Archives: May 2016

• Combination Therapy May Help Lung Cancer Patients

  May 25, 2016
  Lung cancer remains one of the deadliest forms of this disease diagnosed in the United States. An estimated 224,000 Americans, men and women alike, will be diagnosed with the disease this year alone. Some 158,000 will die from lung cancer. While the overall survival rate has improved courtesy of earlier interventions and more advanced treatments, this disease and its many...read more

• Older Women Can Benefit From Mammograms, Study Finds

  May 15, 2016
  Regular mammogram use in elderly women can have a positive effect on lowering the likelihood a woman will die from breast cancer. Those are the results found by researchers who analyzed Medicare data from 1995 to 2009. The patients included in the data sample where all aged 69 or older and amounted to nearly 5,000 black women and almost...read more