By: Susan Selasky From: freep.com Chemotherapy is tough in so many ways. The cancer treatment seeks to wipe out the bad cancer cells but, along the way, takes the good ones, too. And it knocks out taste buds and makes everything taste like metal. But a few metro Detroit women found certain foods helped get them through treatment and even …
Thirty percent cuts to children’s cancer research? Unacceptable
By: Stephen Crowley From: thehill.com Just weeks before she died of a brain tumor, ten-year-old Gabriella Miller put it best. When asked what message she would give to the nation’s political leaders about the need for children’s cancer research, she responded in a YouTube video that went viral: “Talk is bull___! We need action.” Cancer kills more children in the U.S. than any other …
Researchers discover new genes that promote brain cancer
A new collaborative study carried out by researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham), UC San Diego, the German Cancer Research Center, the University of Heidelberg (Germany), and 33 other research institutions has identified two oncogenes, called GFI1 and GFI1B, that drive the development of medulloblastoma, the most common malignant brain tumor in children. The findings, published June 22 in …
Family history is ‘a bigger risk factor than lifestyle’ for some cancers
By: Markus MacGill From: medicalnewstoday.com A Swedish study of nearly 71,000 adopted people has used data from both their natural and adoptive parents to find that family history is a greater risk factor than lifestyle for developing breast, prostate, or colorectal cancer. The genetic factors behind these three major cancers are well established, but this large survey of data published …
Treatment gives liver cancer patients hope
By: Anna Rumer From: coshoctontribune.com “Are you nervous?” clinical coordinator Rob Williamson asked 80-year-old cancer patient Alice Mauk. “Yes,” she replied, a quavering voice emanating from the pile of blankets covering her small body on the hospital bed. “I’ll take care of that,” Williamson said. “I’ll give you a big shot of courage.” Wheeling her into a room filled with …
Muralist returns to cancer support center with paintbrushes — and a diagnosis
By Robin Erb From: freep.com Kate Paul spends her days among swirls and textures, fairies and dinosaurs, stone towers, a crooked treehouse and a cityscape dangling in outer space. There are more than 800 square feet to paint here at Gilda’s Club Metro Detroit — walls and doorjambs and molding that wrap around corner after corner and stretch from floor …
ASTRO and AAPM announce launch of RO-ILS: Radiation Oncology Incident Learning System™
New patient safety initiative will educate and facilitate safer and higher quality radiation oncology care The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) today announced the launch of RO-ILS: Radiation Oncology Incident Learning System™, a new, national patient safety initiative to facilitate safer and higher quality radiation oncology care. Announced at a …
Cancer survivors face rising costs of continuing care
By: Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter From: philly.com People who survive cancer are likely to face a lifelong drain on their finances as they pay for mounting medical expenses year after year, a new government report finds. According to the researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, male and female cancer survivors incur annual medical costs that are …
Health Scan: Pharmacological Trojan horse for fighting cancer
By: Judy Siegel-Itzkovich From: jpost.com Some cancer cells are highly resistant to drugs. Now researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have made a discovery to help fight this phenomenon, namely that drug-resistant cancer cells frequently produce a large number of lysosomes. These are membrane- bound structures found in animal cells whose enzymes are capable of breaking down virtually all …
Targeting a key driver of cancer
From: medicalxpress.com Provided by University of California, San Francisco In the epic fight against cancer, a protein called Ras has been one of the arch-villains. First identified in human cancers in the 1980s, this protein is responsible for roughly one-third of all cases, as well as some of the deadliest, including lung, colon and pancreatic cancers. Ras is a key …