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Tweet Your Support for Cancer Survivors to Members of Congress
LIVESTRONG supporters are in Washington, D.C., for the One Voice Against Cancer (OVAC) annual lobby day urging Congress to make cancer a top national priority, and you can help advance their message. The LIVESTRONG Foundation is a member of OVAC, a coalition of 49 nonprofit organizations that believe robust federal funding is crucial to making advances in cancer prevention, treatment and research. While on Capitol Hill, advocates will ask that federal agencies working to fight cancer receive increased funding. WE NEED YOU to help amplify our message by sending one of the suggested messages below to YOUR members of Congress...
Source: LIVESTRONG Blog - May 8, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Cameron Krier Massey (LIVESTRONG Staff) Source Type: blogs

In An Era Of Bold New Cancer Treatments An Older Drug Shows Real Promise For Advanced Prostate Cancer
The annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology here in Chicago is a place where many commercial interests jostle for attention to make their latest promising therapy the star of the show. But this weekend, a standard widely available generic drug stole the show by producing incredible results in improving survival for men with advanced prostate cancer. And that has some of us asking, "Why did it take so long to find out? The drug is docetaxel, which for decades has been used to treat a number of cancers, including prostate cancers. We have known for some time that it is helpful in the treatment of men who...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - June 2, 2014 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Cancer Care Medications Prostate Cancer Treatment 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

After Cancer, Giving Back
As published on The Huffington PostResting anxiously on a retractable bed and about to begin the chemotherapy drug Cytoxan, I sent my mom for a chocolate iced glazed Krispy Kreme donut from the hospital cafeteria. During treatment there were just three times each day when I could eat: immediately upon waking, and before and after the infusion.Mom returned with an original glazed. I yelled at her: "The chocolate would drown the nickel taste of the infusion, but I don't want this!" "I'm sorry. That is all they had," she said with her usual patience. Two hours later with the infusion complete, I asked for small cereal boxes f...
Source: I've Still Got Both My Nuts: A True Cancer Blog - June 4, 2014 Category: Cancer Tags: family man of the year Source Type: blogs

Precision Medicine Is Our Best Hope In The Fight Against Cancer
In the fight against cancer, precision medicine is one of the most promising tools and the logical outcome of current healthcare trends. As start-ups offering personalized healthcare solutions multiply like mushrooms after rain, governments and regulatory agencies have to give appropriate responses in regulating the grass-root healthcare jungle. Here is my analysis about the potential and dilemmas about precision medicine. Precision medicine is the logical outcome of modern healthcare There is one phrase, which is not part of the Hippocratic Oath, but everyone in medicine knows it. Primum non nocere, meaning “first do n...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 30, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Genomics Healthcare Design Personalized Medicine AI cancer cancer research chemotherapy digital gc4 genetics Genome Innovation oncology precision medicine targeted treatment technology Source Type: blogs

Cancer Centers Rebounding From COVID-19 Can Grow By Making the Most of New Technologies for Clinical Trials
For community cancer centers that rely on patient reimbursement to stay afloat, a smart data-driven approach to clinical trials provides a foundation for future growth. Brenda Noggy Dr. Tandy Tipps By TANDY TIPPS and BRENDA NOGGY Covid-19’s tragic, devastating impact on cancer treatment is now well documented. Cancer screenings dropped by almost 90 percent at the peak of the pandemic. Billing for some leading cancer medications dropped 30 percent last summer. Studies found a 60 percent decrease in new clinical trials for cancer drugs and biological therapies. Cancer centers, like every part of the US healt...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Technology brenda noggy cancer centers cancer research Clinical Trials tandy tipps Source Type: blogs

What was I thinking?
In 2008, I participated in a weekend long retreat run by Casting For Recovery on Cape Cod where we learned fly fishing. It was a retreat for women with breast cancer and had such an impact on me, I went back and volunteered in 2009, 2011, and 2012 (no retreat in 2010, 2013, and 2014). The woman who lead the retreat for 15 years resigned in 2012 and the group sort of fell apart as others also resigned because they had been volunteering as long and it was time to move on.Now, me, yes, me with all my health ailments has volunteered to be the new retreat coordinator for Massachusetts and Rhode Island and get the retreat going ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - February 24, 2014 Category: Cancer Tags: breast cancer cancer bonds casting for recovery coping healing volunteer Source Type: blogs

