Cancers

Complications of blood cancers make termination advisable at early stages of pregnancy

9 Feb 2012

Lymphoma is the fourth most common cancer in pregnancy, affecting one in 6000 pregnancies. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, acute leukaemia, and other blood cancers, while also rare, can also occur in pregnancy. The need for urgent chemotherapy and the increased risk of blood clots during pregnancy, which is enhanced in blood cancers, mean that it is advisable to terminate a pregnancy if it is in its early ...

Radiosurgery Machine 'Zaps' Cancers

9 Feb 2012

Doctors Dwight Heron and Neil Christie talk about the radiosurgery machine at UPMC Shadyside that delivers radiation to cancer patients with surgical precision.

Researchers Find Important 'Target' Playing Role in Tobacco-Related Lung Cancers

9 Feb 2012

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have discovered that the immune response regulator IKBKE (serine/threonine kinase) plays two roles in tobacco-related non-small cell lung cancers. Tobacco carcinogens induce IKBKE and, in turn, IKBKE induces chemotherapy resistance.