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☆ I thought my bloody stool during pregnancy was hemorrhoids. It was stage 3 colorectal cancer.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( Kelly Burch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Multiple doctors told her it was internal hemorrhoids. When her son was 8 months old, she was diagnosed with stage 3 colorectal cancer. I was diagnosed with stage 3 cancer, and needed fertility treatmentsFinally, I found a doctor who took me seriously and ordered a colonoscopy. Shortly after I saw a specialist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who diagnosed me with stage 3 colorectal cancer. I knew I wanted more kids, but talking about fertility right after being diagnosed with cancer was overwhelming.

Persons: Kelly Spill, —, Kelly, Jayce, GYN, we'd, Maya Organizations: Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Cancer Locations: California, New Jersey, East Coast

☆ This risk assessment tool helped Olivia Munn discover her breast cancer
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Jacqueline Howard | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

The “X-Men: Apocalypse” star, 43, wrote in an Instagram post Wednesday that she was diagnosed with breast cancer last year and would not have discovered it if her physician, Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi, had not calculated her breast cancer risk score. A breast cancer risk assessment tool uses a statistical model to estimate a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer over the next five years as well as over her lifetime, or up to about age 90, according to the National Cancer Institute. Two models are commonly used as breast cancer risk assessment tools: the Gail Model and the Tyrer-Cuzick Risk Assessment Calculator. An online version of the breast cancer risk assessment tool, using the Gail Model, is available for anyone to take at bcrisktool.cancer.gov. In fact, some women who do not develop breast cancer have higher risk estimates than some women who do develop breast cancer,” according to the National Cancer Institute’s website.

Persons: Olivia Munn’s, Thaïs Aliabadi, Aliabadi, Munn, Gail, Jennifer Plichta, “, ” Plichta, they’re, ”, Plichta, I’ve, they’ve, Otis Brawley, ” Brawley, Larry Norton, Evelyn H, ” Norton, Robert Smith, Ruth Oratz, NYU Langone Health’s, Dr, Sanjay Gupta, ” Oratz Organizations: CNN, National Cancer Institute, National Cancer, Duke Cancer Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Lauder Breast Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, American Cancer Society, US Preventive Services Task Force, NYU, Cancer Center, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, CNN Health Locations: United States, Durham , North Carolina

☆ I found love on LinkedIn. What began as semi-flirtatious messages grew into 9 years of marriage.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Katie Ortman Doble | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Katie Ortman Doble is a headhunter who uses LinkedIn like a digital Rolodex. Katie Ortman DobleNick invited my sisters to go ring shopping with him shortly after we celebrated one year of dating. Katie Ortman DobleWe never gave up hopeWe spent our 30s in fight or flight mode, but we never gave up hope. Katie Ortman DobleWe both maintained our careers, although I did take a much-needed break from my job and LinkedIn networking in 2019. Katie Ortman DobleUnexpected connections can end up sustaining usThis week, Nick and I celebrate nine years of marriage.

Persons: Katie Ortman Doble, Nick, Katie, —, I'm, It's, That's, Katie Doble, claret, me claret, Katie Ortman Doble Nick, She's, Kimi, Katie's, Tommy, Katie Ortman, Alice, Zhang Organizations: Service, LinkedIn, Denver, West Ham United, Memorial Sloan Kettering, MSK, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, NED Locations: Denver, Downtown Denver, West, Manhattan, Moher, County Clare, Ireland, Pennsylvania, NED, janezhang@insider.com

A New York City woman who died Sunday from cancer has raised enough money to erase millions of dollars in medical debt with a posthumous plea for help. The posts included a link to a fundraising campaign started through the nonprofit RIP Medical Debt. It had raised about $140,000 by Friday afternoon, or enough to buy around $14 million in medical debt. RIP Medical Debt erases debt purchased from hospitals, other health care providers and the secondary debt market. They were inspired by a video they saw of North Carolina churchgoers burning about $3 million in medical debt.

