• Ovarian cancer cells use force to make their way into other organs in this video from Harvard
• Google Health shut down
• Text4Baby inspires diabetes mobile health pilot project by ADA
• Boston researchers found that smoking at the time of prostate cancer diagnosis is associated with increased overall and CVD mortality and prostate cancer–specific mortality and recurrence.

• FDA strengthened regulations on sunscreens
• Fierce mobile healthcare reported on how near-field-communication devices are poised to impact healthcare, enabling sleep tracking, monitoring of post-op infections, and even downloading of patient information in a hands-free manner
• BioMedCentral published an article that demonstrates a link between transcriptome instability in colorectal tumors and poor patient survival
• A British study found that living near a nuclear power plant does not increase childhood risk of leukemia

Selected articles from this review period include: 

• Publication from the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI) reports on a prospective analysis of 47, 911 men in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study. From 1986 to 2006, 5035 patients with prostate cancer were identified, including 642 patients with lethal prostate cancers, defined as fatal or metastatic. Cox proportional hazards models was used to assess the association between coffee and prostate cancer. The researchers observed a strong inverse association between coffee consumption and risk of lethal prostate cancer. The association appears to be related to non-caffeine components of coffee.
• Listen to a selection of topic discussions from Johns Hopkins about a new antibody drug for melanoma, hormone replacement therapy for women, vitamin D and the heart drug digoxin in treating prostate cancer.
• Preview of Ovarian Cancer Research News from ASCO
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center scientists discover new drug target for squamous cell carcinoma.