Marian L. Neuhouser, PhD
Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, PhD
Cynthia Thomson, PhD, RD
Aaron Aragaki, MS
Garnet L. Anderson, PhD
JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH
Ruth E. Patterson, PhD
Thomas E. Rohan, MD, PhD
Linda van Horn, MD, PhD
James M. Shikany, DrPH
Asha Thomas, PhD
Andrea LaCroix, PhD
Ross L. Prentice, PhD
Arch Intern Med.
2009;169(3):294-304.
Millions of postmenopausal women use multivitamins,
as cancer and cardiovascular Read the rest of this entry »
LONDON, England (CNN)
— A nurse in Jordan who was diagnosed for breast cancer last year is dying because she didn’t seek treatment. The family of a woman in Tanzania didn’t know she was ill until her tumor started eating through her skin.
These are just a few of the stories that highlight the challenges faced in raising awareness of breast cancer, a disease that once largely affected the West, but is now on the rise around the world.
But Read the rest of this entry »
ScienceDaily (Jan. 22, 2009)
— Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have discovered how a whole class of commonly used chemotherapy drugs can block cancer growth. Their findings, recently reported online at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition, suggest that a subgroup of cancer patients might particularly benefit from these drugs.
The anthracycline class of chemotherapeutics — doxorubicin Read the rest of this entry »
Steve Jobs, Patrick Swayze raise awareness of deadly pancreatic cancer
Updated
Friday, January 16th 2009, 5:38 PM
It’s a deadly disease with a dismally poor survival rate and so few initial symptoms that sufferers often don’t know they have it until it’s too late.
– made headlines this week.
Swayze, diagnosed a year ago with the most common and grimmest form of the disease, was hospitalized with pneumonia last Friday. And Wednesday, Read the rest of this entry »
* Shares fall as much as 8 pct
(Recasts, adds analyst comments, updates share movement)
BANGALORE, Feb 23 (Reuters) – Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Inc
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SPPI.O
) said U.S. regulators have extended the review date of
its experimental cancer drug, Zevalin, by three months to July
2.
The decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration comes
after the regulator received a major amendment to an
application for the additional use of Zevalin as first Read the rest of this entry »
Q. What is HPV?
A. HPV stands for Human Papillomavirus. The term papillomavirus indicates that a given virus causes warts (papillomas) that might appear on hands, feet or on the genital area; however, not all HPV viruses cause warts.
Q. What are genital warts?
A. Genital warts are flesh-colored growths that are usually caused by certain types of HPV, and usually appear on the outside of the genitals or near the anus of females and males. Sometimes, Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare has quietly expanded its coverage for cancer drugs to include some treatments that haven’t gotten the Food and Drug Administration’s full seal of approval.
The change was announced last summer with little fanfare and took effect in the fall. It means that doctors and patients seeking Medicare reimbursement for certain novel treatments won’t have to negotiate with the billing department for payment. But it’s also Read the rest of this entry »
Diana Gore is 44 years old and minutes away from surgery to remove the cancer in her breast. The mother of three daughters from Clinton, N.C., is trying to control a flood of emotions.
“Fear. Will this be it?” she says in the pre-op room. “Will it be gone when we’re finished here, or will we come back later on and say, ‘Oh, you know, there’s a little more left there, we’ve got to go back,’” Gore says.
Inside the operating room, Gore’s surgeon, Read the rest of this entry »
Talked with Dad about doing this story. He asked me what I was going to write about. I told him I wasn’t sure, something about family. I didn’t tell him what I was thinking, that I could feel the burdens that were his shifting to me. I didn’t tell him because I thought he would feel I was resentful. I didn’t tell him because I didn’t want to remind him of his own mortality. Or rather, maybe I didn’t want to remind myself of his mortality.
So I said Read the rest of this entry »
Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development Michelle Gildernew and the Deputy President of the Ulster Farmers Union (UFU), Harry Sinclair have lent their support to Action Cancer’s efforts to raise awareness of their services in rural communities.
Attending an event this week organised by Northern Ireland’s leading, local cancer charity, Action Cancer, the Minister and UFU guests were given a tour of the Action Cancer Big Bus mobile screening Read the rest of this entry »