The Online Cancer News and Information
Faced with a cancer diagnosis, or any challenging life event, you want to talk to someone who has already experienced what you are about to experience. You want to find stories about other people who have overcome adversity, preferably told by the people who went through it first-hand. You want to know what to expect. [...]
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Boston Red Sox rookie pitcher Jon Lester is undergoing tests for “internal medical issues, including cancer,” according to a report by a Boston newspaper. Lester, 21, was placed on the disabled list Monday with a strained back and is undergoing several exams in Boston. Some tests are for cancer, the Boston Herald reported Wednesday. Lester was diagnosed with enlarged [...]
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CANCER treatment accounted for almost one-sixth of the €900 million paid out by the VHI in health insurance claims last year to more than 500,000 members of its flagship schemes. This is more than double the amount of money being paid out on behalf of cancer patients five years ago. Yesterday the country’s largest health [...]
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SEATTLE — The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation has given a $5 million grant to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center for its work on early detection of breast and prostate cancer. The money will go toward a “proof-of-principle” project testing the theory that certain blood proteins can signal the early development of cancer with [...]
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THURSDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDay News) — U.S. scientists are pointing to the full, 18-month-long remission of two melanoma patients as the first evidence that gene therapy can work to beat back cancer. “I’m not aware of any other gene therapy that’s gotten this far in cancer therapy,” said Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer [...]
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It might be celebrity gossip but news is flying around the internet that Nike has offered Jennifer Aniston a record deal for her celebrity endorsement in exchange for donations that will benefit cancer research. It is being reported Aniston will be appearing in both television commercials and print ads for Nike. According to the buzz, [...]
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While public and private groups, along with researchers and a few drug companies, have been making serious efforts to help smokers quit smoking cigarettes, the tobacco industry has been spiking the level of nicotine in cigarettes, according to a study by the Department of Public Health. Between the years 1998 to 2004, the amount of [...]
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The addition of further chemotherapy added to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with esophageal cancer can improve survival. When diagnosed with esophageal cancer the patient is usually given chemotherapy to shrink the tumor before surgery, it also may be accompanied by radiation. This gives a better chance that the tumor will be smaller and can be [...]
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A chemical found in hard plastics — such as CD cases, baby bottles, food-storage containers, and even electronics parts — has been loosely linked to incidences of breast cancer. Popular opinion cautions that if we were not worried about this news yesterday, we should not be worried about it today — because studies are preliminary [...]
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Recent research indicates that obesity makes ovarian cancer deadlier and more likely to recur. According to physician and senior author of the study, Dr. Andrew J. Li of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, maintaining ideal body weight is important for many reasons. This is just one more reason to reduce obesity — because obese women suffering [...]
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Katie Couric spent her summer traveling the country visiting with future CBS news fans and raising money for cancer awareness. Couric, whose husband Jay Monahan died of colon cancer in 1998 at the age of 42, has become a prominent spokesperson for colon cancer awareness. She underwent a colonoscopy on-air in March 2000 and inspired [...]
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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 30 (HealthDay News) — The final word on whether the cox-2 painkiller Celebrex might be used to prevent colon cancer is a definite “no,” according to the long-awaited results of two major studies. Both of the three-year trials found that the drug reduced the occurrence of precancerous polyps called adenomas in people at [...]
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