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Source: Annual Genitourinary Cancers Symposium; Medline 192,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer annually. 27,000 cases are terminal. Currently under investigation is a new chemotherapy drug -Cabazitaxel which is being administered in conjunction with Mitoxantrone (a commonly used drug f0r prostate cancer). Men receiving this chemo cocktail (no pun intended) had a 30% increase in survival. [...] 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: American Cancer Society Men should discuss the benefits and risks of prostate cancer screening with their doctors, according to revised prostate cancer screening guidelines from the American Cancer Society (ACS). Yes. That’s what they said. Not much of a guideline is it? Okay they say a little more. But really, only a little. The American Cancer [...] 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: BBC Health; PNAS (no laughing) Journal The Journal for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science has published a study on lingering tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs). Researchers in Berkeley, California (say no more Berkeley) have found “substantial” concentrations of toxins upon substances exposed to tobacco products. What sort of substances? Clothing, furniture and wallpaper for starters. [...] 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: Reuters; British Journal of Gynecology, Jan. 14, 2010. Partial hysterectomies (where the cervix and lower portion of the uterus are left intact) have been on the increase since 1991. The majority of these surgeries are performed for non-cancerous conditions such as uterine fibroids whcih can cause bleeding and chronic pelvic pain. Total hysterectomy is [...] 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 [...] |
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