Archive for the ‘In The News’ Category

Treating cancer patients with anemia drugs increases their risk of blood clots and death

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – Treating cancer patients with anemia drugs increases their risk of blood clots and death, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday, confirming concerns about these widely used drugs. Researchers said the drugs, including Amgen Inc's Aranesp and Johnson & Johnson's Procrit, raised the risk of death by 10 ...

FDA And Heparin

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

I write a lot about my lack of faith and distrust of both the pharmaceutical industry and of the FDA. I still have a port-a-cath, that was implanted during my chemotherapy. I have to have it flushed every four to six weeks. To do this the nurses ...

Breakthrough Brings Hope for Leukemia Treatment

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

From The Medi Lexicon Scientists from The Institute of Cancer Research together with colleagues at The University of Oxford and Great Ormond Street Hospital, funded by Leukaemia Research and the Medical Research Council (MRC), have compared cells in the blood of three-year-old identical twins Olivia, who is being treated for leukaemia, ...

Cancer Patients, Caregivers, And Survivors Loose A Good Friend

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

I live on Cape Cod, Ma. As a cancer survivor I was very much aware of Dr. Folkman's tireless work for cancer. Dr. Folkman passed away Monday. All who knew him or knew about him will be grieving his passing. What a legacy he ...

$6.5 million federal grant support research for two new anti-cancer drugs.

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Cancer Center Receives Grant To Continue Research On 2 Drugs From The KOLD News 13 Newsroom Posted: var wn_last_ed_date = getLEDate("Jan 14, 2008 8:09 PM EST"); document.write(wn_last_ed_date); Jan 14, 2008 08:09 PM The Arizona Cancer Center's Therapeutic Development Program is getting a five-year, $6.5 million federal grant that will support research ...

U.S. Cancer Death Rates Are Found to Be Falling

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

By DENISE GRADY Published: October 15, 2007 New York Yimes Death rates from cancer have been dropping by an average of 2.1 percent a year recently in the United States, a near doubling of decreases that began in 1993, researchers are reporting. Read the rest……