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Trying to mix Sun, Fun and a Mastectomy
When we hit the summer months, I am so grateful for having had reconstruction surgery. The logistics of living with prosthetic breasts can only be learned by those who have lost a breast or two. Most people can’t imagine all the problems that crop up when you try to compensate for the missing body part.
The first summer after chemotherapy ended was a lesson in the difficulty of trying to hide a mastectomy. I had battled all winter and spring just trying to keep a foam insert in my bra. I did eventually get a rubber prosthetic breast that worked great in a bra under a shirt or sweater, but I soon learned that re...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - July 15, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups Tags: Breast Cancer Source Type: blogs
What Women Want – How and When to Deliver the News of a Breast Cancer Diagnosis
If you’re going to have to tell a woman that she has breast cancer, she wants to hear the news as quickly as possible, preferably face to face, ideally within 1-2 days of the biopsy being done, and have an appointment set up to deal with the diagnosis either that day or the next.
That’s what Dr Deanna Attai and colleagues found out when they surveyed over 1000 women, including 784 breast cancer survivors, to find out how and how soon they wanted to get their breast biopsy results, and compared that to what actually happened when they got their results.
It’s no surprise that in almost all cases, when it c...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - June 24, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Breast Cancer Mammography mammogram test results waiting Source Type: blogs
Zytiga Lowers PSA in men with high-risk prostate cancer, at a cost in side-effects
Prostate cancer survivors during the era 2005-2013, as you'll see from our tag cloud (sidebar), were bombarded by Dendreon's controversial campaign to speed FDA approval of its immunotherapy vaccine Provenge. Since then, Provenge hype has calmed down, while the push for Abiraterone acetate (Zytiga) has heated up. Abiraterone (generic name) aka Zytiga (brand name) is ...continue reading Zytiga Lowers PSA in men with high-risk prostate cancer, at a cost in side-effects
Source: psa-rising.com/blog - May 24, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Jacquie Strax Tags: Abiraterone CRPC Prostate Cancer Side Effects Zytiga Source Type: blogs
We knew this would happen
Not to make light of an other's misfortunes but I think that we knew this would happen. Komen (for the Cure) has clearly been on a downturn since the mishandling of the Planned Parenthood epic in 2012. One of their main fundraising efforts has been their three day walks. There used to be 14 around the country. Starting in 2014, there will be 7.The Three Days are cancelled in Boston, Arizona, Cleveland, Chicago, Tampa, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. This will leave only Atlanta, Dallas/Ft Worth, Michigan, San Diego, Twin Cities, and Seattle.And example of their recent numbers is here:"On May 11, thousands of breast canc...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - June 5, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: funding events cancer awareness Source Type: blogs
Coping With Cancer – guest post
One of the reasons we like to read other blogs is to share in the experience of fellow survivors, looking for similarities and differences, new insights and catharsis. But another sort of opportunity sometimes pops up – actual practical advice … Continue reading →
Source: Being Cancer Network - February 6, 2014 Category: Cancer Authors: Dennis Pyritz Tags: Guest Post * Living with Cancer Acceptance Anxiety Melanoma Survivorship Source Type: blogs
Our deepest condolences
Dear Carol, Our deepest condolences. We do share your anger and we will only put closure on our father’s passing away once doctors know there are metastatic liver cancer survivors. Just imagine: your doctor was the pharaoh’s doctor: if the pharaoh dies, the doctor would be killed and buried next to him… How much effort […]
Source: Metastatic liver cancer - April 30, 2010 Category: Cancer Authors: Daughter SK Tags: Cancer Obituaries Source Type: blogs
New Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines From The American Cancer Society: What You Should Know
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in this country. In 2012, the American Cancer Society estimates that there were about 226,000 people newly diganosed with lung cancer, and 160,000 deaths. If there is good news here-and unfortunately there isn't much good news when it comes to lung cancer-it is that deaths from this dreaded disease have been declining in men and women, since fewer people are smoking. But there is much we have to do to improve this picture.
That's one of the reasons the American Cancer Society is releasing new guidelines on screening for lung cancer. After carefully reviewing the availa...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - January 10, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Cancer Care Early detection Lung Cancer Prevention Screening Tobacco Treatment Source Type: blogs
Is Cancer Research and Treatment Moving From Evolution To Revolution?
Discussion at a meeting of the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) held in conjunction with the MD Anderson symposium mentioned above echoed a theme that I truly believe in: we have plenty of money "in the system" already to accomplish what we need to accomplish. How we parcel out that money is the issue. We waste so much, and we are charged so much, for things that don't work or aren't needed that to me it borders on the obscene. If we were more effective and efficient at what we do and how we do it, I firmly believe we could pay for what we need to pay for.
