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Cancer Patients Share Web Info With Docs for Insight, Advice
Posted 2 days 10 hours ago by Drugs.com
FRIDAY, May 25 – Cancer patients' primary goal in talking with their doctors about information they've found on the Internet is to get more insight and advice on the online information, new research indicates. "It seems that patients were not necessarily trying to influence their doctors, but rather they wanted to better understand their options," study author Christina Sabee, an associate professor of communication studies at San Francisco State University, said in a Journal of Applied Communication Research news release. Sabee and her colleagues examined responses to online questionnaires completed by 145 cancer patients and caregivers from three online cancer communities and found that only 13 percent discussed online information with their doctors to test the doctor's knowledge or find out why the doctor's advice differed from online information. Thirty-seven percent of ... Read more
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Sleep Apnea Linked to Higher Cancer Death Risk
Posted 7 days ago by Drugs.com
SUNDAY, May 20 – Sleep apnea has already been linked to a host of adverse health problems, such as high blood pressure and heart disease. Now, new research suggests that in people who already have cancer, the sleep disorder may raise their risk of dying from cancer. People with the most severe sleep apnea – those who have 30 or more episodes of low or no oxygen in an hour of sleep – had almost five times the risk of cancer death compared to someone without sleep apnea. "Sleep apnea is the periodic pausing of breathing during sleep that results in drops in oxygen levels in your blood. It causes snoring and sleepiness during the day," explained study author Dr. Javier Nieto, chair of the department of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, in Madison. "Aside from being an annoyance to your spouse, family members and maybe even ... Read more
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Many Primary Care Docs Don't Know Long-Term Effects of Chemo: Survey
Posted 11 days ago by Drugs.com
WEDNESDAY, May 16 – Many primary care doctors don't know the long-term side effects of the chemotherapy treatments that cancer survivors under their care may have been given, a new survey found. On the other hand, most oncologists – though not all – are familiar with the side effects of four common treatments used to treat breast and colon cancer, according to the results of the survey being presented at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago. "While oncologists commonly identify the main late effects of four common cancer drugs, primary care providers did not," study author Dr. Larissa Nekhlyudov said during a Wednesday news conference. "This is not surprising in that primary care providers have different training and exposure to chemotherapy drugs," she noted. "However, these findings emphasize that in the transition of patients ... Read more
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Infection Causes 1 in 6 Cancers Worldwide: Study
Posted 18 days ago by Drugs.com
WEDNESDAY, May 9 – One in six cancers worldwide is caused by preventable or treatable infections, a new study finds. Infections cause about 2 million cancer cases a year, and 80 percent of those cases occur in less developed areas of the world, according to the study, which was published online May 8 in The Lancet Oncology. Of the 7.5 million cancer deaths worldwide in 2008, about 1.5 million were due to potentially preventable or treatable infections. "Infections with certain viruses, bacteria and parasites are one of the biggest and most preventable causes of cancer worldwide," lead authors Catherine de Martel and Martyn Plummer, from the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, said in a journal news release. "Application of existing public-health methods for infection prevention – such as vaccination, safer injection practice or antimicrobial treatments – ... Read more
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Healthy Weight Loss May Also Cut Your Cancer Risk
Posted 1 May 2012 by Drugs.com
TUESDAY, May 1 – Moderate weight loss reduces levels of inflammation that have been tied to certain cancers, at least in postmenopausal women, a new study suggests. According to the findings, older women who lost at least 5 percent of their body weight through diet alone or diet plus exercise showed significant reductions in key inflammatory blood markers such as C-reactive protein and interleukin-6. In addition to risk for heart disease, elevated levels of these markers have also been associated with increased risk for several cancers, including breast, colon, lung and endometrial cancer. The findings appear May 1 in the journal Cancer Research. "Our findings support weight loss through calorie reduction and increased exercise as a means for reducing inflammatory biomarkers and thereby potentially reducing cancer risk in overweight and obese postmenopausal women," said researchers led ... Read more
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Cancer Care Costs Higher in U.S. Than Europe, But Survival Longer
