Some 650,000 people are alive today who wouldn’t be were it not for advances in cancer prevention, detection and treatment over the past 15 years, new statistics show.
The American Cancer Society’s Cancer Statistics 2009 report finds an encouraging 19.2 percent drop in cancer death rates among men from 1990 to 2005, as well as an [...]

Medicare, with little public debate,  has expanded its reimbursement for unapproved uses of cancer drugs, the New York Times reports this morning.
The latest cancer drugs can cost tens of thousands of dollars per patient. Medicare spends more than $3 billion a year on cancer drugs, and private insurers, who pay for most of the rest [...]

A Canadian study, published Tuesday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, found colonoscopies, while still widely recommended, was much less accurate than anyone expected. In the new study, the test missed just about every cancer in the right side of the colon, where cancers are harder to detect but about 40 percent arise. [...]

Hello all,
As many of you may already know, Sound Cancer Connections has changed our name to Providence Integrative Cancer Care. With this change comes a new look.
Many of you are about to receive new materials to replace any old ones you may have on hand.
Please note:
1) Our newest service, Naturopathic Oncology, is up and [...]

Five types of ovarian cancer are actually distinct diseases, according to a study by American, Canadian and German scientists, who said the current method of lumping them together as one disease hinders efforts to develop more effective treatments.
The researchers analyzed tissue from 500 tumors and found major differences in the pattern of biomarkers present in [...]

(Reuters) – Men with elevated levels of calcium in their blood may have a much higher risk of getting fatal prostate cancer.
The findings indicate that a simple blood test may identify men at high risk for the most dangerous prostate tumors, and there already are drugs available that cut calcium levels in the bloodstream, the [...]