Donate your car. Help fight cancer. Two simple ideas, combined to make a powerful impact on the countless people diagnosed with Cancer. It’s also the first words you see when you visit CarsFightingCancer.org, a site where people can go to donate car for cancer. Donate car – can be running, or non-running car. Donations are [...]

Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire recently performed a study that may provide a new hope for patients facing the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma. Finishing studies based on previous work performed with methylthioadenosine phosphorylase (MTAP), a missing enzyme linked to several types of cancers including lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, Leukemia, Lymphoma and mesothelioma, researchers found [...]

There are many benefits to breast feeding newborn babies, both for babies and mothers. Now, there is evidence that breast feeding may significantly reduce the chances of contracting breast cancer for at-risk women. A study of more than 60,000 women, that lasted over nine years, shows that nursing a baby for at least three months, [...]

As you may have heard, Adam Yauch (MCA) from the band Beasie Boys, recently announced that he had a cancerous tumor in his salavary gland and lymph node. The Beasie Boys canceled their upcoming shows and postponed their upcoming album release. Yauch has just announced that he underwent the surgery and is “rapidly recovering.” He’s [...]

Naomi Sims, one of the first black supermodels died this past weekend at the age of 61, losing her fight with breast cancer. Sims broke color barriers in the late 1960s and became known for her participation in the “Black is Beautiful” movement. She quit modeling in the early 1970s and later launched a successful [...]

Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) was diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer six weeks ago. During Congressional recess he will have his prostate removed at New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering hospital and is expected to return to work within a couple weeks. “I’m very confident that we’re going to come out of this very well,” Mr. Dodd said. [...]

According to a study performed at San Luis Diagnostic Center in San Luis Obispo, CA, digital mammography equipment is helping to detect many more instances of breast cancer among patients. Using film screening, the average number of detections of breast cancer was 4.1 – 4.5 per 1,000 women. Switching to digital mammography, detection jumped to [...]

The site is still being updated as information is brought over from the former site. There will still be some updates, perhaps into next week, but the majority is complete. In addition to listing various types of cancer on the new site, which was available on the former site, I’ve added the Cancer Glossary as [...]

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has said, definitively, that tanning beds are carcinogenic, leading to more cases of melanoma. In fact, they found a 75% increase in people who started using tanning beds before the age of 30. Not surprisingly the tanning bed industry would like you to believe otherwise. They still [...]

Cancer patients and survivors have some of the most challenging experiences with our health care system, at a time in their lives when they are most vulnerable. Severe underfunding creates huge gaps in access to early detection and treatment services. Gaps in heath insurance plans result in high out-of-pocket costs. And cancer survivors often have [...]