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A great new woman’s online community called Capessa has a feature video under its Health and Fitness section.
The feature video is entitled How I Used My Passion for Gardening to Fight Breast Cancer.
“My parents had been married for 62 years when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.”
My father had Alzheimer’s. My mother was his caretaker, […]
Speaking of prostate cancer, it is important to catch it early, as with any other type of cancer.
Early cancer detection increases response to treatment, the chance of curing the cancer and patient survival. Most especially, it may prevent the patient from undergoing surgery.
As we know, however advanced procedures there may have, surgery doesn’t come with […]
According to new genomics research by a team from Wake Forest University School of Medicine, a blood test for five generic variants previously associated with prostate cancer will be able to gauge a man’s risk for developing prostate cancer.
As the researchers reported in New England Journal of Medicine:
Researchers found that a man with four of […]
From the OC Register (Orange County’s news source) is a story of an aspiring pilot and a volleyball athlete who isn’t putting his life on hold just because he has cancer - paraganglioma - a very rare form of cancer.
It was early 2006. Jerry Phan, 29, of Costa Mesa was training to play semi-pro volleyball […]
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered that hormonal components in OTC dietary supplements may promote the progression of prostate cancer and decrease the effectiveness of anti-cancer drugs.
According to Dr. Claus Roehrborn, chairman of urology at UT Southwestern and one of the study’s authors:
“Physicians need to ask their patients not only about the prescription […]
Remember when I said that the Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson “couple rumor” was just movie publicity gimmick?
It’s true: McConaughey and Hudson are not a couple and he hasn’t dumped the Brazilian bombshell of a girlfriend - Camilla Alves - either.
He hasn’t dumped her at all, in fact they are having a baby. Three months in the […]
Approved by the FDA, a genetic test that can help in the assessment of risk of tumor recurrence and long-term survival for patients with relatively high-risk breast cancer - TOP2A FISH pharmDx - is the first approved device to test for the TOP2A (topoisomerase 2 alpha) gene in cancer patients.
The TOP2A gene plays a role […]
The quantity and identity of specific protein markers in the human saliva can be used as an early, non-invasive diagnostic test for breast cancer that can even be conducted by dentists.
Such were the findings of a new study by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
The study describes how the onset […]
According to Wildon Farwell, M.D., of the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System and colleagues, patients that are on cholesterol-lowering drugs – statins – may be at a lower risk for developing cancer — especially lung and colorectal cancers.
Statin users had a reduced risk of all cancer types compared with non-statin users. The incidence of cancer […]
The Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida is seeking patients who have primary liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma) that has spread to other organs or is too advanced to be treated by surgery and must have had prior chemotherapy treatments.
The said patients are being recruited by Moffitt for the phase II study of the oral medication […]
Cancer therapies, healing, and society.
Written by Gloria Gamat [email] for b5media.
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