Many still die from “curable” testicular cancer
The decline in deaths due to testicular cancer seen in the US and Canada over the last three decades has not reached all countries in the Americas and deaths from this relatively rare cancer remain unacceptably high in most Latin American countries, according to a report.
Testicular cancer is “one of the most curable (cancers) if adequate treatment is adopted,” Dr. Paola Bertuccio from Milan’s Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri” noted in an email to Reuters Health.
Schizophrenia may be linked to inflammation: study
The key to schizophrenia may be found in a gene region thought to play a role in inflammation and autoimmune disorders, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
If confirmed, the finding could lead to a test and possibly new treatments for the mental disorder that affects about 1 percent of the world’s population, researchers said.
High-fat diet may increase breast cancer risk
A large study of middle-age women with a wide range of fat in their diet shows that eating a high-fat diet raises the risk of developing invasive breast cancer.
The findings, reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, stem from the National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study, in which 188,736 postmenopausal women reported detailed information on their diet in the mid-1990s.
Tamiflu not linked with psychiatric symptoms:Roche
Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG said on Tuesday new data from the United States and Japan showed there was no established causal link between neuropsychiatric symptoms and its Tamiflu influenza treatment.
Clinical studies have shown similar rates of neurologic and psychiatric events in pediatric patients being treated with Tamiflu compared to those not taking the drug.
Cardiac risk persists long after Hodgkin’s therapy
The improved prognosis of patients diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease is tempered by the increased risk of cardiovascular disease, a side effect of treatment that can persist for decades.
The risk of a variety of cardiovascular disorders remains up to 5-fold higher for more than 25 years in survivors of this childhood lymphoma, compared with the general population, investigators report in the medical journal “Blood.”
