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Today is Thursday, February 09, 2012 |
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News HeadlinesMultivitamins May Not Thwart Cancer, Heart
Disease Cancerpage news is updated daily, Monday through Friday, and on the weekends as warranted. More than 22 new articles have been added to cancerpage news since the last newsletter. To see ALL the latest stories, go to the cancerpage.com search page and click on Submit (but leave search field black.)
Help Navigating the Costs of Cancer Care The American Society of Clinical Oncology has published a helpful online guide to assist cancer patients and their families anticipate their cancer care expenses before, during, and after treatment. Articles help you get organized. Others anticipate all the costs related to care including transportation costs, co-pays, lab tests, living expenses, meal preparation, etc. Also covered are discussions of employment, legal, and financial issues.
Peanut Safety If you don't know where the peanuts in the food you are about to eat came from, don't eat it until you can find out. That's the advice fromStephen Sundlof is director of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. You can hear Ira Dreyfuss' HHS Health Beat report this week on Peanut safety here . (mp3 file)
Government
Risk Assessment Tool Falls
Short
The National Cancer Institute is coming under some
criticism for its online colon
cancer risk assessment tool. Because of the paucity of clinical
trial data available, the tool is not valid in evaluating the risk of non-whites
who answer the risk assessment questionnaire. Read the story in the New
York Times here. (Access requires a free
subscription to the NYT online. You can use the cancerpage login. User:
cancerpage PW: visitor.) Stowe,VT Weekend of Hope
Is held this year May 1-3, 2009.
Registration opens February 24th. The event is open to
survivors of all types of cancer. Stowe's hotels donate complimentary rooms to
first-time attendees. (Discounted rooms for returning
attendees.) Dozens of enlightening, educational and life-balancing forums
and workshops are held throughout the weekend, free of charge, and presented by
leading oncologists, medical researchers, and experts in the field of cancer and
cancer-related issues. You can register and find out more at the web site, here.
In the Lab/In the
Clinic Chemists at the Wake Forest University have developed a
new class of platinum drugs 10 times more potent than existing
anti-tumor drugs at killing certain NSC lung cancer. Tested only
in animal models so far, the new compound's potency derives from its ability to
rapidly bind with and disable a tumor cell's DNA before the cell's natural
repair mechanisms are activated. Read more about the research here
. NCI researchers have identified another
blood biomarker that can tease out the presence of localized or metastatic prostate
cancer. The process looks for metabolic refuse of prostate cancer in the blood
using the long-established laboratory technique called mass spectrometry. Similar
to the science of proteomics, this new discipline is called metabolomics. Read
about it here
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