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Annual Report to the Nation on Cancer Trends: Cancer Deaths Continue to Fall, But We Can Do Better
This report comes out every year. It is a summation of what we know about the trends in incidence rates for the most common cancers in the United States among both men and women as well as the trends in death rates from those cancers that lead to the highest mortality in the general population as well as specific ethnic groups. It is in a real sense a report card on our progress, which in large part is good but in a number of cancers, not so good. The good news is what we have come to expect: since the year 2000, the overall cancer death rates have continued to decline 1.8% per year in men, 1.4% in women and 0.6% per year ...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - January 7, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Access to care Breast Cancer Cancer Care Cervical Cancer Colon Cancer Early detection Lung Cancer Other cancers Prevention Prostate Cancer Rectal Cancer Research Screening Tobacco Treatment Vaccines Source Type: blogs

Cancer and the Latino Community: Lessons Learned
I had the privilege this week to serve as the keynote speaker for the 4th Summit sponsored by Latinas Contra Cancer-an organization founded and led by Ysabel Duron, a formidable cancer survivor and news media presence in San Francisco. Bringing together members of the Latino community, researchers, community health workers, promotores (more on that later) and advocates, the summit focused on the issues facing the Latino community in increasing awareness, access to care, improved treatment and research opportunities among other topics. But what was most impressive was the spirit, engagement and commitment that permeated the...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - July 24, 2014 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Access to care Breast Cancer Cancer Care Cervical Cancer Colon Cancer Diet Early detection Environment Prevention Prostate Cancer Research Screening Tobacco Source Type: blogs

Breast Cancer Retrospective
Before my breast cancer diagnosis, I was aware of breast cancer around me. A co-worker ' s mother, another co-worker ' s wife, my parent ' s neighbor, and more. But it never really touched me because no one I knew personally was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was a disease of older women. I also felt because I had previously had cancer that sometimes people expected me to be more sympathetic to other ' s cancer diagnoses. I did feel some guilt because of this.I never expected to be diagnosed with another cancer. I felt I already had my share of cancer with thyroid cancer. I didn ' t ' deserve ' any more. Because I had a ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - August 18, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: acceptance anger breast cancer denial depression grief Source Type: blogs

A new understanding of cancer
I read both these articles recently and sort of jumbled them around in my brain and thought about them. They make a lot of sense. There is current medical research which is focusing on a new cancer classification system based on their genetic make up and not on which part of the body they are found.Think about it. We may call it a head cold or the stomach flu, right? But we know they are different and treat them differently. With cancer, its the same thing. Breast cancer and stomach cancer get different treatments - but they are chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation - which are fairly similar. And then doctors wonder why so...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - August 11, 2014 Category: Cancer Tags: breast cancer treatment cancer research progress Source Type: blogs

Hidden Scars from Breast Cancer
Yes there are lots of hidden scars in breast cancer. I have discussed the emotional side a lot - which boils down to PTSD for some. But there is also the physical side. Every time you look at your body and see your cancer scars, you are reminded of  your cancer misadventure. Its only a scar that will fade over time but its still there.Back in 1984, I found my first breast lump. Due to the limitations of surgery at the time, I had to have an excisional biopsy. And because of my medical history (three years after thyroid cancer) they had to be sure. (And if you are trying to calculate my age, I am still only 37). So I h...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - March 6, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: breast cancer treatment lumpectomy progress scars surgery Source Type: blogs

I had a cancer and I still have
- days when cancer never crosses my mind - a wiggle in my walk - a sex life - good, equitable relationships with the people that I love - days when I forget how lucky I am and get hooked on the things in my life that aren’t quite how I would like them to be - moments when the hurt that the experience of cancer has caused to the people I love feels overwhelmingly unfair - nights when I dream that the cancer never went away - a sense of myself that is not attached to the disease - puckery little scars that sometimes seem to mock me when I put one of my lovely bras on (and I only have lovely bras these days) - a drop of...
Source: Bah! to cancer - July 12, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Stephanie Tags: Musings Recovery From Breast Cancer Source Type: blogs

Life in cancer land
is never normal. Every little thingy becomes suspicious and requires further testing. It doesn't matter if it has any relation to previous ailments or is new or not but you always get the 'because of your history we need to be sure...' line.I was talking with a friend about it this morning. There is a nasty level in the diagnostic process that is called 'big enough to see but too small to do anything about it'. It is almost as bad as the 'there are too many thingies to think about surgery' but not really.Basically its a sh*thole that cancer people live in suspended animation for days, weeks, months or even years. Going fr...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - July 20, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: scans stress cancer history Source Type: blogs

