Copyright (c) 2006 Cancer Consultants. All rights reserved.Professional Cancer News from all disease categories.http://rss.cancerconsultants.com/ProFeed.aspx60http://professional.cancerconsultants.com/news.aspx?id=43739http://professional.cancerconsultants.com/news.aspx?id=43739Researchers from Denmark have reported that “The use of PET-CT for preoperative staging of NSCLC [non–small cell lung cancer] reduced both the total number of thoracotomies and the number of futile thoracotomies but did not affect overall mortality.” The details of this study appeared in the July 2, 2009 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.jmaxon@onco-ed.com (jenny maxon)Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:00:54 GMThttp://professional.cancerconsultants.com/news.aspx?id=43738http://professional.cancerconsultants.com/news.aspx?id=43738Researchers from Canada have reported that women who have undergone treatment for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) have a long-term increased risk of developing invasive carcinoma or a recurrence of CIN and, as such, need long-term surveillance. The details of this study appeared in the May 20, 2009 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.jmaxon@onco-ed.com (jenny maxon)Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:49:05 GMThttp://professional.cancerconsultants.com/news.aspx?id=43734http://professional.cancerconsultants.com/news.aspx?id=43734Researchers from Canada have reported that children who are physically abused may be at increased risk of developing cancer later in life. These results were published in an early online publication in Cancer on May 26, 2009.jmaxon@onco-ed.com (jenny maxon)Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:51:39 GMThttp://professional.cancerconsultants.com/news.aspx?id=43733http://professional.cancerconsultants.com/news.aspx?id=43733Researchers from the National Cancer Institute have reported that individuals who apply pesticides to crops are twice as likely as the general population to develop monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), which can lead to multiple myeloma. The details of this study appeared in the June 18, 2009 issue of Blood.jmaxon@onco-ed.com (jenny maxon)Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:43:32 GMThttp://professional.cancerconsultants.com/news.aspx?id=43728http://professional.cancerconsultants.com/news.aspx?id=43728Researchers from the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have reported that children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) who are treated with effective, risk-adjusted chemotherapy regimens have good outcomes and may safely be able to avoid preventive radiation therapy to the brain. These results were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.jmaxon@onco-ed.com (jenny maxon)Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:31:12 GMThttp://professional.cancerconsultants.com/news.aspx?id=43727http://professional.cancerconsultants.com/news.aspx?id=43727Researchers from Sweden have reported that weight-loss surgery (bariatric surgery) was associated with a reduced incidence of cancer in obese women but not in obese men. The details of this study appeared in an early online publication in Lancet Oncology on June 24, 2009.jmaxon@onco-ed.com (jenny maxon)Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:23:20 GMThttp://professional.cancerconsultants.com/news.aspx?id=43721http://professional.cancerconsultants.com/news.aspx?id=43721Researchers affiliated with the European Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOPEN), the Children’s Oncology Group (COG), and the Gesellshaft fur Padiatrische Onkologie und Haematologie (GPOH) have reported that a multigene-expression signature predicts progression-free and overall survival of children with neuroblastoma. The details of this study appeared in an early online publication in the Lancet Oncology on June 9, 2009.jmaxon@onco-ed.com (jenny maxon)Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:28:09 GMThttp://professional.cancerconsultants.com/news.aspx?id=43720http://professional.cancerconsultants.com/news.aspx?id=43720The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has recently denied coverage of computed tomographic (CT) colonography for cancer screening. They concluded that there had not been enough studies in patients in the Medicare age group to warrant approval.jmaxon@onco-ed.com (jenny maxon)Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:05:14 GMThttp://professional.cancerconsultants.com/news.aspx?id=43719http://professional.cancerconsultants.com/news.aspx?id=43719Researchers from the Netherlands have reported that patients who have been treated with radiation therapy for Hodgkin’s lymphoma (HL) have an elevated risk of stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA). These results were published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.jmaxon@onco-ed.com (jenny maxon)Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:28:08 GMThttp://professional.cancerconsultants.com/news.aspx?id=43718http://professional.cancerconsultants.com/news.aspx?id=43718Researchers from the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have reported that obesity during early adulthood increases the risk of pancreatic cancer and that obesity at an older age was associated with a lower survival from pancreatic cancer. The details of this study appeared in the June 24, 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.jmaxon@onco-ed.com (jenny maxon)Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:19:48 GMT