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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
Ovarian cancer survivor stories
Read CJ’s stage iiiC ovarian cancer survivor story, spread to the liver, or share your ovarian cancer survivor stories. CJ emphasizes why you need to have a dog when you want to survive cancer: I’m trying some new techniques of healing my soul with my dog. Seems Patrick Swayze who is being […]
Source: Metastatic liver cancer - January 25, 2009 Category: Cancer Authors: Daughter SK Tags: CJ metastatic liver cancer survivor Barack Obama Ovarian Cancer ovarian cancer patient stories ovarian cancer survivor ovarian cancer survivor stories patrick swayze survivor story Source Type: blogs
Teal Is Personal: Why We Fight for Women with Ovarian Cancer
When I joined the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance last fall, I had no personal history with this disease. That changed rapidly as I began to meet and work with survivors, their families and health professionals in the field. Today, teal—the color of ovarian cancer awareness—is deeply personal to me.
Throughout this month, the Disruptive Women in Health Care blog will feature four women whose lives have been touched by ovarian cancer. They include survivors, caregivers and advocates working with us to change the course of this disease.
Ovarian cancer takes a devastating toll on women who develop the disease. About 22,0...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - September 4, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Advocacy Cancer Uncategorized Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Poor Quality Sleep: A Silent Source of Disability in Breast Cancer
The post below ran on Huffington Post Healthy Living on May 13. It is authored by Hrayr Attarian, MD, FACCP, FAASM, Member of the Society for Women’s Health Rearch Network on Sleep and Associate Professor of Neurology, Northwestern University, Circadian Rhythms and Sleep Research Lab for the Society for Women’s Health Interdisciplinary Network on Sleep.
Poor quality sleep is a major contributor to reduced quality of life and can have a negative impact on mood and energy, cognition, metabolic and immunological function, as well as lead to weight gain [3].
Sleep-related complaints are quite common in women with b...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - July 14, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer Source Type: blogs
Cancer and Obama Inaugurals – guest post
I think you’ll like this post. The longer I am in healthcare, the more I see the need for advocacy. Marcia Mabee Bell is an ovarian cancer survivor who lost her husband to pancreatic cancer while she was in the … Continue reading →
Source: Being Cancer Network - February 4, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dennis Pyritz Tags: Advocacy Guest Post * Living with Cancer Ovarian cancer Pancreatic cancer Spouse Source Type: blogs
Don’t Believe These 3 Myths About Living With Cancer
When people find out that I have stage 4 terminal breast cancer, they have varied reactions. Some are saddened and compassionate, some are concerned and curious, and others, because of their own fears, need to find an explanation — a way to feel in control.
This often leads to myths about living with cancer that can be insulting to those of us who are battling the disease.
Let’s examine the truth behind three of these myths:
Myth #1: If you are a positive person with a great attitude, you won’t get cancer.
My father, mother, and niece all battled cancer. My parents were anything but people who gave in or gave up. Th...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - March 8, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups, RN Tags: Breast Cancer Nutrition Risk Factors treatment Source Type: blogs
Don ’t Believe These 3 Myths About Living With Cancer
When people find out that I have stage 4 terminal breast cancer, they have varied reactions. Some are saddened and compassionate, some are concerned and curious, and others, because of their own fears, need to find an explanation — a way to feel in control.
This often leads to myths about living with cancer that can be insulting to those of us who are battling the disease.
Let’s examine the truth behind three of these myths:
Myth #1: If you are a positive person with a great attitude, you won’t get cancer.
