Breast Cancer Death Rates Higher for Black Women

Black breast cancer patients are more likely to diet han white patients, regardless of the type of cancer, according to a new study.

This suggests that the lower survival rate among black patients is not solely because they are more often diagnosed with less treatable types of breast cancer, the researchers said.

The researchers found that black patients were less likely than white patients to be diagnosed with either the luminal A or luminal B breast cancer subtypes.

“African-Americans were more likely to have the hard-to-treat triple-negative breast cancer subtype and had a lower likelihood of having the luminal A subtype, which tends to be the most treatable subtype of breast cancer and has the best prognosis,” study author Candyce Kroenke, a research scientist at Kaiser Permanente, said in an association news release.

Kroenke and her colleagues found, however, that lower survival among black patients was consistent across breast cancer subtypes. Black patients were 2.3 times more likely to die from the luminal A breast cancer subtype compared with white patients, 2.6 times more likely to die from the luminal B subtype, 1.3 times more likely to die from the basal-like subtype and 2.4 times more likely to die from the HER2-enriched subtype.

“African-Americans with breast cancer appeared to have a poorer prognosis regardless of subtype,” Kroenke said. “It seems from our data that the black/white breast cancer survival difference cannot be explained entirely by variable breast cancer subtype diagnosis.”

READ MORE: http://www.everydayhealth.com/breast-cancer/breast-cancer-death-rates-higher-for-black-women.aspx?xid=aol_rss

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Why Some Women Shouldn’t Eat Ice Cream

Women who have ever had breast cancer might want to walk away from the brie, the butter and the black cherry (and every other flavor) ice cream.

According to a study of 1,893 women, breast cancer survivors who average as little as one serving per day of high-fat dairy foods have a 49 percent higher risk of dying from breast cancer than those who eat little or no high-fat dairy.

In absolute terms, breast cancer survivors who consumed the most high-fat dairy had about a 12 percent risk of dying of the disease.

The elevated mortality risk is therefore “modest,” said lead author Candyce Kroenke, a staff scientist at Kaiser Permanente, the nonprofit healthcare provider. “But since it may not be so difficult to lower your consumption of high-fat dairy, I think if you have breast cancer it’s worthwhile.”

The research, published on Thursday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, is notable because more than a dozen studies since the late 1980s have examined whether consuming milk, cheese, ice cream and other dairy products is related to breast cancer. The results have been a confusing muddle: Some studies found that women who eat a lot of dairy have a higher risk of breast cancer, others found they have a lower risk and still others found no effect either way.

The Kaiser study is the first to separate out the effects of high- and low-fat dairy on women diagnosed with breast cancer.

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Alcohol Linked To Higher Cancer Risk

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Alcohol-related cancer may seem like something that would affect only heavy drinkers, but according to a new study, having even one drink per day can put you at risk for cancer.

How do you think the cast of ‘Cougartown’ would react to this news? On the show, Courtney Cox’s character, Jules and her friends are always drinking at least one drink or more.

Researchers from the National Cancer Institute found that alcohol-related cancer accounted for 3.5 percent of all cancer deaths in the United States in 2009 — and even light and moderate drinkers were at significant risk.

The link between cancer and alcohol consumption has been established by previous studies, but this new study quantifies the risk, death rates, and years of life lost in a way previously unseen.

Approximately 560,000 people died from cancer in 2009, the year for which the researchers analyzed alcohol-related cancer death rates. Of those deaths, nearly 20,000 were caused by alcohol-linked cancers, according to the study, published in the American Journal of Public Health.

“People talk about how to prevent cancer, and about avoiding tobacco and eating better, but this an issue that we think has been missed,” says David Nelson MD, study author and Director of the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program at the National Cancer Institute. “20,000 deaths is a large number.” Each of those deaths accounted for approximately 18 years of potential life lost, the researchers report.

Alcohol-related cancer affected men and women equally in 2009, but with different cancers. While women with alcohol-related cancer were most likely to die from breast cancer, men were most likely to have died from oral, pharynx, larynx and esophageal cancer,

While researchers are not exactly sure how alcohol may lead to cancer, it is clear that poor health habits – not just drinking – play a major role in cancer risk. Dr. Nelson says that people who drink a lot often also have a poor diet and/or smoke, which, coupled with alcohol use, puts them at a greater risk for developing cancer.But Nelson thinks the purported benefits of alcohol consumption are overrated when compared to the risks. “Even if you took into account all the potential benefits of alcohol,” he says, “it causes 10 times as many deaths as it prevents worldwide.”

However, notes Jernigan, most people don’t want to hear that going to the bar after work could be setting you up for cancer down the line.

“The message that alcohol could be good for you resonates so much more pleasantly than the message that alcohol can kill you,” he says. “We are deeply ambivalent about alcohol because we want to enjoy it and not think about its health effects.”

