In the News
Future of Cancer Incidence in the United States: Burdens Upon an Aging, Changing Nation
Friday, June 19, 2009
Benjamin D. Smith, Grace L. Smith, Arti Hurria, Gabriel N. Hortobagyi, Thomas A. Buchholz Full text here:
http://jco.ascopubs.org/cgi/reprint/27/17/2758
Purpose: By 2030, the United States’ population will increase to approximately 365 million, including 72 million older adults (age e 65 years) and 157 million minority individuals.… continue reading
Breast Cancer – 400 die per week in Canada
Friday, June 19, 2009
Dr. Kathleen Pritchard, a senior scientist at Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre and professor of medicine at the University of Toronto hailed the drug’s approval. “Today marks an important milestone,” she said. “TYKERB is a new way to treat HER2 positive breast cancer that gives women with advanced HER2-positive breast cancer another weapon in the fight to control their disease, where before they had no options.”… continue reading
Sun and sunscreeen: both provide health benefits and health risks
Thursday, June 18, 2009
The sun is bad for you; it can give you cancer. Sunscreen is good for you; it helps block the sun’s damaging rays. At least that’s what you’ve probably been told all your life. But it’s not as simple as that.… continue reading
Vitamin D for Cancer Prevention: Global Perspective
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Source: Annals of Epidemiology, by Cedric F Garland, Edward D Gorham
Purpose: Higher serum levels of the main circulating form of vitamin D, 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D), are associated with substantially lower incidence rates of colon, breast, ovarian, renal, pancreatic, aggressive prostate and other cancers.… continue reading
More evidence that UV and melanoma might not be related
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
SmartTan.com
The reported increase in melanoma incidence may not be related to ultraviolet light at all, but rather our ability to better detect and remove thinner lesions than in years past, according to a British research team. In a study in The British Journal of Dermatology this week, researchers said “diagnostic drift” — and not UV — appear to be inflating reported melanoma incidence numbers without affecting a corresponding increase in mortality data.… continue reading
