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I ' m Losing My Friends
Right now I have two friends in hospice care. One I have known for only about six months but we have gotten pretty close. She was in my knitting group and when I met her she was on palliative care only for pancreatic and other cancers that she has been treated for over 20 years. She is on hospice care at home and no longer goes to knitting. We have talked on the phone and skyped regularly over the past four weeks but it is unclear how much longer this will go on.The other friend is the husband of a very old friend (friends for more than 40 years) and has been treated for stage IV colon cancer for nearly seven years. His di...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - November 2, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: cancer death friends hospice Source Type: blogs
Your tax dollars at work: New clinical trial of chelation therapy, new and old quacks enrolling patients
Whenever I refer to quackademic medicine and how the infiltration of quackery into medical academia has led to unethical clinical that are not only pseudoscientific wastes of money but potentially downright harmful to patients, two always come to mind. The first is the trial that tested the late Nicholas Gonzalez’s protocol for advanced pancreatic cancer,…
Source: Respectful Insolence - October 4, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Gervasio Lamas quackademic medicine TACT TACT2 Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 19th 2016
In conclusion, we found that IS status was associated with a significant increase in Hannum DNA methylation, likely as a consequence of the accumulation of cardiovascular risk factors, and near signification with Horvath method. Patients with IS were biologically older than controls, a difference that was more obvious in young stroke. This could open up the possibility of useful new biomarker of stroke risk.
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A Profile of Kelsey Moody and Ichor Therapeutics
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2016/09/a-profile-of-kelsey-moody
Source: Fight Aging! - September 18, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The Inevitability of the Transhumanist Vision
The article I'll point out today opens by distinguishing capitalized Transhumanism from lower case transhumanism. These are visions of the future grown in that fertile square of ground whose corners are marked by contemporary science fiction, the cutting edge of engineering, the cutting edge of science, and the entrepreneurial community. The real entrepreneurial community, I mean, the people who quietly get things done, not the loud internet-focused groups that you tend to read about in the media. Transhumanism with a small t is a simple description of what we will achieve with technology: we will transform ourselves and s...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 14, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Of Interest Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 12th 2016
Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the medical control of aging in order to prevent age-related frailty, suffering, and disease, as well as improvements in the present understanding of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to extending healthy life. Expect to see summaries of recent advances in medical research, news from the scientific community, advocacy and fundraising initiatives to help speed work on the repair and reversal of aging, links to online resources, and much more.
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Source: Fight Aging! - September 11, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
“ Right to try ” : A miserable failure thus far
I’ve frequently called “right to try” laws that are popping up in various states like so much kudzu, to the point where 31 states have passed them in a little over two years, an amazing pace, a cruel sham, given how incredibly unlikely they are to help a single patient. Basically, state-level right-to-try laws are…
Source: Respectful Insolence - September 8, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Medicine Politics Caring Bridge Excel Diagnostics Gail Christopher GoFundMe Goldwater Institute libertarian neuroendocrine tumor pancreatic cancer Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy right to try Steve Source Type: blogs
Spotlight on “Team Fathers and Sons”
This year will be the 20th Anniversary of theLIVESTRONG Challenge in Austin! For 20 years, we have been creating awareness and changes in cancer care for people in Austin and beyond. All proceeds will be going to benefit theLIVESTRONG Cancer Institutes of the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. The Challenge helps us promote our cause and it encourages locals as well as people from around the country to come out and participate in the runs/bike rides. Here, we have the spotlight on Alex Arato who has been participating in the LIVESTRONG Challenge for a very long time and is captain of Team Fat...
Source: LIVESTRONG Blog - September 1, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: LIVESTRONG Staff Source Type: blogs
How the book “When Breath Becomes Air” changed my practice
Behind every door in my clinic, is human suffering. It hangs like a mist; I can see the living ghosts of my patients through it.
As an oncologist who treats primarily pancreatic cancer, many of my patients will be dead within a year of our first meeting. I knew this would be the case when I chose my specialty. Pancreas cancer is one of the last frontiers in cancer therapeutics: a disease for which we still have few effective treatments and for which the prognosis remains abysmal. I have watched healthy, hopeful people crumble in the clutches of a beast so ravenous that it seems to eat them alive.
