Prostate cancer and famous people!

Prostate cancer is a malignant tumour in the prostate. Most prostate cancers develop slowly and do not cause symptoms. Fast-growing prostate cancer is less common. The risk of getting prostate cancer increases with age. The average age for diagnosis of prostate cancer is 69.

Because of the development in diagnostic tools and longer life expectancy, more prostate cancer are now detected. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in elderly me. The survival rate for prostate cancer in Europe is relatively high and is still going up.

 

Eating Broccoli Sprouts While Pregnant May Help Prevent Breast Cancer in Child Decades Later, Mouse Study Shows

 

https://breastcancer-news.com/2018/09/10/broccoli-sprouts-helped-prevent-breast-cancer-offspring-pregnant-mice/?utm_source=Breast+Cancer+News&utm_campaign=4661daa00b-RSS_MONDAY_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_US&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ea3614260e-4661daa00b-72437561

 

Machine-learning Technique May Speed Identifying ER-positive Breast Cancers

Researchers have developed a technique that showed potential to identify estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancers much faster and easier than current methods, potentially speeding a patient’s diagnosis and advancing the possibility of more personalized treatment.

Treatment decisions and patient management in breast cancer depends greatly on the presence of specific markers – cancer cells with receptors for estrogen and other hormones – as these markers are associated with different responses to current therapies.
ER-positive breast cancers account for more than 70 percent of all such cancers, and these patients are often treated with one of two classes of therapies after surgery.
In the U.S., the standard procedure to characterize breast tumors uses immunohistochemistry, a method in which biopsies slides are analyzed under a microscope for the presence of specific markers. However, this process is expensive, slow – taking weeks to provide results – and somewhat inconsistent, as different laboratories may reach different results.
While the results of the new technique are promising, further validation is needed before the technique might be applied in the clinical setting, and the researchers expect that tests involving larger groups of patients will also improve the machine’s predictive accuracy.

 

Father of modern surgery

Sir Joseph Lister Bt (1827-1912), was a British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery. Lister championed the use of carbolic acid as an antiseptic, so that it became the first widely used antiseptic in surgery. He first suspected it would prove an adequate disinfectant because it was used to ease the stench from fields irrigated with sewage waste. He presumed it was safe because fields treated with carbolic acid produced no apparent ill-effects on the livestock that later grazed upon them. Lister's work led to a reduction in post-operative infections and made surgery safer for patients, distinguishing him as the "father of modern surgery".

Sir (William) Richard Shaboe Doll (1912–2005), described by the British Medical Journal as “perhaps Britain’s most eminent doctor was the first determined the link between smoking and lung cancer

Do you know that tobacco can provoke different type of cancers but also smoking can shrink your brain, it makes your memory worse and makes you twice as likely to get dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease

 

 

Bacopa monnieri also called “Brahmi,” in Hindi has been used as natural medicine to treat anxiety, epilepsy, cardiac tonic, etc. In this paper is also demosstrated its anticancer effects. What great is the nature!

BREAKING NEWS:

NICE have issued draft guidance concluding that the CAR-T cell therapy Kymriah® is too expensive to recommend as a treatment for adults with lymphoma.

 

A pack of cigarettes, lighter and lung tumor showed at the same time in the chest CT scan...... look carefully what arrows are pointing out.

Diseases which are the world's biggest killers.

Cancer.
Diabetes.
Lung disease.
Heart diseases.
Stroke.

Cancer Will Kill About 10 Million People This Year, Experts Predict

Nearly 10 million people around the world will die of cancer this year, according to new estimates from the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).

 

The IARC’s report, which was published the Cancer Journal for Clinicians, was based on cancer incidence data from 185 countries around the world. Researchers estimated that there will be 18.1 million new diagnoses of cancer and 9.6 million cancer deaths in 2018. Those numbers — a marked increase from just six years ago, when cancer diagnoses were estimated at 14.1 million, and deaths at 8.2 million — reflect the world’s aging and growing population. About one in eight men, and one in 11 women, will eventually die of cancer, the report says.

Potential clinical applications of circulating tumor DNA in patients receiving new immunotherapies.

It is not sci-fi. It should be -or it will be soon- part of the management of cancer testament !

 

Worldwide Who's Who Names Luis Mendoza, MD, Ph.D. Professional of the Year in Oncology

https://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/worldwide-whos-who-names-luis-mendoza-md-phd-professional-of-the-year-in-oncology-275764.php

My last publication

The therapeutic effect of  specific CDK4/6 inhibitors in treating HR positive and HER2 negative advanced breast cancer

https://www.linkos.cz/files/klinicka-onkologie/442/5371.pdf

Presentation about Dr Mendoza's medical experience

 

Human papilloma virus (HPV) causes 70% of oropharyngeal cancer

HPV can infect the mouth and throat and cause cancers of the oropharynx (back of the throat, including the base of the tongue and tonsils). This is called oropharyngeal cancer. HPV is thought to cause 70% of oropharyngeal cancers in the United States.

 

 

Diagram of the oral cavity and oropharynx. The oral cavity includes the lips, the labial and buccal mucosa, the front two-thirds of the tongue, the retromolar pad, the floor of the mouth, the gingiva, and the hard palate. The oropharynx includes the palatine and lingual tonsils, the back one-third base of the tongue, the soft palate, and the posterior pharyngeal wall.

 

A new interesting information from a research higlights the difference of genes related to cancer between elephants and humans. 

An estimated 17 percent of humans worldwide die from cancer, but less than five percent of captive elephants -- who also live for about 70 years, and have about 100 times as many potentially cancerous cells as humans -- die from the disease.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180814173643.htm

Brassica genus vegetables prevent colon cancer, study said.

Eating vegetables such as kale, cabbage and broccoli may help prevent the development of colon cancer later in life, a new study has claimed. Research conducted in London has found that certain chemicals produced in these vegetables can reduce inflammation of the gut and the colon, thus decreasing the likelihood of colon cancer. The study, which was published in the medical journal Immunity, explored the health benefits of a diet rich in indole-3-carbinol (I3C). I3C is produced in the body when vegetables from the Brassica genus are digested. Vegetables in the brassica genus plant family include broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, cabbage and kale. The researchers carried out the study by studying genetically modified mice and feeding them a diet rich in I3C.