People in their 60s and 70s are now over five times more likely to be diagnosed with malignant melanoma - the deadliest type of skin cancer - than their parents would have been 30 years ago, reveal new Cancer Research UK statistics to launch the 2010 SunSmart campaign today (Thursday).
This April, a solid bronze cast of Bobby Moore's World Cup winning boot is touring England to raise awareness of the Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK. The tour is set to energise the English public and rally support for the England team before they head off to South Africa in June.
: Autoblog reviews all the hottest cars Add to : My AOL MyYahoo Google Bloglines : Note The contents of this blog are for informational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice or substitute for professional care . For medical emergencies , dial 911 Breast Lumps In Men : Are They Dangerous Posted Apr 29th 2010 8:00AM by Amber Greviskes Filed under : Breast Cancer Men who have tender lumps in their breasts are probably suffering from gynecomastia , a benign breast enlargement that usually involves both breasts , but they should still be evaluated by their doctor because they could have breast cancer About 2,000 men will be diagnosed with the disease this year . Once diagnosed , men are more likely than women to die from breast . cancer Many times men will have prominentNew to the Mac Check out TUAW's Mac 101 Add to : My AOL MyYahoo Google Bloglines : Note The contents of this blog are for informational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice or substitute for professional care . For medical emergencies , dial 911 Benign Thyroid Tumors Usually Do Not Become Cancerous Posted Apr 22nd 2010 8:00AM by Amber Greviskes Filed under : Thyroid Cancer Thyroid glands , which are located in the front of the neck , regulate the body's metabolism and thyroid tumors are quite common . Hearing that you have a thyroid tumor is not pleasant , but there are many ways they can be found . Patients often discover them as a lump in the throat . Doctors can find them during a routine exam . Often times , they are discovered during unrelated X-rays thatListen to the Joystiq Podcast because your ears can't read Add to : My AOL MyYahoo Google Bloglines : Note The contents of this blog are for informational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice or substitute for professional care . For medical emergencies , dial 911 Did You Get Cancer From Your Parents Posted Apr 20th 2010 8:00AM by Amber Greviskes Filed under : Prevention Some cancers like breast colon prostate and lung cancer run in families . Mutated cancer-causing genes can be passed from parents to children . But family history accounts for only about 5 to 10 percent of most fatal cancers . Even those who have inherited a high-risk genetic mutation like the BRCA-1 or BRCA-2 genes for breast cancer can protect themselves . Scientists have identified three types ofAutoblog reviews all the hottest cars Add to : My AOL MyYahoo Google Bloglines : Note The contents of this blog are for informational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice or substitute for professional care . For medical emergencies , dial 911 Develop a Cancer Prevention Program Posted Apr 15th 2010 8:00AM by Amber Greviskes Filed under : Non-toxic alternatives Cancer has many different causes however , there are some things that you can do to increase your ability to stay cancer free . Most hold true regardless of the type of cancer you're trying to avoid . Your doctor can help tailor a specific plan based around your medical and family history . If you can't get in to see your doctor immediately , don't sweat it . Here are seven basic steps to reduce your overallWoW Insider is getting ready for BlizzCon Add to : My AOL MyYahoo Google Bloglines : Note The contents of this blog are for informational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice or substitute for professional care . For medical emergencies , dial 911 Why Do I Keep Getting Breast Lumps Posted Apr 13th 2010 7:00AM by Amber Greviskes Filed under : Breast Cancer If you're like many women , you may routinely find benign breast lumps during your self-exam . It is not cause for concern . Breasts contain glands which naturally form lumps . Some women form more lumps than others . If you have this tendency , you are said to have fibrocystic breasts Limiting caffeine seems to lessen the lumpiness , but the difference is not dramatic . If you have lumps as a normal part of yourMassively looks at the best free to play games Add to : My AOL MyYahoo Google Bloglines : Note The contents of this blog are for informational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice or substitute for professional care . For medical emergencies , dial 911 Martina Navratilova Diagnosed With Cancer Posted Apr 8th 2010 8:00AM by Amber Greviskes Filed under : Breast Cancer Celebrity cancer diagnosis Martina Navratilova the legendary tennis star with 18 Grand Slams singles titles , announced Wednesday on Good Morning America that she was diagnosed with breast cancer The 53-year-old tennis champion told People magazine that a routine mammogram revealed a cluster in her left breast When the February biopsy came back , she . cried It knocked me on my ass , really , she told the. New to the Mac Check out TUAW's Mac 101 Add to : My AOL MyYahoo Google Bloglines : Note The contents of this blog are for informational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice or substitute for professional care . For medical emergencies , dial 911 Cancer Patients Look Good . Feel Better Posted Apr 6th 2010 8:00AM by Amber Greviskes Filed under : Cancer events Cancer Survivors Fake it until you make it , is common