MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'cancer survival rates'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:32:42 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4439003&cid=t_193183_136_f&fid=39212&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbahtocancer.com%2F2011%2F02%2Fone-in-eight%2F When I was first diagnosed with a breast cancer, I stumbled through leaflets, websites, and conversations about my new dance partner, horrified at my own ignorance about a disease that, it turned out, affected one in nine women in the UK. I remember thinking about that statistic as I walked to the hospital one day. I remember trying to work out how many women I knew, how many of those had had a breast cancer, what the likelihood was of more of my loved ones joining me on the dancefloor….. I soon stopped speculating, as I recognised it wasn’t a constructive way to think, but that ‘one in nine’ has stuck with me ever since. Yesterday morning, as usual, I was listening to the radio as I got dressed. As usual, I was surveying my poor beleaguered breast and wondering how... Bah! to cancer blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4439003 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 06:44:08 +0100 4439003 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3885343&cid=t_193183_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Favastin-for-breast-cancer-will-the-fda-revoke-it%2F2010.08.19 Time to get back up on my soap box. Next month the FDA is supposed to consider taking the unique, first-time-ever step of revoking a drug’s indication not because it’s dangerous, but because it doesn’t work well enough to offset its risks. Never mind that it costs about $8,000 a month. The drug is Avastin (bevacizumab), a targeted monoclonal antibody that prevents tumors from creating and maintaining their own blood supply, a process called angiogenesis. Without oxygen and nutrients from blood, tumors can’t keep growing. Avastin is the world’s best-selling cancer drug, approved for use with chemotherapy to treat lung cancer and metastatic colorectal and breast cancer. It is also being investigated (and, likely, being prescribed off label) for numerous other c... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3885343 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:00:00 +0100 3885343 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3858345&cid=t_193183_136_f&fid=39212&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbahtocancer.com%2F2010%2F08%2Fgetting-better%2F I think this is more important and more interesting than anything I might have to say today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10944826 We are getting there. But there’s still a way to go. (Source: Bah! to cancer) Bah! to cancer blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3858345 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:50:32 +0100 3858345 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2591642&cid=t_193183_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2FdoPZtj_b1BU%2F It seems, some races/ethnicities are just more prone to cancer than others. Corollary, some races have higher survival rates for cancer than others. For example, a mutation was found to increase the risk of colon cancer in Caucasians by 10%, but not in Japanese population. And in a recent study, African Americans were found to have lesser survival rates for breast cancer than their Caucasian counterparts. The same disparity was shown for prostate and ovarian cancers, which need changes in hormones in our body for the tumor to grow. Interestingly, the survival rates between black and whites are the same for other forms of cancers, like lung, colon, lymphoma, leukemia, or myeloma. Scientists found these results after other factors were adjusted for diagnosis, access to treatment, and stand... Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2591642 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:42:00 +0100 2591642 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2194835&cid=t_193183_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F02%2Fdeath-of-thousand-cuts.html click to enlargeFor want of a nail the shoe was lost.For want of a shoe the horse was lost.For want of a horse the rider was lost.For want of a rider the battle was lost.For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.Read the letter carefully. Ignore the minor grammatical mistake - not bad considering it was typed in India.  Sub-optimal treatment predicated by lack of resources? If there is no concrete evidence to support pelvic node radiotherapy, why was it suggested in the first place?  And why does he have to wait six weeks for treatment? Six weeks is a long time when you are (nearly literally) sitting on a cancer.Prostate cancerThe media screams about the lack of expensive, new, front-line chemotherapuetic agents like herceptin. It makes good headl... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2194835 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:30:00 +0100 2194835 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1635017&cid=t_193183_136_f&fid=35300&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.metastaticlivercancer.org%2F2008-07-18-cancer-treatment%2Fdebbies-mama-has-liver-and-bone-cancer%2F 13 liver cancer patients will have died when only 1 is still standing after 5 years. Think about this when you clap for a cancer survivor on TV: you are watching the exception to the rule. Liver cancer survival rates are bottom low. Worldwide 7 % of the people diagnosed with liver cancer will be alive 5 years later. This means if you have a room with 14 people diagnosed with liver cancer, only 1 of them will be alive in 5 years.   13 of these 14 people won’t stand a chance to be aired on TV at Oprah, Dr Oz, Dr Drew…   Please Oprah: stop saying "how smart" Dr. Oz is. Have a look at what Dr. Oz doesn’t know.   If you can only save 1 person out of 14 liver cancer patients, then there is no reason to glorify the doctor’s knowledge… &nbsp... Metastatic liver cancer blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1635017 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:05:16 +0100 1635017