Cancer Commentary

Dorothy Hamill Undergoing Breast Cancer Treatment

Here’s another celebrity that is in the news this week but sort of in a delicate way because of cancer. Who can forget former Olympic gold medalist, figure skater Dorothy Hamill? Even if the rest of...

Stephen Stills, Recovering from Cancer Surgery

Singer-songwriter Stephen Stills is now recovering after a prostate cancer surgery. The 63-year old Stills (born in Dallas, Texas) is a member of the group called CSNY or the Crosby, Stills, Nash,...

Short-Term Hormone Therapy Can Delay Prostate Cancer Growth By Up To 8 Years

Just four months of hormonal (androgen deprivation) therapy before and with standard external beam radiation therapy slowed cancer growth by as much as eight years–especially the development of...

Having Cancer is No Gimmick

I hope that it is just publicity gimmick that Matthew McConaughey is now dating Kate Hudson. You know, they have a movie to be released next month - Fool’s Gold - their reunion team-up on...

Your Morning Gargle Can Be Used to Accurately Detect Head and Neck Cancer

Such were the findings of scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center who were able to capture genetic signatures common to head and neck cancer. The researchers collected the rinsed...

New Year and Getting Back to Business

Hello everyone. In my part of the world, it is already the day after new year’s and most offices and some schools are back to normal businesses. Same as this blog and blogger: back to normal...

Tempted to Call it a Year

I have been trying to evade switching into the holiday mode since weeks before Christmas. Now, I might be temped to succumb and call it a year. He he. My body is taking the toll of all the Christmas...

SGX393: New Drug Candidate That Knocks Out Resistant Form of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML)

A new experimental drug has been found by Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Cancer Institute researchers to be effective against a highly resistant mutation in chronic myeloid leukemia...

Earlier Cancer Detection: Possible with Gold Nanoparticle Probes

Scientists at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology reported that they were able to show that they can identify tumors under the skin of a living animal using tiny gold particles...

Post-Christmas Hang-over?

In my part of the world, it is already the day after Christmas. You may still be partying while I am still nursing a “hang-over”. My tummy hasn’t recovered yet from all the food...