advice for anyone who is struggling to feel his or her best . Psychologists , for example , may tell people to smile because that simple act can reverse their doom-and-gloom outlook . Positive body language , like having good posture also influences your attitude . The American Cancer Society is taking advantage of this theory with the Look Good Feel BetterMake smart financial decisions with DailyFinance Add to : My AOL MyYahoo Google Bloglines : Note The contents of this blog are for informational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice or substitute for professional care . For medical emergencies , dial 911 Jaime Escalante Dies of Bladder Cancer Posted Apr 1st 2010 8:00AM by Amber Greviskes Filed under : Bladder Cancer Daily news Jaime Escalante , the East Los Angeles math teacher whose story inspired the movie Stand and Deliver died from bladder cancer at his son's home on Tuesday . The 79-year-old teacher was best known for transforming Garfield High School's math curriculum . Although Garfield High School once had struggling students , Escalante's persistence helped them master advanced math and science courses .Find your next home with Luxist's Estate of the Day Add to : My AOL MyYahoo Google Bloglines : Note The contents of this blog are for informational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice or substitute for professional care . For medical emergencies , dial 911 Family Sky Dives For Boy Who Died of Brain Cancer Posted Mar 30th 2010 8:00AM by Amber Greviskes Filed under : Brain Cancer Jacob Taylor , a nine-year-old from Deer Park , Ohio , wanted to sky dive before he died , but never had the chance . Diagnosed with a rare brain cancer 10 months ago , the boy's health quickly eroded to the point where jumping was no longer an option . Instead , his family jumped in his honor on the first Saturday after he . died Jump for Jacob , the unconventional memorial service at HookMassively looks at the best free to play games Add to : My AOL MyYahoo Google Bloglines : Note The contents of this blog are for informational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice or substitute for professional care . For medical emergencies , dial 911 Thrush Can Be Relieved Posted Mar 25th 2010 8:00AM by Amber Greviskes Filed under : Chemotherapy Thrush an overgrowth of a fungus because of the temporary impairment of white blood cells , can be a problem for cancer patients . This painful overgrowth usually appears as a white coating and is a common side effect of chemotherapy and radiation to the head and neck . Chemotherapy affects the number and function of white blood cells . This damage and reduction can lessen one's ability to ward off infections . Don't fret ,Make smart financial decisions with DailyFinance Add to : My AOL MyYahoo Google Bloglines : Note The contents of this blog are for informational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice or substitute for professional care . For medical emergencies , dial 911 Cancer Survivor to Fly Around the World Posted Mar 23rd 2010 8:00AM by Amber Greviskes Filed under : Fundraisers Cancer Survivors Norman Surplus , a 47-year-old bowel cancer survivor from Ireland , is flying around the world in a gyroplane to raise cancer awareness and money for cancer charities . The trek , which has been planned for two years , is about 27,000 miles long and includes stops in 25 countries . If he's successful , the pilot will become the first person to circumnavigate the globe in an old-fashionedExclusive : Rock Band Unplugged Track List Add to : My AOL MyYahoo Google Bloglines : Note The contents of this blog are for informational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice or substitute for professional care . For medical emergencies , dial 911 Does One Type of Cancer Lead to Another Posted Mar 18th 2010 8:00AM by Amber Greviskes Filed under : Research It seems as though many types of cancer are related . You'll hear of people being diagnosed with one cancer and then , years later , when they are cured from the original cancer , they are diagnosed with another form of the disease . What gives Cancer is a group of diseases that cause cells to change in abnormal ways and grow out of control . Most types of cancer form a tumor , which is a lump or mass of cancerousListen to the Joystiq Podcast because your ears can't read Add to : My AOL MyYahoo Google Bloglines : Note The contents of this blog are for informational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice or substitute for professional care . For medical emergencies , dial 911 Andy Whitfield Diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Posted Mar 11th 2010 8:00AM by Amber Greviskes Filed under : Celebrity cancer diagnosis Andy Whitfield , who plays the lead on the Starz drama Spartacus : Blood and Sand , has been diagnosed with a treatable form of non-Hodgkin Lymphoma , according to PopEater Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma NHL which is more common than Hodgkin's lymphoma , is cancer of the cells of the lymphatic system . When one has NHL , then cells in the lymphatic system grow without order orMassively looks at the best free to play games Add to : My AOL MyYahoo Google Bloglines : Note The contents of this blog are for informational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice or substitute for professional care . For medical emergencies , dial 911 Freezing Breast Tumors Might Be Your Best Bet Posted Mar 9th 2010 8:00AM by Amber Greviskes Filed under : Research Daily news Freezing breast tumors has helped stop the spread of cancer in mice and may be a suitable way of tackling cancer in humans , according to a new University of Michigan study Cryoablation freezing has strong potential as