Cancer research - Palliative care

Palliative Chemotherapy
According to a study published on bmj.com, most cancer patients make a decision about treatment with little or no information about the survival benefits of palliative chemotherapy.
Palliative chemotherapy is a way to reduce the severity of symptoms for patients with advanced cancer. Though it is not designed to cure the cancer, the therapy has [...]

Cheap drug hope for breast cancer

Via the BBC: /news.bbc.co.uk
A combination of two inexpensive existing drugs may offer a new way to treat breast cancer, according to UK and Finnish researchers.

The common chemotherapy drug and a brittle bone medicine almost completely stopped the growth of tumours in mice.
The Journal of the National Cancer Institute said the combination cost a twentieth of [...]

Did you gain weight during chemo? CURE magazine wants to talk to you.

Via: www.planetcancer.org
While the common perception is that cancer treatment always causes weight loss, research shows that some patients will gain weight during treatment. Hormone therapy, some types of chemo, steroid medications, the sheer stress of battling cancer — all may be to blame. For an article for CURE magazine, I’m interested in interviewing one or [...]

Bladder cancer causes

I’ll be honest, I’ve never heard anything about bladder cancer. I’ve yet to read anything about bladder cancer awareness month or see the official bladder cancer ribbon. I’ve not seen celebrities dying of bladder cancer or having star studded benefits. But it turns out that it is the sixth most common cancer in [...]

Methadone may Break Resistance In Untreatable Forms Of Leukemia

Researchers in Germany have discovered that methadone, an agent used to break addiction to opioid drugs, has surprising killing power against leukemia cells, including treatment resistant forms of the cancer.
Their laboratory study, published in the August 1 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, suggests that methadone holds promise [...]

No antioxidants in treatment please

I love my oncologist!!! It’s just that simple.  He advised me to stay away from antioxidants when I was in treatment in 2006.  I don’t know about anyone else but everybody and their brother was trying to give me green tea (which was getting “hot” then) as well as every other thing they could think [...]

Cat stairs

Why oh why did she put this in her blog? Actually I just thought it was funny. Last April I surprised my family by coming home with a pair of cats. Sissy and Jingles are brother and sister, 6 years old now, and were already spayed/neutered as well as [...]

Breast cancer and weeds

Research about the need to get to the root (stem cells) of cancer.
http://www.bcm.edu/news/item.cfm?newsID=1114

Linda Ellerbee

Linda Ellerbee is an outspoken journalist and breast cancer survivor. In February 1992 she found a lump in her breast and was diagnosed with cancer. She had a bilateral mastectomy and chemotherapy and is now 17 years post diagnosis and one of my heroes.