Diagnosis and Treatment

Blood Test May Be Able to Spot Lurking Cancer Cell

A blood test so sensitive that it can spot a single cancer cell lurking among a billion healthy ones is moving one step closer to being available at your doctor's office.

J&J Seeks to Market New Cancer Screening Device

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) is teaming up with researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital to market a microchip-based test that could detect cancer cells in blood, a potentially revolutionary initiative for cancer patients. 

The deal is reportedly worth about $30 million, depending on certain benchmarks, according to reports by the Wall Street Journal and Associated Press.

Breast Cancer Screening Program Reopens for Low-Income Californians

On Wednesday, California's Every Woman Counts breast cancer screening program for low-income women reopened enrollment for women age 40 and older, HealthyCal reports (Weintraub, HealthyCal, 12/1).

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VIDEO: IBC Project, Take Two

Empowered Patient: How to choose the right hospital

Chuck Toeniskoetter says he's alive today because of a nurse and a paramedic who made sure he went  to the right hospital when he suffered a stroke on a California mountaintop.   The lesson Toeniskoetter learned can make everyone a more empowered patient.

Less Invasive Breast Cancer Surgery Equally Effective, Study Shows

Women with early breast cancer who had some of their lymph nodes removed had the same survival rates as women who had a more aggressive surgery to remove all of their lymph nodes, according to new study published in the journal Lancet Oncology, the AP/Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The study is the largest trial to date to compare the two procedures.

I Have Breast Cancer... Now What?

How to Get Answers to the Most Important Medical and Health Questions

Report: Cancer is the world's costliest disease

Cancer is the world's top "economic killer" as well as its likely leading cause of death, the American Cancer Society contends in a new report it will present at a global cancer conference in China this week.

Cancer costs more in productivity and lost life than AIDS, malaria, the flu and other diseases that spread person-to-person, the report concludes.

Eight Numbers that Can Save Your Life

More and more Americans are weighing in as obese, creating a health crisis in the country. When it comes to your body, eight critical numbers can save your life:

1. Weight
2. Body Mass Index (BMI)
3. Body Composition
4. Hormone Levels
5. Waist-to-Hip Ratio
6. Cholesterol
7. Bone Density
8. Blood Pressure

POEM: Ordinary Courage

Ordinary Courage
 
You do what you have to do
You may not think your strong
That is ordinary courage
Which you've had all along
 
When you're faced with something
That could stop you in your tracks
You manage to keep going
Without falling through the cracks
 

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