http://livingmed.com/blog livingmed.com Blog Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:56:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This week, the New York Times ran an article under the headline 'Reducing Your Risk For Breast Cancer,' encouraging readers to lose weight, exercise more, shun alcohol and avoid hormone therapy in order to lower their risk of developing breast cancer (Rabin, NYT). Of course it makes good sense for women ... http://livingmed.com/blog/2008/06/12/breast-cancer-downplaying-the-environmental-risks/ From time to time you hear about a clinical trial for a new cancer treatment that proves so stunningly effective that evaluators are obliged to end the trial prematurely so that all the participating patients can share in the new breakthrough. Typically this kind of news is portrayed as an ... http://livingmed.com/blog/2008/04/20/cancer-drug-trials-quitting-while-youre-ahead-part-i/ "Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has been implicated as a risk factor for breast cancer and the use of HRT has decreased substantially in general population over the last years. Recently, there are first indications that breast cancer incidence has started declining," scientists in Lubeck, Germany report. "We examined recent breast cancer ... http://livingmed.com/blog/2008/03/26/new-breast-cancer-research-from-university-of-lubeck/ Moss RW. A Cancer Journal for Clinicians published a warning by Gabriella D'Andrea, MD, against the concurrent use of antioxidants with radiotherapy and chemotherapy. However, several deficiencies of the CA article soon became apparent, not least the selective omission of prominent studies that contradicted the author's conclusions. While acknowledging that only ... http://livingmed.com/blog/2008/03/14/should-patients-undergoing-chemotherapy-and-radiotherapy-be-prescribed-antioxidants/ The higher a woman’s oestrogen level, the more likely breast cancer will come back, according to new research. The new study reveals that women whose breast cancer came back had almost twice as much oestrogen in their blood than women who remained cancer-free. “While this makes sense, there have been only ... http://livingmed.com/blog/2008/03/11/oestrogen-tied-to-breast-cancer-recurrence/ I was in my late 30s or early 40s before I was willing to call them lies. I think I had to reach a certain threshold of maturity, experience, and open mindedness to accept the lies as such. These are not white lies, largely innocent with no damage done to ... http://livingmed.com/blog/2008/03/08/five-great-lies-of-medicine-by-joseph-v-simone/ …A recently study on the effects of long-term use of certain dietary supplements including vitamin E and folates on lung cancer risk reported these supplements do not reduce risk. Daniel Fabricant, Ph.D., vice president of scientific and regulatory affairs for the Natural Products Association, questioned the study’s methodology: “The study ... http://livingmed.com/blog/2008/03/08/research-on-supplements-and-lung-cancer-flawed/ By M Zhang, X Liu, J Li, L He, D Tripathy Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2008 Issue 1 Date of Most Recent Substantive Amendment: 18 February 2007 Abstract Background Short term side-effects of chemotherapy include fatigue, nausea, vomiting, mucositis and myelosuppression or neutropenia. These occur during the course of treatment and generally resolve within ... http://livingmed.com/blog/2008/02/26/chinese-medicinal-herbs-to-treat-the-side-effects-of-chemotherapy-in-breast-cancer-patients/ Survival in advanced cancer patients is directly related to nutritional status, and this (as well as immune status) can be influenced by administration of fish oil together with vitamin E. This is the conclusion of Greek research just published in the journal "Cancer". The researchers studied a group of 60 patients ... http://livingmed.com/blog/2008/02/26/fish-oil-and-cancer-survival/ Serum levels of androgens and oestrogens were not related to risk for developing prostate cancer in initially healthy men. During the past several decades, many hypotheses about prostate cancer etiology have gained wide support, including family history, genetics, and consuming a Western diet. Elevated androgen levels have long been considered a ... http://livingmed.com/blog/2008/02/20/new-insight-into-the-relation-between-sex-hormones-and-prostate-cancer/