What is the Polypill?
Dr. Valentin Fuster discusses the Polypill. The Polypill is being developed in response to an important reality surrounding cardiovascular disease. There are three important drugs that can help prevent heart disease (statins, ACE inhibitors, and aspirin). These drugs are not taken for two major reasons. First, the drugs are simply too expensive for much of the world, including countries as developed as Russia. And secondly, in developed nations where the drugs are affordable patients too often fail to comply - after three years 70% of patients do not take the medications as prescribed. (Read more about What is the Polypill?)
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Summer Sun Safety Tips
Protect your skin from the sun's harmful rays.
It's summer again, and for most of us, a lot more sun exposure. Protecting your skin from harmful UVA and UVG rays is essential to preventing skin cancer, and it's not a bad idea if you want to avoid wrinkles, sun spots or other signs of aging. Here are some tips from the Skin Cancer Foundation:
See a dermatologist once a year - Just before bathing suit season, is a good time to go. You can get prevention tips; find out your risk factors for skin cancer, and determine whether you need to do monthly self-exams. (Read more about Summer Sun Safety Tips)
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Sun Pill
It’s here: a product that claims to help protect you from sunburn…in pill form.
The makers call this the “sun defense breakthrough of the decade.” So is it all that? Does it do what its makers claims it does?
Some of the experts with whom we spoke aren'’t so sure.
A company called pure pharmaceuticals has started marketing this: it’s called Sunpill.
Dr. Perry Robins is a dermatologist who has been featured on the Sunpill website and promotional videos. He says Sunpill increases the amount of time you can stay in the sun without burning. “If it is fifteen minutes or thirty minutes depending on the day and your skin type this will increase it fifty percent so you will be able to go out forty five minutes before you get burned,” Dr. Robins states.
The proof of the claim? (Read more about Sun Pill)
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What is Cancer?
By Dr. Chitti Moorthy -Director, Departments of Radiation Medicine and Radiology,
New York Medical College, Valhalla , NY
The cause of cancer lies deep within the building blocks of a person's cells (genes and DNA). If these blocks become disorganized, cancer may develop. (Read more about What is Cancer?)
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Radiation Oncology
By Dr. Chitti Moorthy
In recent years, Radiation Oncology has made great strides in cancer treatment. Alone or in combination with other treatments, radiation therapy is dramatically raising cancer cure rates. Leading medical centers provide state-of-the-art radiation therapy in a comfortable and caring environment. (Read more about Radiation Oncology)
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Multiple Melanoma
There is strong evidence showing that the deadliest form of skin cancer, melanoma, is a growing threat. Now, new research shows that cases of multiple melanomas are on the rise. People who get melanoma don’t just get one; they’re at risk for two or even more.
We don’t completely know why we see more than one of the same type of cancer in an individual person. It’s likely that genetic susceptibility plays a role. Or, it might be simply due to heavy exposure to the toxic agent causing the cancer, like smoking in the case of lung cancer, and sun exposure in the case of skin cancer.
This study shows a large portion of people with melanoma aren’t done with the problem even after their first cancer is successfully removed, but might have to contend with multiple melanomas. (Read more about Multiple Melanoma)
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What is Cancer and How it is Caused
Cancer is a term used to describe a group of illnesses all having certain common characteristics. There are over 200 different types of cancer and all have a specific name, treatment and a chance of being cured. The human body is made of organs, such as the brain, liver and heart. And each of these organs is made up tissues, such as fat, blood vessels and muscles. (Read more about What is Cancer and How it is Caused)
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TANNING ADDICTION
You’ve probably heard that being in the sun is bad for you. But can the desire to bake in the sun actually be an addiction?
That’s what the latest research suggests.
In this day and age, when we are bombarded with the messages of how bad the sun is for us, to wear sunscreen, there are still those who walk around with the deepest darkest tans. (Read more about TANNING ADDICTION)
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NON-MELANOMA SKIN CANCER STUDY
While skin cancer has always been associated with melanoma, cases of non-melanoma skin cancer are becoming increasingly common. Each year, about a million people in the United States learn that they have skin cancer. Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the U.S. 40 to 50% of Americans who live to age 65 will have skin cancer at least once.
Now a new study shows the rates of two types of skin cancer--basal cell and squamous cell cancer--are on the rise, turning up much more frequently in very young people.
Dr. Ann Dacko, a dermatologic surgeon at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, says, “Most people develop skin cancer around the age of 50 or later, both men and women. Recently however I’ve had many more patients, patients in their twenties, and thirties have developed non-melanoma skin cancer. It’s not lethal but it still is a cancer.” (Read more about NON-MELANOMA SKIN CANCER STUDY)
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TEENS AND MELANOMA
We’re smack dab in the middle of summer, and another weekend is here when a lot of us, especially our kids, are going to be outside in the sun.
But at a time when skin cancers are on the rise, even in teens, there’s evidence that adolescents just choose to ignore the dangers.
It’s really a very simple concept: to get people to use sunscreen and wear protective clothing when in the sun, thus prevent melanomas. But for teenagers, it’s tricky issue; they know the dangers, they just choose to ignore them. (Read more about TEENS AND MELANOMA)
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Hawthorne / Vahalla based, The Arlin Cancer Institute at Westchester Medical Center has developed the Cancer Resource Center to address the needs for assistance by patients, their families, the public seeking to be well, and those seeking accurate, appropriate health information and services can make in their lives.
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Thinking about Positron Emission Tomography (PET)? Avail of the latest in treatment and care at Eastchester Center for Cancer Care in the Bronx. Board certified Dr. Alfred Rosenbaum is in charge of radiation oncology at the Eastchester Center for Cancer Care. He is also an attending physician and assistant clinical professor in radiology at Mount Sinai Medical Center and consultant-in-charge of brachytherapy at Lenox Hill Hospital.
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