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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
Fear of cancer recurrence: Mind-body tools offer hope
Every year, there are more adults who have been diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives. All of them face the uncertainty and fear that follow cancer treatments. Research shows that fear of cancer recurrence interferes with emotional and physical well-being. And it also suggests that mind-body tools can help people who have been treated for cancer regain control.
A growing number of cancer survivors
Over the past 50 years, the number of adults who have completed primary treatment for cancer has grown steadily. By 2024, an estimated 19 million will be living in the United States, a tribute to rapidly evolving opt...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 7, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Daniel L. Hall, PhD Tags: Breast Cancer Mental Health Mind body medicine Source Type: blogs
5 Truths Survivors of Suicide Loss Need to Know Right Now
In the wake of losing someone to suicide, there is much pain and confusion, to say the least. I want to list these five simple truths right up front for those who may need to hear them right away:
It isn’t your fault.
Do not be ashamed.
Your grief is complicated.
Healing is possible.
You still have life.
1. It isn’t your fault.
Losing someone to suicide can often fill us with very specific emotions: Guilt. Regret. Blame. But it is important to talk back to these feelings. It is important to realize and understand that you simply cannot carry the weight of someone else’s decision.
Suicide is a very...
Source: World of Psychology - March 24, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bonnie McClure Tags: Depression Inspiration & Hope Stigma Suicide grief grieving Suicide Loss Survivor Guilt Source Type: blogs
Cancer Treatment Increases Biological Age
The established non-surgical forms of cancer treatment, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, induce cellular senescence via stress and damage to cells. The target for these harmful effects is the cancer, but other cells are also inevitably stressed to the point of entering a senescent state. An increased burden of senescent cells in tissues throughout the body is a feature of aging. These cells directly contribute to dysfunction of tissues and organs via secreted signals, the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP). When maintained over the long term, the SASP contributes to the onset and progression of age-related cond...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 26, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Blue Note Therapeutics raises $26M to help treat cancer-related distress via cognitive behavioral stress management (CBSM)
Blue Note Therapeutics Raises $26.25 Million in Series A Financing (press release):
Blue Note Therapeutics, Inc., today announced the closing of a Series A financing round of $26.25 million. Proceeds will allow the company to scale the organization and fund near-term clinical trials of its lead prescription digital therapeutic (PDT), which will potentially improve the treatment of cancer. The capital will also support the development of Blue Note’s pipeline assets. The Series A financing was led by JAZZ Venture Partners and joined by Summer VC.
Blue Note Therapeutics is dedicated to serving patients suffering from cancer...
Source: SharpBrains - March 9, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation anxiety Blue Note Therapeutics cancer-related distress cancer-treatment depression digital therapeutic Jazz Venture Partners medical devices prescription digital therapeutic psychosocial n Source Type: blogs
Beyond heart health: Could your statin help prevent liver cancer?
Liver cancer is hard to treat. It’s a top-five cause of cancer-related death worldwide and a growing cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. Since liver cancer is often found at a late stage, when treatment has limited benefit, there has been increasing interest in prevention. That’s where statin medications might come in.
Liver cancer is usually caused by chronic liver disease, so an important way to prevent liver cancer is to treat the underlying trigger. For example, curing hepatitis C infection — an important cause of chronic liver disease — reduces the risk of liver cancer. However, if the liver d...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 27, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Irun Bhan, MD Tags: Cancer Drugs and Supplements Health Source Type: blogs
About that Cancer Moonshot
By KIM BELLARD
Joe Biden hates cancer. He led the Cancer Moonshot in the Obama Administration, and, as President, he reignited it, vowing to cut death rates in half over the next 25 years. Last month, on the 60th anniversary of President Kennedy’s historic call for an actual moonshot, he vowed “to end cancer as we know it. And even cure cancers once and for all.”
But, as several recent studies show, cancer is still surprising us.
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Our body has its own defenses against cancer, such as T-cells, and great strides have been made in cancer therapies, includi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 6, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Public Health Biden Cancer Cancer Moonshot Source Type: blogs
About That Cancer Moonshot
BY KIM BELLARD
Joe Biden hates cancer. He led the Cancer Moonshot in the Obama Administration, and, as President, he reignited it, vowing to cut death rates in half over the next 25 years. Last month, on the 60th anniversary of President Kennedy’s historic call for an actual moonshot, he vowed “to end cancer as we know it. And even cure cancers once and for all.”
But, as several recent studies show, cancer is still surprising us.
