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Meet Dakota Fisher-Vance…she didn’t let cancer derail her
Fasten your seatbelts. You’re about to meet Dakota Fisher-Vance. Cancer could have derailed the impact she’d have on the world, but it didn’t. She was preparing for Med School, interested in education and looking forward, perhaps, to a day she’d work with children with autism. Then, came cancer. Specifically, Familial Adenomatous Polyposis. I won’t tell you what she found on the web, you can read it here and understand her frustration about what she found. Then, came a desmoid tumor, another very rare condition. Statistically, she’s one in four million. Except in my book, where she’s one in a billion. In the ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 4, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Advocacy Cancer Innovation Source Type: blogs

The Young Adult Ignored Cancer Patients
This is one of my pet peeves. Children with cancer have their mature, sane parents advocating for them. Adults with cancer can advocate for themselves.The young adults - 15 to 30s - often don ' t find the same support or resources. First they are still trying to figure out who they are and what they will do with their life. Second, they are learning to be independent and should be focusing on their education and careers, not going to chemotherapy. There is hope now that online resources can help fill the gaps for the patients and maybe for the doctors as well." In addition, they will probably go on to live long lives and t...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - December 22, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: cancer bonds cancer treatment side effects young cancer patients Source Type: blogs

TBT: Getting Diagnosed with Cervical Cancer
In honor of it being Cervical Cancer Awareness Month today’s TBT post is one we ran as part of a series back in 2014. January is Cervical Cancer Month. According to the CDC, in 2010 11,818 women in the United States were diagnosed with cervical cancer and 3,939 women died from the disease. And while these statistics are disheartening, once the leading cause of death in women, cervical cancer has rapidly declined over the past 40 years.  The decline in cases can be attributed to preventative medicine: more women are getting regular Pap tests, which can find cervical precancer before it turns into cancer. Throughout t...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - January 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer TBT Women's Health Source Type: blogs

A Young Adult Survivor Story: 15 Years in the Making
Nearly 72,000 young adults, ages 15-39, are diagnosed with cancer every year. April is the time when we highlight the unique challenges that young adult cancer survivors face like school, jobs, dating, getting married and having children. Over the years, LIVESTRONG has interviewed thousands of cancer survivors. Many of those survivors were filmed for our website including a woman named Kim Bergeron. Kim applied to become a LIVESTRONG Leader this year and we jumped at the chance to share her survivor story again 15 years in the making. Kim’s 2003 interview with LIVESTRONG LIVESTRONG: We interviewed you in the early 2...
Source: LIVESTRONG Blog - April 17, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: LIVESTRONG Staff Source Type: blogs

Young Adult Cancer Survivor and LIVESTRONG Leader: Valerie
LIVESTRONG Leaders are individuals that make a yearly significant commitment to those in their community affected by cancer by spreading the message of LIVESTRONG. They do this by fundraising, hosting events, bringing LIVESTRONG resources to their local hospitals and more. One of our amazing leaders from France, Valérie Sanja, talks about why she is involved with LIVESTRONG and what she is doing in her community to help spread the LIVESTRONG message. What is your name, where are you from? My Name is Valérie Sanja, a french national currently living in Germany following my recent surgery and medical follow up treatment. ...
Source: LIVESTRONG Blog - April 21, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: LIVESTRONG Staff Source Type: blogs

Growing research shows how two of the major cancer treatments, radiation and chemotherapy, can lead to long-term cognitive impairment
Mind jumble: Understanding chemo brain (Stanford Medicine): Sarah Liu was treated for leukemia as a teenager. She attended her high school graduation on a four-hour pass from Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and was bald under her white graduation cap, her arm bandaged where she’d been receiving chemotherapy drugs. Liu survived cancer and the ordeal of her treatment, and for many years she thrived. But today, at 53, she struggles to remember the names of all the Stanford oncologists who helped her, though she reveres them for saving her life. Many years later, her childhood cancer treatments — chemotherapy...
Source: SharpBrains - June 5, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology astrocyte chemo-brain chemobrain chemotherapy chemotherapy-related cognitive impairment cognitive difficulties Cognitive-impairment microglia myelin oligodendrocyte OPC Source Type: blogs

Progress against cancer? Let's think about it.
It is difficult to pick up a newspaper these days without reading an article proclaiming progress in the field of cancer research. Here is an example, taken from an article posted on the MedicineNet site (1). The lead-off text is: "Statistics (released in 1997) show that cancer patients are living longer and even "beating" the disease. Information released at an AMA sponsored conference for science writers, showed that the death rate from the dreaded disease has decreased by three percent in the last few years. In the 1940s only one patient in four survived on the average. By the 1960s, that figure was up to one in three, ...
Source: Specified Life - March 25, 2016 Category: Information Technology Tags: cancer cancer cure cancer statistics cancer treatments orphan diseases progress in cancer research rare diseases Source Type: blogs

