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Amgen has recently been told by the FDA to reword the labeling of its flagship anemia drugs - Aranesp and Procrit - to further restrict their use in treating cancer patients.
The move, which the F.D.A. announced on Wednesday, represents the first time the agency has invoked authority under a 2007 law that empowered it […]
Remember Hope Lodge? The American Cancer Society (ACS) has received a $4 million gift for the building of a new Hope Lodge in City of Rochester in New York.
Here’s the YouTube video forwarded by Paul McGee (thanks again Paul!).
God bless the generous hearts for the donation and most especially, God bless Hope Lodge!
All cancer patients […]
Mental health is important to every individual, whether you have a serious condition such as cancer or not.
Sometimes, I believe that one’s mental health is overlooked even though it too play a critical part how a patient manages to live with the disease or how survival is willed.
May is Mental Health Month and here at […]
Do you guys know about Hope Lodge? I didn’t. Until now.
A service of the American Cancer Society (ACS) - Hope Lodge - offers free temporary housing to cancer patients that have to travel away from home to get cancer treatments, and is located in various locations throughout the United States.
Last night, the Hope Lodge NYC […]
According to scientists at the University of Southern California (USC), in collaboration with Italian researchers, fasting (for 48 hours) before receiving chemotherapy could help limit the treatment’s toxic effects to cancer cells—and spare healthy ones.
Starving healthy cells helps to differentiate them from tumor cells, a trick that could make cancer treatments more effective.
The new finding […]
For the Moffitt Cancer Center’s Department of Nutrition and their Dietitians, March is a month-long celebration of National Nutrition Month.
Together with the other medical disciplines, Dietitians help in providing quality care and comprehensive medical nutrition therapy, including:
Prevention and treatment of malnutrition
Counseling on diet and cancer prevention
Counseling on dietary supplements
Provision of tube-feeding recommendations
Food safety guidance for […]
I was notified of something really interesting that will be of huge help (I hope!) to cancer patients — from the American Cancer Society (ACS) via Paul McGee.
Pretty much like YouTube, ACS has launched its own, cancer specific, video and picture sharing site called SharingHope.TV.
SharingHope.tv allows users to create an account and upload video, audio, […]
Just like cancer patients undergoing treatments at the the St. Luke’s Medical Center-Cancer Institute in Quezon City, Philippines can focus on beauty even for just one day.
Six cancer patients got makeovers from the metro’s popular beauty salons and tips on how to look beautiful even in the worst of times.
Rosalia Cruz, 50, of Baliwag, Bulacan, […]
Usually, cancer patients take several medications at the same time, not only for treatment of cancer but for management of side effects and other secondary illness induced by the cancer itself or the cancer drug prescribed to them.
Because of that, cancer patients are a higher risk of potential drug interactions that could cause them unnecessary […]
The old notion that aspirin could lead to lethal bleeding of cancer patients who have heart attacks has now been proven wrong by researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
According to their new study to be published in the February 1, 2007 issue of the journal Cancer (now available online):
…9 of […]
Cancer therapies, healing, and society.
Written by Gloria Gamat [email] for b5media.
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