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Today was the date for the Paphos Cancer Patients Support Group in the Mediterranean region of Cyprus to challenge the Guinness World Book of Records’ Longest Chain of Bras!
Currently Singapore held the record with 79,001 Bras spanning 60 kilometers (about 37 miles).
According to Cyprus Sunday Mail Internet Edition, campaigners laid out 114,700 bras along the […]
This article, “Sales jobs tied to bladder cancer risk” is a bit scary, because it suggests that research review of 18 studies on occupation and bladder cancer risk has additional evidence for people in sales positions to have (slightly) higher risk of bladder cancer, especially for women.
Speculations of why this link was seen ranged from […]
A patient who is enrolled in a clinical trial may have mixed feelings.
On the one hand, clinical trials may offer novel therapies that aren’t yet available, and these therapies may have a dramatic effect on the patient’s illness. On the other hand, clinical trials are experimental, and there are never any guarantees (well, except maybe […]
Rennie was a teenager when a rare form of cancer took away her leg, but Rennie is a role model of not letting cancer take away her spirit.
Rennie wears a prosthetic leg and cycles and competed in a triathlon with other cancer survivors. The event included swimming, bicycling and walking or running. Rennie sees cancer […]
Earlier this month, Kristen Gerencher at Dow Jones wrote “Lifestyle Changes Could Prevent Almost Half of Cancer Deaths” as found by the American Cancer Society. These lifestyle changes included:
avoiding smoking and excessive sun exposure
eating nutritiously
getting regular exercise and recommended health screenings
However, many seem to have trouble following these recommendations. I know that I break many […]
Generally, prostate-specific antigen or PSA testing has been used to predict a man’s chance of developing prostate cancer.
Now, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has posted a “prostate cancer calculator” that takes into account additional factors, including:
Race
Age
PSA Level
Family History of Prostate Cancer
Digital Rectal Examination Result
Prior Negative Prostate Biopsy
This test is available online for both patients and […]
According to a recent press release from UC Davis, Asian American males (Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese American) in California die of cancer 3 times the rate of South Asian females in California…
… and this difference in non-lung cancer death rate may be explained almost entirely by smoking.
I don’t know what the overall rates would […]
Dr. David Miles has a point when he criticized some of his colleagues clamoring over the “wonders” of Herceptin.
Herceptin is a drug that is often classified as a “molecular” therapy because it targets a growth factor receptor that is overexpressed (overproduced) in some breast cancer cells. This receptor is a member of the “Her-2″ family […]
Last week was the annual scientific meeting for American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting (AACR), and with these types of meetings, we’d get journalistic interpretations of what’s “new and exciting.”
Each year, I’d wonder what is going to get hyped up. What I mean by this, is that journalists pick up something interesting. Then an […]
When I was a first year student at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, a senior student got up to address us during orientation. He highlighted some orientation-related information. Then, he became very solemn.
He said, “Please show some decorum around here. Remember that people come here to die.”
That comment always stuck in my mind, and it wasn’t […]
Cancer therapies, healing, and society.
Written by Gloria Gamat [email] for b5media.
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