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Towards the Use of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound to More Precisely Destroy Tumor Tissue
Focused ultrasound is one of the many approaches used to directly kill cancer cells once they have grown to the point at which a tumor can be identified. It involves generating sufficient heat to kill cells, a fairly direct transfer of energy. Pruning back cancerous tissue is helpful, as tumors manipulate the signaling environment to subvert the immune system's ability to destroy cancerous cells, and constantly generate new mutations that ultimately lead to metastasis and the spread of a cancer throughout the body. Removing tumor tissue in this way is not a cure, however. Curing cancer requires not just the removal ...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 3, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

Temporarily Switching up Incontinence Management Could Make Dad ’s Trip Possible
Dear Carol: My father is 72 and is in the moderate stages of dementia. Before his dementia diagnosis, he was an active hunter and fisherman. He also has incontinence issues due to prostate cancer, surgery, and treatment. This requires an external urinary attachment system to maintain an active daily life. My mother, as his primary caregiver, works diligently to keep the system and attachments clean and in working order. However, he is at the stage in his dementia journey where he is not able to maintain this attachment on his own. Yet he is defiant when we try to explain that he cannot go on trips with friends becaus...
Source: Minding Our Elders - October 26, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs

The Alzheimer's Semi-Postal Stamp: It Never Goes Out Of Season
Kathy Siggins and Lynda Everman are thrilled to share the welcome news that the US Postal Service has reinstated sales of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Semipostal Stamp effective October 5, 2020. It is now available for purchase at most post offices and online at https://store.usps.com/store/product/buy-stamps/alzheimers-S_564204, and by phone at 1-800 STAMP-24. Before it was withdrawn in November 2019, over 8.2 million stamps were sold during its two-year run raising $1,061,777 for NIH-supported research to advance better treatments, prevention, and one day, a cure of Alzheimer’s and related dementias. The reinstat...
Source: Minding Our Elders - October 10, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs

New online model identifies which men can have fewer biopsies on active surveillance
This study underscores the important research that is ongoing to help minimize invasive procedures for clinically localized prostate cancer in men who opt for active surveillance,” said Dr. Marc Garnick, the Gorman Brothers Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and editor in chief of HarvardProstateKnowledge.org. Garnick added that in his practice, patients who have completely stable repeat biopsies for several years, as well as stable prostate MRI studies, are followed with a combination of “PSA values, physical exam, presence or absence of urinary symptoms, ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - October 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Charlie Schmidt Tags: Health Living With Prostate Cancer Prostate Knowledge HPK Source Type: blogs

Changes In Incontinence Management Could Make Dad ’s Adventure Possible
Dear Carol: My father is 72 and is in the moderate stages of dementia. Before his dementia diagnosis, he was an active hunter and fisherman. He also has incontinence issues due to prostate cancer, surgery, and treatment. This requires an external urinary attachment system to maintain an active daily life. My mother, as his primary caregiver, works diligently to keep the system and attachments clean and in working order. However, he is at the stage in his dementia journey where he is not able to maintain this attachment on his own. Yet he is defiant when we try to explain that he cannot go on trips with friends becaus...
Source: Minding Our Elders - September 30, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs

Incontinence Management Changes Could Help Dad Rejoin His Friends
Dear Carol: My father is 72 and is in the moderate stages of dementia. Before his dementia diagnosis, he was an active hunter and fisherman. He also has incontinence issues due to prostate cancer, surgery, and treatment. This requires an external urinary attachment system to maintain an active daily life. My mother, as his primary caregiver, works diligently to keep the system and attachments clean and in working order. However, he is at the stage in his dementia journey where he is not able to maintain this attachment on his own. Yet he is defiant when we try to explain that he cannot go on trips with friends becaus...
Source: Minding Our Elders - September 25, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs

Hormonal treatments for prostate cancer may prevent or limit COVID-19 symptoms
Men have roughly twice the risk of developing severe disease and dying from COVID-19 than women. Scientists say this is in part because women mount stronger immune reactions to the disease’s microbial cause: the infamous coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2. Now research with prostate cancer patients points to another possible explanation, which is that the male sex hormone testosterone helps SARS-Cov-2 get into and infect human cells. SARS-CoV-2 initiates infections by first latching onto its human cell receptor. But it can only pass into a cell with the aid of a second protein called TMPRSS2. Testosterone regulates TMPRSS...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 10, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Charlie Schmidt Tags: Living With Prostate Cancer Prostate Knowledge Treatments HPK Source Type: blogs

