image copyrightCancer Research UK/Mark Hewlett image captionAlec Carpenter with his parents Nicola and Glen A boy who doctors feared would not survive when he was diagnosed with a rare childhood cancer aged four months is due to start school. Alec Carpenter, from Stowmarket in Suffolk, was diagnosed with neuroblastoma in 2016 and will join his … Read more
Image copyright Getty Images A new taskforce will meet next week to kick-start the recovery of cancer services across the NHS in England. Charities believe the pandemic has led to a significant reduction in people being referred for urgent cancer treatment. Cancer Research UK says three million people have missed cancer screenings since March. The … Read more
Sept. 18, 2020 — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a trailblazing jurist and the second woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, died Friday. She was 87. The cause of death was metastatic pancreatic cancer, according to a statement from the court. “Our nation has lost a jurist of historic stature,” Chief Justice … Read more
FRIDAY, Sept. 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Nearly 90,000 Americans between 15 and 39 years of age will be diagnosed with cancer this year and more than 9,200 will die, a new report projects. One hematologist who deals with younger cancer patients said the shock of a diagnosis at this point in their lives … Read more
The findings were published online Sept. 17 in the journal JAMA Oncology. Still, the researchers cautioned that although their work pinpoints a link between coffee and better cancer outcomes, it does not prove that drinking coffee actually causes mortality risk to drop or colon cancer growth to slow. And Mackintosh explicitly cautioned colon … Read more
The 37-year old Mahender (name changed), who was a regular tobacco chewer for several years, presented himself at the Max Hospital with an enormous tumor that covered the left side of his face. A 3Kg massive tumor, equal to the size of an adult human head, was successfully removed from the face of a 37-year … Read more
TUESDAY, Sept. 8, 2020 (HealthDay News) — New research reveals what may be fueling racial disparities in U.S. prostate cancer deaths — disparities that have black patients dying at higher rates than whites. What are they? Education, income and insurance. “Socioeconomic status and insurance status are all changeable factors. Unfortunately, the socioeconomic status … Read more
On an average cancer patient visits to hospitals have substantially declined by 64% after the outbreak. (Representational image: Reuters photo) The novel coronavirus disease or the COVID-19 pandemic initiated a national lockdown in India and rest of the world, bringing up massive challenges for the treatment of cancer patients. The pandemic has spread rapidly worldwide, … Read more
August 29, 2020 — Chadwick Boseman, the star of the 2018 Marvel Comics megahit Black Panther, died of colon cancer Friday. Boseman, first diagnosed 4 years ago, had kept his diagnosis a secret. He filmed his recent movies ”during and between countless surgeries and chemotherapy,” according to a statement issued on his Twitter account. When the … Read more
LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Actor Chadwick Boseman, who played Black icons Jackie Robinson and James Brown before finding fame as the regal Black Panther in the Marvel cinematic universe, died Friday of cancer, his representative said. He was 43. Boseman died at his home in the Los Angeles area with his wife and family by … Read more