Path: news.ccsf.jp!norn-news!news.heimat.gr.jp!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!xlned.com!feeder3.xlned.com!amsnews11.chello.com!eweka.nl!lightspeed.eweka.nl!postnews.google.com!e2g2000vbb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: SciMedWeb Newsgroups: fj.sci.medical Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?Cancer_=2D_Press_review__=28December_10=2C_2011=29_=96_Revue?= =?windows-1252?Q?_de_presse_=2810_d=E9cembre_2011=29?= Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:24:50 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 154 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.247.83.19 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1323512690 27231 127.0.0.1 (10 Dec 2011 10:24:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:24:50 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e2g2000vbb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.247.83.19; posting-account=jR3pwAkAAABfF7uqn-zMzWqez-yhPWKE User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: UHALERCNK X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; fr) Presto/2.10.229 Version/11.60,gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.sci.medical:649 Cancer =E2=80=93 Press Review =E2=80=93 Revue de Presse Every week on http://marclacroixcancerblog.blogspot.com Chaque semaine sur http://marclacroixcancerblog.blogspot.com Press review (December 10, 2011) =E2=80=93 Revue de presse (10 d=C3=A9cemb= re 2011) Two Drugs Offer New Hope for Breast Cancer Patients It's not often that researchers get to report good news for cancer patients, but this week at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, researchers announced encouraging results from studies of two cancer medications (pertuzumab and everolimus) that appeared to keep women's disease from advancing. By Alice Park. TIME http://healthland.time.com/2011/12/08/two-drugs-offer-new-hope-for-breast-c= ancer-patients/ Stanford, UCSF to test ultrasound for cancer pain Scientists at Stanford and UCSF are recruiting patients for two clinical trials to test the use of ultrasound waves, as an alternative to traditional radiation therapy, to ease pain in people whose cancer has spread to their bones. By Erin Allday. In San Francisco Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=3D/c/a/2011/12/04/BATE1M79J2.DT= L Ex-chief of Japan nuclear plant has cancer The former chief of Japan's crippled nuclear plant, who left the job last week, has cancer of the esophagus, TEPCO said Friday, adding it was unlikely to be linked to radiation exposure. AFP http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iX10KfPyCTZukARxlGJOegZL= p8kg?docId=3DCNG.33ba93cd99323b241fb70a8bcd7637cf.5f1 40% Of Cancers Attributed To Preventable Factors More than 100,000 cancers - nearly 4 in 10 of all those diagnosed in Britain each year - could be prevented if people made different choices, according to a new study by Cancer Research UK. In Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/07/40-of-cancers-attributed-_n_113501= 5.html Active Surveillance May Benefit Men With Low-Risk Prostate Cancer But report says more needs to be known about the long-term outcome of this approach. By Steven Reinberg. In U.S. News & World Report http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/cancer/articles/2011/12/= 07/active-surveillance-may-benefit-men-with-low-risk-prostate-cancer Should Nuns Take the Pill for Health Reasons?=E2=80=8E The world=E2=80=99s 94,790 nuns pay a price for their chastity: an increase= d risk of breast, ovarian and uterine cancers. By Katie Moisse. ABC News (blog) http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2011/12/08/should-nuns-take-the-pill-for= -health-reasons/ EUROECHO: Cancer Drug Has Early Cardiac Effects Breast cancer patients often develop early signs of cardiotoxicity within months of starting treatment with trastuzumab (Herceptin), according to a small study with implications for heart failure prevention. By Crystal Phend. MedPage Today http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/EUROECHO/30100?pfc=3D101&spc=3D= 230 FDA panel backs Pfizer's drug for kidney cancer (axitinib - Inlyta) Pfizer Inc won unanimous expert backing for its Inlyta experimental drug for patients with advanced kidney cancer. By Anna Yukhananov. In Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/07/us-fda-pfizer-inlyta-idUSTRE7B625= 720111207 Cancer : pas de p=C3=A9riostine, plus de m=C3=A9tastase ! Des scientifiques suisses affirment avoir trouv=C3=A9 un =C3=A9l=C3=A9ment = cl=C3=A9 toujours impliqu=C3=A9 dans l'=C3=A9tablissement des m=C3=A9tastases : la p= =C3=A9riostine. Apr=C3=A8s l'inhibition de cette prot=C3=A9ine de la matrice extracellulair= e chez des souris, les cellules canc=C3=A9reuses n=E2=80=99ont jamais pu colo= niser un nouvel organe. Une nouvelle piste =C3=A0 explorer au plus vite ! Par Janlou Chaput. Dans Futura Sciences http://www.futura-sciences.com/fr/news/t/medecine/d/cancer-pas-de-periostin= e-plus-de-metastase_35166/ Cancer: G=C3=A9nopharm bient=C3=B4t suspendu Le laboratoire fran=C3=A7ais Genopharm, accus=C3=A9 d'avoir commercialis=C3= =A9 des lots p=C3=A9rim=C3=A9s d'un anticanc=C3=A9reux, le Thiotepa, va recevoir "s= ous peu" la lettre qui suspend son autorisation d'exercer en France, a indiqu=C3=A9 aujourd'hui l'agence du m=C3=A9dicament (Afssaps). Dans Le Figaro. http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2011/12/08/97001-20111208FILWWW00768-canc= er-genopharm-bientot-suspendu.php La maternit=C3=A9 prot=C3=A8ge du cancer =C3=80 d=C3=A9faut d'enfants, des chercheurs australiens proposent=E2=80=A6= la pilule! Par Damien Mascret. Dans Le Figaro http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/2011/12/07/01008-20111207ARTFIG00831-la-mat= ernite-protege-du-cancer.php Cancer du sein : la survie des femmes accrue par une combinaison de deux mol=C3=A9cules=E2=80=8E Selon une r=C3=A9cente =C3=A9tude am=C3=A9ricaine, la prise combin=C3=A9e d= e deux mol=C3=A9cules particuli=C3=A8res augmenterait la survie des femmes atteint= es du cancer du sein le plus fr=C3=A9quent. Dans Maxi-Sciences http://www.maxisciences.com/cancer-du-sein/cancer-du-sein-la-survie-des-fem= mes-accrue-par-une-combinaison-de-deux-molecules_art19416.html Sant=C3=A9: Cas de cancer du poumon en Alg=C3=A9rie=E2=80=8E Traitement cancer du poumon - 3 500 cas de cancer du poumon diagnostiqu=C3=A9s chaque ann=C3=A9e. Le cancer du poumon est la cause la p= lus fr=C3=A9quente des d=C3=A9c=C3=A8s dus au cancer chez les hommes et les fem= mes =C3=A0 travers le monde. L'Alg=C3=A9rie n'=C3=A9chappe pas =C3=A0 ce fl=C3=A9au ra= vageur. Par Amel Bouakba. Dans Afrique en Ligne http://www.afriquejet.com/traitement-cancer-poumon-2011120729093.html Cancer Blog =E2=80=93 Marc Lacroix =E2=80=93 Le Blogue du Cancer http://marclacroixcancerblog.blogspot.com Marc Lacroix =E2=80=93 InTextoResearch =E2=80=93 Baelen (12/2011)