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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

The time I realized I kicked cancer’s ass
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow. ― Thomas Paine Dear my oncologist, This year was my 11th anniversary as a breast cancer survivor. For the past 6 or 7 years, I have visited your office every year. I graduated to yearly check-ups after I passed my five-year anniversary, as you well know. My annual visit is usually sometime during the month of April as that coincides with when I received my diagnosis. Each yea...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 14, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Patient Cancer Patients Source Type: blogs

Cancer treatment can mess with your brain
In this study, 189 women who had been recently diagnosed and had just finished their chemotherapy, were interviewed and tested. About one in five of these women complained about their memory and ability to organize and plan (called “executive function”). In general those women who complained of memory problems showed deficiencies on memory tests. Those with executive function complaints did better but still did not perform up to standard on the tests. The researchers concluded that “chemo brain” is a real phenomenon. There probably isn’t much that will change because of these studies. Kids with leukemia are much...
Source: Dr.Kattlove's Cancer Blog - June 28, 2013 Category: Oncologists Source Type: blogs

The Secrets of Cancer Survivors
By JAMES SALWITZ, MD Disclaimer: I have never had cancer. Therefore, at the most basic level, I do not have the right to pontificate about dealing with the dread disease. Rather, I have been the servant and support of those that struggle with cancer. I thought it might be of some assistance to share my observations from the other side of the bed rail. Perhaps, their secrets of survival may help you. 1. Cancer is a team sport; do not do this alone. Never show up to an important appointment by yourself. You are dealing with a physical impairment, as well as a complex mental challenge, at the same time that you are frightened...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simon Nath Tags: THCB James Salwitz Source Type: blogs

The Dangers of Big Corporate Health Care: Deceptive Marketing of Cancer Treatments
A series of articles over the last few months, culminating in an investigative report by Reuters, provided the newest example of what can go wrong when corporations provide direct care to vulnerable patients.  In this case, the vulnerable patients had cancer, and the corporation that provided them care was the Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA).  I will try to go through the case chronologically.As Rueters reported, CTCA "was founded in 1988 by Richard J. Stephenson, who has been chairman ever since."The Founder's Checkered PastA Misdemeanor As Reuters noted,A graduate of Northwestern University Law Schoo...
Source: Health Care Renewal - March 11, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: deception crime marketing Cancer Treatment Centers of America hospital systems complementary/ alternative medicine Source Type: blogs

How to Navigate a Cancer Diagnosis
Unlike many of the most important events in one’s life — graduation, marriage, having a child — almost no one anticipates a cancer diagnosis. This year, nearly 239,000 U.S. men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer and more than 232,000 women will learn they have breast cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. Over their lifetimes, nearly half of all men can expect a cancer diagnosis, and more than a third of women. (The data does not include non-melanoma skin cancers, the most common diagnosis.) “Thankfully, we now have many tools for detecting cancers early and treating them successfully. But l...
Source: World of Psychology - June 26, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Niki Barr, PhD Tags: General Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Stress American Cancer Society Anxious Thoughts Breast Cancer Cancer Diagnosis Cancer Patients Cancers Effective Tools Emotional Wellness Important Events Lifetimes Managing Anx Source Type: blogs

Will Cancer Drugs Ever Be As Affordable As Retrovirals in Developing Countries?
By ASHLEY ANDREOU In 2014, the majority of international health aid was dedicated to HIV. So, one might reasonably assume that this is the largest health problem facing the world. Yet, HIV only constitutes 4% of the global burden of disease. In 2014, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) made up 50% of the entire disease burden, but only received 2% of all global health funds. The disease burden of NCDs is fast outpacing that of infectious diseases. Despite this, the proportion of global health financing dedicated to combatting NCDs has remained constant over the past 15 years at 1 to 2%. Currently, 32.6 million individuals are...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 17, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: OP-ED Biologic generics Cancer Pharmaceuitcals Retrovirals Source Type: blogs

