http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/205404.php

"Article Date: 22 Oct 2010

A Common Virus May Be Harnessed To Attack Cancer
A common virus that can cause coughing and mild diarrhea appears to have a major redemptive quality: the ability to kill cancer. Harnessing that power, researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of Georgetown University Medical Center, are conducting a clinical trial to see if the virus can target and kill certain tumor types..."

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/205473.php

"Article Date: 22 Oct 2010

New Data Shows Chicago Racial Disparities In Breast Cancer Mortality Continue To Be Significantly Higher Than National Average
Disparities in breast cancer mortality continued to be unacceptably high in Chicago and significantly larger than the national average according to new data released today at a rally sponsored by the Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force. The Task Force also announced results of the first year of data collection by the Chicago Breast Cancer Quality Consortium, which found many hospitals in Chicago are not meeting accepted quality standards.

The Sinai Urban Health Institute has been tracking mortality data since it first brought attention to the problem in 2006 and can now better demonstrate long-term trends. In the early 1980s, although the breast cancer mortality rates for white women in Chicago were higher than that of black women, the disparity between the two was comparatively low, only about 9%. Then, rates for white women went down dramatically but the rates for black women did not go down at all; in fact, they increased. Disparities began to widen dramatically in the early 90s and continued to widen through 2007. From 2005 through 2007, the death rate from breast cancer for black women was an average of 62% higher than that for white women..."

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/205315.php

"Article Date: 21 Oct 2010

Scientists Show TAp63 Suppresses Cancer Metastasis
Long overshadowed by p53, its famous tumor-suppressing sibling, the p63 gene does the tougher, important job of stifling the spread of cancer to other organs, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report in the Oct. 21 issue of Nature..."

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/205368.php

"Article Date: 21 Oct 2010

FDA: Include Warnings On Risk For Class Of Prostate Cancer Drugs
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration asked manufacturers to add new warnings to labeling of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists, a class of drugs primarily used to treat men with prostate cancer.

The warnings would alert patients and their health care professionals to the potential risk of heart disease and diabetes in men treated with these medications..."

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/205567.php

"Article Date: 25 Oct 2010

Microchip Patented Which Separates And Extracts Tumor Cells In The Blood
Ikerlan-IK4 and Mondragon Unibertsitatea are taking part in a project initiated by the Spanish National Research Council, CSIC, and which has developed a microchip capable of separating and extracting tumour cells in the blood stream by means of ultrasonic waves..."