Doctors should inquire about the father’s side of the family when assessing a patient’s risk for breast and ovarian cancers, a Lancet comment says. The Canadian authors found that women attending a familial cancer clinic were five times more likely to have been referred with a maternal rather than paternal family history. Furthermore, patients referred [...]
A pilot study has found that the hallucinogen psilocybin may be feasible and safe to administer to patients with advanced-stage cancer and anxiety. Despite initial promising results from studies of hallucinogens to treat the existential anxiety, despair and isolation often associated with advanced-stage cancer during the 1950s to 1970s, no follow-up research had been conducted, [...]
By Lloyd Mudiwa lloyd.mudiwa@imt.ie There is need to implement breast-cancer awareness raising and screening initiatives urgently in the north west, owing to delayed presentation of the disease in the region, according to researchers. A team from the Department of Breast Surgery at Letterkenny General Hospital found that patients in the north west presented with more [...]
With Dr Susan O’Reilly firmly in place at the National Cancer Control Programme, Gary Culliton reports on the latest breast-cancer figures It is expected that there will be a 20 per cent increase in the number of women attending clinics in the eight cancer centres this year compared with 2009, according to National Cancer Control [...]
Aoife Connors speaks to Prof Josep Dalmau about recent research advances that have led to a better understanding of paraneoplastic neurologic disorders The crucial difference between autoimmune disorders and paraneoplastic neurologic disorders (PNDs) is “the certainty that PNDs and their syndromes will only occur in the presence of a cancer tumour”, Prof Josep Dalmau, Professor [...]
A combined positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) scan of the whole body appears to detect cancer in individuals with related neurologic complications more accurately than some other commonly used tests, according to a new study. Paraneoplastic neurologic disorders occur in some people with cancer – including lung, breast or ovarian cancer – and may develop [...]
New research in the BMJ linking bisphosphonates to an increased risk of oesophageal cancer has contradicted the results of a recent JAMA study finding no such link. The case-controlled analysis of almost 16,000 adults with oesophageal, stomach or colorectal cancer found that oral bisphosphonates were associated with a 30 per cent increase in risk for [...]
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UK researchers have found no increased risk of oesophageal and gastric cancer in people taking oral bisphosphonates and say the drugs should not be withheld on that basis from those with a clinical indication for their use. The researchers noted the lack of evidence on whether bisphosphonate-related oesophagitis can increase oesophageal cancer risk, but that [...]
Continuing our series on the Irish Healthcare Awards, Valerie Ryan revisits last year’s inspiring ‘Cancer Tales’ play, which tackled the communication issues experienced by cancer patients A new online educational package for healthcare professionals aimed at communications in cancer and palliative care is to be launched at the 6th European Union Geriatric Medicine Society (EUGMS) [...]
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