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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: Lessons about Talking – guest post
We only get a small number of blogs from pancreatic cancer survivors. The disease is usually not caught until late stages. Things move fast. Seldom time to stop and put your thoughts down on paper. I am especially thoughtful about … Continue reading →
Source: Being Cancer Network - September 11, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dennis Pyritz Tags: Guest Post * Living with Cancer Acceptance Pancreatic cancer Source Type: blogs
Cancer Survivors Exhibit Greater Risk of New Cancers and Higher Mortality Due to those Cancers
The objective of this study is to quantify the overall and cancer type-specific risks of subsequent primary cancers (SPCs) among adult-onset cancer survivors by first primary cancer (FPC) types and sex. Among 1,537,101 survivors (mean age, 60.4 years; 48.8% women), 156,442 SPC cases and 88,818 SPC deaths occurred during 11,197,890 person-years of follow-up (mean, 7.3 years). Among men, the overall risk of developing any SPCs was statistically significantly higher for 18 of the 30 FPC types, and risk of dying from any SPCs was statistically significantly higher for 27 of 30 FPC types as compared with risks in the general po...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 29, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research 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
The Picture With The Smile That Says So Much About Advances In Cancer Care
It was the picture (see below) that, to me, said it all: a 96 year old woman -- one of the first patients in the world to receive a brand new cancer drug--, and a large tumor on her neck had melted completely away. But it was the smile on her lips that you couldn't avoid noticing.
Let's set the stage: You have spent the last 5 days in a large convention center at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago running from presentation to presentation and meeting to meeting. You have heard more information presented in more rapid fire sequence than any human being can possibly absorb. You h...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - June 4, 2014 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Access to care Cancer Care Media Medicare Medications Melanoma Other cancers Research Survivors Treatment 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
Coping with Other ' s Cancer
When you are diagnosed with cancer, you are faced with the World of Oncology. Inside that world lies the answers to your questions and how to keep you alive. As you go through diagnosis and treatment, you get to educate yourself on your illness and what ' s involved in getting through it.Oncologists have to go to medical school to learn all this crap. Us patients get the express pass and learn it much faster and more intimately. Doctor ' s say ' may cause nausea and hair loss ' . We know it means we will watch our hair fall out as we shop for a wig and try to keep something in our stomachs. We learn what the truth really i...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - March 24, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: cancer diagnosis cancer information cancer treatment coping Source Type: blogs
Progress against cancer? Let's think about it.
It is difficult to pick up a newspaper these days without reading an article proclaiming progress in the field of cancer research. Here is an example, taken from an article posted on the MedicineNet site (1). The lead-off text is: "Statistics (released in 1997) show that cancer patients are living longer and even "beating" the disease. Information released at an AMA sponsored conference for science writers, showed that the death rate from the dreaded disease has decreased by three percent in the last few years. In the 1940s only one patient in four survived on the average. By the 1960s, that figure was up to one in three, ...
Source: Specified Life - March 25, 2016 Category: Information Technology Tags: cancer cancer cure cancer statistics cancer treatments orphan diseases progress in cancer research rare diseases Source Type: blogs
Progress against cancer? Let ' s think about it.
It is difficult to pick up a newspaper these days without reading an article proclaiming progress in the field of cancer research. Here is an example, taken from an article posted on the MedicineNet site (1). The lead-off text is: " Statistics (released in 1997) show that cancer patients are living longer and even " beating " the disease. Information released at an AMA sponsored conference for science writers, showed that the death rate from the dreaded disease has decreased by three percent in the last few years. In the 1940s only one patient in four survived on the average. By the 1960s, that figure was up to one in thre...
Source: Specified Life - March 25, 2016 Category: Information Technology Tags: cancer cancer cure cancer statistics cancer treatments orphan diseases progress in cancer research rare diseases Source Type: blogs
Reconceptualizing Health and Health Care: Why Our Cancer Care Delivery System Is In Crisis
Cancer Care System in Crisis
Americans fear cancer. In a poll for MetLife, when participants were asked which major disease they feared most, 41 percent said cancer, 31 percent said Alzheimer’s disease, and small percentages of other respondents said other diseases. Not surprisingly, The National Institutes of Health has a budget allocation of $4.9 billion for 2014 to The National Cancer Institute, far more than any other Institute and over 25 percent of the NIH’s total funding to study organ-based diseases ($19.2 billion).
