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Posted on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 8:51 PM
After analyzing the data from 16 clinical trials, Stony Brook researchers confirmed earlier findings that a widely used cancer drug may be killing patients rather than saving their lives. Marketed under the brand name Avastin, the drug was increasing treatment-related patient deaths by nearly half compared to patients taking only chemotherapy drugs, wrote the authors of a study published February in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Shenhong Wu, Sanjaykumar Hapani, and David Chu, researchers at the Stony Brook University Medical Center, conducted the study. |
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Dina Nwaokai-Beecham: Posted on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 8:26 PM
Initially, when you are told that you have to be on chemotherapy (chemo) for your cancer, you know there will be side effects. However, nothing truly prepares you for the real thing and your own body's particular repsonse to the chemo. Under chemo, my body turned stranger to me. I was so ill from the side effects from the chemo drugs, that after awhile I couldn't even focus on what the actual cancer was doing to me. I felt as if I was dying little by little from the chemo side effects. I had mutliple side effects including having some heart attacks. |
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Dina Nwaokai-Beecham: Posted on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 12:45 AM
Here is a website dedicated to helping people through life-changing moments--and having cancer qualifies as a big life changing illness. If you or your family need this type of help, this is a good place to start. My book may also help. See About The Book page. http://www.goodgriefcoaching.com/ |
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Dina Nwaokai-Beecham: Posted on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 12:20 AM
Have you heard of the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)? They say it could replace the mammogram. It takes an image of the breast as opposed to your breast being jammed and squeezed under pressure plates. If this is up and coming, I am all for it. Anything has to be better than the dreaded torture chamber. What do you think? |
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Posted on Monday, April 25, 2011 12:00 AM
Don't be offended because the book "Memoirs of Cancer" targets mainly African Americans. It does so because we are the number one group in the contry that happens to be dying in larger numbers than any other ethnic group here. We need more education and prevention information on cancer to help us bea t the odds. This is why I wrote the book. However, the book can benefit any cultural group, due to the many facts, definitions, terms, and treatment plans for various cancers. Cancer information does not change. |
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Dina Nwaokai-Beecham: Posted on Friday, April 22, 2011 1:08 PM
I like the fact that the NCI ( National Cancer Institute) is now saying that low-risk prostate cancer men may not have to do anymore than just get their prostate monitored periodically, as opposed to jumping right into surgery or radiation. They say these men will probably never get full blown cancer. What is your comment on this? |
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Dina Nwaokai-Beecham: Posted on Thursday, April 21, 2011 6:47 PM
Are you telling me that no one has a comment to make concerning the lack of a cancer cure in the U.S.? I don't believe it! Cancer has affected some of everyone's lives. If you didn't have anyone in your family who had cancer, I bet you know someone who did. This has got to be a topic on some peoples mind's. Talk to me. |
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Dina Nwaokai-Beecham: Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 12:32 AM
Cancer is a multi-billion dolllar business. This is why there has yet to be a real cure found. We need to all stand together and let our congresspeople know that we are demanding a cure to this horrible desease that kills so many people every year. Are you with me? Billions of dollars are raised in all kinds of fundraisers annually. Some of that money was supposedly for research to cure cancer. Well, where is the cure? |
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