Cancer, Cancer Treatment

On Wednesday, Avie Products revealed that they would be releasing a new product aimed at fighting against breast cancer, called ?Cue.?

Scheduled to be launched in the United States this month, October being the Breast Cancer Awareness Month, ?Cue? is an electronic waterproof device designed to remind women to regularly examine their breasts, as a means to early detect anything that might be wrong and consequently present themselves to the doctor for a thorough consultation.

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Thousands of people turned out for the walk to promote breast cancer awareness and to provide hope and help to people facing the disease.

The Sunday walk was the second annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk, held at WhiteMemorialConservationCenter. The event was intended to help raise money for breast cancer research, education and patient service programs in Connecticut. Organizers said they hoped to raise more than $85,000 from the Litchfield walk alone.

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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 15 — A common stomach bacteria may protect against a certain form of esophageal cancer, a new review suggests.

People with H. pylori strains that also had the CagA gene were almost half as likely to get adenocarcinoma of the esophagus, a cancer that develops in the tube that passes food from the throat to the stomach, according to the report published in the October issue of Cancer Prevention Research.

“CagA-positive strains of H. pylori may decrease the risk of adenocarcinoma by reducing acid production in the stomach and, therefore, reducing acid reflux to the esophagus,” study co-author Dr. Farin Kamangar, a research fellow at the National Cancer Institute, said in an American Association for Cancer Research news release. “It may also work by decreasing the production of the hormone ghrelin, which is secreted from the stomach to stimulate appetite. A reduction in the level of ghrelin may lead to lower rates of obesity, an important risk factor for adenocarcinoma.”

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SUNDAY, Oct. 19 — Ovarian cancer is one of the most difficult cancers to diagnose, making it one of the most lethal.

The ovaries aren’t easily accessible for examination, unlike a woman’s skin or breast or cervix. And the symptoms that accompany ovarian cancer are vague and can be confused with other less life-threatening conditions.

“A lot of women with ovarian cancer will retrospectively say, ‘Yes, I had these symptoms,’ but the symptoms are vague and can be associated with other illnesses,” said Debbie Saslow, director of breast and gynecologic cancer for the American Cancer Society.

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