Giving Cancer Hell
ANISH KOKA, MD
There are 80,000 new cases of primary brain tumors diagnosed every year in the United States. About 26,000 of these cases are of the malignant variety – and John McCain unfortunately joined their ranks last week. In cancer, fate is defined by cell type, and the adage is of particular relevance here.
Cancer is akin to a mutiny arising within the body, formed of regular every day cells that have forgotten the purpose they were born with. In the case of brain tumors, the mutinous cell frequently happens to not be the brain cell, but rather the lowly astrocyte that normally forms a matrix of support f...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 24, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: anish_koka Tags: Physicians Anish Koka John McCain Source Type: blogs
Should McCain Fight or Fold?
ANISH KOKA, MD
There are 80,000 new cases of primary brain tumors diagnosed every year in the United States. About 26,000 of these cases are of the malignant variety – and John McCain unfortunately joined their ranks last week. In cancer, fate is defined by cell type, and the adage is of particular relevance here.
Cancer is akin to a mutiny arising within the body, formed of regular every day cells that have forgotten the purpose they were born with. In the case of brain tumors, the mutinous cell frequently happens to not be the brain cell, but rather the lowly astrocyte that normally forms a matrix of support f...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 24, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: anish_koka Tags: Physicians Anish Koka John McCain Source Type: blogs
7 Things to Know About Glioblastoma
News recently shocked the nation that Sen. John McCain was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer called glioblastoma. Dr. Mark Mishra, a radiation oncologist at the University of Maryland Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center and Maryland Proton Treatment Center who specializes in treating brain cancer, tells you 7 things to know about glioblastoma.
How common is glioblastoma?
Glioblastoma is the most common type of primary brain tumor that is diagnosed in adults. There are estimated to be nearly 13,000 patients who will be diagnosed with a glioblastoma annually within the United States.
Why is it so aggr...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - July 21, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: UMMC Tags: Cancer Source Type: blogs
New News on Lymphedema
Lymphedema has long been known as a life long complication from breast cancer surgery.I am not a doctor but here is my understanding of lymphedema: the lymph system is a second system in your body connecting hundreds of lymph nodes which help clean out your body and heal injuries or diseases. When you have surgery the lymph system is often impaired because it does not heal and reconnect after. If the lymph system is unconnected to the rest, you can end up with swollen body parts, or lymphedema.After breast cancer if a bunch of nodes are removed under your arm as with an axillary node dissection, you can end up with problem...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - May 20, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: lymph nodes lymphedema risks Source Type: blogs
What surgeons do is a violent act
“I like good strong words that mean something.”
– Louisa May Alcott
My resident and I are removing a large, recurrent cancer from the neck. Dense scar tissue is everywhere from prior surgery and radiation therapy. The going is slow. Each move is arduous, and bleeding obscures the view of the anatomy.
“Watch out,” I tell her. “The jugular vein is nearby, probably buried in that scar.”
“Yeah,” she responds. “Look at this nerve! It’s completely stuck on the side of the mass.”
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Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social m...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 18, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/bruce-campbell" rel="tag" > Bruce Campbell, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Cancer Source Type: blogs
Elekta Introduces Unity, The First High-Field MR-Linac System
Elekta, the famous Swedish maker of radiation therapy, radiosurgery, and brachytherapy systems, is in the final stages of combining a linear accelerator therapy and magnetic resonance imaging scanner in one unified system. Many physicists and engineers thought that this would be impossible, as quickly moving charged particles shooting out of an accelerator are strongly affected by a magnetic field. But scientists at UMC Utrecht, a major research center in Holland, had some novel ideas and built the first prototype long ago, proving the skeptics wrong, and in the process convincing Elekta to work with Philips on developin...
Source: Medgadget - May 8, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Radiation Oncology Radiology Source Type: blogs
Elekta Releases Unity, The First Commercial High-Field MR-Linac System
Elekta, the famous Swedish maker of radiation therapy, radiosurgery, and brachytherapy systems, is finally releasing a linear accelerator therapy and magnetic resonance imaging scanner in one unified system. Many physicists and engineers thought that this would be impossible, as quickly moving charged particles shooting out of an accelerator are strongly affected by a magnetic field. But scientists at UMC Utrecht, a major research center in Holland, had some novel ideas and built the first prototype long ago, proving the skeptics wrong, and in the process convincing Elekta to work with Philips on developing a commercial ...
Source: Medgadget - May 8, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Radiation Oncology Radiology Source Type: blogs
Elekta Releases Unity, The First High-Field MR-Linac System
Elekta, the famous Swedish maker of radiation therapy, radiosurgery, and brachytherapy systems, is finally releasing a linear accelerator therapy and magnetic resonance imaging scanner in one unified system. Many physicists and engineers thought that this would be impossible, as quickly moving charged particles shooting out of an accelerator are strongly affected by a magnetic field. But scientists at UMC Utrecht, a major research center in Holland, had some novel ideas and built the first prototype long ago, proving the skeptics wrong, and in the process convincing Elekta to work with Philips on developing a commercial ...
Source: Medgadget - May 8, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Radiation Oncology Radiology Source Type: blogs
We Could Now See Cervical Cancer Rates Increase
By ILANA ADDIS, MD
In 2014 I took my first trip to Kenya. After my plane landed in Nairobi I rode for 10 hours with my medical colleagues to Bungoma, a town on the western edge of the country. We set up our clinic in the local hospital and then spent the week training local healthcare providers on a technique called ‘Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid (VIA)’. This is an inexpensive method to screen for cervical cancer and pre-cancer in low resource settings using vinegar. As a part of the training we screened 189 women for cervical cancer in that week.
The Papaniculou (pap) smear was revolutionary in cervical cancer pr...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 4, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Cervical Cancer MacArthur Amendment Source Type: blogs
Thanks to the AHCA We Could Now See Cervical Cancer Rates Increase
By ILANA ADDIS, MD
In 2014 I took my first trip to Kenya. After my plane landed in Nairobi I rode for 10 hours with my medical colleagues to Bungoma, a town on the western edge of the country. We set up our clinic in the local hospital and then spent the week training local healthcare providers on a technique called ‘Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid (VIA)’. This is an inexpensive method to screen for cervical cancer and pre-cancer in low resource settings using vinegar. As a part of the training we screened 189 women for cervical cancer in that week.
The Papaniculou (pap) smear was revolutionary in cervical cancer pr...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 4, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Cervical Cancer MacArthur Amendment Source Type: blogs
Carcinoma Rectum :MRI
Discussion by Dr MGK Murthy, Dr GA PrasadMR- useful to assist staging & identify patients who may benefit from preoperative chemotherapy–radiation therapy, and in surgical planning.Currently, surgical resection with stage-appropriate neoadjuvant combined-modality therapy is the mainstay in the treatment of rectal cancer.Total mesorectal excision (TME) has reduced the prevalence of local recurrence from 38% to less than 10%. TME is surgical en bloc resection of the primary tumor and the mesorec tum by means of dissection along the mesorectal fascial plane or the circumferential resection margi...
Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - April 28, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
Top Artificial Intelligence Companies in Healthcare to Keep an Eye On
The field of medical AI is buzzing. More and more companies set the purpose to disrupt healthcare with the help of artificial intelligence. Here, I collected the biggest names currently on the market ranging from start-ups to tech giants to keep an eye on in the future.
Artificial Intelligence has to and will redesign healthcare
No one doubts that artificial intelligence has unimaginable potential. Within the next couple of years, it will revolutionize every area of our life, including medicine. Although many have their fears and doubts about AI taking over the world, Stephen Hawking even said that the development of full ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 31, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Healthcare Design AI big data digital health drug development GC1 genetics healthcare companies Innovation medical imaging Personalized medicine pharma Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 172
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 172. This week we have an animal based radiology quiz sourced from radiopaedia.org.
Question 1
What animal is winking at you?
+ Reveal the Funtabulous Answer
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An owl
It is in reference to an absent pedicle.
Differentials include, congenital absence, neurofibromatosis, radiation therapy, spinal metastases, int...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 12, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five achalasia birds beak butterflies cobra head fractures owl pedicle Pulmonary Oedema radiopaedia.org rats tail stag stag antlers ureterocele winking owl sign Source Type: blogs
Is there sex after cancer?
Ten years ago, I first met this patient, newly diagnosed with intermediate-risk prostate cancer. As I walked into the examination room, I was struck by the juxtaposition of his wife, crumpled in a chair and weeping silently, with the patient himself, pacing the 12′-by-4′ room with a look of either anger or frustration. This difference in response between the man and his spouse is not unusual; what was unusual was that he seemed to lack the usual shock that I anticipate seeing in the wake of those three words, “you have cancer,” recently delivered by the physician. What I thought was anger or frustration was...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 7, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/anne-katz" rel="tag" > Anne Katz, RN, PhD < /a > Tags: Physician Cancer Source Type: blogs