Stomach Cancer
Early stomach cancer often does not show very clear symptoms. Symptoms and diagnosis of stomach cancer Like with most cancers of internal your organs, symptoms mostly occur when the cancer is well-progressed, and therefore already difficult to treat. You will undergo a lot of tests in order to make sure what is the cause of […]
Source: Metastatic liver cancer - September 15, 2011 Category: Cancer Authors: Daughter SK Tags: TYPES OF CANCER Source Type: blogs

Stomach Cancer Story
We read this stomach cancer story 4 years ago at our metastatic liver cancer site. It seems to be written by a medical student and it is one of the rare stomach cancer stories people have shared with us so far. Azlin says: I saw my grandpa having a small tumor in the stomach. It […]
Source: Metastatic liver cancer - September 15, 2011 Category: Cancer Authors: Daughter SK Tags: Cancer stories Source Type: blogs

Stomach cancer warning signs
Early cancer detection is your best bet to a successful stomach cancer treatment. If you are having one of the symptoms in the list below without any specific reason, then maybe you are facing early stomach cancer warning signs.
Source: Metastatic liver cancer - September 15, 2011 Category: Cancer Authors: Daughter SK Tags: TYPES OF CANCER Source Type: blogs

Cancer and family planning: A guy’s perspective.
For my book Everything Changes, I interviewed a young adult cancer survivor whose body could no longer produce eggs nor carry a child.  When she met her husband, he was set on having children with his genetic material.  So, they found an egg donor and hired a separate woman as a surrogate who carried the children.  They now have twins, the surrogate is in their lives as an aunt, and while the survivor loves her children, she still has some residual emotional challenges about how they were conceived. What interests me as much as the decisions cancer survivors make in response to their complex family planning needs is the...
Source: Everything Changes - February 19, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Kairol Rosenthal Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Why I Became a Cancer Advocate: Aimee
“It’s cancerous.” Those were my mother’s words on November 17, 2008. She had been hospitalized earlier that fall for unexplained internal bleeding and had just received the results of the follow-up tests. The doctors found a tumor in her stomach, and it was cancerous. I was devastated. Only days earlier, my best friend had laid her mother to rest; the breast cancer was too aggressive. We were still reeling from her death when we got my mother’s diagnosis. The next few weeks were a blur of doctors’ visits, tests, and conversations with my extended family while we worked with doctors to figure...
Source: LIVESTRONG Blog - May 9, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: LIVESTRONG Staff Source Type: blogs

National Minority Health Month Is A Call To Action
April is National Minority Health Month. That's the "dry" statement. The impact statement is that-unfortunately-for many in this country, this is more than a phrase. It's a reality that their health and their health care are in crisis. And the sooner more of us understand this, the sooner we can make a genuine effort to implement effective strategies that will address the sad state of affairs many people find themselves in when it comes to their health, and preventing and appropriately treating their diseases. This is about more than high blood pressure and diabetes. It's about heart disease and stroke and cancer and the l...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - April 18, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Access to care Breast Cancer Cancer Care Cervical Cancer Colon Cancer Early detection Environment Prevention Screening Survivors Treatment Source Type: blogs

Mortality Versus Survival In International Comparisons Of Cancer Care
In a recent paper, Soneji and Yang revisit a topic we first explored in the April 2012 issue of Health Affairs — namely, whether the U.S. gets value for its cancer care. We found that life expectancy after cancer diagnosis rose more quickly for patients in the U.S. than for patients in Europe. Moreover, while spending per patient also rose more quickly in the U.S., Americans still received good value from the health care system. Compared to the gains seen in Europe, for example, each additional life-year gained in the U.S. cost roughly $20,000 in additional U.S. spending. Soneji and Yang re-examine trends in cancer d...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - March 20, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Dana Goldman, Darius Lakdawalla, and Tomas Philipson Tags: All Categories Business of Health Care Comparative Effectiveness Consumers Europe Health Care Costs Health Care Delivery Prevention Public Health Research Source Type: blogs

Which is More Uncomfortable: The Colonoscopy or Treatment for Colon Cancer?
Michelle was a healthy, active 47 year old. She tried to eat right and she exercised. It looked like the hard work was paying off: no health issues and lots of energy. Her work in the healthcare field motivated her to see her doctors regularly for checkups, to get mammograms and to have her blood work done annually. She knew she was getting close to the magical age of 50 and that soon she would need to get a colonoscopy to screen for colorectal cancer.  Since she had no family history of the disease she wasn’t worried. She felt certain that, just as all her previous testing had come back normal, this one would too. ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - March 18, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer Source Type: blogs