The most important thing, Nelson believes, is to make people understand that alcohol is a carcinogen. While it may be impossible to get people to stop drinking, making them aware of the dangers can help them make smarter decisions.

“We spend a lot of time talking about potential cancer-causing agents, but alcohol is missing from the discussion,” he says. “If people really want to reduce their cancer risk, one of the things they can do is avoid alcohol.”

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Spinach Recall in 39 States from E.Coli Scare

Spinach Recall

If you live in one of the 39 states listed below, you may want to check your spinach.

Taylor Farms Retail Inc. announced in an online statement that it was voluntarily recalling some Organic Baby Spinach products due to possible contamination withEnterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC), a bacteria that can cause severe infection leading to abdominal cramps, vomiting and (sometimes hemorrhagic) diarrhea.

EHEC can also lead to a sometimes fatal disease known as Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, which causes kidney failure and nervous system problems, especially in children and the elderly.

The recalled spinach is being sold in the following 39 states across the country: Wyoming, Wisconsin, Virginia, Utah, Texas, Tennessee, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, New York, New Jersey, Nevada, New Mexico, Nebraska, North Carolina, Montana, Mississippi, Minnesota, Missouri, Maryland, Louisiana, Kentucky, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Idaho, Iowa, Hawaii, Georgia, Florida, Delaware, Colorado, California, Arizona, Arkansas, Alabama, Alaska, Washington and Oregon.

The spinach that is being recalled is being sold in 5-oz and 16-oz trays under the following names: Central Market Organics, Full Circle Organics, Marketside Organics, Simple Truth Organics and Taylor Farms Organic. All the recalled spinach has a “best by” date of February 24, 2013, Taylor Farms said.

Click here to see the Universal Product Code numbers (UPCs) for the recalled products.

The company, which said the recall was a “precautionary measure,” says anyone with one of these products should not eat it and should throw it away. For more information, contact Taylor Farms at 855-293-9811.

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Woman Dies After Drinking 10 Liters of Coca-Cola A Day

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Natasha Harris went into cardiac arrest and when she died, a pathologist found that she had hypokalemia, which means she had lower-than-normal amount of potassium in her blood.

Natasha’s family revealed that she had an addiction to Coca-Cola, claiming that if she didn’t get a hit of at least 10 liters of that pop per day, she would start going CRAZY!

Coroner David Crerar then found that her excessive drinking of Coke led her to cardiac arrhythmia, which causes abnormal electrical activity in the heart. “I find that when all the available evidence is considered, were it not for the consumption of very large quantities of Coke by Natasha Harris,” says Crerar. “It’s unlikely that she would have died when she died and how she died.”

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We’re talking about “Rex Reed vs. Melissa McCarthy” on Tonight’s Diabetes Roundtable

Rex vs. Melissa

Melissa McCarthy is the star of the new comedy “Identity Thief” but one review from a popular film critic focused his review on the actress herself rather than the new movie.

Rex Reed wrote an article about McCarthy in the New York Observer that failed to explain any flaws in the movie but didn’t hesitate to bash McCarthy for being “obese” and “obnoxious.”

“Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) is a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success,” Reed wrote. “Poor Jason Bateman. How did an actor so charming, talented, attractive, and versatile get stuck in so much dreck?”

Unfortunately, that was probably one of the least offensive insults in the sexist article.

“In the trashy, stupefying screenplay by Craig Mazin, Jason Bateman is a Denver accountant named Sandy Patterson – another in a long line of victims of the increasingly dangerous world of cyber crime – whose credit card has been hacked and copied by a felonious thief in Miami (cacophonous, tractor-sized Melissa McCarthy,” he wrote.

He went on to call Melissa a “female hippo.”

For years there has been a double standard for women in the film industry because they are all expected to fit a cookie cutter mold of “beauty” while men are free to get on camera looking however the please.

Hollywood is perfectly okay with a fat funny man, but a fat funny woman makes critics feel uncomfortable. What do you think?

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Researchers Cure Type 1 Diabetes In Dogs

Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), led by Fàtima Bosch, have shown for the first time that it is possible to cure diabetes in large animals with a single session of gene therapy. As published this week in Diabetes, the principal journal for research on the disease, after a single gene therapy session, the dogs recover their health and no longer show symptoms of the disease. In some cases, monitoring continued for over four years, with no recurrence of symptoms.

The therapy is minimally invasive. It consists of a single session of various injections in the animal’s rear legs using simple needles that are commonly used in cosmetic treatments. These injections introduce gene therapy vectors, with a dual objective: to express the insulin gene, on the one hand, and that of glucokinase, on the other. Glucokinase is an enzyme that regulates the uptake of glucose from the blood. When both genes act simultaneously they function as a “glucose sensor”, which automatically regulates the uptake of glucose from the blood, thus reducing diabetic hyperglycemia (the excess of blood sugar associated with the disease).

