Prostate Cancer Risk Lower for Some Heavier Men
ISLAMABAD: Under certain circumstances, the risk of developing
prostate cancer seems to be lower for men with a high body mass index
than for those with a lower BMI.

The doctors were wrong.  Now they believe it has gone to his liver.  Also
mets in the other lung.  They are testing these to see if it's the same kind
of cancer that's in the other lung.  Surgery is no option.  We are
devastated.  There are no words to describe what we feel.  I ...

August 02, 2007 Toolbox
Electric fields have potential as a cancer treatment
Alternating electric fields affect tumor cells by (a) slowing their
division time from under one hour to more than three hours. The fields

Is it possible to increase the speed of AML?

Just to report back, if anyone remembers that I back in may 2006 wrote that
my mother in law was diagnosed with lung cancer and a time estimate of 14
days to live. We decided not to tell her this (being 88 years she could use
it for nothing). She actually lived way more than a ...

Spent last weekend in hospital coughing up blood from the lung mets. I was
told this fairly normal. They said they can stick a tube down my throat to
try to find the source of the bleeding, then zap it with lasers to try and
stop it. But 1) there's not enough blood to be doing ...

"squamous carcinomas of the head and neck are often considered together
because they share cell type, epidemiology and risk factors, natural
history, and the need for head and neck surgeons to participate in optimal
evaluation and management.

I just heard from my husband that the doctor came in and told our friend
(Robert) that he has (and please know they don't know what to call things)
some type of single cell cancer that will respond to chemo.  The doctor said
the cure rate is high on this.  Also it hasn't spread ...

http://www.medscape.com:80/viewarticle/562114?src=3Dmpnews
"Head and Neck Cancer Rates Declining, but Oropharyngeal Cancer Rising Due
to HPV"
Zosia Chustecka

It is small cell lung cancer.  I don't know anything about it.  He is
getting chemo right now.  He wants us to bring him a milkshake.  I just hope
he makes it through this.  We are not ready to lose such a good person. All
he has is his dog.  H really misses that dog.  He's just ...