My father, mother, and niece all battled cancer. My parents were anything but people who gave in or gave up. Th...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - March 8, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups, RN Tags: Breast Cancer Nutrition Risk Factors treatment Source Type: blogs
Optimism in the face of cancer
When one is diagnosed with cancer, all sorts of things flash in our brains - rail thin bald people, iv poles, scars, doctors, hospitals, hospices. All sorts of things loom in our future - medical tests, things that pinch, chemotherapy, and ugly hospital gowns with a draft in the back.One of the key players in any cancer journey is the oncologist. Oncologists provide hope, direction, leadership and optimism. They offer treatment protocols to heal us, they provide solutions to treatment side effects, they provide answers to our questions.They do offer optimism as I said. I read this article on an oncologist and his views of ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - July 16, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: cancer diagnosis cancer treatment optimism oncologist Source Type: blogs
Fear of cancer
A by product of raising cancer awareness can be increasing people's fear of getting the disease. I think that often in the back of people's minds as they donate or pinkify in someways is "I really hope I don't get it". With Angelina Jolie's decision to have a prophylactic bilateral mastectomy because of the BRCA gene and the ensuing publicity, more and more women are concerned about their risk of getting breast cancer.While breast cancer eventually impacts one in eight women by the age of 80, it is much less common in younger women. Most cancers are also discovered at the early treatable stages.The BRCA gene, which Ms. Jol...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - October 25, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: being active fear of cancer happiness Source Type: blogs
Cancer staging - take two
When I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007, I was overly concerned about staging. We all were. 'What stage were you? How long has it been?" we carefully asked each other and compared notes. We introduced ourselves to each other and whispered "what stage are you?" and "how do you feel?".[There is more on my staging here. If you want a basic overview of how they get to staging read this or go to cancer.org and look up your type of cancer.]Now I will talk about reading between the lines in my non medical point of view. I never went to medical school but like any cancer patient I feel like I am medically educated no...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - November 20, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: breast cancer cancer diagnosis staging Source Type: blogs
More on the breast cancer treatment gap
A few weeks ago I blogged about the breast cancer treatment gap where women who are told they are BRCA positive only have surgical options to lower their risk of breast or ovarian cancer. It turns out this is growing in significance because of genetic testing progress.This started when Angelina Jolie announced she had a prophylactic bilateral mastectomy because she was BRCA positive. Unless you have been living under a rock you couldn't have missed that story in the news recently.While many people are supportive of her decision, some are not. Here is an article on the other side of the issue - which shows how some people a...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - May 29, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: insurance costs genetics cancer risk breast cancer Source Type: blogs
Gonna Fly Now – guest cancer blog
Here is the first in our new Spring class of cancer bloggers. Mysti was diagnosed with stage IV ovarian cancer just last October. She lives in Texas with her two sons and husband. She has a spunky writing style. He … Continue reading →
Source: Being Cancer Network - June 6, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dennis Pyritz Tags: Guest Post * Living with Cancer Ovarian cancer Source Type: blogs
Ethical dilemma on a cancer drug
I have been mulling this over for a few days. A woman in Texas, Andrea, with stage IV ovarian cancer wants BioMarin to allow her to receive a new drug BMN 673 which has not yet been approved for treatment. Her doctor thinks it might help her. She hopes it will help her. She understands that it may not help her but it has helped others. There is a big debate going on.I completely sympathize with her that she wants to try everything possible to stay alive. She and her doctor have been lobbying BioMarin to get the drug. The company is not agreeing , saying it is still in clinical trials and has not yet been proven. They...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - September 30, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: cancer treatment ethics medication Source Type: blogs
Ovarian Cancer: It’s called the “Silent Killer” but the Survivors I’ve Met are Anything But!
We’ve all seen the t-shirts with the blazing words F**k Cancer, and Cancer Sucks, among a throng of other cancer awareness slogans. Everyone hates cancer, especially those with personal connections. But those of us who have had cancer ourselves, or have become the = caregivers for those with cancer, have lived on the front lines and learned the importance of being proactive for our care as well as our cause. Ovarian cancer is a cancer that doesn’t get its due respect; by that I mean it lacks acknowledgement and good old PR. All told, the number of women diagnosed is low by cancer standards, but the real reason ovarian ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - September 18, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Advocacy Cancer Health Reform Policy Women's Health Source Type: blogs
5 things OB/GYNs should know about treating survivors of childhood cancer
Recent research shows improvement in long-term survival rates for childhood cancer patients, but also highlights the challenges that remain for many of the almost 400,000 survivors in the United States. Among these survivors are women facing gynecological health issues from the late effects of their treatment. What follows are several areas of concern that gynecologists and obstetricians should consider when treating women who had cancer as girls.
1. Treatment summary. An adult woman who had cancer during childhood should have a written summary of treatments she received. Certain commonly utilized treatments for childhoo...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 3, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Lisa Diller, MD Tags: Conditions Cancer Source Type: blogs
