Neuroendocrine Tumor - Articles
Last week I was wondering abouth ...
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Michele Rosenthal
Last week I was wondering about how often we speak about our PTSD experience. This week I’m musing about how often we speak about our trauma itself. I meet many survivors who don’t want to reveal the details of their trauma at all. In my clients, all of whom are survivors, most won’t speak about their traumatic experience in detai ...
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Exosomes and nanoscale messenging
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Mark Pool, MD
This month's Laboratory Investigation has an interesting free article by Hood et al. exploring exosomes--nanoparticles formed by inward budding of microvesiclar bodies and released into the extracellular matrix as part of a nanoscale messenger system. The size of these particles (30-100nm) facilitates their penetration into cells at the invasive t ...
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...and now Pap smears...
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Sandi W.
["Curiouser and curiouser."] Holy Toledo! Now we don't need Pap smears as often. Have we been (the equivalent) of navel-gazing in the past, getting ourselves checked out too often? Our society is paranoid about cancer. Screenings make us feel like we're doing something, like we're being (that horrible corporate word) pro-active. As Sen. ...
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Temodar and Xeloda for neuroendocrine cacner
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Mark Levin
... formation is in abstract form. A retrospective review suggest that a combination of T + C is active, well tolerated and may prolong survival and palliate symptoms in pts with neuroendocrine tumors, a malignancy closely relatd to islet cell (NET).InN 2008 abstract, 17 patients received this combination as front-line chemotherapy. There were three ga ...
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The Power of Red Clover
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Curtis Duncan
Red Clover is an herb rich in phytoestrogens. Phytoestrogens have been shown to prevent diseases like breast cancer and osteoporosis and are great remedies for menopause. These herbs can also reduce excessive estrogen levels and reduce PMS symptoms. Most diseases, like fibroids, that afflict women are estrogen dependent herbs like red clover can be ...
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The Power of Red Clover
by
Curtis Duncan
Red Clover is an herb rich in phytoestrogens. Phytoestrogens have been shown to prevent diseases like breast cancer and osteoporosis and are great remedies for menopause. These herbs can also reduce excessive estrogen levels and reduce PMS symptoms. Most diseases, like fibroids, that afflict women are estrogen dependent herbs like red clover can be ...
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The Latest: Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer
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Lisa E. L.
Tina in Arizona asked us by email:“What does the latest news on genetic testing for breast cancer mean for me and my daughter? Two years ago, I had the test for breast cancer — the results were negative. Does this new research mean that my test was not accurate? Is there a chance I could still have a mutation?” I am a breast cance ...
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Breast Cancer Treatments: Discoveries & Debates
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Lisa E. L.
Thank you, Gina Kolata, for continuing to explain both the science and the personal dilemmas of breast cancer treatment research.Increasingly, oncologists and researchers are focusing on the nature of the tumor itself — “tumor typing” — rather than the location of the tumor when recommending treatments. I expect that very so ...
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Genetic Risk for Prostate Cancer Identified
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Lisa E. L.
Scientists have discovered that a common genetic variant appears to increase the risk of prostate cancer in men who carry it. Specifically, it appears to confer a 60% greater risk of prostate cancer, and may also indicate a more aggressive cancer, when cancer occurs.This discovery may also explain why African American men have higher rates of prost ...
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New Test for Lung Cancer Treatment
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Lisa E. L.
Tumor typing - or testing the genetic signature of a cancer - is currently helping doctors distinguish between more aggressive and less agressive cancers. As a result, they can recommend treatment that will be most effective for individual patients. Now, researchers have developed a similar test for lung cancer.The Lung Metagene Predictor (describe ...
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