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I stumbled onto Peter Bevin’s websites and delighted in his kitten pictures. When I clicked a link to find out who Peter was, I saw a page on what Peter learned from caring for his wife Menya. Menya died of breast cancer in 2001.
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Thomas Burton at the Wall Street Journal reported that the test BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are widely used for predicting breast cancer risk, but misses 10% to 20% of high risk women. These women may therefore think their cancer risk is lower when this is not the case. Even though the study published in this […]
Forbes reported that the March 2006 issue of Journal of Clinical Oncology (”JCO”), data review from 20 breakst cancer studies showed that minority women were “half as likely as white women to receive recommended post-surgical drug treatment for breast cancer” and this may potentially explain why African-American women are 19% more likely than Caucasian women […]
My friend’s sister died of ovarian cancer over the weekend. She was battling it for many years, and had become progressively ill in the past year or so. When she began to have respiratory distress and fell into a coma, the family knew that the time has come.
Family members can feel a mixture of grief […]
American Cancer Society published an interesting article about cancer patients who are undergoing treatment and applying for a job. During the interview, should a patient disclose to the prospective employer that he has cancer?
Employers are legally restricted to stay away from questions that are personal in nature and may dispose employers to bias. However, a […]
For those with family history of colon cancer or polyps, colonoscopy can be a life saver. This procedure allows for monitoring and diagnosis and - if polyps are found - immediate treatment that can make a life of difference for a patient. The sad reality is that despite our access to this screening tool, the […]
National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN)’s breast cancer treatment guidelines during pregnancy would differentiate a woman’s pregnancy term and suggest surgery for first trimester and adjuvant chemotherapy during second trimester. Radiation therapy and hormone therapy will be withheld until the baby is born. However, these guidelines are not based on clinical evidence. NCCN’s cancer treatment guidelines […]
Oncologists are now beginning to seriously consider “quality of life” (QoL) when treating their cancer patients. Mere years ago, quality of life made little difference, as oncologists and drug companies focused on the “quantity” of life. Cancer drugs that gave even a few months of “absolute survival benefits” were touted as gold standards. Thanks to […]
Colorectal cancer is the 2nd deadliest cancer after lungh cancer for both men and women. Symptoms of colorectal cancer may include:
* Rectal bleeding
* Blood in or on the stool (bright red)
* Change in bowel habits
* Stools that are narrower […]
I’m Jane Chin, your Cancer Commentary blogger, and welcome to my first purview into “network blogging.” My doctorate (Ph.D.) is in cancer biochemistry, and did my graduate studies at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York. I studied how drugs stopped cell growth, and why. I spent over a decade of my professional […]
Cancer therapies, healing, and society.
Written by Gloria Gamat [email] for b5media.
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