Despite this longstanding commitment to cancer research, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) reporte...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 23, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Carolyn Payne and William Dale Tags: All Categories Chronic Care End-of-Life Care Health Care Costs Health Care Delivery Long-Term Care Source Type: blogs
Cancer Survivors have Double the Risk of Suffering a Later Stroke
We present a contemporary analysis of risk of fatal stroke among more than 7.5 million cancer patients and report that stroke risk varies as a function of disease site, age, gender, marital status, and time after diagnosis. The risk of stroke among cancer patients is two times that of the general population and rises with longer follow-up time. The relative risk of fatal stroke, versus the general population, is highest in those with cancers of the brain and gastrointestinal tract. The plurality of strokes occurs in patients older than 40 years of age with cancers of the prostate, breast, and colorectum. Patients of any ag...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 9, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Cancer Correlates with Increased Risk of Later Onset of Type 2 Diabetes
Researchers here note a correlation between cancer diagnosis and greater risk of later onset of type 2 diabetes. A reasonable guess is that this is mediated by the increased burden of cellular senescence produced by chemotherapy and radiotherapy, though, as the researchers point out, the widely different risks by cancer type may indicate that tumors are metabolically active in ways that specifically promote the metabolic dysfunction that leads to type 2 diabetes.
For patients with cancer, prevalent type 2 diabetes at the date of cancer diagnosis is associated with increased cancer-specific and all-cause mortality....
Source: Fight Aging! - June 9, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Want To Help Make This Cancer's Last Century? Then Sign Up For Cancer Prevention Study 3
How often do people say they wish they could do something to help rid the world of cancer? Fortunately, there are real ways to make an impact,, from making a contribution to an organization like the American Cancer Society, to volunteering in a local program, to engaging in a local fund raising event.
But I have another suggestion sign up for the American Cancer Society's Cancer Prevention Study-3 (CPS-3). Recruitment is currently underway in cities nationwide, and we are on the final push to enlist 300,000 people in the United States between the ages of 30 and 65 who have never had cancer to help us advance our knowledge ...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - July 16, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Source Type: blogs
ASCO 2014 Is A Wrap: If Immunotherapy Is The Queen Of The Ball, Then Panomics Holds The Keys To The Kingdom
As in years past, the trip home from the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago gives me a moment to reflect on what I have heard and hopefully learned over the past five days.
This meeting is a whirlwind of activity and information, far too much for any one person to absorb and process. You can be focused on one topic, you can be general, and you can hear new cutting edge research or be educated on topics of general interest in cancer. You can go to the exhibit hall and be overwhelmed by the booths and displays (I tend not to go there, but obviously many others do). I suspect you get the id...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - June 4, 2014 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Access to care Breast Cancer Cancer Care Cervical Cancer Heatlh Information Technology Lung Cancer Media Medications Melanoma Other cancers Research Skin Cancer Treatment Source Type: blogs
Rare Cancer are Subsets of Common Cancers
In June, 2014, my book, entitled Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs: Keys to Understanding and Treating the Common Diseases was published by Elsevier. The book builds the argument that our best chance of curing the common diseases will come from studying and curing the rare diseases. One of the key ideas developed in the book is that each common diseases is actually an aggregate of cellular processes that are present, individually, in rare diseases. In the case of the common cancers, we can find specific rare diseases that are subsets of the common diseases. Here is an excerpt from Chapter 8: 8.3.3 Inherited syndromes that cau...
Source: Specified Life - July 9, 2014 Category: Pathologists Tags: cancer syndromes carcinogenesis common cancers common disease familial cancer syndromes genetic disease orphan disease orphan drugs rare cancers rare disease Source Type: blogs
