Study finds difference in survival rates among white and black women with advanced breast cancer
... compared to 17 months for black women, a one-year survivor difference of 8.8 percent. "We do not suspect that these statistics are due to the biology of the disease because we would not expect the biology to change over time. It's more likely due to socio-economic factors," says Giordano, the study's senio...Nancy Brinker and Lance Armstrong honored with Centennial Medals at the AACR 2007 Annual Meeting
... of Scientific Advisors. Lance Armstrong, cancer survivor and seven-time Tour De France winner, founded the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) in 1997. He is being honored for his excellence and leadership in advocacy for cancer survivors. In choosing to share with the world his personal history with cancer, ...Study of leukemia survivors gives hints for better care
...LL shows that medical care should not end when the survivor goes home," said Ching-Hon Pui, M.D., chair of the St. Jude Oncology department and American Cancer Society FM Kirby Clinical Research Professor. "We are working not only to increase survival rates for ALL, but also to improve the quality of life of ...Lung cancer risk reduced in female textile workers exposed to endotoxin
...study's design, which they call the healthy worker survivor effect. The authors also acknowledge that uncertainties exist in estimating endotoxin exposures in past years, but the findings remained virtually unchanged when different exposure scenarios were applied. In an accompanying editorial, Paolo Boffetta...Study finds major variation in Medicare Rx drug costs
... without insulin; a 72-year-old woman heart attack survivor taking medications for heart failure and to preven...r average incomes. For example, the heart attack survivor would on average pay 8 percent of her cost-of-living-adjusted median income for her prescription dru...Stroke survivors and caregivers to benefit from Kent State study
...t can affect all facets of the lives of the stroke survivor and their families. Recovery for stroke survivors often continues well beyond initial stroke onset, making support from family or other caregivers critical to the recovery process. For those thrust into the role of caregiver, tending to the stroke su...Cancer survivors at risk for suicidal thoughts, attempts
...Oncology. The findings should prompt providers at survivor clinics to consider the interaction of physical an...cores the need for a multidisciplinary approach to survivor care." With the growth of survivors' clinics across the country, it is important to improve psycho...Breast cancer survivors change lifestyle after diagnosis
...breast cancer survivors within three months of the survivor completing all surgery, chemotherapy, and/or radiation treatment for cancer and a second time three months later. Study participants completed measures assessing beliefs about the cause of their cancer; beliefs about behavioral strategies that may re...Male sexual abuse survivors struggle in relations with health care providers -- study
...unicates an understanding of their experience--one survivor referred to this as 'malecentric communication'," Lasiuk said. "The onus is on health professionals to increase their knowledge about the health effects of childhood sexual abuse and to create safe health care environments. To do otherwise breaches t...Organ transplants just as successful in those with mental retardation
...ey transplants was 100 percent, and the three-year survivor rate was 90 percent. "That's comparable to national survival rates for the overall population, said Steven Reiss, co-author of the study and professor of psychology and psychiatry at Ohio State University . "From these results, there doesn't seem t...Cancer worries continue long after treatment ends
... recurrence. With the passage of time, the cancer survivor thinks about second cancers from radiation or chem...ut a recurrence, with male colorectal and prostate survivor having the greatest concerns. Depending on the type of cancer, between 34-41% worry that current sy...Survivors of childhood cancer face unemployment hardship
...regate and analyze employment and childhood cancer survivor data from the most methodologically sound studies published. The prognosis for children diagnosed with cancer is excellent. More than seven in ten pediatric cancer patients now survive more than five years and most of those survive to adulthood. Surv...New Queen's study of hand-brain function offers insight into recovery for stroke survivors
...e weaker the connections, the less able the stroke survivor is to use their hand muscles. The findings offer insight into which of the measures currently used to evaluate signals from the brain to the muscle during stroke recovery are most strongly linked to muscle function and therefore which treatment strat...JRRD tipsheet: Focus on stroke, Parkinson's treatment, wheelchair durability
...hs poststroke to determine the influence of stroke survivor and caregiver characteristics on quality of life (QOL) for stroke caregivers. At both time points, the most influential factor was sense of coherence (SOC). SOC is the caregiver's ability to mobilize coping resources during periods of stress. Caregiv...Non-smokers with lung cancer respond better to treatment than smokers, study says
...es the majority of lung cancers, and if cured, the survivor has up to a 4 percent annual risk of developing another tumor. Despite the association of lung cancer with cigarettes, diagnosed patients continue to smoke. However, physicians remain unable to tell their patients how that will impact their cancer tr...Researchers at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center study exercise to curb 'chemo brain'
...om the Foundation established by well-known cancer survivor and athlete, Lance Armstrong. The funding will allow Charles Matthews, Ph.D., and Laurel Brown, Ph.D., in the Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry, and a team of researchers at Vanderbilt-Ingram, to take a closer look at the chemotherapy side effe...UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center named Survivorship Center of Excellence
...of progress in addressing the needs of the growing survivor community, we established the LIVESTRONG Survivorship Center of Excellence Network to serve as comprehensive, one-stop sources of information, care and services for cancer survivors, family members and service providers." More than 10 million Americ...AACR supports the nomination of Andrew von Eschenbach as the commissioner of the FDA
...programs organized by the AACR. He is a three-time survivor of cancer, giving him an added perspective of a patient who faced a life-threatening disease. "Dr. von Eschenbach not only brings a wealth of scientific knowledge to the FDA post, he also brings the personal experiences of a cancer patient and surviv...Parents of children with cancer suffer post-traumatic stress symptoms, both immediate and lingering
...ms in 98 couples who were parents of an adolescent survivor of childhood cancer. The adolescents had completed treatment an average of five years before the study. Although parents' PTS symptoms were less common than those found in parents during the period of their children's treatment, in a majority of fami...Mayo Clinic Cancer Center reports advancements and solutions for quality of life assessments
... assessments," says Wayland Eppard, bladder cancer survivor and patient advocate for the North Central Cancer Treatment Group. "I hope that doctors will be able to use this monograph to provide more personalized care for their patients."...