In the Brain Cancer Survival path there is new hope today, and this is simply great news. I love to post this sort of posts, and make me believe that my cancer blog can bring some good energy to people around the world.
So it seems that there is not a vaccine that can double the survival time for patiens, including in the most agrassive and serious type of brain caner.
This is the info
“Early results from clinical trials suggest patients who received the vaccine lived for nearly three years after being diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme.
Patients given traditional anti-cancer treatment, including a combination of surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, typically survived for a little more than a year following diagnosis”
Dealing with cancer involves more than diagnosis and treatment of the physical effects of the disease.
A diverse group of health professionals met in Halifax last week to discuss how best to support the social and emotional needs of cancer patients and their families and make those supports readily accessible.
Those kinds of services aren’t always available, particularly to people in rural areas, said Mary Jane Esplen, a Toronto nurse and president of the Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology.
But even when they are, a stigma around seeking support and a societal pressure to “keep a positive attitude” can prevent people from using it, she said.
To overcome those barriers, cancer-care providers need to ensure things like distress screening are a standard part of what’s offered to every patient.
Continue reading “Cancer is serious, but what about your feelings?”
Maybe you were sunburned as a kid, or haven’t been diligent about wearing sunscreen, but you probably thought that, should a suspicious spot appear, your doctor would catch it and keep you healthy. Well, that isn’t always the case.
More than 90 percent of dermatologic surgeons have seen at least one patient in the past year with skin cancer that was overlooked or misdiagnosed by a nondermatologist, finds a survey of 271 docs by the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery in Rolling Meadows, Ill.
Horrifying, especially as melanoma is the most common cancer among women ages 25 to 29, and skin cancer is the cancer most frequently diagnosed in women. Don’t be the case that’s missed
It is important to understand Prostate Cancer.
Each year, about 179,000 are diagnosed with prostate cancer, and it will claim about 37,000 lives. If prostate cancer is detected early it can be treated effectively, but early prostate cancer has no symptoms.
Prostate cancer occurs mainly in men over 50 years and is the most common male cancer after skin cancer. Many men are aware of others at the same age who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer. This raises the questions: what is my risk? Should I be tested?
The symptoms of both benign enlargement of the prostate gland and malignant tumours (cancer) are similar and can include any of the following:
difficulty in passing urinepassing urine more frequently than usual, especially at nightpain when passing urineblood in the urine (this is not common).
