Oral Cancer News

Smokeless, not safe

Oral Cancer Foundation News Team — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:28:14 +0000

Source: www.sltrib.com Author: Tribune editorial Tobacco-product marketers face an uncommon business problem: They have to lure new customers to replace the nearly half-million Americans who are killed by their products each year. These folks are smart or, should we say, devious. They know that some people never start smoking simply because they don’t like the smell on their [...]

Medicines to deter some cancers are not taken

Oral Cancer Foundation News Team — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:23:01 +0000

Source: www.nytimes.com Author: Gina Kolata Many Americans do not think twice about taking medicines to prevent heart disease and stroke. But cancer is different. Much of what Americans do in the name of warding off cancer has not been shown to matter, and some things are actually harmful. Yet the few medicines proved to deter cancer [...]

Mouth is indicator of overall health, says dental school professor

Oral Cancer Foundation News Team — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:11:41 +0000

Source: www.sciencedaily.com Author: staff One day in medical clinics, the big picture of a patient’s state of health may be found in little pictures from the mouth, says Li Mao, MD, a new professor at the University of Maryland Dental School. The mouth or oral cavity area is an excellent indicator of the whole body’s health, says Mao, [...]

Advances in radiation therapy enable doctors to improve the quality of treatments for patients with head and neck cancer

Oral Cancer Foundation News Team — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:30:22 +0000

Source: www.prnewswire.com Author: press release Noted clinical experts detail recent developments at the annual ASTRO meeting in Chicago Clinical studies suggest that advanced treatments like intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) are enabling radiation oncologists to enhance post-treatment health-related quality of life for patients with head and neck cancer. In an educational session for radiotherapy professionals, delivered [...]

U.S. smoking rates remain steady, but vary widely by state

Oral Cancer Foundation News Team — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:53:12 +0000

Source: Medical News Author: John Gever National rates of cigarette smoking showed little change in 2008 from a year earlier, the CDC reported, though states vary widely both in rates of current smoking and exposures of nonsmokers to secondhand smoke. Some 20.6% of Americans were current smokers in 2008 (95% CI 19.9% to 21.4%), not significantly different from [...]

Brachial plexus injury may be underreported following radiation therapy in patients with head and neck cancer

Oral Cancer Foundation News Team — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:12:24 +0000

Source: www.docguide.com Author: John Otrompke Radiation therapy for head and neck cancer may cause an injury to the brachial plexus nerve network in as many as 20% of patients, researchers stated here at the American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) 51st Annual Meeting. The incidence of the condition, characterised by numbness in the arms, inability [...]

Chemo treatments lengthen lives for head, neck cancer patients

Oral Cancer Foundation News Team — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:29:36 +0000

Source: www.privatemdlabs.com Author: Brendan Missett Patients with head and neck cancer receiving a combined treatment of chemotherapy and radiation may live 2.1 years longer than those treated only with radiotherapy, new research suggests. The study, published in the October 27 issue of The Lancet Oncology, separated 966 patients with advanced head and neck cancer into four treatment [...]

Access Pharmaceuticals provides update on MuGard commercial launch in North America

Oral Cancer Foundation News Team — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:29:14 +0000

Source: money.cnn.com Author: press release Access Pharmaceuticals, Inc., today provided an update on its North American commercial launch of MuGard, an FDA approved treatment for oral mucositis, a debilitating side effect of radiation treatment and chemotherapy. Access intends to commercially launch MuGard in North America in the first quarter of 2010. Key strategic items pertaining to the [...]

National Comprehensive Cancer Network receives research grant to evaluate pralatrexate in solid tumors and hematologic malignancies

Oral Cancer Foundation News Team — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:03:52 +0000

Source; au.sys-con.com Author: PRNewswire press release The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) has been awarded a research grant from Allos Therapeutics, Inc. to support clinical studies of pralatrexate (FOLOTYN(TM), Allos Therapeutics, Inc.) in the treatment of select hematologic malignancies and solid tumors. Pralatrexate was recently approved by the FDA to treat patients with relapsed or refractory [...]

Intensity-modulated radiation offers treatment advantages over conventional therapy for head and neck cancer

Oral Cancer Foundation News Team — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:45:27 +0000

Source: www.docguide.com Author: John Otrompke Patients treated with simultaneously integrated boost treatment using intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) experience better overall survival, disease-free survival, and local recurrence rates, as well as decreased dermatitis and better postoperative salivary function that those treated with conventional radiation. “IMRT treatment was described as ‘boosted’ because we use 2 different doses in the same [...]

Weekly radiation of more than 10 gy improves local control in head and neck cancer patients

Oral Cancer Foundation News Team — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:50:14 +0000

Source: www.docguide.com Author: John Otrompke Patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma who receive an average weekly fractionated radiation dose of more than 10 gy experience significantly better local control at 2 years, unless they are receiving chemotherapy at the same time, according to a study presented here at the American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and [...]

HPV vaccine clears viral infection and may reduce cancerous lesions

Oral Cancer Foundation News Team — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:37:37 +0000

Source: www.newswise.com Author: staff Breakthrough study reports complete and partial remissions following vaccination A new vaccine designed to stimulate an immune response against a cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV-16) can eliminate chronic infection by the virus and may cause regression of precancerous genital lesions in women who receive the vaccine. According to a report published in the November 5 [...]

Report highlights cancer advances

Oral Cancer Foundation News Team — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:08:06 +0000

Source: www.medpagetoday.com Author: Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today As the war on cancer enters its fifth decade, 51 studies stood out as examples of progress that occurred in the past year, as determined by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and reported in “Clinical Cancer Advances 2009.” Reflecting input from specialists throughout the field, the ASCO [...]

The oral cancer epidemic in central and eastern Europe

Oral Cancer Foundation News Team — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:56:32 +0000

Source: Int J Cancer, October 30, 2009 Author: Werner Garavello et al. To monitor recent trends in oral and pharyngeal cancer mortality in 38 European countries, we analyzed data provided by the World Health Organization over the period 1975-2004. Joinpoint analysis was used to identify significant changes in trends. In the European Union (EU), male mortality rates [...]

Does green tea prevent cancer?

Oral Cancer Foundation News Team — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:03:35 +0000

Source: www.ivanhoe.com Author: staff Evidence continues to brew about the protective effects of green tea against cancer, but scientists are still not sure the tea leaves reveal the answer. Vassiliki Papadimitrakopoulo, M.D., professor of medicine in the Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, and colleagues tested 41 [...]