News Posts List

‘Probable link’ between packaging coating and cancer, say scientists

05/12/2012

A chemical used to make oil and grease-repellent coatings for food packaging by DuPont has a ‘probable link’ to kidney and testicular cancer, according to an independent science panel.

What is CureHunter.com?

05/11/2012

CureHunter Patient-Physician Summary Reports collect in one document all the medications ever reported in the US National Library of Medicine—1949 to the present—to be effective against your target disease. Analytic charts allow you and your physicians to see at a glance the treatment options—including new, promising, off-label and experimental.

WSJ: ObamaCare's Killer Device Tax

05/11/2012

This tax is especially pernicious because it is assessed on sales, not profits. To put this in perspective, imagine that you've manufactured medical devices and had sales of $1 million, after all your costs and expenses—everything from materials and labor to research and development—your profit was $100,000. The excise tax would be $23,000, wiping out almost 25% of your profits.

Galena Biopharma Announces Expansion of Scientific Advisory Board

05/11/2012

Galena Biopharma (Nasdaq:GALE - News), a biotechnology company focused on developing innovative, targeted oncology treatments addressing major unmet medical needs to advance cancer care, today announced the appointment of Robert Figlin, M.D., F.A.C.P. to the Company's Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). [Ed. note: Dr. Figlin is an adviser to the Kidney Cancer Association]

More Canadians beating cancer

05/10/2012

The statistics do show an increase in rare cancers — liver, thyroid and kidney, “but that doesn’t mean more people are dying from these cancers,” said Luba Slatskova, a researcher with the society.

Study In Patients With Kidney Cancer Treated With Sutent

05/10/2012

Objective of this study is to increase knowledge about safety, tolerability, quality of life and efficacy under conditions of routine use of sunitinib.

Incidence projections for selected cancers

05/10/2012

For males,there are a number of cancer sites which have an age-standardised incidence rate that is projected to increase at a rate of 1% or more per year.

FREE Book: 'We Have Kidney Cancer'

05/09/2012

A Beautifully illustrated paperback with more than 100 pages of information that could help to save your life or the life of someone you love. 2010 and 2011 editions are available free of charge. See our website for updates. Also available for the Kindle on www.Amazon.com.

Sorafenib: A tale of moves and counter-moves

05/08/2012

Three drug companies and three prices on their respective versions of Sorafenib, a medicine used to treat advanced kidney cancer.

Perifosine for Patients With Carcinoma of the Kidney

05/08/2012

This is a Phase II study. Patients with kidney carcinoma will be considered in two groups.

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