Persons: Casey McIntyre, McIntyre, ” “, Andrew Rose Gregory, Gregory, Casey, ”, Daniel Lempert, Grace, “ Casey, ” Gregory Organizations: York City, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, North, Associated Press Health, Science Department, Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science, Educational Media Group, AP Locations: York, U.S, Brooklyn, North Carolina

☆ Microsoft and Paige are building the world's largest AI model for detecting cancer
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Ashley Capoot | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

The AI model is training on an unprecedented amount of data that includes billions of images, according to a release . Paige also built an AI model that can help pathologists identify breast cancer, colon cancer and prostate cancer when it appears on the screen. But in order to expand its operations and build an AI tool that can identify more cancer types, Paige turned to Microsoft for help. Over the past year and a half, Paige has been using Microsoft's cloud storage and supercomputing infrastructure to build an advanced new AI model. Paige's original AI model used more than 1 billion images from 500,000 pathology slides, but Fuchs said the model the company has built with Microsoft is "orders of magnitude larger than anything out there."

Persons: Paige, Fuchs, Thomas Fuchs, Andy Moye, ChatGPT, Moye, Desney Tan, Tan Organizations: CNBC, Food and Drug Administration, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Netflix, Microsoft, Microsoft Health Futures, Cornell Locations: New York

☆ Opinion: How Covid-19 is resurfacing after months of calm
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Kent Sepkowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Kent Sepkowitz CNNThere are several plausible reasons why this latest bump is occurring now after months and months of calm. To sort it out, I decided to perform an at-home rapid antigen test. One negative test on the first day of symptoms, especially with the rapid antigen test, is not determinative. The virus that causes Covid-19 infection is a simple scrap of RNA that cannot survive without a living cell to support it. This won’t be the last alarm, real or false, for me (and others) in the months ahead.

Persons: Kent Sepkowitz, Covid, —, overconfidence Organizations: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, CNN, Kent Sepkowitz CNN, US, Twitter Locations: New York, United States, XBB

☆ House Majority Leader Steve Scalise says he has multiple myeloma. The rare blood cancer is treatable but often returns after going into remission.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Rebecca Cohen | John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said he has multiple myeloma. It's a rare blood cancer that can be treated for years but currently is not curable. The results uncovered some irregularities and after undergoing additional tests, I was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, a very treatable blood cancer," Scalise said in the statement. The results uncovered some irregularities and after undergoing additional tests, I was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, a very treatable blood cancer. "Unfortunately, if left untreated, myeloma cells can multiply and continue to grow in a person's bone marrow," he added.

Persons: Steve Scalise, Scalise, Sarah McBride, Trump, Anders Kolb, Kolb, MSKCC, " Kolb, James T, Hodgkinson Organizations: Service, Twitter, Louisiana Republican, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Leukemia, Lymphoma Society, Congressional Locations: Wall, Silicon, Washington, Louisiana, M.D

☆ Brice Marden, painter revered for his distinctive approach to abstraction, dies at 84
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Wallace Ludel | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Brice Marden, the abstract painter known most widely for his long, winding calligraphic mark-making that stood out against monochromatic backgrounds, has died aged 84. His death was confirmed to CNN by Gagosian, the New York gallery that represented him, via email on Thursday. "Uphill with Center" (2012-15) by Brice Marden. It’s just been an extra thing to think about.”Marden was born October 15, 1938 in Westchester County, just north of New York City. "Cold Mountain 6 (Bridge)" (1989-91) by Brice Marden.

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☆ How the Artistic Director at SummerStage Spends Her Sundays
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-05 | by ( Alix Strauss | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It is no surprise that Erika Elliott, the executive artistic director at SummerStage, celebrates New York through music. “There’s this cathartic, exciting and energetic feeling in an all-green public space when the audience and the artist and the stage all come together.”The music festival, run by the City Parks Foundation, started in 1986. This summer there are nearly 80 SummerStage shows in 13 parks across the city. The season, which started on June 3 with a performance by the band Hippo Campus in Central Park, ends Oct. 2 in Coney Island with the Yeshiva Boys Choir. In between are some standout superstars: Grandmaster Flash in Crotona Park; Tanya Tucker in Central Park; and Grand Wizzard Theodore and Monie Love, who are part of the festival’s 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop celebration.