As Fàtima Bosch, the head researcher, points out, “this study is the first to demonstrate a long-term cure for diabetes in a large animal model using gene therapy.”

This same research group had already tested this type of therapy on mice, but the excellent results obtained for the first time with large animals lays the foundations for the clinical translation of this gene therapy approach to veterinary medicine and eventually to diabetic patients.

The study was led by the head of the UAB’s Centre for Animal Biotechnology and Gene Therapy (CBATEG) Fàtima Bosch, and involved the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the UAB, the Department of Medicine and Animal Surgery of the UAB, the Faculty of Veterinary Science of the UAB, the Department of Animal Health and Anatomy of the UAB, the Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Disorders (CIBERDEM), the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (USA) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute of Philadelphia (USA).

READ MORE: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-02/uadb-urc020713.php

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Why Weight Loss Can Turn Type 2 Diabetes Around

Weight Loss Pays Off

Not so long ago a diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes at 50 or 60 seemed final, one of those no-turning-back kind of moments. Chances are the doctor told you the disease could be managed, but a return to a day when blood sugars might fall back into normal range (less than 126 mg/dl) was not on the table. An amazing new study, published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reports that weight loss can turn diabetes around.

If you’re willing to make changes in what you eat and ramp up your activity levels, diabetes could be put into full or partial remission. (Makes you want to sign up for ‘Dancing With the Stars’ doesn’t it?)

Researchers randomly assigned 4,500 overweight people living with Type 2 to either an intensive diet and exercise boot camp-style intervention or a less stringent weight-loss education program.

Not surprisingly, the group given intensive diet and lifestyle counseling showed the most success. More important, 11.5 percent of the intensive lifestyle intervention group saw partial or complete remission of diabetes (remission was defined as blood sugars less than 126 mg/dl and hemoglobin A1c of less than 6.5 percent) at the one-year mark. Compare that figure to the other group’s success rate: 2 percent.

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Hyperglycemia Correlates with Poor Cognitive Performance

Belly vs. Brain

Among healthy middle-aged adults, adiposity (belly fat) and hyperglycemia correlate with poor cognitive performance, according to a study published online in Diabetes Care.

Caroline M. Sanz, M.D., from the University of Toulouse in France, and colleagues examined the correlation between markers of insulin resistance, markers of adiposity, hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), and cognitive performance in a sample of 1,172 adults aged 35 to 64 years without diabetes.

The researchers found that, in tests evaluating processing speed, elevated markers of adiposity correlated with poor cognitive performance. In each test, the probability of being in the lowest quartile was significantly increased for participants in the upper versus the lowest quartile of body mass index (adjusted odds ratio [OR], 2.18 for digit symbol substitution test [DSST]; OR, 2.09 for Stroop test). Poor cognitive performance in the DSST was also significantly more likely for those with high HbA1c (adjusted OR, 1.75). In men, but not women, waist circumference was linked to poor cognitive performance.

“In a population of middle-aged adults without diabetes, we found that adiposity and a high level of HbA1c were both associated with poor cognitive performance in tests assessing processing speed,” the authors write.

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Why There’s Rise in Type 1 Diabetes

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Scientific American reports that the incidence of type 1 diabetes has been increasing by 3 to 5 percent a year. In 2006, a WHO project called DIAMOND, which reviewed 10 years’ worth of records from 57 countries, found that type 1 rates had risen an average of 5.3 percent a year in North America, 4 percent in Asia and 3.2 percent in Europe.

Experts believe that the underlying cause is likely to be environmental, not genetic. According to Scientific American, here’s what researchers are focusing on as possibilities:

• Gluten: An increase in consumption of highly processed foods means more exposure to gluten, a protein found in wheat that many people with type 1 diabetes seem to be sensitive to. The JDRFestimates that about 1 in 10 Americans with type 1 diabetes have celiac disease (gluten intolerance), compared with about 1 in 100 in the general U.S. population.
• Bacteria: The “hygiene hypothesis” states that a lack of early exposure to infections and allergens doesn’t allow the immune system to learn how to handle these and other stressors, which can lead to autoimmune attacks like that which precipitates type 1 diabetes. The article cites the fact that diabetes is less common in children who are in day care.
• Obesity: Type 1 diabetes isn’t normally linked to being overweight or obese. But some experts believe that extra weight, which leads to more insulin production, can overload the pancreatic beta cells to the point of failure and “push a child whose beta cells are already under attack into developing type 1 diabetes.”

Whatever the cause, public health researchers hope to find an answer soon to help prevent or reverse this trend.

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