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Your Odds Of Surviving Cancer Depend Very Much On Where You Live
[NPR] In the United States, 9 out of 10 kids diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia will live. In Jordan, the survival rate is 16 percent. And while cervical cancer patients have a five-year survival rate of over 70 percent in countries like Mauritius and Norway, the rate in Libya is under 40 percent. That’s the […]
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 2, 2014 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Hannah Pearl Berchenko Tags: Health Care syndicated World News - Home Source Type: blogs
What does a good death mean to you?
In July 1991, I was beginning my first year of medical school in Rochester, New York. I was filled with excitement and anxiety on beginning a journey in medicine as I started on the road to becoming a doctor.
At that time, Rochester was in the national spotlight because of the actions of one of our faculty members, Timothy Quill. In March of that year, Dr. Quill published a piece in the New England Journal of Medicine, in which he described his relationship with his patient, Diane. She had been diagnosed with acute myelomonocytic leukemia and had decided against chemotherapy. In their discussions, she had relayed to him ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 19, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Don S. Dizon, MD Tags: Physician Cancer Palliative care Source Type: blogs
An Ontario court dooms a First Nations girl with cancer: Who’s to blame?
I figured that yesterday’s post about the First Nations girl in Ontario with lymphoblastic leukemia whose parents stopped her chemotherapy in favor of “traditional” medicine would stir up a bit of controversy, and so it did, albeit much more at my not-so-super-secret other blog, which featured an expanded version of this post. Don’t worry, you…
Source: Respectful Insolence - November 18, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Politics Quackery Science Skepticism/critical thinking aborigine Brian Clement chemotherapy First Nations health freedom Justice Gethin Edward lymphoblastic leukemia Makayla Sault M Source Type: blogs
An Ontario court dooms a First Nations girl with cancer
A few weeks ago, Steve Novella invited me on his podcast, The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe, to discuss a cancer case that has been in the news for several months now. The case was about an 11-year-old girl with leukemia who is a member of Canada’s largest aboriginal community. Steve wrote about this case…
Source: Respectful Insolence - November 17, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Naturopathy Politics Quackery Religion Science aborigine Abraham Cherrix Amish Bio-energy treatment Brian Clement chemotherapy cold laser therapy Daniel Hauser detox First Natio Source Type: blogs
Top stories in health and medicine, November 12, 2014
From MedPage Today:
Ebola: ‘True Heroes’ in West Africa. Hailed as a hero after recovering from Ebola, Craig Spencer, MD, said the true heroes are those still on the front lines of the epidemic in West Africa.
Closing the Cardiac Care Gender Gap. Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women in the U.S. In fact, more women than men die from heart disease every year.
Changing Treatment Landscape in CLL. Therapeutic developments in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) have given rise to new strategies that will continue to evolve with agents in the pipeline.
New HCV Drugs Pass Muster in Real World. Clinical trials f...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 12, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: MedPage Today Tags: News Cancer GI Heart Infectious disease Source Type: blogs
An Update on a Trial of Chimeric Antigen Receptor Methods of Targeting Cancer Cells
A trial has been running in leukemia patients using immune cells modified to express a variety of chimeric antigen receptors. This allows the immune cells to recognize and attack cancer cells with a high degree of specificity, and the early results in the trial were impressive. Here is a more recent update:
The blood cells of cancer patients, reprogrammed by doctors to attack their leukemia and re-infused back into the patients' veins, led to complete remissions in 27 of 30 people. That's especially exciting because those patients had failed all conventional treatments. Not all of the remissions lasted. Nineteen patients ...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 16, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
A Better Understanding of the Mechanisms of ALT, Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres
Telomeres cap the ends of chromosomes and shorten with each cell division, one part of the collection of mechanisms that limits the lifespan of somatic cells that make up the bulk of our tissues. Fresh cells with long telomeres are regularly introduced by the stem cells that support each type of tissue in the body, while old cells that have divided many times destroy themselves or lapse into a state of senescence. Average telomere length in tissues tends to shorten with ill health and aging, and this is probably a consequence of reduced stem cell activity, among other factors. This picture is then complicated by the activi...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 29, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Update Satellite — 09-15-2014
This study should be required reading in every emergency medicine residency in this country. In fact, the concepts in the studies should be tested on the emergency medicine board exams.
Now if the study only compared the type of a patient’s insurance with the likelihood of emergency department recidivism.
How else can the media try to tarnish this guy’s reputation? The doctor who oversaw Joan Rivers’ fatal endoscopy was once *sued* 10 years ago. Gasp.
The former patient’s attorneys are really trying to create their 15 minutes of fame. They alleged that 10 years ago the patient received no informed ...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - September 15, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Healthcare Update Source Type: blogs
PhRMA Innovation Hub Highlights Research and Advances in the Biopharmaceutical Industry
This article outlines the current human and economic impact that cancer imposes on the U.S. and the progress that is being made toward fighting cancer and understanding the value of its therapies.
Chronic Leukemias: Survival Rates Rise: The 5-year survival rate for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients has increased dramatically since imatinib was first approved for treatment in 2001.
Pipeline of Hope: Learn about the discovery and development process of life-saving or life-enhancing medicines, from initial research to delivery.
Great Moments in Treatment Innovation highlights the key advances that have changed medicine ...
Source: Policy and Medicine - September 10, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Novartis fails to report side effects, fatality
6:52 pm, August 30, 2014Jiji PressNovartis Pharma K.K. said it has failed to report to the health ministry at least 2,579 cases of serious side effects, including a fatality, from its drugs for leukemia and other diseases even though its employees were aware of the problems.Of the total, 1,313 cases were related to Glivec and 514 cases to Tasigna, both drugs for leukemia treatment, and 261 cases involved cancer drug Afinitor, said the Japanese unit of Swiss drug giant Novartis AG on Friday.The findings were reported to the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry the same day.Marketing employees at the firm had recognized the si...
Source: PharmaGossip - August 30, 2014 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society new & improved blood cancer discussion boards
Discussion Boards. The discussion boards are a great place to communicate with others who are going through experiences similar to yours. Share stories, ask questions, receive and provide support, or just see what others are saying. To … Read More →
Source: beth's myeloma blog - August 14, 2014 Category: Cancer Authors: Beth Tags: Myeloma Source Type: blogs
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society new & improved blood cancer discussion boards
Discussion Boards. The discussion boards are a great place to communicate with others who are going through experiences similar to yours. Share stories, ask questions, receive and provide support, or just see what others are saying. To […]
Source: beth's myeloma blog - August 14, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Beth Tags: Myeloma Source Type: blogs
Being Overweight or Obese Raises the Risk of Cancer
This recent study provides yet another reason to make lifestyle choices that better manage your weight. If nothing else cancers thrive in an inflammatory environment, and metabolically active visceral fat tissue generates chronic inflammation. More of it is definitely worse for your long-term health in a range of ways:
Using data from general practitioner records in the UK's Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), the researchers identified 5.24 million individuals aged 16 and older who were cancer-free and had been followed for an average of 7.5 years. The risk of developing 22 of the most common cancers, which repre...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 14, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Larger Animals and Cancer Rates
Larger animals have more cells in their bodies, and cancer occurs when one cell suffers the right combination of mutations to run amok, so why is it that animals such as whales do not have higher cancer rates? Here researchers propose a partial answer to that question:
Larger species do not have higher cancer rates than smaller species, an observation known as Peto's paradox, named after the eminent Oxford cancer epidemiologist Sir Richard Peto who first remarked on the phenomenon in the 1970s. "Cancer is caused by errors occurring in cells as they divide, so bigger animals with more cells ought to suffer more from cancer...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 21, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