Progress against cancer? Let ' s think about it.
It is difficult to pick up a newspaper these days without reading an article proclaiming progress in the field of cancer research. Here is an example, taken from an article posted on the MedicineNet site (1). The lead-off text is: " Statistics (released in 1997) show that cancer patients are living longer and even " beating " the disease. Information released at an AMA sponsored conference for science writers, showed that the death rate from the dreaded disease has decreased by three percent in the last few years. In the 1940s only one patient in four survived on the average. By the 1960s, that figure was up to one in thre...
Source: Specified Life - March 25, 2016 Category: Information Technology Tags: cancer cancer cure cancer statistics cancer treatments orphan diseases progress in cancer research rare diseases Source Type: blogs

What ’s it like to be a child and your sibling is diagnosed with cancer?
By Christian Jarrett When the dreadful news arrives that a child has cancer, understandably the focus of parents and health professionals turns to supporting the sick child as best they can. But also caught up in the nightmare are the child’s siblings. Not only will they likely be consumed by shock and fear, but they must adapt to the cancer journey the whole family has to embark on. Official health guidance here in the UK and in the USA states that it’s important to provide support to the siblings of children with cancer. Yet the reality is we know relatively little about their experience. A new study in Cli...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 14, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: researchdigestblog Tags: Cancer Health Positive psychology Qualitative Source Type: blogs

A Patient at a Press Conference
The following post originally ran on Gray Connections on September 6th. Earlier today (September 6, 2015) I gave this speech at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC)  World Conference on Lung Cancer in Denver.  I’m pleased at the reception it received. I appreciate IASLC including me in this press conference. They’ve been responsive to lung cancer patients and advocates, and have included the patient voice in several conferences. Patients and advocates participated in the planning process for this World Conference on Lung Cancer, as demonstrated by the number of patient and advocate prese...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - September 23, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Advocacy Cancer Patients Source Type: blogs

i suspected as much
The headline reads, "Breast cancer among young women increasing" and cites a study conducted out of the Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology program at the Seattle Children's hospital.I certainly know lots of young women with breast cancer (I worked with several of them but that's a whole other story). I also know and have known lots of younger women with advanced (or metastatic) cancer - which is really what this article from the Los Angeles Times is all about.As Rebecca Johnson (herself a survivor of breast cancer at 27) and her co-authors concluded, "An increasing number of young women in the United States will present w...
Source: Not just about cancer - March 4, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: metastatic breast cancer news health care activism pissed off show and tell preventing cancer cancer blog rants Source Type: blogs

When tears turn into pearls: Post-traumatic growth following childhood and adolescent cancer
By guest blogger Tomasz Witkowski It’s hard to imagine a crueller fate than when a child receives a diagnosis of an illness as difficult as cancer. A young human being, still not fully formed, is suddenly and irrevocably thrown into a situation that many adults are unable to cope with. Each year, around 160,000 children and youngsters worldwide are diagnosed with cancer, and this trend is growing in industrialised societies. Faced with such facts, it is particularly important to understand how children cope. What traces of the experience remain in their psyche if they manage to survive? Partial answers to these question...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - January 16, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cancer guest blogger Source Type: blogs

Should we give patients our cell phone numbers?
I recently attended the David Stroud Adolescent and Young Adult [AYA] Symposium at Keck Medicine of University of Southern California. It was a very interesting symposium with experts in adolescent and young adult cancer presenting on many different topics important for this population. There was also a panel of young adult cancer survivors, and this, for me, was a definite highlight of the day. Continue reading ... Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 13, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Physician Cancer Primary care Source Type: blogs

Building Sustainable Partnerships To Improve Access To Breast Cancer Treatment For Uninsured Women
Breast cancer is a terrifying disease for most women. In the United States, it is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women ages twenty to fifty-nine years. More than 5,100 women are diagnosed with—and at least 1,100 women die from—breast cancer in New York City each year. The breast cancer survival rate is also lower for uninsured women than for those with private health insurance coverage. Although access to affordable breast cancer screening and treatment has grown substantially over the past few years as a result of increased health insurance coverage options through the Affordable Care Act (ACA), many uninsur...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 20, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Kumbirai M. Madondo, Janice Zaballero and José Pagán Tags: Costs and Spending Featured GrantWatch Health Professionals Insurance and Coverage Access breast cancer Consumers Health Care Costs Health Care Delivery Health Philanthropy Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW Hospitals imag Source Type: blogs

Ewing Sarcoma and a Purpose Driven Life: Part I
This is the second of three installments of this short story which spans my 11th and 12th anniversaries of surviving bone cancer. You can read the first part, which I wrote last year, here: The Journey of Ewing Sarcoma Ewing Sarcoma hopped much of the day and slept all night. He paid no attention to the date, time, angle of the sun, or anything else that keeps creatures grounded in reality. He ate when he felt hungry and found shelter when his bum got cold. He lived a clean life, breathing fresh, forest air and consuming only organic plant products. And he said the Shema for Ben, his creator, every night. Wow, had time p...
Source: I've Still Got Both My Nuts: A True Cancer Blog - September 13, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: cancer-free anniversary imaginative animals Source Type: blogs