Will Cancer Drugs Ever Be As Affordable As Retrovirals in Low and Middle Income Countries?
By ASHLEY ANDREOU In 2014, the majority of international health aid was dedicated to HIV. So, one might reasonably assume that this is the largest health problem facing the world. Yet, HIV only constitutes 4% of the global burden of disease. In 2014, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) made up 50% of the entire disease burden, but only received 2% of all global health funds. The disease burden of NCDs is fast outpacing that of infectious diseases. Despite this, the proportion of global health financing dedicated to combatting NCDs has remained constant over the past 15 years at 1 to 2%. Currently, 32.6 million individuals are...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 17, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: OP-ED Biologic generics Cancer Pharmaceuitcals Retrovirals Source Type: blogs

Delete Blood Cancer: What You May Not Know About Bone Marrow Donation
We all know about blood drives and the importance of blood and platelet donations to save lives. And millions of people are registered organ donors (usually when they get their driver’s license). But did you know that there is another renewable, life-saving resource you could give?  It’s your blood stem cells/bone marrow. Only 11 million Americans are registered with the National Marrow Donor Program to help save lives if their blood stem cells match a person fighting any one of 70 blood cancers and diseases. Each year, nearly 20,000 people are in need of blood stem cell/bone marrow transplants as their last hope for ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - July 22, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: DW Staff Tags: Access Advocacy Cancer Consumer Health Care Patients Publc Health Source Type: blogs

The Combination Diagnosis
Presto, you were a healthy person, who in addition to going out for drinks and appetizers with friends on weekends, you also used to go to the gym, hike, bike, swim, blah, blah, blah. All sorts of activities. Then, the ball drops. Now you have cancer and another ailment which prevents you from doing much of everything.You read about those ' other ' cancer people, who took their athleticism to new heights after their cancer diagnosis. They climb not just mole hills, but Mounts Everest and Denali in the same month. They learn to stand on the big fat boards and pole their way across the Pacific. They boast about their return ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - June 18, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: cancer diagnosis disability Source Type: blogs

Ten Years Cancer-Free in Three Days
Sarah Palin has weighed in on my umbilical cord stem cell transplant, which I received on April 24, 2003, meaning this Wednesday my bone marrow turns 10. When my fellow UVA graduate, Katie Couric, asked Palin whether I should have accepted the stem cells, Palin said, “The only difference between humans and animals is the willingness to sacrifice oneself in the face of sin. Does that answer your question? Wahoowa, Couric.” When Couric informed Palin that an umbilical cord transplant is different than stem cell research and does not involve fetuses, Palin said, “Like I’m going to fall for another one of your tricky ...
Source: I've Still Got Both My Nuts: A True Cancer Blog - April 21, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: politics Source Type: blogs

Defend Britt Hermes from a naturopathic cancer quack trying to silence her through legal thuggery
One of the favorite tactics of cranks and quacks to silence criticism from bloggers is to threaten to sue for libel. Ex-naturopath turned science advocate Britt Hermes is currently living this reality, as a naturopathic cancer quack is currently suing her for libel in Germany. Given that Britt is a graduate student in evolutionary biology her means are quite modest and as is no doubt the intent, just defending this lawsuit could ruin her and her husband financially. Fortunately, you can help help her, and I urge you to do so. The post Defend Britt Hermes from a naturopathic cancer quack trying to silence her through legal ...
Source: Respectful Insolence - January 15, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Medicine Naturopathy Pseudoscience Quackery Britt Hermes Britt Marie Hermes Colleen Huber featured legal thuggery libel Source Type: blogs

Moms after cancer are a new demographic
One afternoon, I was seated in front of my computer working when a ping came through, notifying me of a message delivered on Twitter. I stopped what I was doing and scrolled through Twitter and then checked my message. It was from someone I had never met in real life (“IRL,” in social media), though I felt we had become acquainted on Twitter. She was a wife and a mother. Before her diagnosis, she had one beautiful little girl and had been trying for a second child. She had gotten pregnant but suffered a mid-second trimester loss. Her doctors told her and her husband that it was safe to begin trying again, and that’s ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 18, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Conditions Cancer Source Type: blogs