Category: Cancer

Cancer survivor gives back through muffins

“I’ve got blueberry, chocolate chip and the cinnamon strudel,” Scarlet Nicely says while passing her muffins into the bag. She and Amanda Griffith are starting the morning in the office of Parrish Court United Methodist Church in Covington, Virginia, repacking muffins.

Gene expression patterns could help predict treatment for breast cancer, research shows

A Michigan State University breast cancer researcher has shown that effective treatment options can be predicted based on the way certain breast cancer genes act or express themselves. The research, published in the journal Oncogene, offers up proof that gene expression patterns can help direct the type of therapy a patient might receive, paving the way for more targeted and personalized approaches to care.

Pitt researchers uncover genetic marker that may predict drug response in many cancer types

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have uncovered a novel genetic mechanism of thyroid cancer, as well as a marker that may predict response to a particular class of drugs, not just in patients with thyroid cancer, but in those with many other types of cancer as well. The new findings were published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences .

RCSI research focuses on need to personalise treatment for bowel cancer patients

Researchers in RCSI have conducted further in-depth research to predict how patients with bowel cancer will respond effectively to chemotherapy, to ensure that patients will get the most suitable type of treatment from the outset. A large validation study was conducted to support initial findings with the latest research published in the Clinical Cancer Research and Gut journals.

Sign up now Stamford’s Race for Life event

Women are being encouraged to sign up now to Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life events at Burghley House. The charity is urging women of all ages, shapes and sizes to choose their event – Race for Life 5k, 10k or Pretty Muddy – and pledge to take part at Burghley House, Stamford.

Firm seeks deal for cheaper drugs

… by New Zealand citizens, was registered in Fiji in 2012 and it has a joint venture agreement with the Ministry of Health and Medical Services to provide specialised treatment in the country. SSPHL director Professor Manu Munibhargav said in …

Bank funds cancer treatment*Feb. 19, 2017, 10:28 PM Ast

CHAT: Dr Curt Bodkyn, from right, paediatric oncologist lecturer/Unit Coordinator Child Health, The University of the West Indies Faculty of Medical Sciences, chats with Lisa Francis-Mc Carthy, administrator of RBC Children’s Cancer Fund, Trinidad and Tobago Cancer Society; Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh; and Gretchen Camacho-Mohammed, regional operating officer, RBC Royal Bank Trinidad & Tobago, during the tour of the Children’s Clinic of the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex where the RBC-donated Flow Cytometer will be housed.

THON 2017 Raises Over $10 Million

Every year, thousands of Penn State students dance for 46 straight hours as part of the dance marathon known as THON. Around 700 Penn State students packed the dance floor inside the Bryce Jordan Center, and they didn’t stop for 46 hours, while friends and family cheered them on.

Breaking records

Shaver Briggs records a speed of 91 miles per hour Saturday at the ninth annual Falls International Speed Run Against Cancer at Thunderbird Lodge. The event raises money to assist with cancer treatment transportation costs for community members.

Taking illness personally

This Thursday at 8 p.m., Dutt, 12, a will be featured on David Suzuki’s The Nature of Things on CBC for a cancer story. The 12-year-old student at Surrey’s Janice Churchill Elementary is part of a clinical trial at the BC Cancer Agency with some promising results that caught the eyes of producers.

Why Donald Trump and the GOP Can’t Repeal Obamacare

After Donald Trump campaigned for the presidency on the promise to repeal and replace Obamacare with ” something terrific ,” his administration has just released a set of tweaks to the health care law-and those tweaks all favor the insurance industry over ordinary Americans. The Affordable Care Act , which the GOP gleefully dubbed Obamacare, is clearly not good enough to serve all Americans well.

DEA calls China’s fentanyl ban a ‘game-changer’ for opioid epidemic: report

China has announced a ban on the legal manufacture of four varieties of the synthetic opioid fentanyl, CNN reports. The sale and manufacture of four variations of the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl will be banned in China starting March 1, a move the Drug Enforcement Administration hailed as a potential “game-changer” in the fight against the opioid epidemic, CNN reports .

GWH cancer project will save 120 women trip to Oxford each year

A PIONEERING cancer treatment which could save as many as 120 women from Swindon and Wiltshire each year making daily trips to radiotherapy centres will be made available to Great Western Hospital patients. Following its approval by the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence intraoperative radiotherapy will be available within months.

‘I haven’t stopped crying’ – Irish public raises more than a 340k in …

‘I haven’t stopped crying’ – Irish public raises more than a 340k in 36 hours after teen’s heartbreaking video goes viral ‘I haven’t stopped crying’ – Irish public raises more than a 340k in 36 hours after teen’s heartbreaking video goes viral More than a 340k has been raised in less than 36 hours to support an Irish teenager’s cancer treatment after her video went viral internationally. More than a 340k has been raised in less than 36 hours to support an Irish teenager’s cancer treatment after her video went viral internationally.

First-Grader Puts Personal Spin on Bell-Ringing to Signal End to Years of Chemotherapy

Videos posted by his mother, Lacie Spagnolo, to social media chronicling his fight against cancer show him bopping, smiling and clapping down hospital hallways. So it made sense that after Jimmy, a first-grader from right outside of Pittsburgh, rang a bell last week signaling the end of his final chemotherapy treatment, he screamed, hugged his family and then, of course, began dancing.

Third byelection as Gosford MP Kathy Smith resigns from parliament

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FLASCO to Host Educational Lunch Program on Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer

The Florida Society of Clinical Oncology will host a Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer Luncheon, an event to educate the public about metastatic cancer, this Wednesday, February 15, at 11:00 a.m. on the 22 floor of the Capitol Building . The event will include treatment and care-focused presentations from various cancer specialists from the Mayo Clinic Florida, Florida Cancer Specialists, and Tallahassee Memorial Cancer Center, as well as a Q&A session.

‘Death sentence not an option’ for Silsden cancer sufferer

A HUSBAND whose cancer-stricken wife was told to prepare for death in the UK has vowed to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds on radical treatment in Germany in a desperate bid to save her life. Doctors at Airedale Hospital sent in a palliative care team to ask how Sally Major, 33, wanted to spend her final few weeks but her husband Liam insisted “a death sentence was not an option”.

Medics bid to restrict IVF to women with HIV

… possibility of a ‘postcode lottery’. Richmond’s clinical commissioning group (CCG) – the local body which pays for health services – needs to make savings of A 13 million in the next financial year, and has launched a public consultation on the IVF …

Massive public campaign on cancer initiated

… people with special needs, employees of the governmental and private sectors, cancer patients, cancer survivors and health care providers inside and outside Qatar. The centre will also train volunteers to deliver cancer awareness to the community …