Analysis of the data showed a 24% increased risk of advanced cancer and 49% increased risk of early-stage disease for night workers compared with those who worked during the day.
One experiment by University of Toronto cancer researcher Robert Kerbel mimicked treating early-stage breast cancer with Pfizer's kidney cancer drug Sutent for short periods of time and then stopping.
In cases of early-stage testicular cancer, surgery may be the only treatment needed.
We also found that the same program of comprehensive lifestyle changes can reverse type 2 diabetes and may slow, stop, or even reverse the progression of early-stage prostate cancer.
But an early-stage pipeline of cancer drugs could be what sold Astra on paying 53% more than MedImmune was worth before news of an impending sale leaked.
In a separate study they found that IMRT's higher doses let 90% of early-stage patients remain cancer free for five years, up from 77% of patients treated with older methods.
In Denmark, only 30% of women with breast cancer were diagnosed at an early stage, compared with 42-45% elsewhere.
And now, the drug, in combination with the chemotherapy Taxol, allows patients with early-stage breast cancer an average of four months without their disease progressing.
Ninety percent of patients with early-stage breast cancer can be cured when treated only with radiation and surgery, but another 3% also require chemotherapy to stop the cancer from spreading elsewhere.
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In early-stage prostate cancer, the gold standard of treatment for the past 25 years has been the surgical removal of the prostate.
Men may be cured of prostate cancer if the disease is found and treated at an early stage.
And a 2, 700-patient trial unveiled at a conference of cancer doctors in May showed that Avastin did not prevent early-stage colon tumors from returning years later.
The consortium is working with Chiron, a biotech firm, on an early-stage trial of a new anti-cancer drug, with several new centres and compounds expected to enter the network over the coming months.
When bowel cancer is detected at an early stage it is treatable and nine out of 10 people beat it.
In early-stage breast cancer Herceptin doubles a woman's chances of living cancer free.
Pfizer has already moved into a final-stage trial of the drug in lung cancer and hopes to apply for approval early next year for treating lung cancer.
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Since Ms. Emmerich was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer this past summer, her insurer -- one of the country's more than 200 state-regulated nonprofit "patient funds" -- has taken care of all of her doctor and chemotherapy bills.
Finding cancers early saves many times that amount compared with the cost of late-stage cancer treatment, she notes.
John Shepherd, a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at St Bartholomew's, told the Sunday Telegraph the success of Britain's cervical cancer screening programme meant that the disease was being caught in its early stage in many more patients.
Mark Matfield, of the Association for International Cancer Research, which funded the study, stressed the research was at an early stage.
Nanotechnology, and the emerging field of nanomedicine, is one such solution and promises to change how we detect early stage breast cancer.
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