Famous film critic Roger Ebert lost his battle with cancer after suffering on and off for many years and has passed away at the age of 70, the Chicago Sun Times reports. “I am not going away. My intent is to continue to write selected reviews but to leave the rest to a talented team of writers hand-picked and greatly admired by me,” Roger wrote on his blog recently about his condition. In 2006, Roger battle ...

 A large study of Danish cancer patients suggests that people taking cholesterol-lowering medications known as statins have a lower risk of premature death from cancer. The research, published Nov. 7 in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that statin use at the time of cancer diagnosis reduced the risk of dying from cancer-related causes by up to 15 percent. "That doesn't sound like that much, but ch ...

Many teen and young adult cancer survivors in the United States go without routine medical care because it's too expensive, a new study finds. Medical care in the years after a cancer diagnosis is important for detecting any long-term health effects associated with cancer treatment, said Anne Kirchhoff, of the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, and her colleagues. They lo ...

Parents and doctors can do more to protect girls from cancers caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV), say U.S. health officials who are concerned by lagging HPV vaccination rates among females. Last year, significantly more U.S. teens were vaccinated against meningitis and whooping cough (pertussis) than in 2010, while increases for the HPV vaccine were far less significant, according to researchers at th ...

Cancer of the Lymphocytes in Cats Lymphoma is a type of cancer that originates in the lymphocyte cells. A type of white blood cell, lymphocytes play an important and integral role in the body's defenses in the immune system. There are two forms of lymphocytes: B and T cells. Lymphoma may involve neoplastic proliferation of T or B, or non-B/non-T type lymphocytes, occurring primarily in the bone marrow, lymp ...

Regular aspirin use, which doctors have long recommended for heart attack and stroke prevention, also may help reduce the risk of some forms of skin cancer, a new study suggests. An analysis of the medical records of nearly 200,000 Danish adults found that people who filled more than two prescriptions for aspirin or other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)—such as ibuprofen or naproxen—over a 10- ...

Each year billions of dollars are spent in the search to find new cancer drugs. Very few of these would-be treatments end up being approved by the government and entering widespread use, which makes it all the more intriguing that one of the most promising new cancer drugs in years is, in fact, an old drug. Metformin, a diabetes drug, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1995, and since then ...

Doctors have long known that people who survive one melanoma have a markedly higher risk of developing another of these aggressive skin cancers. Now, for the first time, a study has found that survivors of non-skin cancers also may have an increased risk of melanoma. The risk was most pronounced among survivors of breast cancer, prostate cancer, lymphoma, and leukemia. Women who developed breast cancer befo ...

Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb is gravely ill with liver cancer, according to a report. The disco-music star, 61, who along with his brothers sold more than 200 million records worldwide as the Bee Gees, was diagnosed a few months ago and has been forced to cancel a number of appearances, the Sunday Mirror of Britain said. He was rushed to a British hospital this past week, the report said. A family friend told ...

Older women who take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs — such as aspirin or ibuprofen — appear to have a lower risk of death from colorectal cancer than women who don’t use these medications, a large new study suggests. Women who reported using these drugs, called NSAIDs, at the beginning of the study and three years later had a roughly 30 percent lower rate of death from colorectal cancer than women who ...