and the North American Association of Cancer Registries ... Before that, reported cancer deaths had risen for more than 60 years, write the National Cancer Institute s Brenda Edwards, PhD, and colleagues. (FOX News)
Shands, UF plan cancer hospital Oct 5, 2005
Shands, UF announce plans for cancer hospital - OrlandoSentinel. Blog: Roger Roy with the troops in Afghanistan. (Orlando Sentinel)
Other highlights in the October 5 JNCI Oct 5, 2005
Note: The Journal of the National Cancer Institute is published by Oxford University Press and is not affiliated with the National Cancer Institute. Attribution to the Journal of the National Cancer Institute is requested in all news coverage. (EurekAlert!)
Long-term Smoking Is Associated With Up To 40 Percent Increased Risk Of Breast Cancer Oct 5, 2005
The population-based case-control study, funded by the National Cancer Institute, involved nearly 2,000 older women in the Seattle-Puget Sound metropolitan area. Half of the women had a history of breast cancer and half served as a healthy control, or comparison, group. (Science Daily)
Protein Design Labs Elects Samuel Broder, M.D. to Board of Directors Oct 5, 2005
Dr. Broder is Chief Medical Officer at Celera Genomics, former NCI Director ... Dr. Broder began his research career in the Metabolism Branch of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 1972 ... In 1989, President Ronald Reagan named Dr. Broder Director of the NCI. Under his leadership, the NCI initiated a number of important large-scale human trials in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. (Yahoo Finance -- Biotechnology & Drugs)
Red Meat Diet May Raise Pancreatic Cancer Risk Oct 5, 2005
The results appear in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute ... SOURCES: Nthlings, U. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Oct. 5, 2005; vol 97: pp 1458-1465 ... News release, Journal of the National Cancer Institute. (Fox News -- Headlines)
Common Gene Variant May Help Spur Cancer (HealthDay) Oct 5, 2005
Common Gene Variant May Help Spur Cancer - Yahoo. Secondary Navigation. (RSS - Yahoo News - Health)
Breast cancer rates increase, but number of deaths falls Oct 5, 2005
The report is published today in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute ... The growth in breast cancer diagnoses is probably too great to be caused solely by the wider use of screening mammograms, says Brenda Edwards, associate director of surveillance research programs at the National Cancer Institute ... Source: Journal of the National Cancer Institute. (USA Today -- National)
Business notebook Oct 5, 2005
Von Eschenbach is likely to resume his position as director of the National Cancer Institute when President Bush names a permanent successor to Lester Crawford, who resigned last month, Leavitt said. But not antitrust: launched what it called its biggest promotion ever, reprising a version of its Monopoly game for a third straight year with partner. (Boston Globe -- Business)
