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From the sun’s UVA rays to tobacco smoke, our environment is chock-full of DNA-damaging agents that can lead to cancer. Thanks to our body’s DNA repair mechanisms, however, the effects of many carcinogens can be reversed thereby preventing the formation of tumours.
Now, according to a new study published in the early online edition of Proceedings [...]
More than 62,000 viewers have viewed the http://www.DressLikePalin.com website this week, scores offering their views on other uses that could have been made for the $150,000 the Republican National Committee famously spent on the wardrobe for Gov. Sarah Palin.
The internet game sponsored by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, presents its suggestions on alternatives [...]
Cancer survivors joined Central DuPage Hospital, Radiation Oncology Consultants and ProCure Treatment Centers to break ground on construction of the new Proton Therapy Center of Central DuPage Hospital, a ProCure Center. When it opens in early 2011, the center will be one of only a handful of centers in the nation to offer proton therapy, [...]
As millions of Americans participate in educational initiatives as part of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, they should keep in mind an important yet under-recognized consequence of breast cancer therapy: oral mucositis, one of the most common and debilitating side effects of cancer treatment.
Oral mucositis (OM) is a painful inflammation/ulceration of the mucous membranes in [...]
US Oncology Holdings, Inc. and its operating subsidiary, US Oncology, Inc., will announce 2008 third quarter financial results on Thursday, November 6, 2008.
A conference call and simultaneous webcast has been scheduled at 11:00 a.m., EST, for the company’s bondholders following the distribution of the news release. In this call, representatives of US Oncology’s management team [...]
Bavarian Nordic has now evaluated the mature phase II data from the therapeutic prostate cancer vaccine candidate PROSTVAC(TM) that had been obtained as part of the recently entered partnership with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the US.
The results from the Phase II prospective randomized placebo-controlled study of 125 patients with advanced prostate cancer after [...]
The worst is watching her suffer the indignities of the cancer treatment. It doesn’t help matters that he’s forced to drive six hours to the nearest hospital. He must cross the border four times on the return trip, and there is always a wait at customs, in addition to interrogating questions, while his sick mother, [...]
School nurses are key health educators, with access to young people at a formative time in their lives.
“There is more to it than first aid,” says Mitzie Walker, RN, BSN, MSHSA, MAEd, interim director of school support for Chicago Public Schools (CPS). “We serve as a healthcare liaison from the medical profession to the schools, [...]
Sutter Solano Medical Center (SSMC) is a 111-bed acute care hospital, fully accredited by The Joint Commission. As part of Sutter Health, a family of not-for-profit hospital and physician organizations, SSMC shares resources and expertise to advance health care quality. Sutter Health is a regional leader in Cardiac Care, Cancer Treatment, Orthopedics, Obstetrics, and Newborn [...]
A team of Scottish researchers have shown that cancer patients offered a depression care intervention - delivered by specially trained oncology nurses with no previous psychiatric experience - showed improvements in symptoms of depression compared to patients offered usual care. The beneficial effects of the “Depression Care for People with Cancer” package (DCPC) were found [...]