As an example, I was asked this week about a recent d...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - April 9, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Breast Cancer Cancer Care Colon Cancer Lung Cancer Media Medications Other cancers Prostate Cancer Research Treatment Source Type: blogs
A New Genomic Test To Guide Prostate Cancer Treatment: What We Know And What We Don't
Coming to an office near you: a new test that can "confidently" predict whether or not you need to have aggressive therapy for your newly diagnosed prostate cancer.
Really?
That's what the press reports would lead you to believe. And it's really going to catch your attention if you're one of the tens of thousands of men who will have to decide what to do if you are diagnosed with prostate cancer that has what we call "favorable characteristics." And with the test coming to market, you would assume that your doctor would have a good understanding of whether or not it works based on the available studies and information...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - May 9, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Cancer Care Early detection Media Prostate Cancer Radiation Therapy Research Screening Treatment Source Type: blogs
It's Guns vs. Butter (Again): How Do We Reconcile Expensive Cancer Treatments With The Need To Improve The Basics Of Cancer Care?
As we walk the halls and sit in the lectures at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, there's an elephant in the room. It is right there in front of us, but not many of us seem willing to talk about it. Fewer still are making any commitments to do something about it.
So what is this ubiquitous juxtaposition that is right in front of us but we can't seem to see?
It is the contrast between incredibly sophisticated science and computer data that will help us understand cancer and its treatment vs. the reality that we can't have medical records that really work. It is the fact that we have million do...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - June 3, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Access to care Breast Cancer Cancer Care Cervical Cancer Colon Cancer Early detection Prevention Prostate Cancer Radiation Therapy Rectal Cancer Research Screening Tobacco Treatment Source Type: blogs
New Update On Prostate Cancer Prevention With Finasteride Creates A Dilemma For Patients
We've all heard the phrase, "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." Well, that saying may hold particular relevance while reviewing a new research report published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The report is an important one. It is an 18 year follow-up of a study designed to show whether the use of the drug finasteride could reduce the incidence and deaths from prostate cancer. The study was called the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial and when it was initially reported in 2003 it showed that the drug could reduce the incidence of prostate cancer by almost 25%. However, there was a...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - August 14, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Cancer Care Early detection Medications Prevention Prostate Cancer Radiation Therapy Research Screening Treatment Source Type: blogs
Progress In Colorectal Cancer Not Shared By Everyone
An article published this week in the American Cancer Society journal CA: A Journal for Clinicians received a lot of media attention. The report showed dramatic declines in the rate of people being diagnosed with colorectal cancer, as well as decreases in the rates of colorectal cancer deaths over the past number of years.
But the press didn't say much about the fact that not everyone has benefitted from the progress we have made in the prevention, early detection, and improved treatment for colorectal cancer. It is a sad but very real commentary on how we approach health care in this country that African Americans have no...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - March 19, 2014 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Access to care Colon Cancer Diet Early detection Environment Media Medicare Medications Prevention Rectal Cancer Research Screening Treatment Source Type: blogs
Lung-MAP--A Bold Initiative To Find New Treatments For Squamous Cell Lung Cancer--Launches Today
Today marks a major step forward in cancer clinical trials and drug development with the launch of the Lung-MAP protocol to evaluate new treatments for squamous cell lung cancer, a common cancer which has proven resistant to the standard drugs currently available. In response to this genuine unmet need, Lung-MAP has been designed to move new therapies more quickly from the laboratory to the bedside of patients afflicted with this serious disease and few options available.
Many--including present company--have written about the need to improve this process. We are in a new era of cancer drug development, spearheaded by our ...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - June 16, 2014 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Access to care Cancer Care Lung Cancer Medications Research Tobacco Treatment 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
Don’t Believe These 3 Myths About Living With Cancer
When people find out that I have stage 4 terminal breast cancer, they have varied reactions. Some are saddened and compassionate, some are concerned and curious, and others, because of their own fears, need to find an explanation — a way to feel in control.
This often leads to myths about living with cancer that can be insulting to those of us who are battling the disease.
Let’s examine the truth behind three of these myths:
Myth #1: If you are a positive person with a great attitude, you won’t get cancer.
My father, mother, and niece all battled cancer. My parents were anything but people who gave in or gave up. Th...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - March 8, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups, RN Tags: Breast Cancer Nutrition Risk Factors treatment Source Type: blogs
