http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/cancer/ en-us Sat, 6 Sep 2008 17:56:09 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076168/posts British citizens suffering from lung cancer are half as likely to survive for five years compared with Americans diagnosed with the disease. The American survival rate for leukemia is almost 50% while the European rate is significantly lower, just 35%. Esophageal carcinoma is often deadly, but compared with their European counterparts, American patients are more than twice as likely to survive the disease for five years... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076168/posts#comment Sat, 6 Sep 2008 17:56:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075593/posts ARLINGTON, VA -- U.S. Senator John McCain today released the following statement on the networks' prime-time special event, "Stand Up to Cancer," which will air tonight. The campaign also released information on how John McCain will support the efforts to win the fight against cancer through a comprehensive, public-private strategy. John McCain will outline his plans in a video that will be shown during the prime-time special. Statement by Senator John McCain on "Stand Up to Cancer" Event "I applaud ABC, CBS and NBC coming together tonight to air an unprecedented one-hour program titled 'Stand Up to Cancer' which will... johnmccain http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075593/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 21:42:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072971/posts MONDAY, Sept. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have revealed the structure of the active region of telomerase, an enzyme involved in both cancer and aging. Telomerase works by adding repeats of a short DNA sequence to the ends of chromosomes -- known as telomeres -- to prevent damage and loss of genetic information during cell division. Telomerase works in embryonic stem cells and other cells that multiply frequently, but is switched off almost entirely in normal adult cells to prevent the dangers of runaway proliferation. In cancer cells, the ability to activate telomerase is often regained. Telomerase has been implicated... Health Day http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072971/posts#comment Tue, 2 Sep 2008 14:30:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072994/posts Doctors say Vytorin-cancer link can't be ruled out MUNICH, Germany - Results from three studies of the cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin are not enough to prove or rule out a possible link to a higher risk of cancer, so the drug should be used with great caution until more is known, editors of a leading medical journal urged Tuesday. The New England Journal of Medicine published results of the studies, which also were presented at a cardiology conference in Munich. Vytorin is a combination of Merck's Zocor, a long-sold statin drug, and Schering-Plough's Zetia, a newer type of medicine that lowers... Yahoo/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072994/posts#comment Tue, 2 Sep 2008 14:58:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072034/posts He battled the Viet Cong and infiltrated the Black Panthers, but ex-cop Athelston Kelson turned to crime after a yearlong struggle with liver cancer left him a beaten man, friends say. The 59-year-old NYPD hero and decorated Vietnam vet was arraigned yesterday, accused of being "the Bling Bandit" who raided banks across New York City and Long Island. "The cancer was really getting to him," said a former colleague. "He refused to fight it. He said that he didn't want chemotherapy, that he didn't want to put poison in his body. ". . . He helped so many people, in... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072034/posts#comment Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:45:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071921/posts LIZETTE IRVIN, HEAVILY PREGNANT, reclined on a hospital bed, relaxed, considering the circumstances. A bag of fluid dripped into her blood through an IV line as Irvin sucked on ice cubes, trying to pass the time. The ice helped to minimize the metallic taste and heat in her mouth from 5-fluorouracil, an antimetabolite, which entered her bloodstream via a catheter inserted in her chest. It was June 16, Irvin’s fourth round of chemotherapy. She was 32 weeks pregnant and had breast cancer. Before she left the chemo suite at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Irvin, who is... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071921/posts#comment Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:54:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2069123/posts COLUMBUS, Ohio – New research strongly suggests that a mix of preventative agents, such as those found in concentrated black raspberries, may more effectively inhibit cancer development than single agents aimed at shutting down a particular gene. Researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center examined the effect of freeze-dried black raspberries on genes altered by a chemical carcinogen in an animal model of esophageal cancer. The carcinogen affected the activity of some 2,200 genes in the animals’ esophagus in only one week, but 460 of those genes were restored to normal activity in animals that consumed freeze-dried black... Ohio State University http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2069123/posts#comment Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:52:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065467/posts A new study suggests that giving Merck & Co.'s cervical-cancer vaccine Gardasil to women through their mid-20s may not be worth the price, despite U.S. recommendations that this age group receive the costly shot. The study, published online Wednesday by The New England Journal of Medicine, comes as Merck already is having difficulty persuading college-age and older women to get the vaccine, which was introduced in 2006 and costs about $360 for a three-dose regimen. [...] Ms. Kim and Harvard colleague Sue Goldie concluded that it cost about $43,600 per "quality-adjusted life year" gained, when HPV vaccine is administered to... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065467/posts#comment Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:41:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065442/posts NEW YORK (TICKER) —NFL.com is reporting that Gene Upshaw, a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and executive director of the NFL’s Players Association, died early Thursday morning after a bout with pancreatic cancer. He was 63. Upshaw, a former left guard for the Oakland and Los Angeles Raiders, was named an All-Pro 11 times in his 16-year career. He also was selected to seven Pro Bowls between 1967 and 1981 and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1987 - his first year of eligibility. Upshaw was a member of the Oakland team that won the... Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065442/posts#comment Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:07:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065093/posts Somewhere deep inside the brain of Senator Edward Kennedy, the neurons in his left parietal lobe were becoming angry. Something had invaded their territory in this part of the brain — located at about eye level, just behind the ear — and they were about to react in a way that would frighten the Senator and those around him. The neurons sparked a burst of electrical activity, causing a seizure that made parts of his body become rigid and start to shake. As with most patients, there was really no way for the Senator to pick up on any warning... Time Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065093/posts#comment Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:32:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064893/posts In two years, cervical cancer has gone from obscure killer confined mostly to poor nations to the West’s disease of the moment Tens of millions of girls and young women have been vaccinated against the disease in the United States and Europe in the two years since two vaccines were given government approval in many countries and, often, recommended for universal use among females ages 11 to 26. One of the vaccines, Gardasil, from Merck, is made available to the poorest girls in the country, up to age 18, at a potential cost to the United States government of more... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064893/posts#comment Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:11:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064450/posts The 36-year-old actress was born in Hollywood, California. Robert Applegate, her father, was a record producer and record company producer executive, and Nancy Lee Priddy, her mother, was a singer. She also had to fight both breast and cervical cancer. Christina Applegate will always remain in the audience’s memory as Kelly Bundy in the sitcom “Married with Children.” The actress made a great film and television career until her 36 years. Christina Applegate had major roles in several pictures, as “Farce of the Penguins,” “Anchorman,” “The sweetest thing” and is the lead character in the ABC sitcom “Samantha Who?,”... www.enews20.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064450/posts#comment Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:45:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061976/posts Elizabeth Edwards reportedly decided to stay with former U.S. Sen. John Edwards because she has terminal cancer. UPI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061976/posts#comment Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:55:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061937/posts Cancer patients have been left free of the disease after being treated with a new drug which harnesses the power of their own immune cells. Four of 38 patients with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma have seen the disease disappear following treatment, while five others saw reductions of 50 per cent in their tumours. The drug, which could prove cheaper than other similar therapies, works by activating the body’s own defences to attack the cancer. The results have been described as an "exciting" and "significant" development in the use of immunotherapy, the process of using the body’s own immune system to fight disease.... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061937/posts#comment Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:45:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060625/posts NEW treatments for leukemia and asthma are in development after scientists discovered a way to stop the production of malfunctioning blood cells. Researchers at the St Vincent's Institute in Melbourne and Hanson Institute in Adelaide have unravelled the structure of a protein in the blood control system that is key to some blood and inflammatory disorders. Pharmaceutical company CSL will use the breakthrough to develop new treatments which stop the protein from being activated, hindering the spread of cancer. Professor Michael Parker, of the St Vincent's Institute, said his team established the structure of a receptor that controls the actions... Courier Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060625/posts#comment Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:44:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060619/posts AUSTRALIAN scientists are hoping to cure leukaemia, asthma and rheumatoid arthritis after their breakthrough discovery of how to stop killer blood cells growing. The team has unlocked the secrets behind the protein which controls the way the blood cancer cells spread when it is damaged - and have found a way to stop its deadly process. Work is now starting to design a drug to prevent the damaged proteins operating, effectively stopping the cancer as well as asthma and inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. After spending a decade uncovering the structure of the receptor protein, which sits on the... The Daily Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060619/posts#comment Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:34:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059077/posts Paul Newman has finished chemotherapy and has told his family he wants