Persons: Erika Elliott, “, ”, Elliott, Grandmaster Flash, Tanya Tucker, Theodore, Monie Love, Estarlin Trejo, Ethan, Ellie Organizations: SummerStage, City Parks Foundation, Yeshiva Boys, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Locations: New York, California, Central Park, Coney Island, Crotona, Mott Haven, Bronx

☆ Meet Reed Jobs, the Apple cofounder's son who just launched a VC fund to invest in cancer treatments
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Reed Jobs, the son of Steve Jobs, launched Yosemite, a VC firm that will invest in cancer treatments. Reed Jobs, Steve Jobs's oldest son, is striking out on his own. Jobs, one of three children of the Apple cofounder and philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, is launching Yosemite, a venture capital firm that will invest in new cancer treatments, according to a press release. The 31-year-old was inspired by his father to start the fund after Steve Jobs died from complications of pancreatic cancer in 2011, he told The New York Times. Jobs's latest business venture will build on his previous work as a managing director at the Emerson Collective, the mission-driven corporation founded by his mother.

Persons: Reed Jobs, Steve Jobs, Jobs, mother's Emerson, Steve Jobs's, Laurene Powell Jobs, John Doerr, Emerson, —, Walter Isaacson, Yosemite Organizations: VC, Apple, New York Times, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, The Rockefeller University, Times, Emerson, Emerson Collective's, Stanford Locations: Yosemite, Hawaii

☆ How 'Birkin Bandit' George Mickum Infiltrated NYC Society
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Kate Taylor | Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +52 min

"He would know people's weaknesses and what they wanted and somehow always have something to offer," a former close friend said. Another close friend said Mickum once gave her a $1,000 loan "within minutes" when she needed it because of a credit-card crisis. He never "let the truth get in the way of a good story," a former close friend said. Hermès bags, like the Birkin and the Kelly, have always been symbols of unattainable luxury. There wasn't even a dust bag; Mickum claimed his mom's assistant would drop it off later.

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☆ Cancer vaccines poised to unlock 'new treatment paradigm' with Merck/Moderna data
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Julie Steenhuysen | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

The hope is for "a completely new treatment paradigm in cancer that will be better tolerated and unique to individual patients' tumors," said Dr. Jane Healy, an executive overseeing in early cancer treatment development at Merck. The Merck/Moderna collaboration is one of several combining powerful drugs that unleash the immune system to target cancers with mRNA vaccine technology. Aiming at these unique proteins allows the immune system to kill cancer cells while leaving healthy tissue unscathed. With standard treatment, 90% of pancreatic cancer patients die within five years of diagnosis. The approach first primes the immune system with an older technology called a chimpanzee adenovirus vaccine that targets patients' tumors.

Persons: Andrew Kelly, Keytruda, Jane Healy, Germany's BioNTech, Vinod Balachandran, we've, we're, Andrew Allen, Healy, Julie Steenhuysen, Caroline Humer, Bill Berkrot Organizations: Merck & Co, REUTERS, CHICAGO, Moderna Inc, American Society of Clinical Oncology, Merck, Moderna, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Thomson Locations: Kenilworth , New Jersey, U.S, Chicago, New York, Nature

☆ BioNTech, Roche's experimental pancreatic cancer treatment wins Nature plaudit
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

FRANKFURT, May 10 (Reuters) - Scientific journal Nature on Wednesday said a personalised treatment based on messenger RNA by BioNTech (22UAy.DE) potentially bodes well for the future of fighting an extremely aggressive form of cancer after the regimen was shown to trigger a promising immune reaction in some pancreatic cancer patients. Pancreatic cancer is among the most deadly forms of cancer because it typically grows undetected until an effective treatment is too late. The trial focused on pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), which accounts for more than 90% of pancreatic cancer cases. Nature covers a wide range of topics in science and technology beyond medicine. Among the eight trial participants with a detectable immune response, there was no evidence of cancer recurrence 18 months after surgery, while the median time to recurrence was 13.4 months among the non-responders.

