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March
27, 2009
News
Headlines
No Benefit of Radiotherapy after Radical
Prostatectomy
Solid Malignancies Not
Increased After Heart Transplantation
Colorectal Cancer Risk Increased with
Endometrial Cancer
New Analysis
Confirms Vitamin D Bone Benefits
Younger Women More Apt to Have Breast Cancer
Recur
Special Yogurt Fights Stomach
Ulcer Bug: Study
Aspirin Cuts
Recurrence of Superficial Bladder Cancer
Early Detection of Second Breast Cancers
Improves Survival
Selenium and
Vitamin E Have Tissue Effects in Prostate Cancer
Additional Chemo Agent No Benefit in
Advanced-Stage Ovarian Cancer
Estrogen/Progesterone Combo Doubles Lobular
Breast Cancer Risk
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Guide to Treatment
Decisions
Living Beyond Breast Cancer has just published its
Guide to Understanding Treatment Decisions
. It's free to download. Chapters
explain the pathology reports, paying for tests, genomic tests, what they are
for, what surgery is best, etc.. Find
it here online.
Renewing the War on
Cancer
Sen.s
Edward Kennedy (D-Mass) and
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tx) introduced the 21st Century Cancer ALERT (Access to Life-saving Early detection,Research and Treatment) Act
to help kick-start the nation's cancer program and improve cancer research,
prevention, detection, control and treatment in the United States. You can read
an editorial penned by both senators in the Houston
Chronicle here.
"Organic" Doesn't Mean Free from Peanut Recall
The
Organic label is no protection from the latest recall of peanut product
recalls. Organics to Go announced the voluntary recall of some
Peanut Butter Cookies labelled as "All Natural Peanut Butter Cookie" made in
2007 by a previous manufacturor because of the potential of salmanella
contamination. Read
the recall notice here. This is just the latest recall nostice to
touch a product labelled as organic, which might surprise some consumers. Go to
the FDA website and type organic into the
search field for a list of recalled organic products touched by the Peanut
Corporation of America recall.
Shot at
Happiness
19-year-old Ryan Salmons is home now,
in hospice care. That didn't stop him from signing with his favorite hockey team,
the Blue Jackets, for a day. The team's general manager and two players arrived
at Salmons' home Wednesday with the contract, catching him off guard - a
trait he'll have to keep in check as a defenseman on the team as it
pushes toward a Stanley Cup playoff spot. Actually Ryan, who
was diagnosed with alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma - a cancer that attacks muscle tissue - won't play any games, but that doesn't matter to him. Read
the story here in the Columbus
(Ohio) Dispatch.
Virtual Colonoscopy
An effort is underway to reverse the government's decision
not to cover virtual colonoscopies under Medicare. Several members of congress
wrote to the CMS last month to complain about the decision. Last week, Andrew
Spiegel, CEO of the Colon Cancer Alliance; Ilyse Schuman, managing director of
the Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance; and James Thrall, chair of the
American College of Radiology Board of Chancellors, wrote in a New York Times letter to the editor , "it's the wrong time to
pull back coverage of a procedure that ups screening rates." (Access requires a
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