I Had Ocular Melanoma: One Woman's Experience With the Rare, Aggressive Eye Cancer
'I'll get to see my children grow up – thanks to a random call to the eye doctor.' (Source: U.S. News - Health)
Source: U.S. News - Health - February 11, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Michelle Martin Source Type: news
Catching up with Poppy: Life after an eye tumor
Poppy with her little sister Hazel (Courtesy of Dana Biagini)
When Poppy Biagini was just four months old, her family got news no parent wants to hear — that she had a rare, rapidly growing tumor in her right eye called a retinoblastoma.
That was almost three years ago. But if you looked at Poppy today, you’d be hard pressed to tell that she’s anything other than your average 3-year-old who loves Curious George, swim class and playing dress-up.
“She knows that there’s something a little different with her eye than everyone else’s,” her father Dana says. “But she’s handling ...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - February 9, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tom Ulrich Tags: Diseases & Conditions Our Patients’ Stories Ankoor Shah Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center Darren Orbach eye tumor intra-arterial chemotherapy retinoblastoma Source Type: news
Gratitude for Dr. Oliver Sacks' Insights at the End of Life
Just as he shed light on the human mind and soul over the course of his celebrated career, the neurologist and writer Dr. Oliver Sacks gave us profound insights in his final year into the most universal of human experiences: dying. One year ago, diagnosed with metastasized uveal melanoma, he began to chronicle his thoughts, feelings, priorities and vivid observations as he lived what would become his final months. "I have been able to see my life as from a great altitude, as a sort of landscape, and with a deepening sense of the connection of all its parts," he writes in "My Own Life," an essay in his posthumous, best-se...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Kids with Vision-Damaging Cancers May Face Ills Later
Lifelong screening recommended to detect problems early
Source: HealthDay
Related MedlinePlus Pages: Cancer in Children, Eye Cancer (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)
Source: MedlinePlus Health News - January 11, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Medical News Today: What are the long-term implications for children with cancers affecting vision?
Retinoblastoma is the most common childhood cancer of the eye. New research investigates the health implications for survivors over the ensuing decades. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 11, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cancer / Oncology Source Type: news
New Strategies but Modest Benefit in Uveal MelanomaNew Strategies but Modest Benefit in Uveal Melanoma
New therapies being tried in uveual melanoma include combination everolimus, pasireotide long-acting release, and the MEK inhibitor trametinib. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Hematology-Oncology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hematology-Oncology Headlines - November 23, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Hematology-Oncology News Source Type: news
Simple test predicts response to chemotherapy in lung cancer patients
(Lawson Health Research Institute) Scientists at Lawson Health Research Institute have found that adenocarcinoma patients who undergo chemotherapy and surgery experience significantly improved survival rates when their tumor is lacking the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor protein. This new information is very useful as it may predict which patients will respond best to chemotherapy. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - November 3, 2015 Category: Biology Source Type: news
InfantSEE: Vision For Your Baby's Future
Your baby's eyes developed in utero as an extension of the brain. At birth, your baby could see light and dark, but not colors or details. Outside stimuli began to interact with your newborn's eyes and vision began to form. View image | gettyimages.com Vision and the way the brain uses visual information, are skills that a baby learns over time. The greatest amount of growth in vision and processing visual information occurs during your baby's first year of life. During this time, your baby will learn how to focus on an object and how to move the eyes in response to stimuli. All of these vision milestones will allow you...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - October 9, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Retinoblastoma Outcomes Worse for Poor, Minority Children Retinoblastoma Outcomes Worse for Poor, Minority Children
Hispanic and socially disadvantaged children are more likely to lose their affected eye than non-Hispanic children and those from advantaged communities. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - October 7, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pediatrics News Source Type: news
Ethnic, racial, socioeconomic disparities in retinoblastoma in children
Ethnic, racial and socioeconomic disparities appear to exist among children with retinoblastoma, a once uniformly fatal but now treatable eye cancer, and those disparities are associated with greater risks for advanced disease and undergoing enucleation (removal of the eye), according to an article. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - October 5, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Hispanic, Poor Children May Have Greater Risk of Losing Eye to Cancer
Study suggests disparities in care; rare disease typically uncovered during routine visits
Source: HealthDay
Related MedlinePlus Pages: Eye Cancer, Health Disparities, Hispanic American Health (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)
Source: MedlinePlus Health News - October 5, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Disparities in outcomes for rare pediatric cancer suggest unequal access to primary care
(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) Disparities in outcomes for children with retinoblastoma -- a rare eye tumor usually discovered in routine pediatric check-ups -- suggest unequal access to primary care, researchers from Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center report in a study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics. Although virtually all the children in the study survived, Hispanic children and children who lived in disadvantaged areas were more likely to lose an eye due to late diagnosis. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - October 5, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
All Was Well -- Then My Fiancee Got Cancer
Photo caption: Brent and Emily Stoller on their wedding day in Rancho Mirage, CA. Photo credit: Amy & Stuart Photography Which band do we want? What color should the groomsmen wear? Can our rehearsal dinner video montage be made to resemble A-Ha's "Take on Me"? For my fiancée, Emily, and me, the planning process for our wedding was routine. Until 32 days before "I do," when a new entry was Sharpie'd onto our to-do list: Cancer. ***** These stories all start the same. April 7, 2015 dawned like any other Tuesday. Emily was at the ophthalmologist because she'd been experiencing blurriness, which turned out to be cause...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 30, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Arteries better than veins for liquid biopsy
(Thomas Jefferson University) Arteries contain higher numbers of circulating tumor cells than veins in uveal melanoma patients, raising a concern for standard technique for detection of tumor cells in the blood. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - September 24, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Neurologist and Writer Oliver Sacks Dies at 82
(NEW YORK) — Dr. Oliver Sacks, whose books like “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat” probed distant ranges of human experience by compassionately portraying people with severe and sometimes bizarre neurological conditions, has died. He was 82.
Sacks died Sunday at his home in New York City, his assistant, Kate Edgar, said.
Sacks had announced in February 2015 that he was terminally ill with a rare eye cancer that had spread to his liver.
As a practicing neurologist, Sacks looked at some of his patients with a writer’s eye and found publishing gold.
In his best-selling 1985 book, he described a m...
Source: TIME: Top Science and Health Stories - August 30, 2015 Category: Science Authors: matkatz Tags: Uncategorized celebrities Source Type: news