☆ Opinion: Why I’m not reassured by our victory over Covid-19
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Opinion Kent Sepkowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Editor’s note: Kent Sepkowitz is a physician and infectious disease expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. CNN —At long last, the Covid-19 pandemic has entered its whimper phase. Last week, the World Health Organization decided to end the Covid-19 global health emergency. The US public health emergency is scheduled to end on Thursday, and beginning the following day, vaccination against Covid-19 will no longer be required for non-US travelers entering the States. Infectious diseases don’t ever really go away; they just change a little, then change some more till one day, they return bigger and fiercer than ever.

☆ Todd Haimes, Who Rebuilt Roundabout Theater Company, Dies at 66
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Michael Paulson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Todd Haimes, who rescued New York’s Roundabout Theater Company from bankruptcy and built it into one of the largest nonprofit theaters in America, died on Wednesday at 66. His death, at Memorial Sloan Kettering hospital in Manhattan, was caused by complications of osteosarcoma, according to a spokesman, Matt Polk. Mr. Haimes had lived with the cancer since 2002, when he was diagnosed with sarcoma of the jaw. As the artistic director and chief executive officer at Roundabout, Mr. Haimes had an extraordinarily long and effective tenure. He led the organization for four decades, turning the nonprofit company into a major player on Broadway, where it now runs three of the 41 theaters.

☆ The next big thing in Big Tech career path is an AI-based 'bilingual' job skillset
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( Eric Rosenbaum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Microsoft unveiled new versions of its Bing internet-search engine and Edge browser powered by the newest technology from ChatGPT maker OpenAI. But the biggest one of all may be next, he says, through the combination of artificial intelligence and branches of science involved in medicine. But the opportunity won't translate into achievement without a new form of collaboration between the classic big tech talent and the medical field. One of her portfolio companies, Insitro, was founded by Stanford AI researcher Daphne Koller (Koller co-founder edtech company Coursera). "There is lots of exciting big talent opportunities coming from big tech and big cap pharma," she said.

☆ Fact Check-Antineoplastons not a proven ‘cancer cure’ and not an approved treatment
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Online claims that the drugs are a cancer “cure” and that any of them has been FDA-approved are misleading, a cancer expert and an FDA official told Reuters. A video viewed more than 135,000 times on Facebook begins with: “THIS CURE FOR CANCER WAS DISCOVERED 42 YEARS AGO…” (here). A search of the database also shows no reported Phase 3 or randomized controlled studies on any antineoplastons as a cancer treatment. To approve a drug, FDA requires phase 3 studies to demonstrate “whether or not a product offers a treatment benefit to a specific population” (here). Cancer Research UK and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center also caution about the lack of evidence for antineoplastons in treating cancer (here), (here).

☆ Walmart, Citi, Disney, McDonald’s and others pledge to abolish stigma of cancer at work
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Jeanne Sahadi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

He still needed to undergo radiation and chemotherapy, and explained to them what that would mean for his work schedule. Instead, they took vacation days for treatments or scheduled very early morning procedures so they could work the same day, Sadoun told CNN. Some even hid their children’s cancer treatments from their boss, he added. Joel Saget/AFP/Getty ImagesThat mission is to create a worldwide campaign to encourage employers to eradicate the stigma and anxiety of having cancer at work. They include Bank of America, Citi, Disney, Google, L’Oréal, Marriott, McDonald’s, Meta, Microsoft, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Toyota, Unilever and Walmart.

☆ Barclays CEO C.S. Venkatakrishnan says he has cancer but will continue to run the bank
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Julia Horowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

London CNN Business —The CEO of Barclays said Monday that he has been diagnosed with cancer. Venkatakrishnan, who is known as Venkat at the bank, said in a note to colleagues that he will begin undergoing treatment for Non-Hodgkin lymphoma at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Venkatakrishnan has held the top job at Barclays (BCS) for one year, taking over after the resignation of predecessor Jes Staley. Before joining Barclays in 2016, Venkatakrishnan worked in asset management and as an investment banker at JPMorgan Chase (JPM). He’s not the first CEO of a major bank to be treated for cancer while juggling a demanding role.

