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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
Young adults and cancer
I read an article on the Atlantic about the plight of young cancer patients. First of all, please do not use the word 'plight'. A plight is defined as: a condition, state, or situation, especially an unfavorable or unfortunate one. To me its another one of those sneaky, snarky labels with negative overtones. And the article also calls them survivors which is not my favorite term as well. A double negative for me.Yes, life sucks after a cancer diagnosis. Particularly if you are younger and there are no others around with cancer to help you cope. I was one of them and I do not think that I had a plight. I had a life to live...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - February 15, 2014 Category: Cancer Tags: labels normal stress young cancer patients Source Type: blogs
Is Moving On After Cancer A Myth?
I am approachingmy ten year anniversary of the ten year mark after my breast cancer diagnosis. Am I supposed to celebrate? I think so but I am not sure how much of a celebration it is. It doesn ' t mean I can say it is gone for good. It just means that in the ten years since I was diagnosed with breast cancer and I am still here.Now I do know that is a good thing. But am I supposed to celebrate? But I don ' t feel like celebrating. I am not sure that I should celebrate. I certainly won ' t be having a party.The last ten years have been a growing time for me emotionally (and for my waistline). I have had many new experience...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - May 29, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: living with cancer Source Type: blogs
Cancer on our Calendar – guest post
A dreary wet Monday after a gorgeous sunny Sunday. Being it is the second week of March though, I can’t complain. Crocous have been in bloom for weeks now. Tulips starting to bud. Trees and bushes too. It really feels like Spring. But this evening I must return to work at the clinic where it is still a cold winter for some.
Today’s breast cancer blogger hails from the UK. Yvonne has been penning her posts for a little over a year now. I decided to include her “About me” profile as it is such a succinct and well written introduction to writing about cancer. You can find Yvonne at time...
Source: Being Cancer Network - March 12, 2012 Category: Cancer Authors: admin Tags: Guest Post * Living with Cancer Breast cancer Source Type: blogs
Genetic Testing is Breast Cancer Prevention
If you have battled breast cancer and have a family, the greatest fear – even more than recurrence - is that one of your children will develop the disease. A breast cancer diagnosis is brutal on any family when it affects just one member, the thought of other loved ones being ravaged by cancer is an additional burden. My family knows this fear we have tested positive for BRCA2. Besides myself, my loved ones have a very high risk of developing the disease.
Despite all the billions of dollars raised and spent on breast cancer research, the best defense we have against the disease is prevention and early detection. That is...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - March 25, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: admin Tags: Health insurance concerns Healthcare cost of breast cancer Source Type: blogs
Obamacare will Help Women Battle Breast Cancer
The Affordable Care Act known fondly as Obamacare will help women battle breast cancer. Without insurance a breast cancer diagnosis can be a death sentence. Early diagnosis and intervention is key to battling the disease. With Obamacare, preventative testing such as mammograms for women over 40, and genetic testing for women at high risk of familial cancer is covered without co-pay or coinsurance. This is regardless if your deductible has been met. Once diagnosed, no insurance company can deny a woman coverage for a preexisting condition. Also, obtaining insurance through exchanges will be more affordable. Women’s h...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - September 30, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups, RN Tags: Breast Cancer Obamacare preexisting condition Source Type: blogs
Breast Cancer Idiocy
First day of radiation treatment. I look like I ' m about to make a run for it which is accurate. Radiation is frightening to me. Something about not being able to see the laser, see the treatment and having this machine moving around you just scares me. I ' m sure I ' ll get used to it but right now.... I hate it. #radiation#radiationmondaysucks #stillfightinglikeagirlThis is a picture of Shannen Doherty, from ' 90210 ' , as she starts radiation for breast cancer. Why do I call this idiocy? Her business managers allowed her health insurance to lapse. She had to sue them. Can you believe that?What competent perso...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - December 2, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: breast cancer breast cancer bonds breast cancer treatment idiots Shannen Doherty Source Type: blogs
The Really Bad Reason For Decline in Cancer Rates
There is a really bad reason fordeclining cancer rates. That is when people lose their health insurance and stop going to the doctor. New research has recently found that as people lose their jobs, they lose their health insurance and stop going to the doctor so fewer cancer cases are diagnosed." As the country plunged into recession between 2008 and 2012, something unexpected happened: An earlier small decline in the number of new cancer cases became a much bigger one. "And..." A2015 analysis in the Journal of Cancer covering the years from 1973 to 2008 found that the incidence and treatment of cancer in the United States...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - March 19, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: cancer diagnosis cancer rates politics Source Type: blogs
TBT: Getting Diagnosed with Cervical Cancer
In honor of it being Cervical Cancer Awareness Month today’s TBT post is one we ran as part of a series back in 2014.
