Read more chemotherapy stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/1598/chemotherapy.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:45:21 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74172/govt-panel-recommends-fewer-mammograms.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMost women can wait to get their first mammogram at 50 and then should get one every 2 years rather than annually, a powerful health policy group said today. New information led to the recommendations, said a member of the influential task force that reversed a 7-year-old edict urging aggressive...http://www.newser.com/story/74172/govt-panel-recommends-fewer-mammograms.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 16 Nov 2009 17:12:48 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72062/husband-enlists-to-get-wife-back-into-chemotherapy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOut of a job and unable to find work as the recession grinds on, a Wisconsin man desperate to find affordable chemotherapy for his cancer-stricken wife turned to Uncle Sam, but not for a handout—Bill Caudle, 39, enlisted in the Army. “Seventy percent of the reason is for the...http://www.newser.com/story/72062/husband-enlists-to-get-wife-back-into-chemotherapy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 19 Oct 2009 20:41:12 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69733/chemo-killed-swayze-somers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSuzanne Somers thinks she knows what killed Patrick Swayze, and it wasn’t cancer—it was chemotherapy, she tells the National Post . “They took this beautiful man,” says Somers, a cancer survivor who has a book about the disease coming out next month, “and they basically put poison in him.” Somers...http://www.newser.com/story/69733/chemo-killed-swayze-somers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 18 Sep 2009 7:28:57 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69623/obama-story-turns-out-to-be-partially-false.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOne of the most poignant passages from Barack Obama's recent address to Congress concerned an Illinois cancer patient who died, the president said, because his insurer dropped him after discovering an unreported gallstone. In fact, reports the Wall Street Journal , Otto Raddatz did have his coverage rescinded in 2005—but...http://www.newser.com/story/69623/obama-story-turns-out-to-be-partially-false.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 17 Sep 2009 8:59:38 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66861/study-may-yield-better-cancer-drugs-less-chemo.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA breakthrough with cancer stem cells may lead to more potent drugs—ones that pair with chemotherapy in the sort of drug cocktail used against AIDS, reports the New York Times . If borne out, the development—in which researchers figured out how to screen for chemicals that attack only cancerous...http://www.newser.com/story/66861/study-may-yield-better-cancer-drugs-less-chemo.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 13 Aug 2009 19:51:12 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65438/child-cancer-survivors-risk-heart-trouble-years-later.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagKids who’ve conquered cancer can end up battling the effects of treatment years later as young adults, the Wall Street Journal reports. Some 10% of kids treated with drugs called anthracyclines, powerful against leukemia and other cancers, later suffer from progressive weakening of the heart that can lead to congestive...http://www.newser.com/story/65438/child-cancer-survivors-risk-heart-trouble-years-later.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 28 Jul 2009 8:10:44 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64917/docs-weigh-longer-chemo-in-cancer-battle.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagInstead of waiting for cancer to return, some doctors are keeping up patients’ chemotherapy even when the threat has lessened, the New York Times reports. With maintenance therapy, some in the medical and drug industries say, it may be possible to treat cancer as a chronic disease, with tumors kept...http://www.newser.com/story/64917/docs-weigh-longer-chemo-in-cancer-battle.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 21 Jul 2009 10:11:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63062/promising-trojan-horse-cells-kills-animal-cancer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAustralian researchers have achieved promising results with a new approach to treating cancer, reports the Sydney Morning Herald . Scientists have developed mutant bacteria nanocells that slip into tumor cells to switch off drug-resistant genes, and allow cancer-fighting drugs inside, also delivered by the nanocells. The strategy has achieved near-universal success...http://www.newser.com/story/63062/promising-trojan-horse-cells-kills-animal-cancer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 29 Jun 2009 1:58:09 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61446/chemo-will-keep-kennedy-out-of-health-care-debate.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTed Kennedy is undergoing a new round of chemotherapy and is expected to miss this month's debate on the health care overhaul he crafted, the Hill reports. The senator has been weakened by his brain cancer treatment, but he has insisted the process move forward during his absence from Capitol...http://www.newser.com/story/61446/chemo-will-keep-kennedy-out-of-health-care-debate.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 10 Jun 2009 3:58:04 CDT