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Source: Annals of Surgical Oncology; Medline It may be still in the early lab stages -how early? Well they are still testing the technique upon mice with tumors, however, researchers have found that freezing breast cancer tumors (cryoablation) helps to stop the spread of breast cancer. Not only did the rapid freezing, through application of a cold [...] Source: BBC Health; The Lancet Oncology It is a fact of chemotherapy (chemical treatment for cancer) that some patients simply don’t respond to medications. Or that they stop responding over time. With more than 45,400 women diagnosed with breast cancer every year, scientists have been furiously trying to decode our genetic patterns for reasons such as [...] Source: BBC Health; Journal Cancer Research Tamoxifen (an estrogen blocker) is currently the most prescribed drug to fight breast cancer recurrence. However up to 1/3 of women do not respond to Tamoxifen. The reasons for this are not completely known as of this post but are believed to lie in a gene -FGFR1. Researchers are now working [...] Source: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition What do these three things have in common? Well, men who are non-smokers and who eat more soy MAY have a lower risk of getting lung cancer than other men. Okay, the non-smoking part may be an obvious one, but the soy? Soybeans contain natural compounds called isoflavanones. Isoflavanones mimic estrogen, [...] Source: U.S. Food & Drug Administration Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death among women. An estimated 192,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year. Not all breast cancers are the same, however. Some breast cancers are hormone positive meaning that the presence of certain hormones (estrogen for example) contributes to cancer and [...] Source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Rates of new diagnoses and rates of death from all cancers combined declined significantly in the most recent time period for men and women overall and for most racial and ethnic populations in the United States. The drops are driven largely by declines in rates of new cases and [...] Sources: Journal of the National Cancer Institute; BBC Health A brief preface: testing of drugs to see if they are effective in treating cancers is first done by researchers in laboratories on “cell-lines” grown in the laboratory. However while scientists can duplicate cells they still need original cells from human patients to start with. Following a review [...] Source: Medscape Medical News; 32nd Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium Currently referred to as T-DM1, a combination of Herceptin and Maytanasine (a cancer drug which fell (Thanks, Suz!) out of favor a number of years ago due to toxicity) has been demonstrated to shrink tumors in 1/3 of women with metastatic breast cancer who were [...] Source: Medscape Medical News Researchers and soybean growers/marketers have long been touting the benefits of soy to health. The December 9 Journal of the American Medical Association (AMA) has now published the results of a large population study in China. Because let’s face it, if you want to do a large population study, China is your [...] Source: Associated Press; The Wall Street Journal It seems like just last week (okay so it was 3 weeks ago) that I was blogging on the newly announced recommendations relative to mammography. http://www.medicalmalpracticelawyerblogphiladelphia.com/?p=439 I also suggested that there were larger forces at work behind such things as US Preventative Services Task Force recommendations which surface during governmental [...] |
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