Macmillan Cancer Support says although it is good news that more cancer patients are living longer, many are struggling with long-term health problems caused by their treatment.
Looking at some forms of cancer, the news is even better.
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The China Cancer Registration Report 2012 shows that air pollution has made cancer the leading cause of death in the country, with one case diagnosed every six minutes, 8, 550 new cases every day and one person in every eight dying of cancer, China News Weekly reports.
Unfortunately, in order to get cheap ciproflaxacin from India, the U.S. would have to find a way to circumvent the same patent laws that have given us very expensive but life-saving drugs ranging from Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ) cancer drug Gleevec to Merck 's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) cholesterol-fighting drug Zocor.
News of his cancer last year prompted a sympathy boost in the president's opinion-poll ratings.
The approvals would be very good news for colon cancer patients, who would add two new targeted therapies to the three main chemotherapy regimens for the disease.
In exciting news for breast cancer patients, the FDA recently approved Perjeta, a new treatment for metastatic breast cancer that delays progression of the disease by six months.
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Professor Robert Steele, an advisor to the charity Colon Cancer Concern, told BBC News Online any measure which would improve the predicted value of symptoms is to be welcomed.
"H.pylori infection is now accepted as a cause of stomach cancer, " he told BBC News Online.
On news of Horizant s cancer risk, shares of Santa Clara, Calif.
Professor Vaskar Saha, an expert on childhood cancer from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, told BBC News Online that survival rates could be improved in the developing world by relatively simply measures, such as training medical staff in diagnostic techniques.
Genentech also has marketing rights to Tarceva, an experimental cancer drug developed with OSI Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: OSIP - news - people ), focused on fighting lung cancer.
Besides Genzyme General, the gene therapy program is involved in Genzyme Molecular Oncology gzmo (nasdaq: gzmo - news - people), which focuses on cancer vaccines, and Genzyme Surgical Products gzsp (nasdaq: gzsp - news - people).
Fellow Scottish author, Ian Rankin, said the news of Banks' terminal cancer was "just awful".
Would it mean that I had less bad news to give about lung cancer?
Rostropovich died in a Moscow cancer hospital, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.
Dendreon comes out with news it will help cure cancer back in April, then sees the stock price cut in half.
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In late 2003, when early adopters and techno-addicts were buzzing about what nifty, gotta-have product Apple would introduce next, what we were introduced to instead was the distressing news that Steve had pancreatic cancer.
Also, Taxol, the Bristol-Myers (nyse: BMY - news - people ) cancer drug now available as a generic, may work better with Avastin than the older chemotherapies used in the last trial, although that remains unproven.
For the FDA, there is always the worry of a repeat of AstraZeneca 's (nyse: AZN - news - people ) cancer pill Iressa: The drug was approved on early data but then pulled after a bigger trial failed to confirm it helped patients.
If a researcher wants to run a clinical trial on a Genentech (nyse: DNA - news - people ) cancer drug, it's unlikely to happen if the company doesn't want to pay. (The National Institutes of Health funds relatively few trials.) Speaking can help raise an expert's profile among his peers.
And that is also a very important piece of news for younger women with breast cancer.
The news was that Elizabeth's cancer was not curable, but it was treatable.
Indeed the Breast Cancer Fund knows it can rely on many news organizations to simply rephrase their press release and call it news.
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Pfizer 's ( PFE - news - people ) kidney cancer drug Sutent for short periods of time and then stopping.
Good news for Dendreon and its prostate cancer treatment, Provenge: a rival medicine from AstraZeneca, zibotentan, failed to extend survival in a late stage trial.
Five years ago, he warned against approving AstraZeneca 's (nyse: AZN - news - people ) lung cancer pill Iressa because clinical data were not convincing.
Dr Tom Crosby, clinical director at Velindre and medical director of the South Wales Cancer Network, described the investment as excellent news for patients who will have access to treatment that is "safer, more effective and more convenient".
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