SAN ANTONIO -- The annual incidence of breast cancer has fallen drastically, coinciding with the end of the hormone replacement therapy era, according to SEER data from the National Cancer Institute. After a steady rise during the past 20 years, the incidence dropped 7% from 2002 to 2003, reported investigators at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. The absolute reduction could be as many as 14,000 breast cancer cases per year.
SAN ANTONIO -- The annual incidence of breast cancer has fallen drastically, coinciding with the end of the hormone replacement therapy era, according to SEER data from the National Cancer Institute. After a steady rise during the past 20 years, the incidence dropped 7% from 2002 to 2003, reported investigators at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. The absolute reduction could be as many as 14,000 breast cancer cases per year.
ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Acting with uncommon speed, the FDA today approved Celebrex for the pain of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis-less than a month after an advisory committee recommended that it do so.
ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Acting with uncommon speed, the FDA today approved Celebrex for the pain of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis-less than a month after an advisory committee recommended that it do so.
NEW YORK -- Community-based interventionalists and surgeons can be trained to perform catheter-based carotid stenting in high-risk patients just as well as those who tested the devices in the studies that led to FDA approvals, researchers reported.
NEW YORK -- Community-based interventionalists and surgeons can be trained to perform catheter-based carotid stenting in high-risk patients just as well as those who tested the devices in the studies that led to FDA approvals, researchers reported.
SAN ANTONIO -- Breast cancer patients may get similar benefit with less toxicity from adjuvant chemotherapy containing Taxotere and Herceptin but not the cardiotoxic anthracycline Adriamycin, researchers said.
SAN ANTONIO -- Breast cancer patients may get similar benefit with less toxicity from adjuvant chemotherapy containing Taxotere and Herceptin but not the cardiotoxic anthracycline Adriamycin, researchers said.
LUND, Sweden -- Men are more likely than women to achieve rheumatoid arthritis remission, researchers here have found.
LUND, Sweden -- Men are more likely than women to achieve rheumatoid arthritis remission, researchers here have found.
ROCKFORD, Ill. -- Even experienced gastroenterologists may miss neoplastic lesions if they hurry through screening colonoscopies, according to a small study here.
ROCKFORD, Ill. -- Even experienced gastroenterologists may miss neoplastic lesions if they hurry through screening colonoscopies, according to a small study here.
ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Health care costs are gobbling up more family income than they did a decade ago, according to a report by federal researchers.
ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Health care costs are gobbling up more family income than they did a decade ago, according to a report by federal researchers.
PHILADELPHIA -- Performance measures for hospitals adopted by Medicare and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations may only be loosely related to patient outcomes.
PHILADELPHIA -- Performance measures for hospitals adopted by Medicare and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations may only be loosely related to patient outcomes.
ORLANDO -- For preventing recurrent DVT, once-weekly idraparinux, an investigational synthetic oligosaccharide, was comparable to the combination of low-molecular-weight heparin and a daily vitamin K antagonist, Dutch researchers reported here.
ORLANDO -- For some patients with acute myeloid leukemia, an unfavorable prognostic marker could mean a better response to allogeneic stem cell transplantation, a German-Austrian research team reported here.
PHILADELPHIA -- For Medicare-age prostate cancer patients, action extends survival better than observation, according to investigators here.
PHILADELPHIA -- For Medicare-age prostate cancer patients, action extends survival better than observation, according to investigators here.