Sheri Farasat, a United Hospital Dermatologist, has warned Americans of the risk the sun poses on a person’s chances of getting cancer. With the continued seasonal summer weather, the fellow at the Royal Academy of Dermatology has given information about how people can treat themselves in the event of a sunburn. Ibuprofen is recommended to fight inflammation. “Even a few in those first few days will be very helpful,” Farasat has said. There are many ways to limit cancer damag

May 2017 Long Island, New York - Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition (HBCAC) is pleased to announce that we have received a grant award from the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I) for our project titled Planting the Seeds of Prevention Education: Capacity Building Among Young Leaders! This award will enable HBCAC to train high school and middle school aged students to be Ambassadors for their peers - learning and communicating pertinent health infor

Immunotherapy is a process that uses the body's own immune system to fight off bad cells. This can happen two different ways: Either your immune system can be stimulated to work harder and smarter, or you can give your immune system synthetic proteins to help attack bad cells. The Past The first instance of American cancer-specific immunotherapy occurred in 1891 when William B. Coley attempted an immune-modulating therapy for sarcoma cancer. He injected streptococcal bacteria

The most common cancer among women is breast cancer. The American Cancer Society estimated that in 2015, 40,290 women would die of breast cancer and there would be 231,840 new invasive cases and 60,290 new in-situ cases (American Cancer Society, 2015). The survival rates for women with the recurrence of breast cancer is lower. It is thus especially important to find any method for preventing the recurrence of this disease among women who are breast cancer survivors. Recently,

Margit Detweiler, creator of the lifestyle website TueNight.com, started googling everything possible when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. While she found many support groups and networks, she decided to open up about her illness through social media channels and her website. In fact, social media has proven to be a way to relieve stress in cancer patients. A 2015 study from UCLA discovered that anxiety in breast cancer patients went down when they discussed their expe

According to a study by Lancet, a UK medical journal, the global financial crisis may have caused 500,000 extra cancer deaths from 2008 to 2010. Patients were unable to obtain treatment due to unemployment and health care cuts. Researchers used World Health Organization and World Bank Statistics on over 70 countries and more than two billion individuals to study the link between cancer mortality, healthcare spending, and unemployment. They analyzed the trend from 1990 to 2010

By: Charmaine Santos At the young age of 10 yrs. old, Ivan Nunez was bullied for his cough and the lump in his neck. Classmates avoided him and he couldn’t make friends because they were in fear of catching his symptoms. Little did they know Ivan had a rare cancer called Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Being affected by his son’s loneliness at school, Ivan’s father, Jose, asked the teachers to intervene. In reply, teachers told him they would handle it. Ivan’s treatment started near the

By: Kristine Alarcon Edited by: Juliana Zhu, Esq. “Life again” highlights the true story of cancer survivor, Hyma Reddy. Reddy also directs the film and shares her journey with cancer. With this film, she hopes to bring cancer awareness and inspire other women who are affected by cancer. Kalvakuntia Kavitha, a Member of the Parliament from Nizambad constituency in Telangana state, produces the film. She is known for bring cultural renaissance with a strong organizational fram

By: Kristine Alarcon Edited by: Juliana Zhu, Esq. Breast cancer is one of the deadliest cancers and kills about 300,000 women each year. On the other hand, there are about 2,500 men who are diagnosed with this disease every year. The symptoms and signs of disease are often detected later in men, which leads to a higher mortality rate among the male population diagnosed with breast cancer in America. Some men are more at risk of breast cancer if they have a close relative who

By: Kristine Alarcon Edited by: Juliana Zhu, Esq. When Debra Jarvis was a chaplain for the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She had a mastectomy, received chemotherapy, and is now cancer-free. As she was going through her treatment and surviving, she believed that the medical and science components of fighting cancer were important, but that what is even more important is to incorporate “feelings and faith and coping and meaning and evolving