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October
24, 2008
News
Headlines
Cancer Panel Urged More $ for Cancer Research
Gene Study Turns Up 26 Lung Cancer Genes
K-ras Mutations with Colon Cancer
Predict No Benefit with Cetuximab
Several Factors Increase Surgical Site
Infection Risk after Breast Operation
Current HRT Use is Associated with Low-Grade
Breast Tumors
Bacterial Infection
Linked to Lymphoma of Eye
Pregnancy
Rates High Using Frozen Sperm From Men with Cancer
Dacarbazine-Interferon Combination Promising
in Metastatic Melanoma
Lung Cancer
in Non-Smokers a Separate Disease
Latinas Less Likely to
Undergo Breast Reconstruction after Mastectomy
Aesthetic Results of Breast Surgery Can be
Improved
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Bioterrorist Within
The administration declared a new front on the war on terror Thursday.
The President's Cancer Panel Thursday declared cancer the "bioterrorist within."
Every day, 4,000 people in the United States learn that they have cancer,
and 1,500 Americans lose their lives to one of the many diseases that are cancer.
Panel chair LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr., M.D warned that we are becoming complacent
to the threat cancer poses to an aging and increasingly sedentary nation,
two risk factors for cancer. You can read more about the report,
which calls for healthcare reform and more cancer research, here.
Documenting Your Health
Proxy
Here's a great FREE tool online to help you get
your living will and health proxy in order.
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New Immigrants/Cervical Cancer Vaccine
Under a rule that went into effect August 1st, immigrant women to the U.S.
aged 11 to 26 must get the Gardasil cervical cancer vaccine.
Unknown to many immigration and health experts, a 1996 immigration
law directs the Citizenship and Immigration Services to require that
new immigrants receive any inoculation recommended for U.S. residents
by the CDC's immunization committee. The CDC's immunization committee
recommended the HPV vaccine for young girls last year.
Read more about the concern this rule is raising here in the Houston Chronicle.
Everything in PINK
As October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, draws to a
close, so do innumerable promotional
efforts hitched to the national campaign.
The fundraising juggernaut, Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, for instance threw caution to the
wind in these tough economic times and hooked up with Citibank. Citi agreed to donate $50 to the organization
for every approved Citi credit card application submitted through the Facebook Pink Ribbon
community, a Facebook group with reportedly over 5 million members. A press release from Citi said Komen
hopes to bring in more than $250,000 to benefit a scholarship program for kids who lost a parent
to breast cancer, and for research targeting aggressive forms of breast cancer, including those that
strike younger women. Personal stories can be posted on the Facebook site here.
Wine lovers can "Toast to a Cure" October 30th. Pink Ribbon Wines
says for every bottle bought it'll make a contribution to the
Breast Cancer Research Foundation all year long.
The ubiquitous pink ribbon campaigns have their critics, as cable TV chanel MSNBC details in this report about the politics behind the pink
ribbons.
In the Lab/In the
Clinic
The least effective anti-smoking ads are those that seek
to evoke fear AND disgust in viewers. That's the finding from University of
Missouri researchers. Too much info turned viewers off and led them to remember
less of the messages. So the best bet appears to be to go for either 1.) The
fear angle - tobacco causes cancer and heart disease or 2.) the disgust angle
-look at some diseased arteries or cancer-riddled lungs to convince folks
not to smoke or to quit. Read
more.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - achieved in mice
- are humans next? Not soon, the researchers say. Read about the research
here.
A dietary agent found in fruits, vegetables,
plant-derived drinks such as tea and wine, and nuts helps the cancer- killer
protein P53 do its job more efficiently. University of California biochemist
Xuan Liu believes this is more evidence for eating a diet rich in fruits and
vegetables to prevent cancer. Liu is a professor of biochemistry at UC
Riverside. The agent she studied, apigenin, is mainly found in fruit (including
apples, cherries, grapes), vegetables (including parsley, artichoke, basil,
celery), nuts and plant-derived beverages (including tea and wine). Read more
about the research here.
"Mr. Health"
The man who mobilized the war on cancer in in the 1970s lost his own battle to lung
cancer even though he was never a smoker. Former Florida Congressman Paul
G. Rogers, (87 years old) died last week.
You can read about his life here.
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