a treatment for breast cancer lead author Dr . Michael Sabel an associate professor of surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School , said in a news release . Not onlyListen to the Joystiq Podcast because your ears can't read Add to : My AOL MyYahoo Google Bloglines : Note The contents of this blog are for informational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice or substitute for professional care . For medical emergencies , dial 911 Parents Consider Hastening Their Children's Deaths Posted Mar 2nd 2010 8:00AM by Amber Greviskes Filed under : Childhood Cancers Hospice Daily news If your child was in pain and dying what would you do It's a situation most parents will never find themselves in , but for those whose children have cancer it's a scenario they might contemplate and , possibly , face . A study published yesterday in the March edition of Archives of Pediatrics Adolescent Medicine showed that about 13 percent of parents whoseNew to the Mac Check out TUAW's Mac 101 Add to : My AOL MyYahoo Google Bloglines : Note The contents of this blog are for informational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice or substitute for professional care . For medical emergencies , dial 911 Can Aspirin Keep Breast Cancer at Bay Posted Feb 23rd 2010 8:00AM by Amber Greviskes Filed under : Breast Cancer Cancer Survivors Breast cancer survivors who took aspirin a baby aspirin or one adult pill after completing treatment were half as likely to die or have their tumors spread than those survivors who did not , according to a recent study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology According to study author Michelle Holmes , M.D . of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital aspirin may help control
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Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) researchers have determined how two proteins mandatory for the initiation and development of prostate cancer interact at the molecular level, which could lead to improved therapys for the disease. One of the proteins, androgen receptor, is already an important drug target for prostate cancer. The other, steroid receptor coactivator-3 (SRC3), was originally identified for its role in the development of breast cancer. SCR3 has also been characterized as a key factor in the development of prostate cancer, but, until now, the exact relationship between androgen receptor and SCR3 has been unclear........ Fewer prostate cancers were detected by prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening in the U.S. than in a European randomized trial because of lower screening sensitivity, as per a new brief communication published online February 8 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute To compare the PSA screening performance in a clinical trial with that in a population setting, Elisabeth M. Wever, MSc, Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Center, the Netherlands, and his colleagues applied a microsimulation model developed for prostate cancer and screening to the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC)Rotterdam. The model was adapted by replacing the trial's demography parameters with U.S.-specific ones and the screening protocol with the frequency of PSA tests in the population. The natural progression of prostate cancer and the sensitivity (percentage of men correctly identified as having prostate cancer of those who have preclinical prostate cancer) of a PSA test followed by a biopsy were assumed to be the same in the US as in the trial........ Prostate cancer cells are more likely to spread to other parts of the body if a specific gene quits functioning normally, as per new data from scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Certain prostate cancer cells can be held in check by the DAB2IP gene. The gene's product, the DABIP protein, acts as scaffolding that prevents a number of other proteins involved in the progression of prostate cancer cells from over-activation. When those cells lose the DAB2IP protein, however, they break free and are able to metastasize, or spread, drastically increasing the risk of cancer progression in other organs as the cells travel through the bloodstream or lymph system........ Scientists at Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego and his colleagues have observed that prostate cancer therapys varied significantly between county hospitals and private providers. Patients treated in county hospitals are more likely to undergo surgery while patients treated in private facilities tend to receive radiation or hormone treatment. These findings were published online by the journal Cancer on January 25........ Scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that some elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in men appears to be caused by a hormone normally occurring in the body, and are not necessarily a predictor of the need for a prostate biopsy........ A diagnosis of prostate cancer raises the question for patients and their physicians as to how the tumor will behave. Will it grow quickly and aggressively and require continuous therapy, or slowly, allowing treatment and its risks to be safely delayed? The answer may lie in the size and shape of the blood vessels that are visible within the cancer, as per research led by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute in collaboration with the Harvard School of Public Health........ Twenty years of screening for breast and prostate cancer - the most diagnosed cancer for women and men - have not brought the anticipated decline in deaths from these diseases, argue experts from the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in an opinion piece reported in the "Journal of the American Medical Association"........ Eventhough screening for prostate cancer with the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) test in men ages 50-70 can detect the cancer before it becomes symptomatic, knowing whether screening is beneficial for these men is uncertain. Recent trials have shown small or no reductions in prostate cancer mortality among those screened. The small potential for benefit must be balanced against the more common and immediate downsides of increasing the chance of prostate cancer diagnosis and therapy-related complications........ Consumption of 50 g or more of alcohol per day or four or more drinks per day for at least five days per week was linked to an elevated risk for prostate cancer. Furthermore, drinking 50 g or more of alcohol per day rendered therapy with finasteride ineffective. Scientists analyzed data from 2,129 participants with cancer and 8,791 participants without disease from the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial. They examined the relationships between risk for low- and high-grade prostate cancer and total alcohol consumption, types of alcoholic beverages and consumption pattern. Scientists also analyzed the effect of alcohol consumption on the effectiveness of finasteride based on the arms that patients were randomly assigned to in the original trial........ Patients with prostate cancer who receive brachytherapy and remain free of disease for five years or greater are unlikely to have a recurrence at 10 years, as per a research studyin the July 1 issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)........ Higher selenium levels in the blood may worsen prostate cancer in some men who already have the disease, as per a research studyby scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute the University of California, San Francisco. A higher risk of more-aggressive prostate cancer was seen in men with a certain genetic variant found in about 75 percent of the patients with prostate cancer in the study. In those subjects, having a high level of selenium in the blood was linked to a two hundred percent greater risk of poorer outcomes than men with the lowest amounts of selenium. By contrast, the 25 percent of men with a different variant of the same gene and who had high selenium levels were at 40 percent lower risk of aggressive disease. The variants are slightly different forms of a gene that instructs cells to make manganese superoxide dismutase (SOD2), an enzyme that protects the body against harmful oxygen compounds........ An over-the-counter prostate cancer test kit could be coming to a pharmacy near you, thanks to the collaborative work of a University of Central Florida chemist and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando researchers. UCF's Qun "Treen" Huo and M.D. Anderson-Orlando's Dr. Cheryl Baker and Jimmie Colon teamed up about 18 months ago with a very ambitious plan. Huo wanted to develop an effective, inexpensive test to screen for prostate cancer that would be easy enough to use at home or a local pharmacy........ While young men with prostate cancer have a low risk of dying early, those with advanced forms of cancer do not live as long as older men with similar forms of the disease. That is the conclusion of a newly released study reported in the July 1, 2009 issue of CANCER, a peer-evaluated journal of the American Cancer Society. The paradoxical findings indicate that there appears to be biological differences between prostate cancers that develop in younger men and those that develop in older men, and that uncovering these differences may help tailor screening and therapy strategies for patients based on age........ Patients with stone disease could benefit from drinking diet soda. New research from the University of California, San Francisco suggests that the citrate and malate content in usually consumed sodas appears to be sufficient to inhibit the development of calcium stones. The study was presented at the 104th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA)........ Cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins may reduce inflammation in prostate tumors, possibly hindering cancer growth, as per a research studyled by researchers in the Duke Prostate Center. "Prior studies have shown that men taking statins seem to have a lower occurence rate of advanced prostate cancer, but the mechanisms by which statins might be affecting the prostate remained largely unknown," said Lionel Baez, M.D., a researcher in the Duke Prostate Center and lead investigator on this study. "We looked at tumor samples and observed that men who were on statins had a 72 percent reduction in risk for tumor inflammation, and we believe this might play a role in the correlation between prostate cancer and statin use"........ LINTHICUM, MD, April 27, 2009The American Urological Association (AUA) today issued new clinical guidance which directly contrasts recent recommendations issued by other major groups about prostate cancer screening, asserting that the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test should be offered to well-informed, men aged 40 years or older who have a life expectancy of at least 10 years. The PSA test, as well as how it is used to guide patient care (e.g., at what age men should begin regular testing, intervals at which the test should be repeated, at what point a biopsy is necessary) is highly controversial; however, the AUA believes that, when offered and interpreted appropriately the PSA test may provide essential information for the diagnosis, pre-treatment staging or risk evaluation and post-treatment monitoring of prostate cancer........ 
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