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...Those seemingly contradictory conclusions are part of the results of the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer Screening trial (PLCO), a sweeping, 17-year project conducted by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The prostate findings were published online on March 18 in the New England Journal of Medicine, and while they may leave many men scratching their head, they do offer some valuable information about the benefit of screening. (Read "Vitamins Do Not Prevent Prostate Cancer, Study Finds...
...Young's COBRA premiums have risen, he has cashed in savings accounts and a 401(k) to meet costs and co-pays. The cancer has spread to his lung, hip and leg bones, and the costs of his chemotherapy and pain medications are mounting. His hospital has helped cover some expenses. Born on the Fourth of July, Young has outlived his initial prognosis; now he is hoping to persuade the Social Security Administration to grant him Medicare benefits in April, the second anniversary of his disability (recipients must wait two years to be eligible). But he has since found...
Before Kenneth B. Schwartz died of terminal lung cancer in 1995, he founded the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, a facility promoting compassionate treatment for patients in part patterned after the care given by his oncologist—Thomas J. Lynch, Jr. Now Lynch, the chief of hematology and oncology at the Mass. General Cancer Center, will leave Harvard after 23 years to become the director of the Yale Cancer Center and physician-in-chief of the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven Hospital, Yale announced Wednesday. “They gave me the opportunity...
...Catherine Loria, one of the study's co-authors and a nutritional epidemiologist with the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, which funded the study, was encouraged by the findings. "People do have to choose heart-healthy foods," she says, but "I think the beauty of the study is that they have a lot of flexibility in terms of the dietary approach...
...Names don't have to be difficult to seem dangerous, of course; sometimes manufacturers earn their menacing rep rightly. There's nothing inherently scary about names like Morris or Philip, but flip them around and stick them together, and pretty soon you're thinking about lung cancer. The Altria Group, on the other hand - which is the new corporate handle by which Philip Morris prefers to be known - means nothing at all, and that is precisely the idea...