Category Archives: Cancer

Frecuencia del cancer en Argentina

Posted on February 4, 2012 by

Las estadisticas siguen ubicando al cancer de mama en mujeres, y al cancer de prostata en hombres, como las mas frecuentes causas de mortalidad. Seria interesante conocer, como sabemos de otros paises a que edad aparecen este tipo de neoplasias. … Continue reading →

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Occult papillary carcinoma of the thyroid. A "normal" finding in Finland. A systematic autopsy study.

Posted on January 5, 2012 by

Image via Wikipedia Cancer. 1985 Aug 1;56(3):531-8. Occult papillary carcinoma of the thyroid. A “normal” finding in Finland. A systematic autopsy study. Harach HR, Franssila KO, Wasenius VM. Abstract The thyroids from 101 consecutive autopsies from Finland were subserially sectioned at 2- to … Continue reading →

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Prescrire

Posted on December 4, 2011 by

In Prescrire’s Spotlight Botulinum toxin type A for migraine:  FEATURED REVIEWGiven its uncertain efficacy, at best only modest, botulinum toxin type A is simply too risky a treatment for migraine. It is better to focus on fine tuning of standard … Continue reading →

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Guidelines for Breast Cancer

Posted on November 28, 2011 by

1991http://www.scribd.com/embeds/74045393/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list&access_key=key-1pnqsdg4nlltoxtc0d71(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(“script”); scribd.type = “text/javascript”; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = “http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js”; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })(); Related articles New breast cancer screening guidelines released (medicalxpress.com) How You Can Reduce Your Risk Of Breast Cancer … Continue reading →

Posted in breast, Breast cancer, Breast self-examination, canada, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Cancer, Health, Mammography | Leave a comment
Posted on November 26, 2011 by

Image via Wikipedia El Mirador Tres palabras En su análisis de situación, Juan Gérvas se manifiesta en contra de las mamografías, de cuya promoción comienzan a multiplicarse los ejemplos en las Comunidades Autónomas. A juicio del comentarista, y teniendo en … Continue reading →

Posted in Cancer, Juan Gervas, mamografia, Prevencion cuaternaria | Leave a comment

Contraceptive pill associated with increased prostate cancer risk worldwide

Posted on November 15, 2011 by

Image via Wikipedia ABSTRACTBackground: Several recent studies have suggested that oestrogen exposure may increase the risk of prostate cancer (PCa).Objectives: To examine associations between PCa incidence and mortality and population-based use of oral contraceptives (OCs). It was hypothesised that OC … Continue reading →

Posted in Birth control, BMJ, Cancer, Estrogen, Incidence (epidemiology), International Agency for Research on Cancer, Prostate cancer, United Nations | Leave a comment

British breast cancer screening now under independent review

Posted on October 27, 2011 by

Image via Wikipedia Source: Health News Review By Gary Schwitzer on October 26, 2011 8:21 AM  No Comments  No TrackBacks Questions about how best to communicate to the public about the tradeoffs of potential benefits versus potential harms of mammography do not end at America‘s … Continue reading →

Posted in BMJ, Breast cancer screening, Cancer, King's College London, Mammography, Mike Richards, National Health Service, NHS | Leave a comment

Most women with screen-detected breast cancer have not had their life saved by screening

Posted on October 24, 2011 by

Image via Wikipedia By Gary Schwitzer on October 24, 2011 4:42 PM  No Comments  No TrackBacks That’s the conclusion of an article published today in the Archives of Internal Medicine. I’m on the run today, but here’s the abstract:  Background Perhaps the most persuasive messages promoting … Continue reading →

Posted in Archives of Internal Medicine, breast, Breast cancer, Breast cancer screening, Cancer, Mammography, National Cancer Institute, October 24 2011 | Leave a comment

PSA and prostate cancer

Posted on October 8, 2011 by

Image via Wikipedia Draft Recommendation Statement The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force will be accepting comments on this draft recommendation statement beginning on Tuesday, October 11, 2011. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) makes recommendations about the effectiveness of … Continue reading →

Posted in Cancer, Prostate, Prostate cancer, Prostate cancer screening, psa, Task Force, United States, United States Preventive Services Task Force | Leave a comment

PSA & New York Times

Posted on October 7, 2011 by

Healthy men should no longer receive a P.S.A. blood test to screen forprostate cancer because the test does not save lives over all and often leads to more tests and treatments that needlessly cause pain,impotence and incontinence in many, a key government health panel … Continue reading →

Posted in Blood test, Cancer, Cancer screening, Health, New York Times, Prostate, Prostate cancer, Prostate cancer screening, psa | Leave a comment

Cribado de cancer de prostata – Screening of prostaste cancer

Posted on October 5, 2011 by

Image via Wikipedia Editorial del NEJM 26 de Marzo 2009In the United States, most men over the age of 50 years have had a prostate-specific–antigen (PSA) test,1 despite the absence of evidence from large, randomized trials of a net benefit. … Continue reading →