Delete Blood Cancer: What You May Not Know About Bone Marrow Donation
We all know about blood drives and the importance of blood and platelet donations to save lives. And millions of people are registered organ donors (usually when they get their driver’s license). But did you know that there is another renewable, life-saving resource you could give?  It’s your blood stem cells/bone marrow. Only 11 million Americans are registered with the National Marrow Donor Program to help save lives if their blood stem cells match a person fighting any one of 70 blood cancers and diseases. Each year, nearly 20,000 people are in need of blood stem cell/bone marrow transplants as their last hope for ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - July 22, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: DW Staff Tags: Access Advocacy Cancer Consumer Health Care Patients Publc Health Source Type: blogs

Health Care Spending Spikes: Why?
Recent data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reveals that  during the last three months of 2013, spending on health care rose at an annual rate of 5.3%. The trend continued this year, with spending climbing 6.2% on a year-over-year basis in January and 6.7% in February. Now some of Obamacare’s fiercest critics are saying “I told you so.” “We knew this was coming,” gloats Douglas Holtz-Eakin, John McCain’s former economic adviser. “The question now is whether we can hold spending down.” It’s worth recalling that Holtz-Eakin, who served as CBO director under George...
Source: Health Beat - April 15, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Maggie Mahar Tags: beginning of 2014 Bureau of Economic Analysis final quarter of 2013 health care inflation Medicare spending spike in health care spending BEA Douglas Holt-Eakin Drew Altman Larry Levitt Peter Orszag spending slowdown spikes Source Type: blogs

Am I supposed to be suffering?
I read stories all over the internet and in print about people who are suffering from, a victim of, or a survivor of some ailment I have. I do not consider myself to be suffering, a victim of, or a survivor of any damn thing. I am just living.I do have a new ailment.... Oh joy. But its not that exciting to me. Its called... drum roll.... are  you ready.... well.... its.... dry eyes. See, its not exciting just like I said it wasn't and I probably blogged about it before. But its just another little pain in the ass thing in my life. A sign that my body continue to fall apart at an amazing rate. Dry eyes don't sound that...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - March 18, 2014 Category: Cancer Tags: ailments annoyance dry eyes medication costs suffering Source Type: blogs

Why Health Reform is a Risky Business for Politicians: Even Winning Can Cost You at the Polls!
By JEFF GOLDSMITH In August 1989, Chicago Congressman Daniel Rostenkowski, then Chairman of the “powerful” House Ways and Means Committee, narrowly escaped an angry mob of seniors in his own district who attacked his car with umbrellas. His crime: eliminating the gaping patient financial exposure built into the Medicare program in 1965 by raising taxes on the “high income” elderly.   In November, 1989 Congress rescinded the so-called Catastrophic Coverage Act, a bipartisan reform signed into law by Ronald Reagan just sixteen months earlier. In the spring of 1994, Bill and Hillary Clinton abandoned their famously ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 19, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 3rd 2018
This article, however, is more of a commentary on high level strategy and the effects of regulation, coupled with a desire to forge ahead rather than hold back in the matter of treating aging, thus I concur with much more of what is said than is usually the case. For decades, one of the most debated questions in gerontology was whether aging is a disease or the norm. At present, excellent reasoning suggests aging should be defined as a disease - indeed, aging has been referred to as "normal disease." Aging is the sum of all age-related diseases and this sum is the best biomarker of aging. Aging and its diseases ar...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 2, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 9th 2019
We examined human lung tissue from COPD patients and normal control subjects, and found a substantial increase in p16-expressing alveolar cells in COPD patients. Using a transgenic mouse deficient for p16, we demonstrated that lungs of mice lacking p16 were structurally and functionally resistant to CS-induced emphysema due to activation of IGF1/Akt regenerative and protective signaling. Fat Tissue Surrounds Skeletal Muscle to Accelerate Atrophy in Aging and Obesity https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/09/fat-tissue-surrounds-skeletal-muscle-to-accelerate-atrophy-in-aging-and-obesity/ Researchers her...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 8, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 12th 2022
Discussion of Present Drug Development to Target Senescent Cells Targeting Senescent Cells to Better Address Cancer and Consequences of Cancer Therapy Calorie Restriction Suppresses Generation of Immune Cells via Changes to the Gut Microbiome Arguing for an Expansion of the Hallmarks of Aging https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/09/arguing-for-an-expansion-of-the-hallmarks-of-aging/ The hallmarks of aging form a catalog of largely better studied changes in cells and tissues considered relevant, and possibly more important, in the onset and development of age-related degeneration and disease. This i...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 11, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs