HER2 Climb Study: Stopping Cancer’s Spread - Ivanhoe Broadcast News, Inc.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Ivanhoe Newswire) — Targeted therapies have extended life for HER2 positive breast cancer patients for 20 years, but experts say when the disease reaches stage four it spreads to the brain in over 30 percent of patients. Those patients were barred from clinical trials for their cancer, until now.
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Ivanhoe Newswire) — Scott Fitzgerald survived lymphoma in 1999. Thirteen years later, his doctors told him the chemotherapy that kept him alive was now causing his heart to fail. He wasn’t healthy enough for a heart transplant, so his medical team turned to a left ventricular assist device, or LVAD.
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RALIEGH, N.C. (Ivanhoe Newswire) — By the year 2050, 40 percent of the United States will be multiracial, according to the most recent census data, and interracial marriage is at its highest level ever. Social scientists are studying the way kids perceive racially ambiguous faces and how that information could eventually be used to help improve our relationships.
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PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (Ivanhoe Newswire) — Mobile phone and tablet use by kids under the age of eight is up by 1000 percent over the past several years. With all of those apps claiming to be educational, how can parents recognize the valid apps from plain old digital candy?
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ATLANTA, Ga. (Ivanhoe Newswire) — According to the American Cancer Society, almost 16,000 deaths from esophageal cancer occur each year in the US, and many of those cancers are in advanced stages by the time patients have any symptoms and seek treatment.
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Smart Living for this week:
Quote of the week:“Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.”
— Harry S. Truman
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