Posted in Cancer, cribado, NEJM, Prevencion, Prostata, Prostate, Prostate cancer, Prostate cancer screening, Prostate-specific antigen, psa, Rectal examination, screening, United States | Leave a comment

SIAP 2011: Cancer de mama

Posted on October 2, 2011 by

Cancer Mama Cat Resum ASPB 0711http://www.scribd.com/embeds/67162907/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list&access_key=key-2a2imf78s1vhp2jskn8(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(“script”); scribd.type = “text/javascript”; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = “http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js”; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })(); Related articles Cervical Cancer and DES Exposure (everydayhealth.com) http://feeds.feedburner.com/MedicinaGeneralYFamiliar

Posted in Breast cancer, Cancer, cancer de mama, Conditions and Diseases, Health, New York City, Organizations, Recreation, SIAP 2011, Support Groups | Leave a comment

Breast Cancer Screening

Posted on September 17, 2011 by

By Graham McMahon The latest article in our Clinical Practice series reviews current recommendations for breast-cancer screening and thesupporting evidence, including the controversy regarding mammographic screening of women in their 40s. Worldwide, breast cancer is now the most common cancer diagnosed in women … Continue reading →

Posted in breast, Breast cancer, Breast cancer screening, Cancer, Conditions and Diseases, Health, Magnetic resonance imaging, Mammography | Leave a comment

Intrauterine device use, cervical infection with human papillomavirus, and risk of cervical cancer: a pooled analysis of 26 epidemiological studies

Posted on September 16, 2011 by

Image via Wikipedia The Lancet Oncology, Early Online Publication, 13 September 2011 doi:10.1016/S1470-2045(11)70223-6Cite or Link Using DOI Intrauterine device use, cervical infection with human papillomavirus, and risk of cervical cancer: a pooled analysis of 26 epidemiological studies Dr Xavier Castellsagué MD a d , Mireia Díaz MSc a, Salvatore … Continue reading →

Posted in Cancer, Cervical cancer, Doctor of Philosophy, Epidemiology, Human papillomavirus, Intrauterine device, Nubia, The Lancet | Leave a comment

Nuevo metodo para cancer de prostata

Posted on August 5, 2011 by

Científicos en Estados Unidos crearon una prueba de orina con la cual puede detectarse de forma más precisa a los hombres que están en riesgo de cáncer de próstata. El análisis detecta un defecto genético que causa el cáncer. La … Continue reading →

Posted in Cancer, PCA3, Prostata, psa | Leave a comment

An Avastin Recommendation & Conflicts Of Interest

Posted on July 26, 2011 by

 Bevacizumab = Avastin Earlier this month, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, a non-profit group of oncologists whose guidance is closely followed by leading treatment centers, voted overwhelmingly in favor of maintaining its recommendation that Avastin should be used to treat … Continue reading →

Posted in avastin, Big Pharma, breast, Cancer, FDA, mama, NCCN, Pharmalot, Roche | Leave a comment

Better Evidence about Screening for Lung Cancer

Posted on July 4, 2011 by

Harold C. Sox, M.D. June 29, 2011 (10.1056/NEJMe1103776) In October 2010, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) announced that patients who were randomly assigned to screening with low-dose computed tomography (CT) had fewer deaths from lung cancer than did patients randomly … Continue reading →

Posted in CA group, Cancer, Chest radiograph, Lung, Lung cancer, National Cancer Institute, screening, X-ray computed tomography | Leave a comment

New drugs for prostate cancer

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

Image via CrunchBase By ANDREW POLLACK Published: June 27, 2011 Enlarge This Image A group of new drugs is promising to prolong the lives and relieve the symptoms of men with advanced prostate cancer, but could also add billions of dollars to … Continue reading →

Posted in Cancer, Conditions and Diseases, finasteride, Genitourinary, Harvard School of Public Health, Health, Prostate, Prostate cancer | Leave a comment

Cervical cancer risk for women undergoing concurrent testing for human papillomavirus and cervical cytology: a population-based study in routine clinical practice

Posted on June 20, 2011 by

                                           Image via Wikipedia The Lancet Oncology, Early Online Publication, 17 June 2011 doi:10.1016/S1470-2045(11)70145-  Cite or Link Using DOI Cervical cancer risk for women undergoing concurrent testing for human papillomavirus and cervical cytology: a population-based study in routine clinical practice … Continue reading →

Posted in Cancer, Cervical cancer, Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, Doctor of Philosophy, Human papillomavirus, Kaiser Permanente, Lancet, Pap test | Leave a comment

Independent Events

Posted on June 17, 2011 by

                       Image via WikipediaIndependent Events I was speaking with a patient recently who was explaining why he thought that colon cancer screening with fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) was equivalent to colonoscopy. He wished to avoid colonoscopy for all the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cancer, Cancer screening, Colonoscopy, Colorectal cancer, Fecal occult blood, FOBT, Health, Medicare | Leave a comment

