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January 16, 2021

Tag: Cancer

Staying Cool When Temperatures Become Deadly

Monday, 06 August 2018 by Rose-Marie Brandwein
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Summertime and the livin’ is easy…and sometimes incredibly hot. As we race toward summer homes, vacation spots or just hang around the City, we have to be mindful that hot temperatures can be very dangerous wherever we are. Heat advisories should be taken seriously especially when high temperatures and humidity can produce heat indices between
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Prediabetes: Warning Signs and Preventative Measures

Monday, 30 July 2018 by Rose-Marie Brandwein
Prediabetes Warning Signs and Preventative Measures
According to a 2017 Center for Disease Control (CDC) report, over 30 million Americans have diabetes but nearly triple that amount have prediabetes—84 million and only 10% know they have it. In most cases, prediabetes will morph into diabetes but it doesn’t have to. Prediabetes as its name implies is the stage prior to an
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New Advances in Screening for Colorectal Cancer

Monday, 16 July 2018 by Rose-Marie Brandwein
Screening for Colorectal Cancer
Colorectal Cancer is the second-leading killer in the U.S., and according to the American Cancer Society (ACS), over 140,000 new cases of colorectal cancer will be diagnosed and over 50,000 will die from the disease in 2018. ACS also notes that “Overall, the lifetime risk of developing colorectal cancer is about 1 in 22 (4.49%)
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The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine Announces the Winners of the Robert S. Birch Award

Monday, 25 June 2018 by Marianne J. Legato
Flor C. Navarro, BS, Ph.D & Stephanie K. Watkins PhD
We established a competition for the best original scientific paper accepted for publication in our journal, Gender and the Genome, to encourage the receipt of high quality original studies for publication. The entries were required to have included gender as a variable in their research protocols, thus assessing the relevance of sex and gender to
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Summer and Smoke

Thursday, 21 June 2018 by Rose-Marie Brandwein
Summer and smoke
Last summer we wrote about the perils of e-cigarettes and vaping in our blog (E-Cigarettes: When Smoke Gets in Your Eyes) that are marketed to young people who want to be hipsters, not knowing how dangerous the ingredients in e-cigarettes really are. In fact, there has been an ongoing battle among the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), manufacturers and distributors to disclose and label
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Your Thyroid and You

Monday, 26 March 2018 by Rose-Marie Brandwein
Your Thyroid and You
Have you ever wondered why there are days you feel like a couch potato and are too tired to move and when you step onto the bathroom scale, your weight seems to be ballooning out of control and you can’t figure out why?  Inactivity, illness, depression and/or age might all be factors, but a thorough
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Oral Sex, Tobacco and Alcohol: A Recipe for Disaster in Men

Monday, 06 November 2017 by Rose-Marie Brandwein
Oral Sex Tobacco and Alcohol A Recipe for Disaster in Men
A recent study published in the Annals of Oncology painted a grim picture for men who had five or more partners with whom they engage in oral sex.  These men were shown to have the highest risk of developing a type of head and neck cancer (oropharyngeal cancer) that is triggered by exposure to the
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Liquid Biopsy—Changing How We Diagnose and Treat Cancer

Monday, 02 October 2017 by Rose-Marie Brandwein
Liquid Biopsy—Changing How We Diagnose and Treat Cancer1
One of this year’s most significant medical advances involves detecting the progress of cancer through biomarkers in the blood. While solid tissue biopsies can pinpoint tumor size and activity within a specific area, noninvasive liquid biopsies can provide greater insight into the genetics of tumor cells taken from a blood sample. Typically, cancerous tumors shed
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Breakthrough in Detection of Early Stage Cancers

Monday, 28 August 2017 by Rose-Marie Brandwein
Breakthrough-in-Detection-of-Early-Stage-Cancers.
According to the World Cancer Research Fund, there were an “estimated 14.1 million newly diagnosed cancer cases worldwide in 2012, of these 7.4 million cases were in men and 6.7 million in women. This number is expected to increase to 24 million by 2035.” What is not commonly known is that the majority of these
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New Leukemia and Lymphoma Treatment Shows Promise

Monday, 24 July 2017 by Rose-Marie Brandwein
New Leukemia and Lymphoma Treatment Shows Promise
Young adults and children suffering with leukemia and lymphoma now have hope as a new CAR-T Therapy Tisagenlecleucel, developed and manufactured by Novartis, has been recommended by an oncology advisory panel of The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Many experts believe CAR-T Therapy presents a paradigm shift in how we approach and treat cancer.
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