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Stay Ahead of the Pain
POSTED: July 23, 2008Control the pain both before and after it hurts By Elaine Wacholtz, PhD For Troy Mikell and his wife, Tami, it is business as usual - but it has not always been that way. They work as a team running T & T Transportation Services, LLC , their freight brokerage business. Eighteen months ago, however, life was very different for Troy, who was recover...
Soothe Stress, Reap Rewards
POSTED: July 23, 2008Use the mind-body connection to promote peace of mind By Cheryl A. Sweet Inhaling deeply, Laura Sereyko soaked in the scenery from her rural Maine porch. Snuggling in a wooden swing overlooking Lake Escutarsis, she delighted in a hovering hummingbird and the poignant perfume of pines. She closed her eyes, breathed big, and began transporting herself...
Laughter: It’s a Family Affair!
POSTED: July 23, 2008How to bring humor back into your life By Christine Clifford Beckwith, CSP Three days after undergoing breast cancer surgery in December, ’94, I heard the doorbell ring downstairs from my place of rest in my bedroom. "Mom!" screamed my second-grader, Brooks, "More flowers for your breast!" It was a turning point for me, his innocent statement b...
Jefferson Researchers Show Antibody To Breast Cancer-Secreted Protein Blocks Metastasis
POSTED: July 21, 2008Scientists at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia have made a key discovery about the mechanism of breast cancer metastasis, the process by which cancer spreads. Focusing on a gene dubbed "Dachshund," or DACH1, they are beginning to pinpoint new therapeutic targets to halt the spread of cancer. Reporting their finding...
First U.S. Patient Undergoes Non-invasive Magnetic Resonance-Guided Focused Ultrasound Procedure To Relieve Pain From Bone Metastases
POSTED: July 21, 2008TIRAT CARMEL, Israel -- InSightec Ltd. announced today that the first U.S. patient has been treated in the company's pivotal trial to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the non-invasive, radiation-free ExAblate(R) Magnetic Resonance-guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) system as a pain relieving treatment for patients with bone metastases wh...
Allos Therapeutics Initiates Phase 2 Study Of PDX In Patients With Advanced Or Metastatic Relapsed Transitional Cell Carcinoma Of The Urinary Bladder
POSTED: July 21, 2008WESTMINSTER, Colo. -- Allos Therapeutics, Inc. today announced the initiation of patient enrollment in a Phase 2, open-label, single-arm, multi-center study of PDX (pralatrexate) in patients with advanced or metastatic relapsed transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the urinary bladder. "We are pleased to broaden our PDX solid tumor development p...
Doctors Give Cancer Patients More Options To Preserve Fertility
POSTED: July 21, 2008KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Jennifer Smith always knew she wanted to have a house full of children someday. But two months ago, a diagnosis of breast cancer threw that plan into serious jeopardy. Smith's cancer was aggressive. She had to start chemotherapy right away. And the cancer-killing drugs could damage her ovaries, drastically reducing her chances of ...
Patients Unaware Of Link Between Smoking And Bladder Cancer
POSTED: July 21, 2008Even though cigarette smoking accounts for up to half of all bladder cancer cases, few people are aware of the connection including more than three-quarters of patients who have bladder cancer, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. This knowledge vacuum suggests that urologists and other physicians need t...
A Gene Test To Assess Lung Cancer
POSTED: July 21, 2008U.S. and Canadian researchers have taken steps toward developing a gene test to determine whether a patient's lung cancer is especially aggressive or whether radical treatment can be avoided. The researchers reported Sunday that they had analyzed lung cancer tissue from 442 people to confirm that measuring the activity of certain genes could ...
U.S. Hits Weight Marker: 1 In 4 Officially Obese
POSTED: July 21, 2008Americans, who have been getting fatter for decades, reached an unwelcome milestone in a report released Thursday: More than one in four of us are obese. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the number of adults who say they are obese jumped 2 percent between 2005 and 2007--from 23.9 percent in 2005 to 25.6 pe...
