The final study looked at whether patients with a particular form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma should have regular CT scans to detect relapses after they finish treatment.
Contrary to speculation, Noor says the 63-year-old monarch believed he was winning his battle against non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Scott Woolley Cancer treatment Three years ago we wrote about Rituxan, a promising experimental drug for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Boys are more likely to develop non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, for instance, while girls are more likely to develop thyroid carcinoma and melanoma.
Father-of-three Ablett, who had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, died on New Year's Day.
An earlier study by the same team found no link between parents working in the nuclear industry and childhood cancers such as leukaemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Not long after, he himself was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
The most successful offspring is Idec Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: IDPH - news - people ), which, with help from Genentech, developed Rituxan, a monoclonal antibody for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
The 38-year-old was outraged that no bed had been available on Monday in the hospital's bone marrow unit for her partner, who has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of lymphatic cancer.
It's decision to approve the drug for use with some NHS patients follows the granting of a UK licence for its use, along with standard chemotherapy, to treat the aggressive form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Rep. Dave Camp, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and a leading Republican voice on taxes and the deficit, will undergo treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, he said in a written statement on Saturday.
At the American Society of Hematology (ASH) meeting in Philadelphia on Monday, Michael Pfreundschuh of Saarland University Medical School in Homburg, Germany presented similar data showing that closer dosing of chemotherapy was also helpful in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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