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Wonderful World of #14 (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
Today Mama Fick (on the right, sister Tara in the middle) had to undergo some fairly complicated surgery on her throat. Years ago she battled thyroid cancer and won so we feared the worst when she was told a few weeks ago there was a tumor in her throat and it had to be removed. She opted for surgery right away instead of waiting for tests to come back because she and my Dad have a cruise to go on...
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Celebslam (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Lou Lumenick hit Roger Ebert Lou Lumenick, a film critic for the New York Post, hit famed critic Roger Ebert last weekend at the Toronto Film Festival. The incident occurred after Ebert, unable to speak since undergoing surgery for thyroid cancer in 2002, tried to get Lumenick to move so he could read the subtitles [...]
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"GroundReport (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
The disaster of atomic bomb in Japan is not a forgettable event in the history of human civilization. The massive destruction and death witnessed by the world is a horrendous story of past which every one would like to forget but it comes up again and again in different form to remind us. The aftermath of 1945 is still haunting the population in Japan. The recent research findings by American Association...
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Curing Death by Curing Aging (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Radiation from the atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945, likely rearranged chromosomes in some survivors who later developed papillary thyroid cancer as adults
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Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
Washington, August 31 (ANI): A new research has led to the discovery that an atomic bomb explosion in a particular area can lead to thyroid cancer in survivors at the onset of adulthood. The research, carried out by Japanese scientists, took the case of the atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were [...]
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grandi13.com (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
There are so many different types of cancer and they each affect the body in as many different ways. I have had thyroid cancer contained within a goiter, benign breast biopsy, and a suspicious mole and surrounding tissue removed from my leg. I have watched my dad and a brother suffer from [...]
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Campus Codger (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
I know I've not posted for a long time, but I thought it would be worth coming out of accidental hiatus to post this. It turns out that Dan Smith, a long time friend of mine, is fighting cancer for the second time. He went in a year ago with thyroid cancer, which they thought they had treated successfully, but it's come back in a form no one expected. You can find Dan's story here: http://cad-comic.com/news.php?i=1668#1670...
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Article Archive (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
Article on Thyroid Cancer outlining the incidence, causes, diagnosis, signs and symptoms, treatment and prognosis of the disease.
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Prophecy Fellowship Forums (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
I have a rare type of thyroid cancer that doesn't respond to normal cancer treatments like chemo and radiation. I've had about as many surgeries as the drs are willing to do, which has not done much good, so up until this year my oncologist was pretty much at a stand still. The good news is...
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Science - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
U.S. medical scientists say an experimental drug that inhibits tumor blood vessel growth shows promise in slowing progression of metastatic thyroid cancer. ...
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Fiercebiotech (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Amgen was buoyed by the news that new data demonstrates that motesanib slowed the progression of metastatic thyroid cancer. Out of 93 patients in the study, 49 had a positive response. Volunteers with a BRAF V600E mutation did better than those without the mutation. Report
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VitaBeat (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
An experimental drug that inhibits tumor blood vessel formation can slow the progression of thyroid cancer in some patients, new research has found. The investigational drug, motesanib diphosphate has better response in those with a specific gene mutation in their tumors than in those without the mutation. Researchers from the University of Texas treated 93 rapidly progressing cancer patients with...
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amgen's once-a-day pill to starve tumors can help many patients with hard-to-treat thyroid cancer, either by shrinking tumors or slowing their growth, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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ChanVinson.com (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
JTH 's aunt GTH is experiencing further medical problems. I received the following e-mail: A body scan following her thyroid cancer diagnosis, revealed a lesion on her liver. Her doctors will schedule a CT scan for further evaluation. She is scheduled for a colonoscopy on June 30th and gall bladder surgery July 14th. Please pray for doctor discernment and for God to touch her and heal her completely....