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Our body has its own defenses against cancer, such as T-cells, and great strides have been made in cancer therapies, including ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 6, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Research Cancer Cancer Progression Fungi John F. Kennedy Moonshot Source Type: blogs
Breast Cancer Screening: Let Evidence Trump Fear
Once again, the United States Preventive Services Task Force’s latest draft report on the potential benefits and harms of mammography screening was met by outcries from radiologists and others that thousands of women would die if the recommendations were followed. The Task Force concluded that women between the ages of 50 and 74 should get mammograms every two years. But for women under 50, the chances that a mammogram will help her rather than harm her are very small. For younger women, the decision to get a mammogram should be made on a case-by-case basis.
This is reasonable advice, but you wouldn’t know it from comm...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 15, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Lisa Simpson and Shannon Brownlee Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Technology Featured Insurance and Coverage Payment Policy Population Health breast cancer early diagnosis false positives mammography over treatment United States Preventive Services Task Force Source Type: blogs
Is there a link between alcohol and skin cancer?
Patients are always elated when you can recommend an enjoyable, health-improving, recreational activity. As a runner, my favorite “prescription” while pregnant was exercise! However, more often than not, pleasurable activities are not what’s best for one’s health. But as a dermatologist who specializes in skin cancer, I am generally the bearer of bad news when I tell patients to never get another tan.
This November, alcohol came into the spotlight. The Cancer Prevention Committee of the American Society of Clinical Oncology recommended minimizing drinking alcohol, as it is thought to be a “modifiable risk factor ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - December 8, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily S. Ruiz, MD, MPH Tags: Cancer Health Healthy Eating Prevention Source Type: blogs
A mix of treatments may extend life for men with aggressive prostate cancer
For men diagnosed with aggressive cancer that’s confined to the prostate and nearby tissues, the overarching goal of treatment is to keep the disease from spreading (or metastasizing) in the body. Doctors can treat these men with localized therapies, such as surgery and different types of radiation that target the prostate directly. And they can also give systemic treatments that kill off rogue cancer cells in the bloodstream. Hormonal therapy, for instance, is a systemic treatment that kills prostate cancer cells by depriving them of testosterone, which fuels their growth.
Now a new study shows that a mix of different t...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 31, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Charlie Schmidt Tags: Cancer Men's Health Prostate Health Source Type: blogs
Alternative therapies for cancer
This study was not designed to directly compare non-conventional therapies with conventional ones, and the results do not mean that all unproven remedies are useless. In fact, an unproven treatment may become conventional if rigorous research proves its worth. There are many types of alternative treatments (including herbs, vitamins, homeopathy, yoga, and acupuncture) that might have different effects and have not yet been well studied. Importantly, this study did not examine the interaction of conventional and alternative treatments (which in some cases may cause problems).
In addition, this study did not actually find th...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 1, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Health Source Type: blogs
Just do it … yourself: At-home colorectal cancer screening
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide. Yet despite the ability of CRC screening to detect colon cancer early, and to find and remove potentially precancerous growths called polyps, screening rates remain low, below 60%. Experts generally agree that people should be screened for CRC at regular intervals beginning by age 50.
Colonoscopy is considered the gold standard for CRC screening. In this procedure, a doctor examines your entire colon through a colonoscope, a flexible tube outfitted with a small video camera and a light.
But concern around pre-colonoscopy bowel cleaning, which can be un...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: James Richter, MD Tags: Cancer Screening Tests and procedures Source Type: blogs
African American men respond better to treatments for advanced prostate cancer in clinical trials
Racial differences have long been evident in prostate cancer statistics. In particular, African American men are diagnosed with prostate cancer more often than white men, and they’re also nearly twice as likely to die of the disease.
But new research also shows that African American men who receive the most advanced treatments for late-stage prostate cancer can live at least as long — or even longer — than their Caucasian counterparts.
Why is this the case? Scientists are searching for an explanation. “The fact that African American men have better survival is of huge research interest,” said Dr. Stephen Freedlan...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 26, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Charlie Schmidt Tags: Living With Prostate Cancer Men's Health Prostate Health Prostate Knowledge Treatments HPK Source Type: blogs
Financial Toxicity is Hurting my Cancer Patients
By LEILA ALI-AKBARIAN MD, MPH
As news of Tom Brokaw’s cancer diagnosis spreads, so does his revelation that his cancer treatments cost nearly $10,000 per day. In spite of this devastating diagnosis, Mr. Brokaw is not taking his financial privilege for granted. He is using his voice to bring attention to the millions of Americans who are unable to afford their cancer treatments.
My patient Phil is among them. At a recent appointment, Phil
mentioned that his wife has asked for divorce. When I inquired, he revealed a
situation so common in oncology, we have a name for it: Financial
Toxicity. This occurs wh...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Economics Finance Medical Practice Patients Cancer financial toxicity healthcare costs Leila Ali-Akbarian Oncology Source Type: blogs
