The Cancer Web Report, What's New In Cancer Volume 3, 1997

• Cancer News
  • Colon, Prostate, and Breast Cancer Prevention: Screening Guidlines Released
• Brain Cancer
  • Herpes viruses as potential new treatment for human brain tumors
• Breast Cancer
  • Low-fat diet reduces mammographic feature considered a risk factor for breast cancer, but a genetic factor is also involved
  • Adding chemotherapy to tamoxifen improves survival in postmenopausal women with node-positive disease
  • Protection against the cardiac damage caused by doxorubicin
  • Sexual problems in breast cancer patients
• Cancer in General
  • Socioeconomic status and cancer survival
• Childhood Cancers
  • Side effects on the heart in children receiving anthracycline (doxorubicin and daunorubicin) chemotherapy
• Colorectal Cancer
  • Preoperative radiotherapy for rectal cancer
  • Treatment of colorectal cancer liver metastases by direct chemotherapy infusions into the liver’s blood supply
  • Selenium and colon cancer prevention, preclinical trial suggests new compounds may be effective
  • Timing of radioimmunotherapy and external beam radiotherapy
• Hematologic (Blood) Malignancies
  • BEACOPP, a new effective treatment for patients with advanced Hodgkin’s disease
  • Stem-cell or bone-marrow transplantation, still not clear which is superior
• Kidney Cancer
  • Potential new radiolabeled antibody treatment for renal cell cancer
• Ovarian Cancer
  • Early study shows promise for high-dose chemotherapy with stem-cell transplantation
  • BRCA1 mutations, just how common are they in patients with ovarian cancer?
• Pancreatic Cancer
  • Ultrasound-guided biopsy procedure for pancreatic cancer
• Prostate Cancer
  • Predictive value of preoperative PSA for patients having prostatectomies
  • Family history of prostate cancer may predict a more aggressive disease
  • A new combination chemotherapy treatment for advanced prostate cancer
• Skin Cancer
  • Melanoma in psoriasis patients treated with Psoralen and PUVA
• Testicular Germ Cell Cancer
  • Treatment of brain metastases in patients with testicular cancer
  • Decision-making about whether to use surgery after chemotherapy in patients with disseminated nonseminomatous germ cell tumors
  • Sexuality and fertility in long-term survivors of testicular cancer

• Cancer News
  • The Breast Cancer Mammography Debate
  • Value of Breast Self Examination
  • Prostate Cancer in African Americans
  • Pap Smear Sensitivity Concerns
  • SV40 Monkey Virus DNA in Human Cancers
• Bladder Cancer
  • A potential new test for bladder cancer?
  • Combined treatment as effective as removing the bladder
• Breast Cancer
  • Body weight and its implications for breast cancer in post-menopausal women
  • Increased bone mass, an indicator of incresed risk of breast cancer
  • Additional radiation boost improves results of conservative breast surgery
  • How to treat breast cancer that is not palpable but produces nipple discharge?
  • Hormone disrupting chemicals and breast cancer
• Cancer in General
  • Cancer in twins
  • Megestrol for weight loss in cancer and AIDS patients, how valuable is it?
• Childhood Cancers
  • A useful indicator of prognosis, N-myc, in neuroblastoma
• Colorectal Cancer
  • A sensitive new test marker for metastatic colorectal cancer?
  • A first step towards a colorectal cancer vaccine?
  • Surgical removal of liver metastases from colorectal cancer
  • Rectal cancer, men and women really are different!
• Hematologic Cancer
  • New steroids with a potential dual role for drug-resistant lymphomas
  • Mitogauzone as chemotherapy for AIDS-related lymphomas
  • Autologous bone marrow transplantation advantageous in poor-risk Hodgkin's disease
  • Cladribine for hairy-cell leukemia
• Lung Cancer
  • Promising chemotherapy for non-small-cell lung cancer
  • Choosing chemotherapy combinations based on consideration of drug resistance
• Ovarian Cancer
  • Second-look laparotomy, its value and substitutions for it
  • Doxorubicin formulated in liposomes as active low-toxicity treatment for platinum-resistant ovarian cancer
• Prostate Cancer
  • The larger you are the greater the risk?
  • Androgen suppression with Zoladex improves response in patients treated with radiotherapy

• Breast Cancer
• Cancer in General
• Cervix Cancer
• Childhood Cancers
• Colorectal Cancer
• Head and Neck Cancer
• Hematologic Cancer
• Lung Cancer
• Ovarian Cancer
• Prostate Cancer

• Breast Cancer
• Cancer in General
• Cervix Cancer
• Childhood Cancers
• Colorectal Cancer
• Head and Neck Cancer
• Hematologic Cancer
• Lung Cancer
• Ovarian Cancer
• Prostate Cancer
• Testicular Cancer