Breast Cancer and Environmental Pollution
This article is cross-posted from Columbia Science Review’s Spread Science Blog. The original article can be found here. [Cancer InCytes would like to point out that low-socioeconomic societies,...
View ArticleMore Children Die of Cancer in Low-Income Countries
Don’t Forget About the Children By Uduak Thomas, M.A. An article that appeared in Nature News recently highlighted a series of four studies covering various aspects of pediatric cancer that were...
View ArticleCancer and the Right to Health
By Fiona Lander, MBBS(hons)/LLB(hons) At first glance, many health practitioners and members of the public would not think that diseases such as cancer have a great deal to do with human rights, or...
View ArticleU.S. Survey Highlights the Impacts of Drug Shortages on Patients and Care
The results of a national survey of health professionals in the United States that was published recently in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy shows that cancer patients are suffering the...
View ArticleDiagnosing Breast Cancer in Uganda
Here’s a program that I think deserves some good press. Working with Imaging the World, a non-profit group that’s trying to bring diagnostic imaging capabilities to under-served parts of the globe,...
View ArticleSurviving Both Human Trafficking and Cancer – Chong Kim’s Story
Cancer InCytes magazine highlights the deep intersections between public health and social justice. Our upcoming December, 2013 issue will feature double-survivor stories of victims of human...
View ArticleNative American Women: Child Abuse, Prostitution, Trauma, Medical Problems
By David H. Nguyen, Ph.D. An article from 2011 highlighting […]
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Adverse Childhood Experiences and Health: Heart Disease, Lung Cancer, Depression
By: Kristine Alarcon On the TEDMED stage, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris quoted Dr. Robert Block saying, “Adverse childhood experiences are the single greatest unaddressed public health threat facing our...
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Cancer Survivor Story: The Cards She Wished She Got
By: Kristine Alarcon When Emily McDowell was 24-years-old, she survived Stage 3 Hodgkin’s lymphoma after nine months of radiation and chemo before going into remission. With a background in design, […]
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Cancer Survivors Belly Dancing Together
By: Kristine Alarcon In Charlottesville, Virginia, women cancer survivors are belly dancing together at the My Body Raqs class. The belly dancing class was created specifically for cancer survivors to...
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