Posts tagged cancer

• Cancer Markers: MicroRNA Disruptions Drosha and Dicer Predict Ovarian Cancer Outcomes

  Wayne Parsons | December 23, 2008 3:33 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Boston.com again reports on significant medical discoveries, this time for ovarian cancer patients from the New England Journal of Medicine and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.. MicroRNAs are a tiny but...

• Basic Rules That Make Good Cells Go Bad In All Cancers

  Wayne Parsons | November 30, 2008 12:58 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The general approach to cancer research is to treat each cancer as a unique disease. Now Hartmut Hucky Land, Ph.D., is taking the opposite approach: what do all cancers have in common and how can...

• Breast Cancer Risk in Hawaii Linked to Pesticides in Drinking Water and Indoor Air

  Wayne Parsons | November 23, 2008 3:40 PM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Toxic Substances
  

  Pesticides leach into the Hawaii ground water system and end up in our drinking water. The warm tropical sun causes the pesticides to evaporate and enter the building through gaps in the foundation...

• Legal Case Study: Late Diagnosis of Lung Cancer

  Wayne Parsons | November 09, 2008 1:21 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The patient experienced shortness of breath and coughing and felt a constant need to clear his throat. He went to an internist at a medical group, who ordered a chest X-ray. The X-ray was...

• Legal Case Study - Late Diagnosis of Breast Cancer - Metastasis

  Wayne Parsons | November 09, 2008 12:50 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  In this real case a woman in her 40's underwent a screening mammogram which was read by the radiologist as normal. Several months later she detected a lump in her left breast and was subsequently...

• Proton Therapy Offers More Effective and Less Painful Cancer Treatment

  Wayne Parsons | November 09, 2008 12:35 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  Ian Lawrence is a physicist is suffering from a cancerous tumor that was discovered on the optical nerve leading to his left eye. According to BBC News, Europeans are looking to a small number of...

• Unrestecable Non-Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer Standard of Care

  Wayne Parsons | September 25, 2008 2:47 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  People afflicted with pancreatic cancer have a poor prognosis and oncologists do not agree on a standard of care regarding what treatment is best. I have previously reported on spectacular new...

• Palladin Gene Mutation of Chromosome 4 in Pancreatic Cancer

  Wayne Parsons | September 21, 2008 4:00 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Scientists have identified a genetic defect in the previously mapped chomosome 4. The3 defective gene has been labeled "Palladin". An overview can be found at the Pancreatic Education and Research...

• Pancreatic Cancer Vaccines Offer New Hope

  Wayne Parsons | September 21, 2008 3:36 PM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  New hope for cures of pancreatic cancer and cholangiocarcinoma are on the horizon. New vaccines offer great promise. Pancreatic cancer along with other adenocarcinomas in the biliary system...

• Glaxo tests Tykerb versus Herceptin for early Breast Cancer Treatment

  Wayne Parsons | May 14, 2008 8:33 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Herceptin has been the star of breast cancer treatment in the past 2 years. Tykerb (lapatinib) claims to be a superior treatment. Women who have recently been diagnosed with breast cancer should ask their oncologists about both drugs since early treatment can be important in beating the disease.