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The Flu Is One Gift That We Don't Have To Keep On Giving For People With Cancer
  It's the holiday season, a time of reflection, celebration and for many, giving gifts. But there is at least one gift that no one wants to get, and certainly no one wants to give: the flu. And for people with cancer, and those they come in contact with, the flu can be a very serious event. For that reason and many more, people more than 6 months old-and especially those in contact with people who have serious illnesses like cancer-should get vaccinated against the flu. Too many of us think the flu is a minor inconvenience. But that is almost certainly because we confuse the typical cold or upper respiratory infectio...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - December 17, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Cancer Care Environment Medications Prevention Survivors Treatment Vaccines Source Type: blogs

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

A Connection Between the Zika Virus and Curing Brain Cancer?
Not long ago, Zika virus was dominating headlines. A new infection was hardly ever heard about before then, yet is now affecting hundreds of thousands of people in Latin America, causing disfiguration and microcephalia in new-born babies. Microcephalia is caused by severe delayed and abnormal development of the brain, resulting in the range of intellectual disability, dwarfism, poor motor functions and speech. With no cure or even preventive vaccination available, many women in the most affected regions were reportedly considering postponing any planned pregnancies. The virus was actually discovered back in 1947 in Zika fo...
Source: World of Psychology - October 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Brain and Behavior Brain Blogger Health-related Publishers Research brain cancer Delivery glioblastoma Immune System microcephalia Pregnancy Sexual Contact stem cells Zika virus 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

Life With Metastatic Breast Cancer Means Always Having a Plan B
I was supposed to be in Africa this week. I’d been looking forward to it for the past year. My sister and brother-in-law started orphanages in Kenya and continue to support them, and this was my opportunity to finally get there and meet all the children and the wonderful people involved. My sister had even planned a safari for us. A safari! Sadly, with the new drug I’m taking for stage 4 breast cancer, Ibrance (palbociclib), my immune system is weakened so I can’t get a couple of the vaccines that are recommended for travel to Kenya. My first thought was that I have terminal cancer, so what difference do...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - February 2, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups, RN Tags: Breast Cancer living with people treatment Source Type: blogs

Blessings: How a Two-Time Cancer Survivor Copes During COVID-19
I, for one, am taking social distancing seriously. My husband and I haven’t had sex since the quarantine began. We’ve only hugged each other three times. A two-time cancer survivor, I’m afraid I’ll catch COVID-19. I’ve been working at home, but he’s been going in, and I think he’s afraid he’ll spread the disease. Not that he has it. We’re quite a pair. We always stand six feet apart. This pandemic is hard on me because I have no frame of reference for it. All I know is that danger is all around me. My mother taught me about danger when I was two and a half. We lived along the Cuyahoga River, and she’d w...
Source: World of Psychology - June 5, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Laura Yeager Tags: Personal Trauma Cancer Survivor coronavirus COVID-19 Rape Sexual Assault social distancing Source Type: blogs

Making Cancer Care Great Again
By MICHAEL MILLENSON Q: Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency included a promise to repeal “Obamacare” in its entirety. If he succeeds in fulfilling that promise, what impact can we expect on American cancer prevention and cancer treatment? A: Donald Trump, emboldened by eliminating ISIS, ending illegal immigration and energizing the economy, will eradicate cancer. Or at the very least, I predict, he will append it to his list of promised achievements as president. Our current chief executive, dubbed “No Drama Obama” by his staff during the 2008 campaign, couldn’t resist the heady promise of a cancer ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Biden Cancer Millenson Trump Source Type: blogs

Newer skin cancer treatments improve prognosis for those with cutaneous melanoma
Cutaneous melanoma, also called malignant melanoma, is the type of skin cancer that is most likely to spread to other parts of the body. Though melanoma accounts for only about 1% of skin cancers, it is responsible for more than 90% of skin cancer-related deaths. But thanks to developments in skin cancer treatment (mostly in the last decade), patients with melanoma have much better chances of living longer. What is a melanoma? Melanoma involves the uncontrolled growth of a type of cell known as a melanocyte. One of the most important functions of a normal melanocyte is to protect your skin from the sun’s damaging ultravi...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 3, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dominic Wu, MD Tags: Cancer Skin and Hair Care Source Type: blogs