☆ Meet Donald Trump's children with Ivana Trump, Marla Maples, and Melania Trump
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Business Insider | Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Donald Trump has five children between two of his former wives and his current wife Melania Trump. Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump are children with his first wife, Ivana Trump, who died on July 14. Getty Images/Joe CorriganNow a father of five, Donald Trump Jr. was 12 when Ivana Trump and Donald Trump Sr. divorced. In 2001, a year after he graduated from college, Donald Trump Jr. went to work for his dad for the second time. He told New York magazine that Donald Trump Jr. is like his mentor and Ivanka Trump is like his second mother.

☆ How often you should wash your hair
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

But experts say there isn’t a one-size-fits-all answer to how often you should wash your hair — or what you can do to maintain it on off days. When to washRossi generally tells his patients they should wash their hair once or twice per week. But if you’ve had chemical treatments that can make your hair drier — such as bleach, perms or relaxers — you might want to wash it less than once weekly to avoid breaking or brittle hair or split ends, he said. But you should wash it at least every two to three weeks to keep your scalp and hair clean and healthy. If you’re experiencing perpetual issues with your scalp or hair — such as dandruff, hair loss or brittle hair — you should see a board-certified dermatologist who treats conditions in these areas, Rossi said.

Persons: ”, Anthony Rossi, ” Rossi, Rossi, you’ve Organizations: CNN, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, American Academy of Dermatology Association, American Academy of Dermatology Locations: New York City

☆ Billionaire investor Vinod Khosla lays out why changing how primary care is paid for could disrupt healthcare
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Sarah Braner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

On Thursday, the billionaire investor Vinod Khosla spoke about reducing costs in healthcare. Vinod Khosla thinks the best way to disrupt healthcare is to change how it's paid for at the primary-care level. The billionaire investor and founder of Khosla Ventures said he thought that in the next decade, primary care should cost as little as $1 to $5 per visit. "If you change the definition of primary care from what is today's primary care, or urgent care mostly, to a much-broader definition where your hypertension is managed in primary care, where your diabetes is managed in primary care, you will see that take over and affect the core total cost of care downstream," he said. For instance, a company like Oak Street Health can operate primary care at a loss because it makes money if its patients stay healthy.

☆ Medical-imaging startup NVision says its quantum tech is a big step forward for catching cancerous tumors. Check out the 18-slide deck used to raise a $17 million grant.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ulm-based NVision uses quantum tech to enable MRI scanners to analyse tumors at tissue level. The startup has partnered with Siemens to use its medical-imaging technology for cancer treatments. It secured a $17 million grant from the German government using this 18-slide pitch deck. Currently, MRI scanners can only conduct imaging at an anatomical level. "We know that with cancer, tumors have different metabolisms, and this is how they keep themselves alive," said CEO Sella Brosh.

☆ Colonoscopies may not be as effective as thought, study suggests. Doctors disagree.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Berkeley-Lovelace-Jr.Jpg | Berkeley Lovelace Jr. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

What did the colonoscopy study find? With longer monitoring, the results could show a larger reduction of colon cancer risk, said Brawley of Johns Hopkins. Cancer experts reached Monday said their recommendation for colorectal cancer screening remains the same: Regular colonoscopies are key to preventing colon cancer and finding it early. In the U.S., “we have exaggerated the benefits of colon cancer screening,” Brawley said. “We have good studies that show that colon cancer screening is effective.

☆ Cancer death rates continue to fall, driven by new treatments and improved screening
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Kaitlin Sullivan | Kaitlin Sullivan Is A Contributor For Nbcnews.Com Who Has Worked With Nbc News Investigations. She Reports On Health | Science | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Significant strides in cancer treatments, diagnostic tools and prevention strategies continue to drive down cancer death rates, according to a report published Wednesday by the American Association for Cancer Research. Death rates from cancer have been falling over the past two decades, particularly sharply in recent years, the group's annual Cancer Progress Report found. “Cancer cells are mavericks, but they are your own cells. Coussens also highlighted developments in cancer drugs that work by targeting specific DNA mutations in cancer cells but noted that more work is still needed. Catching cancer earlyAlso key to cutting cancer death rates is catching the disease as early as possible.

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