Q. I would like you to know about medical marijuana for cancer. In her late 30s, my wife was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, stage 4a. It was a 6 centimeter tumor that had grown around the hepatic artery and portal vein.
At first I thought marijuana was just for nausea caused by her chemo, but then I found a study in the journal Cancer Research (July 1, 2006). It showed that cannabinoids specifically fight pancreatic tumor cells. (more…)
The intestines have to work properly if we are to benefit from the food we eat. Digestive juices must be secreted, the food broken down into smaller components and then transported through the gut wall and onwards to muscles and organs. The lining of the gut is coated in epithelial cells, a specialised layer that produces mucous and hormones while keeping dangerous bacteria and toxins at bay. Close contact with pathogenic microbes and toxins means that the epithelial cells may mutate to form cancer. The small intestine therefore secretes the entire epithelial layer in the course of two to five days, while the large intestine takes three weeks to perform the same process. (more…)
http://www.SubliminalScience.com This is an interview with Stephanie about her use of hypnosis through all stages of surgery and a demonstration of how hypnosis can promote healing.
A new test has been developed which can predict whether a breast cancer patient will respond to chemotherapy within 24-hours of starting treatment, thus sparing her unnecessary treatment and side effects, according to a study published in the medical journal Clinical Cancer Research. The test can also determine whether the woman can benefit from PARP-inhibitors, a promising new type of cancer treatment currently undergoing clinical trials. (more…)
Program aims to increase awareness of causes, By Jennifer Jean Miller
Newton — Summer means plenty of outdoor time. And sometimes, that means too much sun
A group of professionals is working to educate residents about the dangers of skin cancers, and, with the goal to lower the number of cases in the Sussex County.
“Our culture is about being tan,” said Helen Homeijer, senior public health nurse with the County of Sussex, Department of Environmental and Public Health Services. “What people recognize as a tan is the first sign of sun damage.” (more…)
Treating tumors with salmonella bacteria can induce an immune response that kills cancer cells, scientists have found — a discovery that may help them create tumor-killing immune cells to inject into patients.
Researchers from Italy and the United States who worked with mouse and human cancer cells in laboratories said their work might help in developing a new drug in a class of cancer treatments called immunotherapies or therapeutic vaccines, which harness the body’s immune system to fight disease.
“We did experiments first in mice and then in cancer cells and immune cells from human patients, and found that the salmonella was doing exactly the same job,” Maria Rescigno of European Institute of Oncology in Milan, who worked on the study, said in a telephone interview. “Now we are ready to go into (testing on) humans, but we are waiting for authorization.”
The scientists said they thought the salmonella bacteria, which they used in a safe form that did not cause illness itself, helped to flag up cancer cells to the body’s immune system, which was then able to find and kill them.
In the very earliest stages of cancer, patrolling immune cells often recognize cancer cells as abnormal and destroy them, they explained in their study, which was published in the journal Science Translational Medicine on Wednesday (more…)
The Cancer Society fears the effect on cancer sufferers if Dunedin loses neurosurgery.
Chief executive Mike Kernaghan and board member Dr Blair McLaren, a medical oncologist, outlined their concerns for cancer patients and their families if the South Island’s neurosurgeons are all based in Christchurch.
Dr McLaren, clinical leader of oncology for the Southern Blood and Cancer Service, warned the prospective change may also put at risk a long-standing national cancer contract for radiosurgery, which had neurosurgery input.
Dunedin Hospital was the only provider of radiosurgery in New Zealand.
Dr McLaren was concerned about the effect on sufferers – and their families – if they had to be transferred to Christchurch.
“It’s about disrupting a family at a critical phase of their life.”
He believed the situation was governed by “political” motivations, rather than clinical.
The focus must be on the patients.
When Southland and Otago oncology services were merged in 2008, delivering treatment close to patients’ homes was made a priority.
Centralising administration of a service did not mean centralising treatment, he said.
Some treatments, including radiotherapy, were only available in Dunedin. (more…)
On the average, one child is diagnosed with cancer in the state each week.
The actual figure is most probably higher because the ‘one per week’ statistics is merely based on records kept by the Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) and the Sarawak Children’s Cancer Society (SCCS).
SCCS vice-president Wong Kok Ping told The Borneo Post at SCCS’s 9th Charity Food Fair here yesterday that on the average, SGH and SCCS records showed a total of more than 50 cases.
“This does not include patients admitted to the private hospitals,” he pointed out.
For the first seven months of this year, 32 children had been diagnosed with various types of cancer. (more…)
11 new medicines were intruduced this year, which are being distributed at no cost to patients who suffer from different conditions. The majority of the approved medicines are for cancer patients and it is the first time that they have been made available in Malta.
The new medicine has been approved by the Government Formulary List Advisory Committee and includes medicines which are to fight different forms of cancer. These can be found on the Government Formulary List. (more…)
New investigation results, ‘Gynaecologic challenging issues in the management of BRCA mutation carriers: oral contraceptives, prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomy and hormone replacement therapy,’ are detailed in a study published in Gynecological Endocrinology. According to recent research published in the journal Gynecological Endocrinology, “BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers have a 54-85% and 45% lifetime risk of developing breast cancer, respectively, and a 18-60% and 11-27% lifetime risk of developing ovarian cancer, respectively. Oral contraceptives (OCs) significantly reduce the risk of ovarian cancer also in BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers.
