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Nov 17th, 2009
Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma more than a quarter century after he received treatment for Hodgkin’s disease. News of Allen’s diagnosis was revealed in a memo issued by Jody Allen, Paul’s sister, to Vulcan employees and later posted on CNET’s news website. Paul Allen founded Vulcan Inc. in 1986 to manage his business and charitable endeavors.
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Nov 11th, 2009
Drugs used to treat anemia among cancer patients, known as ESA's, have been found to increase risk for blood clots. The medications are costly, and could potentially be eliminated, given new findings that they have not been shown to decrease the need for blood transfusion for chemotherapy patients in real life situations versus twelve week clinical trials.
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Nov 10th, 2009
Do you have what it takes to be a bone marrow donor? Every five minutes, someone is diagnosed with blood cancer, such as leukemia and lymphoma. Every ten minutes, someone dies of blood cancer--children, men, and women who could have benefited from a bone marrow donation.
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Nov 9th, 2009
Bone marrow transplants are considered organ transplants by federal law and regulated as such. United States federal law prohibits purchasing organs under the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (1968). The act created a uniform legal procedure for persons who wish to donate organs and for hospitals and medical institutions that want to accept them.
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Nov 7th, 2009
Men with elevated PSA (prostate specific antigen) levels may not always need prostate biopsy. New findings show that parathyroid hormone levels, that naturally elevate with age and are higher among black men, also correlate with elevated PSA levels. Treating men unnecessarily for prostate cancer can lead to side effects of impotence and urinary incontinence. The findings are the first to show that healthy men do not always need prostate biopsy when prostate cancer screening shows higher PSA levels.
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Nov 6th, 2009
According to estimates, over 100,000 cancer deaths occur from obesity. Excess body fat fuels cancer cells. According to studies, many cancer deaths are preventable through weight management, yet public awareness is low, according to findings from the American Institute of Cancer Research.
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Nov 4th, 2009
New findings link high cholesterol to increased risk of high grade prostate cancer. Researchers from Johns Hopkins have found that lowering cholesterol could protect from aggressive forms of prostate cancer and may lead to prevention and treatment of the disease.
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Nov 2nd, 2009
Some of the major cancer centers across the country now offer their patients yoga as a complementary therapy in an effort to provide a more integrative approach to care.
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Oct 28th, 2009
Researchers studied nematodes to find that cholesterol lowering drugs could help treat cancer. Nematodes do not produce cholesterol, and the researchers found them the perfect subject for studying the possibility that cholesterol drugs, known as statins, might be developed for treatment of cancer.
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Oct 21st, 2009
Cancer experts say it is time to reevaluate current screening efforts for breast and prostate cancer.