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ImClone Systems says its cancer drug Erbitux failed to help pancreatic cancer patients live longer in study, setback for company's plan to expand market for its only product; ImClone is co-marketer of Erbitux with Bristol-Myers Squibb in US
April 11, 2007 Health News
By GINA KOLATA
A widely used system for examining mammograms is leading to less accuracy, a new study finds.
April 5, 2007 Technology News
By JEFF ZELENY
Elizabeth Edwards said she was determined not to let public curiosity and concern over her illness overshadow her husband’s presidential campaign.
April 4, 2007 Health News
By MICHAEL MASON
If all women at high risk for breast cancer should get M.R.I.’s, who will read them all? And who is high-risk?
April 3, 2007 Health News
By RICHARD SANDOMIR
A little more than three months removed from a diagnosis of incurable brain cancer and surgery to remove a tumor, Bobby Murcer looks remarkably fit.
April 3, 2007 Sports News
By NATALIE ANGIER
Metastatic cancer remains one of the grimmest conditions a person can face, and a true understanding of ever-changing metastases eludes researchers.
April 3, 2007 Science News
By SHANNON BROWNLEE
There’s no such thing as a free screening.
April 1, 2007 Health Op-Ed
By RALPH W. MOSS
What if the best treatments are the cheapest?
April 1, 2007 Health Op-Ed
By SUSAN LOVE
The problem with cancer is the way that it is researched.
April 1, 2007 Health Op-Ed
By DAVID G. NATHAN
Targeted-therapy drugs are helping us turn a corner.
April 1, 2007 Health Op-Ed
By HAROLD VARMUS
A gene-based approach to finding a cure has value.
April 1, 2007 Health Op-Ed
By BETTY ROLLIN
Living with, and not whispering about, breast cancer.
April 1, 2007 Opinion Op-Ed
By ANDREW POLLACK
The first therapy that would direct a cancer patient’s own immune system to fight tumors moved closer to approval.
March 30, 2007 U.S. News
By DENISE GRADY
Two new reports recommend greatly expanded use of MRI scans in women who have breast cancer or are at high risk; study in New England Journal of Medicine shows that in women with newly-diagnosed cancer in one breast MRI can find tumors in other breast that mammograms miss; high rate of false-positive results may be acceptable in women likely to have hidden tumors, but risk of needless biopsies and scans is not considered reasonable for others; new American Cancer Society guidelines recommend yea...
March 28, 2007 Front Page News
MORE ON CANCER AND: MAMMOGRAPHY, MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGERS, BREAST, GENETICS AND HEREDITY, WOMEN, RESEARCH, TESTS AND TESTING, LEHMAN, CONSTANCE, MORRIS, ELIZABETH, AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG; LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN CONTRIBUTED REPORTING FROM NEW YORK.
White House press secretary Tony Snow suffers recurrence of colon cancer he battled two years ago and disease has spread to liver; he has undergone surgery and will have chemotherapy; Pres Bush and emotional White House staff make anouncement; deputy Dana Perino to handle briefings; photos
March 28, 2007 Health News
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