Of the 413 times a day that my son uses the restroom he probably washes his hands about four. When I catch him I make sure that he washes thoroughly with soap (I have to specify the soap part). I, on the other hand, wash my hands 413 times a day out of simple paranoia [...]
September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. Communities are busy planning programs to raise awareness of prostate cancer issues. The Prostate Health Education Network, Inc., (PHEN) is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization. PHEN was founded in 2003 by Thomas A. Farrington, a prostate cancer survivor. They are having a program in DC focused on advocacy issues for [...]
General cancer research has made great strides over the last few years. Over this past year, we have seen the first major advance in twenty years in kidney cancer; new treatment options for breast cancer, targeted therapies for head and neck cancers as well as a novel gene profiling test that can predict which patients [...]
Often, the FDA limits access to clinical trials to patients who have failed all other approved therapies. This means that we only evaluate potential new drugs on individuals who are already very sick and have been weakened by their disease as well as their prior treatments. Cancer cells "learn" how to survive treatments by mutating. [...]
A couple of years ago I had my first colonoscopy. No it's not typical for a guy in his mid-twenties to have the marginally annoying anal-probing procedure, but I did. There were two major reasons for me to get the ol' colon checked out: one was my family and the other was my family history. [...]