Today is the first anniversary of the death of five-year-old Dylan Jewett, a cancer patient I wrote about last summer in Stanford Medicine magazine. Dylan …
Category: Cancer
Acupuncture may reduce hot flashes in breast cancer patients
Acupuncture could be equally effective as drug therapy in easing hot flashes and other uncomfortable symptoms in women undergoing breast cancer treatment, reports Reuters. During …
Common drug might help prevent skin cancers
Canada's CBC News is reporting on a study showing a way to possibly prevent one type of skin cancer. A Stanford dermatologist found that a …
Pomegranates may help prevent, slow breast cancer
Can pomegranates help block the block the growth of breast cancer? Maybe so, according to a first-of-its-kind study that appears in the January issue of …
CBS suggests the gift of a Pap smear
CBS is recommending a rather unusual holiday gift for women this year: a Pap smear. The network began running PSAs encouraging men to "do something …
A cell phone is not a microwave oven or a nuclear reactor
There's been a lot of chatter about cell-phone use leading to brain cancer. But that conversation may be nearing its termination, unless Scandinavian skulls provide …
Incidentalomas
A friend was diagnosed recently with prostate cancer. While his cancer was found to be relatively insignificant, he battled questions about treatment. Some physicians he …
Key enzyme in breast cancer development identified (updated)
[UPDATE: This entry has been modified to include the name of the lead author of the study and to explain how the study relates to …
New mammogram guidelines echo ones developed by physicians group
It's been widely reported today that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent panel of experts in primary care and prevention, is calling for …
Female cancer patients more likely to get divorce than male patients
The Nov. 15 issue of Cancer includes a paper with some rather grim findings on how life-threatening illnesses can affect relationships. Researchers studied 515 married …
Stereotactic radiation offers relief from tremors
Stereotactic radiation appears to offer an effective and less invasive way to relieve uncontrollable shaking in patients caused by Parkinson's disease or a condition known …
Ovarian cancer overview in Wall Street Journal
I recently wrote about biochemist Pat Brown's study of the natural history of serous ovarian cancer. He showed new, much more sensitive diagnostic tests are …
The trouble with trials
Yesterday, as part of its "Forty Years' War" series on the fight against cancer, the New York Times tackled the problem of clinical trials. Nobody's …
Ovarian cancer tests flawed
I realized a long time ago that there's a downside to someone like me - a complete hypochondriac - covering the cancer beat at a …
The cancer no one talks about – until now
It's the disease that nobody wanted to talk about. But now with the recent death of actress Farrah Fawcett from anal cancer, a lot of …
Mourning and learning
Yesterday was a busy day for celebrity media coverage, with actress Farrah Fawcett losing her battle with cancer and King of Pop Michael Jackson dying …