Posted 9 Apr 2012 by Drugs.com
MONDAY, April 9 – The United States spends more on health care than any other country, but those high costs may be paying off in cancer survival, a new report suggests. U.S. cancer patients often live almost two years longer than similar patients in Europe, arguing for the dollar value of care given, researchers say. However, Dr. Otis Brawley, the chief medical officer and executive vice president at the American Cancer Society, who was not involved in the study, said that "this paper has a huge fatal flaw in it." "When you look at survival from time of diagnosis to time of death and you have a screened population that has a lot of diagnoses, you're filling that population with people who don't need treatment and because they are over-diagnosed, they have very long survival," he added. These researchers attribute increased survival to the treatment, when it is really over-diagnosis, ... Read more
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Dentists Play Key Role in Detecting Oral Cancer
Posted 8 Apr 2012 by Drugs.com
SATURDAY, April 7 – Not only do regular dental exams help keep your teeth and gums healthy, they can help detect oral cancer, the Academy of General Dentistry says. As part of Oral Cancer Awareness Month in April, the group recommends that people get a dental exam from a general dentist every six months. "The next time you visit your dentist, ask about an oral cancer screening," academy spokesperson Dr. Seung-Hee Rhee advised in an academy news release. "Your dentist will feel for lumps or irregular tissue changes in your neck, head, cheeks, and oral cavity and thoroughly examine the soft tissues in your mouth, specifically looking for any sores or discolored tissues. Although you may have already been receiving this screening from your dentist, it's a good idea to confirm that this screening is a part, and will remain a part, of your regular exam," Rhee said. Each year in the United ... Read more
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Improved Stem Cell Line May Avoid Cancer Risk: Study
Posted 5 Apr 2012 by Drugs.com
THURSDAY, April 5 – Developing stem cell lines that don't have cells that potentially grow into cancer has been one of the biggest challenges for stem cell therapies. But researchers from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have generated a new line of stem cells that may solve that problem, at least for stem cells destined for the digestive system or possibly the lungs. "The most significant use short-term will be for disease modeling. We've had to rely on mouse models, but we're different than mice. A model with human cells could be very powerful," said the study's senior author, Paul Gadue, an assistant professor in the department of pathology and laboratory medicine at the hospital's Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics. In the far future, he added, these stem cells could potentially be used as therapies for diseases such as diabetes or liver disease. For the current ... Read more
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Cancer Diagnosis May Raise Odds for Suicide, Heart Attack Death
Posted 4 Apr 2012 by Drugs.com
WEDNESDAY, April 4 – When people learn they have cancer, they might face a heightened risk of suicide or a fatal heart attack in the days and weeks that follow, according to a large new study. Using nationwide census and death registry data that covered more than 6 million people over a 15-year period ending in 2006, Swedish researchers tabulated the suicides and cardiovascular fatalities among people with new cancer diagnoses and compared them to similar deaths in those without cancer. Suicide risk was more than 12 times higher for people with cancer during the first week after diagnosis and nearly five times higher during the first three months, they found. Death from cardiovascular causes – particularly heart attack – was 5.6 times higher in the week after a cancer diagnosis and 3.3 times higher in the first month. Hard-to-treat cancers with poor odds for survival, including ... Read more
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You Survived Cancer: Now Pay Attention to Your Overall Health
Posted 3 Apr 2012 by Drugs.com
TUESDAY, April 3 – Cancer survivors need to pay close attention to other aspects of their health as they age, researchers urge. A new study finds that nearly half of cancer survivors die of something other than cancer, such as heart disease or diabetes. And the further from the initial cancer diagnosis they get, the more likely it is that their cause of death will be something other than cancer. The study was to be presented Tuesday at the American Association for Cancer Research's annual meeting in Chicago. "After the detection of cancer, clinicians and cancer survivors pay less attention to the prevention and treatment of other diseases and complications," lead researcher Dr. Yi Ning, assistant professor in the department of epidemiology and community health at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, said in an association news release. "We shouldn't neglect other aspects of ... Read more
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Immune-Based Drug Combo Might Extend Cancer Survival