to die at home... Yesterday, it was reported in America that Newman, 83, had only weeks to live and had returned home to his wife, Joanne Woodward... Melbourne Herald Sun (Australia) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059077/posts#comment Sat, 9 Aug 2008 16:02:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2058287/posts There was a FReeper named "Jaysun" back in 2007 and early in 2008, who announced in February of this year that he had contracted some kind of cancer, and that the prognosis was NOT good. He received an outpouring of sympathy in that thread, from me also, who had "talked" to him in personal "FR mail" over some subject of other. His FR profile showed him posed with his new infant daughter. So it was ever so much more touching and hard to bear to hear and read him talking about not being long for this world. He made a... self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2058287/posts#comment Thu, 7 Aug 2008 22:59:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057012/posts In a move that could lead to significant changes in medical care for older men, a national task force on Monday recommended that doctors stop screening men ages 75 and older for prostate cancer because the search for the disease in this group was causing more harm than good. The guidelines, issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, represent an abrupt policy change by an influential panel that had withheld any advice regarding screening for prostate cancer, citing a lack of reliable evidence. Though the task force still has not taken a stand on the value of screening in... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057012/posts#comment Tue, 5 Aug 2008 20:38:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2056795/posts (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — UC Davis Cancer Center physicians today released results of research showing that Vietnam War veterans exposed to Agent Orange have greatly increased risks of prostate cancer and even greater risks of getting the most aggressive form of the disease as compared to those who were not exposed. The findings, which appear online now and will be published in the September 15 issue of the journal Cancer, are the first to link the herbicide with this form of cancer. The research is also the first to utilize a large population of men in their 60s and the prostate-specific... http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-08/uoc--eta080408.php http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2056795/posts#comment Tue, 5 Aug 2008 14:03:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2056617/posts My cousin Kevin and his wife Lane are experiencing simultaneous major medical problems. Lane has been caring for Kevin since one of his kidneys failed this spring, his condition has worsened and he has been diagnosed with a form of leukemia (Myelodysplasia with refractory anemia with excess blast) and now Lane has been diagnosed with colon cancer. Please keep them both in your prayers as they struggle under this double burden. My cousin Cathy is on her way to help and could use prayers for strength also. Me http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2056617/posts#comment Tue, 5 Aug 2008 03:33:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056144/posts The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center made John Kanzius an offer he did refuse. Kanzius met earlier this month with top administrators from the Pittsburgh health-care system. They told him they wanted to fund all cancer research for his external radio-wave generator. In return, UPMC would have owned the project's intellectual property rights for cancer treatment. Kanzius thought about it for a day. "I told them no," Kanzius said Tuesday, the first time he has spoken publicly about the UPMC offer. "They said they would invest millions of dollars in it, but my question is, do I want a single... www.goerie.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056144/posts#comment Mon, 4 Aug 2008 12:43:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2056008/posts Christina Applegate, the 36-year-old Emmy-nominated star and producer of "Samantha Who?," is reportedly undergoing treatment for breast cancer. An announcement confirming the diagnosis was delivered by a representative of the actress late Saturday on "Extra," the celebrity news show: "Christina Applegate was diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer. Benefiting from early detection through a doctor ordered MRI, the cancer is not life threatening. Christina is following the recommended treatment of her doctors and will have a full recovery." LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2056008/posts#comment Mon, 4 Aug 2008 02:20:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055709/posts As a mother of three with no health insurance and a low-wage job, 32-year-old Brandielee Marendo was thrilled to get into the Army. Last year, she entered basic training at Columbia’s Fort Jackson, full of hopes for a career in computers and high-tech air defense. Then she found a small lump in her breast during her third week of basic training. A diagnosis of Stage II breast cancer meant a bilateral mastectomy, chemotherapy and what could be years of follow-up medication. But it didn’t mean an immediate discharge. Marendo is now assigned to Fort Jackson’s “Wounded Warrior Transition Unit,” one... The State http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055709/posts#comment Sun, 3 Aug 2008 13:47:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055264/posts After a rough couple of weeks, Barbara Wagner finally got some good news Monday. Last month, she found out that her lung cancer, which had been in remission for about two years, had come back. After her oncologist prescribed a cancer drug that could slow the cancer growth and extend her life, Wagner was notified that the Oregon Health Plan wouldn’t cover the treatment, but that it would cover palliative, or comfort, care, including, if she chose, doctor-assisted suicide. The Register Guard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055264/posts#comment Sat, 2 Aug 2008 06:15:03 GMT