http://www.oncologycare.org Thu, 01 Jan 2009 02:24:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A new report from the nation's leading cancer organizations shows that, for the first time since the report was first issued in 1998, both incidence and death rates for all cancers combined ... http://www.oncologycare.org/2008/12/31/annual-report-to-the-nation-finds-declines-in-cancer-incidence-and-death-rates-special-feature-reveals-wide-variations-in-lung-cancer-trends-across-states/ Preliminary results from a large, randomized clinical trial for patients ages 16 to 60 with previously untreated acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a cancer of the blood and bone marrow, show that patients who received a high dose of a commercially ... http://www.oncologycare.org/2008/12/31/high-dose-chemotherapy-significantly-prolongs-survival-for-patients-with-acute-myeloid-leukemia/ Initial, independent review of study data from the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT), funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and other institutes that comprise the National Institutes of Health shows that selenium and ... http://www.oncologycare.org/2008/12/31/review-of-prostate-cancer-prevention-study-shows-no-benefit-for-use-of-selenium-and-vitamin-e-supplements/ A new online tool for calculating colorectal cancer risk in men and women age 50 or older was launched today, based on a new risk-assessment model developed by researchers at the National Cancer Institute, part ... http://www.oncologycare.org/2008/12/31/new-tool-developed-to-predict-colorectal-cancer-risk/