Sarah Ferguson skin cancer diagnosis: Simple tool doctors use to detect deadly disease
Sarah Ferguson was diagnosed with skin cancer just weeks after the Duchess announced she had "beat" breast cancer. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - January 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Sarah Ferguson's health history revealed - from her 'scary' breast cancer diagnosis and mastectomy to 'distressing' melanoma detection
Sarah Ferguson, 64 had moles removed while undergoing breast reconstruction surgery, one mole was malignant. Here, MailOnline reveals the Duchess of York's health history. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Could YOUR mole be cancerous? Checking is as simple as ABCDE: Simple guide that doctors use to spot melanoma - after Sarah Ferguson's shock diagnosis
Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, 64, has been diagnosed with skin cancer after a breast cancer operation. New abnormal looking moles and itchy or crusty moles are a sign of melanoma. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What's Behind the Steady Decline in Breast Cancer Deaths?
MONDAY, Jan. 22, 2024 -- Breast cancer deaths declined by a dramatic 58% between 1975 and 2019, and researchers think they can pinpoint the exact reasons for the reduction.Advances in medical technology aided by routine breast cancer screening have... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - January 22, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Breast cancer treatment 'will cost the UK economy to £3.6bn in the next ten years', research reveals
Breast cancer treatment needs to be improved urgently as research has found the annual cost of the disease to the economy is set to rise by 40 per cent to £3.6billion in the next ten years. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Sarah Ferguson Beat Breast Cancer, But Now Has Skin Cancer
Sarah Ferguson has been diagnosed with skin cancer. In a statement, a representative for the Duchess of York, 64, says, “Following her diagnosis with an early form of breast cancer this summer, Sarah, Duchess of York has now been diagnosed with malignant melanoma.” Ferguson had several moles…#sarahferguson #duchessofyork #ferguson #duchess #altaussee #austria #sun #sarahduchessofyork #fergie #newyearseve (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Nurse, 30, is diagnosed with a rare and aggressive breast cancer after patient inspires her to perform first breast exam
Holly McCabe (pictured), a nurse from Colorado, was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive type of breast cancer after a patient prompted the 30-year-old to perform her first breast self-exam. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Increase in Congenital Syphilis; Decrease in Breast Cancer Mortality
(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center... (Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology)
Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology - January 20, 2024 Category: Hematology Source Type: news
From experience to expertise: Patients lead as authors in Cochrane's widely-used breast cancer review
Cochrane is an international, not-for-profit network of clinicians, patients and carers, researchers, and policy-makers creating high-quality healthcare evidence synthesises. Cochrane has a long and rich history of collaborating with healthcare consumers and this is the story of what breast cancer patients experienced when contributing to a Cochrane Review. In 1995, Nora Carbine and Liz Lostumbo, both former breast cancer patients, embarked on a transformative journey as attendees of theLeadership, Education, Advocacy, and Development (LEAD) programdeveloped by the National Breast Cancer Coalition (US). Designed to eq...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - January 19, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Muriah Umoquit Source Type: news
Triad Inno's Startups to Watch 2024: Three Strands Recovery Wear
After a successful pilot run and winning a $50,000 NC IDEA grant in 2023, Three Strands Recovery Wear has a big 2024 planned, creating partnerships and hiring employees. Here's how the Winston-Salem startup will get more than 3,000 of its product, the Resilience Bra, onto breast cancer patients across North Carolina. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - January 19, 2024 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Lillian Johnson Source Type: news
Kontos tapped to lead integrated diagnostics at Columbia
Despina Kontos, PhD, professor of radiology and a computer scientist with expertise in multimodality imaging data, will lead the new Center for Innovation in Imaging Biomarkers and Integrated Diagnostics (CIMBID) at Columbia University in New York.Kontos' work has contributed to a transition in the interpretation of breast cancer images by showing that imaging data can be mined to extract sophisticated phenotypic signatures with independent diagnostic, prognostic, and predictive value, according to a Columbia University Irving Medical Center statement. CIMBID will be dedicated to developing and integrating quantitative ima...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - January 19, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Deep learning combines breast imaging data to predict cancer prognosis
Deep-learning models could have potential as predictive tools for breast cancer prognosis, a study published January 17 in Clinical Breast Cancer has found.
A team led by Junqi Han, MD, from the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University in China found that its model combining data from mammography images, ultrasound images, and other characteristics performed well in predicting disease-free survival of breast cancer.
“The combination of mammography and ultrasound images improved… performance for predicting breast cancer prognosis compared with single medical imaging modalities,” Han and colleagues wrote.
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Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - January 19, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Breast Source Type: news
Cancer Deaths Are Falling, but There May Be an Asterisk
The American Cancer Society found many deaths prevented, but an uptick in incidence of a variety of cancers. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - January 17, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Gina Kolata Tags: Cancer Deaths (Fatalities) Breast Cancer Colon and Colorectal Cancer American Cancer Society Research Statistics Journal of the American Medical Assn Source Type: news
ACS: Cancer mortality declines, but incidence rates rise
Overall cancer mortality continues to decline, but incidence rates are up, according to a January 17 report by the American Cancer Society (ACS).
The report shows that there have been more than four million fewer deaths from cancer in the U.S. since 1991. However, it also showed increased incidence for six of the top 10 cancers as the projected number of new diagnoses is over two million for the first time.
“I think we’re all grappling with what the environmental factor that is changing the cancer incidence and mortality among the young," said ACS chief scientific officer William Dahut, MD, at a press conference.
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Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - January 17, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Subspecialties CT Breast Imaging Source Type: news
1975 to 2019 Saw 58 Percent Decrease in Breast Cancer Mortality
TUESDAY, Jan. 16, 2024 -- In the United States, breast cancer screening and treatment were associated with a 58 percent reduction in breast cancer mortality in 2019 compared with 1975, according to a study published in the Jan. 16 issue of the... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - January 16, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
