Kidney Cancer Association at ONS Congress
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Filed under Kidney cancer | Comment (0)Not having a thyroid sucks….Update!
Here’s an update on what has been going on with my thyroid situation. Making this video made me exhausted, lol. Enjoy!
Filed under Thyroid Cancer | Comments (12)Angie’s Story – This is what ovarian cancer looks like
A touching and inspiring documentary interview with Angie…a woman going through a life journey with ovarian cancer.
Filed under Ovarian cancer | Comments (2)ASCO 2007 – Dr. Keith Stewart discusses carfilzomib trial
Dr. Keith Stewart provides an update on trials of a new proteosome inhibitor (carfilzomib) in multiple myeloma from the 2007 ASCO meeting. For more information, contact the International Myeloma Foundation, www.myeloma.org, theimf@myeloma.org, 800-452-2873 or 818-487-7455
Filed under Multiple Myeloma | Comment (0)NJN News Healthwatch Report – Melanoma
A new technology called molesafe can detect melanoma early when it is curable.
Filed under Melanoma. | Comment (0)Mayo Clinic Study Finds Vitamin D Associated with Survival in Lymphoma Patients
A new study has found that the amount of vitamin D in patients being treated for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma was strongly associated with cancer progression and overall survival. The results were presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology in New Orleans. These are some of the strongest findings yet between vitamin D and cancer outcome, says the studys lead investigator, Matthew Drake, MD, Ph.D., an endocrinologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. While these findings are very provocative, they are preliminary and need to be validated in other studies. However, they raise the issue of whether vitamin D supplementation might aid in treatment for this malignancy, and thus should stimulate much more research. The researchers study of 374 newly diagnosed diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients found that 50 percent had deficient vitamin D levels based on the commonly used clinical value of total serum 25(OH)D less than 25 ng/ml. Patients with deficient vitamin D levels had a 1.5-fold greater risk of disease progression and a twofold greater risk of dying, compared to patients with optimal vitamin D levels after accounting for other patient factors associated with worse outcomes. In this video, Dr. Drake as well as study co-authors Thomas Witzigm MD and Robert Cerhan, MD, Ph.D discuss the research.
Filed under Lymphoma | Comment (0)The Brandon Chase Lansberry Foundation “The Transplant”
Our Son is 2 years old and he is fighting a very rare liver cancer called hepatoblastoma. Please pray for Baby Brandon
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