Neuroblastoma research

I’ve had quite a few people looking here for the most recent neuroblastoma research.  Here’s an excerpt from Yahoo news and the link to the article.
Researchers have found a gene that causes most inherited forms of neuroblastoma, a rare and deadly form of childhood cancer, and say the discovery points to new [...]

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 [...]

Exercise and Cancer

I’ve been cleared by my doctors and physical therapist to have my first meeting with a personal trainer.  It’s scheduled for Monday.  Articles like this one are the reason why.
As the group of women trickled into the aerobics studio at the Bendheim Integrative Medicine Center in Manhattan on a recent Thursday morning, there were subtle [...]

The journal DUH!

My husband and I will occasionally steal this line from an old Saturday Night Live sketch.  “This month in the journal DUH! researchers have reported….”  Well this one seems like it is definitely from that journal.  Not to mention that a quarter of a million people living with anything should get things moving. Approximately 25 [...]

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 [...]

CSI cookies

Now me, I’m a Law and Order junkie so now I’m wondering. Do I need Weight Watchers or Will and Grace? I’m not normally one to file lawsuits but does this mean I can sue Dick Wolf?

Not at the beginning or the end

There used to be a sketch, I think it was on Saturday Night Live as part of Weekend Update. They would have a visual behind the anchor and it would have a picture of a scientific journal and the anchor would say something like…..”Hitting yourself in the hammer may cause headaches, reports this [...]

National Cancer Institute Updates

The Journal of the National Cancer Institute has some updated research that effects those of us with sisters or daughters. As someone with both I’ll just pass this on.

“Sisters of women diagnosed with breast cancer still have an increased risk of breast cancer 20 years after diagnosis of the sister, suggesting that women live [...]

Traditional medicine treats pancreatic cancer

As a cancer survivor I have to say that pancreatic cancer is terrifying because it generally presents so late in the disease process. I am thrilled to pass along any good news in its treatment. Researchers at the Kimmel Cancer at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia have found that thymoquinone, an extract of nigella [...]

Antibacterial soap and health

Coffee is served with a warning that it is hot.  Practically every toy in the world is labeled for children over three only.  Warnings are everywhere from the new blinds, crib bedding, blankets, toys, pajamas. These have clearly come as a result of lawsuits.  But yet there are other things that no one mentions that [...]