Proposed guidelines likely to identify more early lung cancers
Lung cancer is the second most prevalent cancer in the US, and the deadliest cancer killer. In 2020, an estimated 135,720 people will die from the disease — more than breast, colon, and prostate cancers combined. I’ll never forget meeting new, advanced-stage lung cancer patients who ask if their diagnosis could have somehow been made earlier, when treatment would have been more likely to succeed. In 2009, when I began practicing thoracic oncology, there were no approved screening tests for lung cancer. A brief history of lung cancer screening Hope for early detection and death prevention came in 2011 with the publicati...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 9, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Inga Lennes, MD, MPH, MBA Tags: Cancer Lung disease Screening Source Type: blogs

Egosan Celebrates Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
Most younger men don’t spend a lot of time considering the health of their prostate. However, around the age of 50, they’ll likely find that their physicians want to check out prostate health both physically and through blood work known as a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test.  The PSA is not a perfect test, but it’s still used to help detect prostate cancer since there aren’t many alternatives. National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month is meant to increase the knowledge about possible prostate problems and make certain that men get checked out regularly. Continue reading on Egosancares blog for more a...
Source: Minding Our Elders - September 2, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs

Hormonal treatments for prostate cancer are often given late
Men with advanced prostate cancer are typically treated with drugs that cause testosterone levels to plummet. Testosterone is a hormone that fuels growing prostate tumors, so ideally this type of treatment, which is called androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), or hormonal therapy, will stall the disease in its tracks. For that to happen, ADT has to be administered correctly. But according to a new study, men frequently don’t get ADT at the proper dosing intervals. Too many of them get the treatments later then they should, causing testosterone levels to rise unacceptably. “Rapid increases in testosterone followin...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - August 20, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Charlie Schmidt Tags: Health Prostate Knowledge Treatments HPK Source Type: blogs

How to Get Into Star Trek
This article idea was suggested by a Conscious Growth Club member. After a little reflection, I thought, why not? I’ve seen every episode of every non-animated Star Trek series, including the original 1960s classic, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise, Discovery, and the new Picard series. I’ve seen many episodes multiple times. I’ve seen all of the movies. I’ve been to a Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas. So I’m pretty well versed in Star Trek lore. I met William Shatner (aka Captain Kirk) very briefly when I was in my 20s because we had the same lawyer for a while...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - August 13, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Lifestyle Values Source Type: blogs

A new hormonal therapy for prostate cancer is under expedited FDA review
In June, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an accelerated review of a promising new drug for advanced prostate cancer. Called relugolix, it suppresses testosterone and other hormones that speed the cancer’s growth. If approved, this new type of hormonal therapy is expected to set a new standard of care for the disease. Doctors give hormonal therapies when a man’s tumor is metastasizing (spreading beyond the prostate), or if his PSA levels start rising after surgery or radiation. The most commonly used hormonal therapies, called LHRH agonists, will eventually lower testosterone levels in blood. ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 13, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Charlie Schmidt Tags: Health Prostate Knowledge Treatments HPK Source Type: blogs

Incontinence Management Change Up Could Make Dad ’s Fishing Trip Possible
Dear Carol: My father is 72 and is in the moderate stages of dementia. Before his dementia diagnosis, he was an active hunter and fisherman. He also has incontinence issues due to prostate cancer, surgery, and treatment. This requires an external urinary attachment system to maintain an active daily life. My mother, as his primary caregiver, works diligently to keep the system and attachments clean and in working order. However, he is at the stage in his dementia journey where he is not able to maintain this attachment on his own, yet he is defiant when we try to explain that he cannot go on trips with friends because his ...
Source: Minding Our Elders - July 6, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 6th 2020
Fight Aging! publishes news and commentary relevant to the goal of ending all age-related disease, to be achieved by bringing the mechanisms of aging under the control of modern medicine. This weekly newsletter is sent to thousands of interested subscribers. To subscribe or unsubscribe from the newsletter, please visit: https://www.fightaging.org/newsletter/ Longevity Industry Consulting Services Reason, the founder of Fight Aging! and Repair Biotechnologies, offers strategic consulting services to investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in the longevity industry and its complexities. To find out m...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 5, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Aging Impacts Progenitor Cells in the Thymus
The age-related decline of the immune system has several causes, but the involution of the thymus is an important one. The thymus is responsible for the production of mature T cells of the adaptive immune system, but the organ atrophies with age. The supply of new T cells falls off dramatically in later life, and without these reinforcements, the adaptive immune system becomes ever more populated with broken, misconfigured, senescent, exhausted, and outright harmful T cells. A few research groups and companies are investigating ways to restore the thymus, typically by provoking it to regrow. A number of approaches h...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 1, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs