Interesting articles - Updated July 6th

Trubrit
Trubrit Member Posts: 5,804 Member
edited July 2017 in Colorectal Cancer #1

Various articles I have found concerning Cancer, around the world. 

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38013566  - I don't think anyone can really 'get it' unless they live it, or live with someone with it - and then some of them don't even get it; other do. 

https://herecomesthesun927.com/2016/11/14/dear-every-cancer-patient-i-ever-took-care-of-im-sorry-i-didnt-get-it/

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-38168468 - An article about secondary Cancers caused by treatments for previous Cancer. 

http://www.rd.com/health/conditions/how-to-beat-cancer-twice/?trkid=NL-RANDOM-121616&_cmp=ReadUpRDUS&_ebid=ReadUpRDUS12162016&_mid=130381&ehid=808A405BD591265ECCC4923BA0E165998F3BC08B

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38630640

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-38971774

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-39248091 - Young couple pass within days of each other. 

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39658680 - News on a blood test that is supposed to detect Cancer recurrance up to a year before scans or X-Rays pick it up.   We're always hopeful 

UPDATE - New article 

 http://www.bbc.com/news/health-40493876  - Only on Mice at the moment, but it sounds promising. 

Comments

  • lp1964
    lp1964 Member Posts: 1,239 Member
    Thanks Sue!

    I always say a rhat a problem only becomes a problem if you let it stop you from living the life you want to live. And that is most of the time your decision and your attitude. 

    All the best,

    Laz

  • Trubrit
    Trubrit Member Posts: 5,804 Member
    Update -

    Added a new article

    TRU

  • beaumontdave
    beaumontdave Member Posts: 1,289 Member
    edited November 2016 #4
    Trubrit said:

    Update -

    Added a new article

    TRU

    Good reads, heartaching, I

    Good reads, heartaching, I wish I'd read them before the onc called me. Oh well, my good news is always tempered by others plights since Cindy was diagnosed. Reminds me of Kipling's "If".  "If you, can meet with triumph and disaster....And treat those two imposters just the same". I particularly like the last stanza, "If you can fill the unforgiving minute....With sixty seconds worth of distance run....Your's is the Earth, and everything that's in it....And which is more--You'll be a man, my son."  Thank's Pop..........................................Dave

  • NewHere
    NewHere Member Posts: 1,428 Member
    edited November 2016 #5
    On The Second One

    When I tell my patients that I had just finished chemo or had my second surgery, the look in their eyes changes.  "Oh, you get it." So in a weird way, it is a "good" thing which has come out of having cancer. 

  • Trubrit
    Trubrit Member Posts: 5,804 Member
    Another new article

    http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37861457

    It is good to see the perspective of Cancer patients from other countries. This one is from Japan. 

    TRU

  • abrub
    abrub Member Posts: 2,174 Member
    My Primary Care Physician is a cancer survivor

    She's been especially helpful, as she "gets" it.  She also had an incisional hernia repaired, and warned me that it really is a painful recovery.  

    Alice

  • marbleotis
    marbleotis Member Posts: 720 Member
    So So True

    That was a great artical and very true.  You don't really get it unless you have lived it and this is something you would not want anyone else to live.

  • Trubrit
    Trubrit Member Posts: 5,804 Member
    Wales, United Kingdom

    How one man fought to get one drug available in Wales.

    Interesting how the drug is available in England, yet not in Wales. A demarcation line between possible life and death. 

    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-38168468

    TRU

  • Trubrit
    Trubrit Member Posts: 5,804 Member
    edited January 2017 #11
    Cancer surgery backed up in England

    Wating is hard enough as it is. Not being able to even be scheduled for surgery must be truly frightening. 

    http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38630640

  • Trubrit
    Trubrit Member Posts: 5,804 Member
    How do we tell our children?

    I hope I made the right decision, being honest. Of course, my boys are adults, but still have a close relationship with me because they are not yet married. 

    http://www.bbc.com/news/education-38971774

  • Trubrit
    Trubrit Member Posts: 5,804 Member
    Young couple pass within hours of each other

    This is just too sad.  

    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-39248091

  • sflgirl
    sflgirl Member Posts: 220 Member
    Trubrit said:

    New blood test looks promising

    http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39658680

    A new blood tests looks promising. It says it detects recurrance a year before scans or x-rays can pick it up.  

    Here's hoping for continued progress. 

    TRU

    So interesting

    Just diagnosed with recurrent liver metastisas. Doc immediately said that new blood test dna360 was much more sensitive than cea Test.  Said that pre and post op levels would determine whether adjuvant chemo was necessary. Don't know about pre- diagnosi.

    Thanks for the info.

     

    Best,

    Andrea

  • Trubrit
    Trubrit Member Posts: 5,804 Member
    New blood test looks promising

    http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39658680

    A new blood tests looks promising. It says it detects recurrance a year before scans or x-rays can pick it up.  

    Here's hoping for continued progress. 

    TRU

  • Trubrit
    Trubrit Member Posts: 5,804 Member
    New research from Japan

    http://www.bbc.com/news/health-40493876  -  This sounds fascinating.