Hospital loses laptop with cancer patient information (KTVA Anchorage)
Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage has lost a laptop that held confidential information for up to 250 cancer patients. Officials say the records include those of patients seen between August 2005 and May 2007....more...Hospital announces new cancer care center (Edwardsville Journal)
A local hospital will be able to offer cancer patients state-of-the-art care thanks to an unlikely partnership....more... Survival of second testicular cancer not lower (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Men who survive testicular cancer are just as likely to survive a second cancer as men who never had testicular cancer, according to a report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute....more... National Breast Cancer Foundation Unveils Innovative Web Site (PNN)
National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. has launched an innovative new Web site that inspires and educates, with the best online social network community available today for breast cancer patients, survivors and their families and friends....more... Statement from the Cancer Cure Coalition: The Cancer Cure Coalition Protests the Federal Court's Ruling Against the ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
We at the Cancer Cure Coalition were dismayed by the decision of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denying the right of critically ill patients to access treatments that are in clinical trials. These treatments have already shown evidence of safety and effectiveness, yet the court is preventing access to them by patients who are likely to die without them. We believe that this ......more... NHS cancer patient is refused vital drug (Yorkshire Post Today)
A Cancer sufferer has been left with just months to live after being refused a vital drug while other patients at the same Yorkshire hospital receive the treatment. (13/08/2007 07:55:31)...more... pSivida Completes Recruitment of Cancer Trial/Prelim Results (PSD.AX, 00747727, 20070813) (Aspect Huntley via Yahoo!7 Finance)
pSivida announced the completion of the recruitment stage of the Phase IIa clinical study of BrachySil for the treatment of inoperable pancreac cancer in the UK and Singapore. From a trial of 17 patients, eight weeks follow-up data available on the first 10 patients treated shows 90% of these patients have had either stabilisation or reduction. In size of their primary tumour and one of these ......more... Help for young cancer patients (Adelaide Now)
SUPPLEMENTING chemotherapy with folinic acid is likely to reduce the likelihood of children with cancer developing osteoporosis and suffering bone fractures, an Adelaide researcher says....more... FreeConferenceCall.com Serves as Critical Communications Conduit in the Battle Against Kidney Cancer (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CHICAGO----Free Conferencing Corporation of America, the leading provider of FREE collaborative communications solutions, today announced at the ASAE & The Center Annual Meeting & Exposition, August 11-14, 2007, that The Kidney Cancer Association has selected FreeConferenceCall.com as its primary conferencing service of record to its entire network of patients, doctors and board members....more... |