El cribado del cancer de prostata no se asocia a una disminucion de la mortalidad

Posted on June 15, 2011 by

                              Image via WikipediaConcato J, Wells CK, Horwitz RI, Penson D, Fincke G, Berlowitz DR, et al. The Effectiveness of Screening for Prostate Cancer: A Nested … Continue reading →

Posted in AP al dia, Cancer, Conditions and Diseases, cribado, Health, Hectare, mortalidad, NEJM, Prostata, Prostate cancer, screening | Leave a comment

5-alpha reductase inhibitors (5-ARIs): Label Change – Increased Risk of Prostate Cancer

Posted on June 10, 2011 by

5-alpha reductase inhibitors (5-ARIs): Label Change – Increased Risk of Prostate Cancer Drugs in the 5-ARI class include finasteride and dutasteride. These drugs are marketed under the brand-names Proscar, Propecia, Avodart, and Jalyn AUDIENCE: Urology, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine ISSUE: … Continue reading →

Posted in 5-alpha-reductase inhibitor, Benign prostatic hyperplasia, Cancer, Dutasteride, finasteride, Food and Drug Administration, Prostate, Prostate cancer | Leave a comment

Cancer de Mama en Argentina

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

Documento elaborado por el Ministerio de salud de Argentina en el año 2010. Cancer de Mamahttp://www.scribd.com/embeds/57333690/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list&access_key=key-1q7yfyopiny39g6b348g(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(“script”); scribd.type = “text/javascript”; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = “http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js”; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })(); http://feeds.feedburner.com/MedicinaGeneralYFamiliar

Posted in Argentina, Cancer, Government, guia, mama | Leave a comment

Revisiones sobre el efecto de la aspirina en la mortalidad por cáncer

Posted on February 16, 2011 by

Revisiones sobre el efecto de la aspirina en la mortalidad por cáncer Bosetti C, Gallus S, La Vecchia C. Aspirin and cancer risk: an updated quantitative review to 2005. Cancer Causes Control 2006; 17: 871-888.  R   TC (s)   PDF (s) En esta revisión … Continue reading →

Posted in Cancer, Colorectal cancer, Conditions and Diseases, Health, Tobacco. aspirina | Leave a comment

Antigeno Prostatico Especifico: inutil para el cribado de cancer de prostata

Posted on November 9, 2009 by

Todavia desconozco en que idioma hay que escribir esto, pero por enesima  vez sale otro articulo que dice que la PSA,  no tiene ninguna utilidad en el cribado de cáncer de próstata y que sólo sirve para el seguimiento de … Continue reading →

Posted in BMJ, Cancer, cribado, efectividad clinica, Prevencion, Prostata, screening | Leave a comment

Cancer Managment: a multidisciplinary Approach

Posted on October 30, 2008 by

Medical, Surgical & Radiation Oncology Edited by: Richard Pazdur, MD Office of Oncology Drug ProductsCenter for Drug Evaluation and ResearchUS Food and Drug Administration Lawrence R. Coia, MDSouthern Ocean County Radiation Oncology Manahawkin, New Jersey William J. Hoskins, MDCurtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer … Continue reading →

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Cancer Managment: a multidisciplinary Approach

Posted on October 30, 2008 by

Medical, Surgical & Radiation Oncology Edited by: Richard Pazdur, MD Office of Oncology Drug ProductsCenter for Drug Evaluation and ResearchUS Food and Drug Administration Lawrence R. Coia, MDSouthern Ocean County Radiation Oncology Manahawkin, New Jersey William J. Hoskins, MDCurtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer … Continue reading →

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USPSTF: Guia para cribado de cancer de colon

Posted on October 9, 2008 by

 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force*  4 November 2008 | Volume 149 Issue 9 Description: Update of the 2002 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendation statement on screening for colorectal cancer. Methods: In order to update its recommendation, the USPSTF commissioned 2 studies: 1) a … Continue reading →

Posted in Annals, Cancer, colorectal, cribado, Prevencion, USPSTF | Leave a comment

USPSTF: Guia para cribado de cancer de colon

Posted on October 9, 2008 by

 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force*  4 November 2008 | Volume 149 Issue 9 Description: Update of the 2002 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendation statement on screening for colorectal cancer. Methods: In order to update its recommendation, the USPSTF commissioned 2 studies: 1) a … Continue reading →

Posted in Annals, Cancer, colorectal, cribado, Prevencion, USPSTF | Leave a comment

El cribado del cancer de prostata no se asocia a una disminucion de la mortalidad

Posted on August 21, 2008 by

Concato J, Wells CK, Horwitz RI, Penson D, Fincke G, Berlowitz DR, et al. The Effectiveness of Screening for Prostate Cancer: A Nested Case-Control Study. Arch Intern Med 2006; 166: 38-43. R TC (s) PDF (s) Introducción Diferentes grupos de … Continue reading →

Posted in AP al dia, Cancer, cribado, mortalidad, NEJM, Prostata, screening | Leave a comment