http://cancercare.blogsome.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:30:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Health Discovery Corporation (”HDC”) (OTCBB: HDVY) announced that HDC’s new gene-based molecular diagnostic test for prostate cancer has now successfully completed it’s Phase III double-blind clinical trial and is now ready for commercialization to be used by physicians on their patients at risk of having prostate cancer. The new prostate ... http://cancercare.blogsome.com/2008/08/11/new-prostate-cancer-test-is-ready-for-commercialization-following-successful-completion-of-final-clinical-trials/ Mariko Jumper has beaten brain cancer and is now battling cancer of the spine. Serious? Certainly, but the 10-year-old Richmond girl wasn’t letting the big C get her down at Saturday’s picnic for cancer survivors. She ate her fill, listened to the music, laughed at Ronald McDonald’s magic tricks and saw a ... http://cancercare.blogsome.com/2008/08/11/cancer-survivors-connect-at-picnic/ Patients with rare cancers are being left to die because of a postcode lottery that decides who gets access to drugs, according to research from a cancer charity. There are wide variations across England in the number of patients granted access to medicines, a study from the Rarer Cancers Forum found. The ... http://cancercare.blogsome.com/2008/08/11/rare-cancer-victims-left-to-die/ Laurence Ball, who lives in Shetland, had surgery at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary to remove a tumour on his lung. But Mr Ball, 58, was later told there had never been cancer in the organ. He is now planning legal action. NHS Grampian said the case was in the hands of the Central ... http://cancercare.blogsome.com/2008/08/11/lung-removed-in-cancer-blunder/ LONDON (AFP) - Cancer sufferers’ access to innovative drugs which are funded outside of the NHS is subject to a “postcode lottery,” The Rare Cancers Forum claimed on Monday. Discretion over who receives drugs that have not been assessd by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (N ICE ... http://cancercare.blogsome.com/2008/08/11/postcode-lottery-in-cancer-treatment-revealed/ It’s a dread disease. The fourth-highest cause of cancer deaths in the United States, it’s usually portrayed as an unstoppable, incurable killer. It has struck some high-profile figures: Hollywood actor Patrick Swayze has been diagnosed with it. Opera star Luciano Pavarotti and former Ronald Reagan aide Michael Deaver died of ... http://cancercare.blogsome.com/2008/08/11/lets-get-serious-about-fighting-pancreatic-cancer/ After members of The Hagen Team, as they identified themselves, crossed the finish line Sunday to conclude their 1-mile walk, they looked around for the group’s namesake, who had separated from the pack. Kathy Hagen was only three weeks removed from her last chemotherapy treatment. She would later admit that just ... http://cancercare.blogsome.com/2008/08/11/race-for-the-cure-an-emotional-event-for-breast-cancer-survivors-and-their-supporters/ BEIJING, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) — Chinese scientists announced on Monday that they have bred a genetically altered cow capable of producing cancer fighting proteins for humans. The cow, which can produce CD20 antibodies in its milk, was born in Beijing on Aug. 2 ... http://cancercare.blogsome.com/2008/08/11/chinas-first-transgenic-cow-born-to-help-fight-cancer/ University of Florida College of Pharmacy researchers claim to have found a marine compound that can halt cancer progression. The researchers say that the compound found off the cost of Key Largo has been found to inhibit cancer cell growth in laboratory tests, giving hope that new drugs to better battle ... http://cancercare.blogsome.com/2008/08/11/cancer-inhibiting-compound-found-under-the-sea/ Four times a week, Anne Rinn, 28, a psychology professor in Bowling Green, Ky., whose mother died of breast cancer, goes to kickboxing, aerobics or Pilates classes. Liz Usborne, a 64-year-old breast-cancer survivor, lobs tennis balls over the net and circuit-trains at a women’s gym near her home in Bonita, ... http://cancercare.blogsome.com/2008/07/01/health-for-life-breast-cancer/