Posted 2 Apr 2012 by Drugs.com
MONDAY, April 2 – Cancer patients who receive a combination of low-dose interleukin-2 and retinoic acid after conventional therapy seem to live longer than those who don't get the combination. These new study findings, slated for presentation this week at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Chicago, were seen across individuals with many different forms of advanced malignancies, including breast, lung and colon cancers. Retinoic acid is derived from vitamin A. Interleukin-2, a compound that fortifies the immune system, is approved at high doses to treat "metastatic" melanoma and kidney cancer. Metastatic means that a cancer has spread. The study showed that "these biological compounds may work at low doses. Bigger doses are not always better," said lead author Dr. Francesco Recchia, director of the oncology department at Civilian Hospital in Avezzano, ... Read more
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U.S. Cancer Death Rates Continue to Fall: Report
Posted 28 Mar 2012 by Drugs.com
WEDNESDAY, March 28 – Deaths from cancer in the United States continue to decline, health officials report. However, deaths from some types of cancers are on the increase and racial disparities remain in cancer deaths and diagnosis, according to the report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "This annual report shows that a lot of the positive momentum we have seen in cancer control has continued," said report co-author Dr. Marcus Plescia, director of CDC's Division of Cancer Prevention and Control. "We are still seeing decreases in the incidence in death rates for many cancers and particularly for many of the most common cancers." The focus of this report was obesity's impact on cancer. "That's important, because we don't think the public is aware of that," Plescia said. For six cancers, there is good evidence of a relationship between obesity and cancer: ... Read more
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Few Young Women With Cancer Take Steps to Preserve Fertility
Posted 26 Mar 2012 by Drugs.com
MONDAY, March 26 – Very few young women with cancer take measures to preserve their fertility while undergoing cancer treatment, a new study says. The findings suggest that reproductive-age women with cancer need more information about fertility preservation methods such as egg or embryo freezing, said Dr. Mitchell Rosen, of the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues. The researchers surveyed 1,041 women aged 18 to 40 who were diagnosed with cancer between 1993 and 2007. Of those women, 918 received cancer therapies (chemotherapy, pelvic radiation, pelvic surgery, or bone marrow transplant) that could harm their fertility. Sixty-one percent of the women received counseling from their doctors or other health care providers on the risks that cancer treatment posed to their fertility, but only 4 percent of the women actually took steps to preserve their fertility. The ... Read more
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Low 'Bad' Cholesterol Levels May Be Linked to Cancer Risk
Posted 25 Mar 2012 by Drugs.com
SUNDAY, March 25 – There may be a link between low levels of "bad" low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and increased cancer risk, according to new research. In the study, researchers looked at 201 cancer patients and 402 cancer-free patients. They found that cancer patients who never took cholesterol-lowering drugs had low LDL cholesterol levels for an average of about 19 years prior to their cancer diagnosis. The finding suggests there may be some underlying mechanism that affects both LDL cholesterol levels and cancer risk, the study authors said. Still, other experts cautioned that the finding is preliminary, and lowering your LDL levels is well known to cut the odds for the number one killer, heart disease. The study was slated for presentation Sunday at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) annual meeting in Chicago. Previous studies of cholesterol-lowering drugs have ... Read more
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More Evidence Shows That Daily Aspirin Might Combat Cancer
Posted 20 Mar 2012 by Drugs.com
TUESDAY, March 20 – Aspirin, a popular weapon in the war against heart attacks, may also play a role in cancer prevention and treatment, three new British studies suggest. "We have now found that after taking aspirin for three or four years there starts to be a reduction in the number of people with the spread of cancers, so it seems as well as preventing the long-term development of cancers, there is good evidence now that it is preventing the spread of cancers," said lead researcher Dr. Peter M. Rothwell, a professor of neurology at the University of Oxford and John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. "Because aspirin prevents the spread of cancers, it could potentially be used as a treatment," he added. But the research is not conclusive, and did not prove that aspirin combats cancer. So, people should not start popping aspirin in the hopes of thwarting cancer, experts said. Previously, ... Read more
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