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The National Policy Board of US Oncology, which supports one of the nation’s largest cancer treatment and research networks representing approximately 1,200 oncologists nationwide, adopted its Principles for Reforming Cancer Care, designed to guide the organization’s national legislative agenda.

A new technique combining computed tomography (CT) with fiber-coated surgical microcoils allows physicians to successfully locate and remove small lung nodules without the need for a more invasive procedure, according to a new study published in the February issue of Radiology

Diabetics have a significantly greater risk of dementia, both Alzheimer’s disease - the most common form of dementia - and other dementia, reveals important new data from an ongoing study of twins.

After identifying an apparent population of cancer stem cells for neuroblastoma, researchers successfully used a reprogrammed herpes virus to block tumor formation in mice by targeting and killing the cells.

Coronary bypass surgery may carry less risk of serious complications if stents coated with a drug that suppresses cell growth are used in the procedure rather than bare-metal stents, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers and colleagues have found.

Physicians say they are counseling their overweight type 2 diabetes patients to lose weight, but patients say that the message is not getting through, according to a new survey announced today by the Behavioral Diabetes Institute.

A new analysis method can detect the kidney-damaging chemical melamine, used to contaminate infant formula in China last September, at very low levels within a matter of seconds. A research team at Purdue University created the analysis method to detect levels of melamine in the low parts-per-billion in milk and milk powder in about 25 seconds.

An anti-cancer drug shelved because it was thought to be too toxic may be effective in small doses against a devastating pediatric cancer, a new study found.

In tests on animal models, the drug a-difluoromethylornithine, or DFMO, helped prevent the spread of neuroblastoma, a cancer of the nervous system responsible for 15 percent of all pediatric deaths related to cancer.

For patients with Alzheimer’s disease, antipsychotic medications substantially increase one-year mortality risk, researchers found. Patients continued on their antipsychotic medications were 42% more likely to die over a one year period than those switched to a placebo. This is a significant finding. Researchers recommend replacing the antipsychotic therapy with psychological management and, for some symptoms, the addition of memory enhancing drugs such as Namenda or antidepressants such as Celexa.