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 Volume 8, Issue 1 - January 29, 2009
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Q&A: Cervical cancer |
| Researchers have linked cervical cancer directly to a virus, and there’s now a vaccine against it. A researcher who helped nail down the ties between papillomavirus and cervical cancer talks about the disease, the virus and how women can protect themselves. |
| Sweet tidings |
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| Cancer cells go through a lot of blood sugar as they grow and spread. A researcher thinks that byproducts from this process might be a clue to detecting cancer earlier. |
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| Rally time! |
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| Even in the off-season, the boys in blue still know how to thrill their fans. Even in the off-season, the boys in blue still know how to thrill their fans. Dodgers players recently delivered gifts and well wishes to City of Hope to rally cancer patients as part of ThinkCure. |
| A natural barrier to treatment |
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| Getting medicine to move from the blood into the brain isn’t easy. A new brain cancer clinical trial aims to measure how well an anticancer drug crosses the blood-brain barrier. |
| Chewing gum can speed your recovery from colon surgery. Recent research shows patients who chewed gum recovered bowel function about a day earlier than those who didn’t. And some were able to leave the hospital as much as 2.5 days earlier. Researchers believe gum chewing promotes the production of saliva, gastrointestinal hormones and secretions from the pancreas, all of which stimulate bowel recovery. But the benefits don’t stop there. Faster recovery could save the United States about $100 million in health-care costs each year. So far, though, there’s no word on the benefits of blowing bubbles. Information on colon cancer, including risk factors and screening, is available online from the National Cancer Institute. |
| Ask the Experts — Oral and Throat Cancers on the Rise |
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Leading experts will present the latest information on cancers of the mouth and throat. Light refreshments will be served.
Speakers: Ellie Maghami, M.D., Dean Lim, M.D., Richard Pezner, M.D., and Valerie Linane, M.A., C.C.C., City of Hope
Sponsor: City of Hope
Location:Platt Conference Center, City of Hope campus in Duarte, Calif.
Date and time: Feb. 19; 6 to 7:30 p.m.
R.S.V.P. and info: 800-535-1390, ext. 65669
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The New Year is a great time to start taking better care of yourself. How will you maintain or improve your health?
- Improve my eating habits
- Exercise more
- Get an annual physical exam and screenings
- Cut my stress level
- All of the above
- None of the above
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Do you have a suggested Q&A topic or specific question for our physicians? Please send your question or idea to ehope@coh.org. And stay tuned — it might end up in a future issue. |
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