January is Cervical Cancer Month. According to the CDC, in 2010 11,818 women in the United States were diagnosed with cervical cancer and 3,939 women died from the disease. And while these statistics are disheartening, once the leading cause of death in women, cervical cancer has rapidly declined over the past 40 years. The decline in cases can be attributed to preventative medicine: more women are getting regular Pap tests, which can find cervical precancer before it turns into cancer.
Throughout t...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - January 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer TBT Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Normal Care Hours Don’t Work for Workers With Chronic Conditions
It looks like an airport lounge without the rolling suitcases. There are about 20 of us cancer survivor-types fiddling with our phones or reading the newspaper. A few of us are sipping delicious contrast fluid in preparation for a scan, but most of us are waiting to meet with our oncologists for follow-up or monitoring visits. All of us are between the ages of 20 and 70 and all of us are dressed for success – or at least for our jobs.
What’s wrong with this picture? Why are employed adults spending a busy Wednesday morning waiting (and waiting) to visit our oncologists when we should be working?
We are there becaus...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - February 13, 2014 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer Chronic Conditions Patients Source Type: blogs
Six Reasons Why Cancer is an Emotional Diagnosis Too
By Cynthia Hayes, Author, The Big Ordeal: Understanding and Managing the Psychological Turmoil of Cancer
No matter when you hear the words, “You’ve got cancer,” you are bound to have an emotional reaction. The news is devastating, and the physical challenges that lie ahead are very real. But, unfortunately, that is only half the story. Cancer is an emotional diagnosis too, and our psychological and physical responses to the disease and its treatment are intertwined, coloring the entire experience. Why is cancer so emotional?
We fear we will die
For millennia, cancer has been a death sentence. So even though ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - February 22, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Cynthia Hayes Tags: featured health and fitness philosophy psychology self-improvement cancer healing illness pickthebrain self improvement Source Type: blogs
i suspected as much
The headline reads, "Breast cancer among young women increasing" and cites a study conducted out of the Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology program at the Seattle Children's hospital.I certainly know lots of young women with breast cancer (I worked with several of them but that's a whole other story). I also know and have known lots of younger women with advanced (or metastatic) cancer - which is really what this article from the Los Angeles Times is all about.As Rebecca Johnson (herself a survivor of breast cancer at 27) and her co-authors concluded, "An increasing number of young women in the United States will present w...
Source: Not just about cancer - March 4, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: metastatic breast cancer news health care activism pissed off show and tell preventing cancer cancer blog rants Source Type: blogs
National Minority Health Month Is A Call To Action
April is National Minority Health Month.
That's the "dry" statement. The impact statement is that-unfortunately-for many in this country, this is more than a phrase. It's a reality that their health and their health care are in crisis. And the sooner more of us understand this, the sooner we can make a genuine effort to implement effective strategies that will address the sad state of affairs many people find themselves in when it comes to their health, and preventing and appropriately treating their diseases.
This is about more than high blood pressure and diabetes. It's about heart disease and stroke and cancer and the l...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - April 18, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Access to care Breast Cancer Cancer Care Cervical Cancer Colon Cancer Early detection Environment Prevention Screening Survivors Treatment Source Type: blogs
If PSA Tests Don't Impact Survival, Why Do Insurance Companies Do The Test Without Your Knowledge?
A discussion on Twitter caught the eyes of my colleagues yesterday, and raised a very interesting question: should insurance companies be allowed to do PSA testing to detect prostate cancer on men as a condition of getting insurance?
What started the discussion was a blog post by a well-known and respected medical blogger who goes by the name "Skeptical Scalpel." In his blog he detailed the saga of a 56 year old man who had a pre-employment physical in order to be covered by his new company's health insurance plan. He was not informed that he was going to have a PSA test. It was just done as part of the process. No informe...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - August 21, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Cancer Care Early detection Prostate Cancer Screening Survivors Treatment Source Type: blogs
Building Sustainable Partnerships To Improve Access To Breast Cancer Treatment For Uninsured Women
Breast cancer is a terrifying disease for most women. In the United States, it is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women ages twenty to fifty-nine years. More than 5,100 women are diagnosed with—and at least 1,100 women die from—breast cancer in New York City each year. The breast cancer survival rate is also lower for uninsured women than for those with private health insurance coverage.
Although access to affordable breast cancer screening and treatment has grown substantially over the past few years as a result of increased health insurance coverage options through the Affordable Care Act (ACA), many uninsur...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 20, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Kumbirai M. Madondo, Janice Zaballero and José Pagán Tags: Costs and Spending Featured GrantWatch Health Professionals Insurance and Coverage Access breast cancer Consumers Health Care Costs Health Care Delivery Health Philanthropy Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW Hospitals imag Source Type: blogs