I chose to become ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 13, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/kim-a-reiss" rel="tag" > Kim A. Reiss, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Cancer Source Type: blogs
An Interview with Noted Pancreas Surgeon Dr. Charles J. Yeo
Recently, InsideSurgery had a chance to speak with Dr. Charles J. Yeo about his career as a top Whipple and pancreas surgeon and his ongoing role as a surgical leader and educator.
As the Samuel D. Gross Professor of Surgery and Chair of the Department of Surgery, you welcomed your second intern class to Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania last month. What one piece advice do you have for your new trainees?
One piece of advice….that’s tough! Several pieces of advice….enjoy the challenges and experiences of internship; read and increase your knowledge base outside of that 80 hours; ...
Source: Inside Surgery - August 12, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Interviews Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 18th 2016
In this study, a PET camera was used to examine individual differences in the D2 system in a group consisting of 181 healthy individuals between the age of 64 and 68. All participants also had to take part in an all-inclusive performance test of the long-term episodic memory, working memory and processing speed along with an MRI assessment (which was used to measure the size of various parts of the brain). Researchers could see that the D2 system was positively linked to episodic memory, but not to working memory or to processing speed by relating PET registrations to the cognitive data. Researchers could also see that the...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 17, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Mom Knows Best: Overcoming Life’s Hardships
Life bruises. For others, it cripples. And, for a select few, it empowers.
As we marvel at others’ resilience during uncommon adversity, what lessons are applicable to our lives?
On a gloomy October day, the doctor’s diagnosis numbed us. “Pancreatic cancer,” he spat out. My aunt and I recoiled. The word — cancer — buzzed in our ears. Shoulders slumping, our mist-filled eyes met. We were dazed; cancer happens to others. Not our familial matriarch.
Grim-faced and sullen, we staggered to Mom’s hospital room. And here, in a sterile hospital room, Mom’s resilience transcended our raw, unfiltered emotions...
Source: World of Psychology - July 14, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Matthew Loeb Tags: Brain and Behavior Caregivers Family General Grief and Loss Inspiration & Hope Parenting Personal Relationships Cancer Courage Forgiveness Grace grieving Mom Motherhood pancreatic cancer diagnosis Resentment Resilience Source Type: blogs
Human Telomere Dynamics and the Balance Between Cancer and Atherosclerosis
Today I'll point out a great open access paper on the evolution of human telomere dynamics: telomere length, how that length changes over time, and especially how it changes with aging. This makes a good companion piece to another paper from last week that covered the differences in telomere dynamics between mice and humans. This is quite important, since most of the work on this topic involves mouse studies, not human studies. As telomerase gene therapies continue to extend average telomere length and - in mice at least - also extend healthy life span, this is becoming a hot topic in the aging research community. It is in...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 14, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Higher prevalence of pancreatic cancer in patients newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - July 13, 2016 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: endocrinology gastroenterology Source Type: blogs
Two MODYs walk into a bar...
Recently I had my follow up with the geneticist/Endocrinologist of last August's appointment. I absolutely adore her, because I have her personal email and every question I have is a promptly answered. Learning to live with MODY hasn't been all roses and sunshine, as I've developed a swelling of my left kidney (called hydronephrosis) which I've had an ultrasound and abdominal CT for and am scheduled for a renal perfusion scan in two weeks. It hasn't affected the overall function of said kidneys but it's there,like an albatross, needing attention. There are no kidney stones (#1 cause) and the geneticist feels like it's MODY...
Source: The D-Log Cabin - June 29, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Authors: HVS Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 27th 2016
In conclusion, we showed for the first time that 7-KC induces oxidative stress via lysosomal dysfunction, resulting in exacerbation of calcification.
CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR CANCER THERAPIES CAN NOW TARGET SOLID TUMORS
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2016/06/chimeric-antigen-receptor-cancer-therapies-can-now-target-solid-tumors/
If the research community is to win in the fight to cure cancer, and win soon enough to matter for all of us, then the focus must be on technology platforms that can be easily and cheaply adapted to many different types of cancer. The biggest strategic problem in the field is tha...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 26, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