Maybe It Really Is Different This Time For Patients With Advanced Melanoma
Every convention and large meeting has a theme, and at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago the theme is "Building Bridges To Conquer Cancer." But for me, the theme as articulated in my blog the other day is "Is it really different this time?" Some agree with me and some don't, but that's OK. I am wearing a badge that says I am a "35 year member of ASCO" (I actually have been attending these meetings longer than that) so I perhaps have a bit of a different perspective than those younger than me. And there is plenty of commentary to back up my well-meaning and hopefully thought provokin...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - June 3, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Cancer Care Medications Other cancers Research Survivors Treatment Vaccines Source Type: blogs

Another cancer we can prevent
Although no one talks about it much, one of the results of the AIDS epidemic has been that there has been an increase in the number of men diagnosed with anal cancer. This cancer arises in the anus, about a half-inch inside and above the opening. The first symptom is itching that doesn’t go away and then soreness and bleeding and finally, pain. In my practice, the only patients I saw with this were women. I wasn’t sure why until the discovery of HPV (Human Papilloma Virus). Not only is this the virus that causes cervical cancer and is sexually transmitted but now we know it also causes anal cancer. It isn’t clear wh...
Source: Dr.Kattlove's Cancer Blog - April 24, 2013 Category: Oncologists Source Type: blogs

Genomics And Personalized Medicine: Is It Really Different This Time?
Another year and another annual meeting for the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago. This is a meeting that regularly attracts many thousands of doctors, researchers, pharmaceutical folks and others interested in the science and business of cancer from around the globe to learn, to discuss, to persuade, to educate on the progress being made in clinical cancer research and treatment. And like every year, there are themes that emerge, that tend to dominate the discussions. And there are other themes that aren't so visible, that don't get as much attention yet in my mind are equally important as they reflect not ...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - June 1, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Breast Cancer Cancer Care Colon Cancer Lung Cancer Medications Research Treatment Vaccines Source Type: blogs

As ASCO wraps up, docs are talking about cancer research while patients are talking about HPV and throat cancer
ASCO is the American Society of Clinical Oncology. It's the biggest professional cancer conference that draws a huge international crowd in Chicago every year. The city of Chicago sees a huge surge of tourism activity around this conference every summer. In somewhat unrelated news, CBS published a story about Michael Douglas, his throat cancer, and HPV - the virus that causes cervical cancer, penile cancer, vulvar cancer, anal cancer, and oral cancers. In his case, his cancer risk was especially high because of his history of alcohol and tobacco use combined with HPV infection. So, while doctors are buzzing about the lat...
Source: Medicine and Technology by Dr. Joseph Kim - June 4, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: STD ASCO HPV cancer Source Type: blogs

Michael Douglas got throat cancer from oral sex. Really?
Guess what. It’s might be true. How can this be? It turns out that about one-third or perhaps more of throat cancers (specifically called oropharyngeal – referring to the back of the mouth and the throat) are associated with an infection called human papilloma virus or HPV. HPV is a common sexually transmitted (by the standard way) infection that affects most women at some time in their lives and is the major, maybe only, cause of cervical cancer. That is why we have developed vaccines for this virus to give to girls before they become sexually active. If every young woman were vaccinated before becoming sexually activ...
Source: Dr.Kattlove's Cancer Blog - July 26, 2013 Category: Oncologists Source Type: blogs

Reaching Beyond Delivery System Walls To Improve Colorectal Cancer Screening
Conclusion Screening rates are a product of two factors: offer rates and uptake/completion rates. With our FIT campaign we have made strides in both areas. With tools built into our EHR, we can now identify and offer tests to nearly 100 percent of the eligible population, practically with the touch of a button. At the same time, patient uptake of testing has improved dramatically, despite the fact that FIT screening must be done every year, instead of the five- and ten-year intervals required for sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy, respectively. We believe the increased uptake is a testament to what happens when we “make the ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - March 24, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Theodore Levin, Joanne Schottinger and Murray Ross Tags: Featured Health Policy Lab Innovations in Care Delivery Organization and Delivery Population Health capitated payment model Colorectal Cancer Screening electronic health record fecal immunochemical test Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Source Type: blogs

HPV and cancer: The underappreciated connection
Did you know that a viral infection can lead to a number of different types of cancer? If that comes as a surprise to you, you’re not alone. In fact, according to a new study, many people have no idea that a common viral infection called human papilloma virus (HPV) can cause cancer of the genitals, anus, mouth, and throat, as well as cervical cancer. Viral infections and cancer The connection between certain viral infections and cancer has been recognized for many years. Some of the most well-established examples include hepatitis C, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and human papillomavirus (HPV). One thing these viru...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - November 8, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Adolescent health Cancer Infectious diseases Men's Health Sexual Conditions Vaccines Women's Health Source Type: blogs