Showing Compassion: Fmr Pres. George H.W. Bush Shaves Head For Young Leukemia Patient

[Steve_McGarrett]

God Bless the man! It’s amazing...an elderly ex-President does an extremely classy and heartwarming thing for a young little man struggling with leukemia. A lot of people have to understand why Bush one did this. He understands what the kid is going through. You see, his daughter died of leukemia, long ago.

George H.W. Bush shaves head for young leukemia patient - Dallas News | myFOXdfw.com

 

[waltky]

Beyond five years there's a very significant risk of mortality...

Delayed deaths declining among pediatric cancer survivors
14 Jan.`16 | It's long been known that cancer survivors -- people alive five years after diagnosis -- face a higher risk of premature death, and doctors have made efforts over the decades to reduce those deaths. A new study of childhood cancer cases suggests that the effort has been successful, at least to some degree.

Most people "kind of assume that if you hit the five-year time point, you've beaten your cancer and the story's over," chief author Dr. Gregory Armstrong of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis told Reuters Health by phone. "I think the first thing this paper does is show on a national scale that beyond five years there's a very significant risk of mortality. That should be a big wakeup call for most of the primary physicians who are taking care of these patients." "At the same time," he said, "this paper comes along and shows the good news part of the story - modern survivors are doing better, even though they still have an elevated risk of mortality compared to the general population." The study was published online in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Manuel Andres Sequera, 2, looks out the window while receiving chemotherapy treatment at a paediatric hospital in Maracaibo, Venezuela​

The analysis of 34,033 patients whose cancers were diagnosed before age 21 and who survived to the five-year mark found that the odds of death from any cause, including due to a recurrence or progression of a cancer, declined for children treated in the 1980s compared to those treated in the 1970s. When treatment was initiated in the 1990s, the death rates were lower still. For survivors diagnosed in the 1970s, the odds of death at the 15-year mark were 10.7%. With treatment in the 1980s, the rate declined to 7.9%. For the 1990s it was 5.8%. When the researchers looked exclusively at death from recurrence or progression of the cancer, the death rates at 15 years were 7.1% for treatment in 1970s, 4.9% for the 1980s and 3.4% for the 1990s.

Changes in the way radiation and chemotherapy are delivered, along with better follow-up care, are believed to be responsible. "What we had hoped was it would ultimately increase their lifespan and the risk for late mortality," said Dr. Armstrong. "In fact, it did." The improvement underscores the dramatic gains in pediatric cancer therapy seen since the 1960s, when fewer than half of children diagnosed with cancer survived for five years. The rate is now 83%. The new findings are based on data collected for the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study covering children treated at 31 institutions in the U.S. and Canada.

Half the patients in the study were tracked for at least 21 years. Overall, 3,958 cancer survivors had died; 2,002 had succumbed to a recurrence or progression of their initial cancer. Another 746 died from developing a different type of cancer. The researchers also measured the rate of death from all other health-related causes, a category that included deaths from heart and lung problems. Those death rates were 3.1% for people treated in the '70s, 2.4% in the '80s and 1.9% in the '90s. "The 2000s ought to bring even more marked improvements because we've seen new technologies and new deliveries of radiation therapy, and better and more appropriate use of chemotherapy, along with a reduction in certain chemotherapies that cause toxicity," Dr. Armstrong said. SOURCE: MMS: Error The New England Journal of Medicine, online January 13, 2016.

Delayed deaths declining among pediatric cancer survivors

 

[waltky]

Cancer rates rise among young...

Teen cancer death rate causes alarm
Fri, 27 May 2016 - Too many teenagers and young adults are dying of some types of cancer, a Europe-wide report warns.

Their survival rates for cancers such as leukaemia are much lower than in younger children, says a report in the Lancet Oncology. The researchers suggest differences in tumours, delays in diagnosis and treatment and a lack of clinical trials for that age group are to blame. Cancer Research UK said it was crucial to find out what was going wrong. The study analysed data from 27 countries on nearly 57,000 childhood cancers and 312,000 cancers in teenagers and young adults.

Overall, five-year survival rates were higher in teenagers and young adults at 82% compared with 79% in children. But those better prospects were largely driven by the older age-group getting cancers with a better prognosis. The overall rate concealed areas of concern where survival was "significantly worse" for eight cancers commonly found in both age groups.

The five-year survival rates for:

* acute lymphoid leukaemias were 56% in teenagers and young adults & 85.8% in children
* acute myeloid leukaemias 50% in teenagers and young adults & 61% in children
* Hodgkin's lymphoma 93% in teenagers and young adults & 95% in children
* non-Hodgkin's lymphoma 77% in teenagers and young adults & 83% in children
* astrocytomas (a brain cancer) 46% in teenagers and young adults & 62% in children
* Ewing's sarcoma of bone 49% in teenagers and young adults & 67% in children
* rhabdomyosarcoma (soft tissue tumours) 38% in teenagers and young adults & 67% in children
* osteosarcoma (bone cancer) 62% in teenagers and young adults & 67% in children

Teen with doctor​

Dr Annalisa Trama, from The National Institute of Cancer in Milan, Italy said: "The good news is that the number of children, adolescents and young adults surviving for at least five years after diagnosis has risen steadily over time in Europe. "However, we found that adolescents and young adults still tend to die earlier than children for several cancers common to these age groups, particularly blood cancers."

Dr Alan Worsley, from Cancer Research UK, said: "While it's great news that the number of children, teenagers and young adults surviving cancer continues to improve, it's also clear that for some cancers, survival in different age groups is improving faster than in others. "We need to find out whether adolescents are faring worse because of how their cancer is managed in the clinic or whether it's because the underlying biology is fundamentally different at these ages. "Answering these questions is a big part of the reason why we've launched the Cancer Research UK Kids and Teens campaign."

Teen cancer death rate causes alarm - BBC News

 

[NYcarbineer]

You won't see Trump doing that.

 

[NightFox]

You won't see Trump doing that.

You won't see Hillary doing that either, so what's your fucking point?

 

[NYcarbineer]

You won't see Trump doing that.

You won't see Hillary doing that either, so what's your fucking point?

Trump is a greedy douchebag. That's my point.

 

[jknowgood]

You won't see Trump doing that.

You won't see Hillary doing that either, so what's your fucking point?

Trump is a greedy douchebag. That's my point.

Hillary isn't?

 

[NightFox]

You won't see Trump doing that.

You won't see Hillary doing that either, so what's your fucking point?

Trump is a greedy douchebag. That's my point.

So is Hillary Clinton, so again what's your point? Oh wait lemme guess, Hillary Clinton is the greedy douche bag you have chosen to worship so you don't care that's she's a greedy douche bag nor do you care about the fact that your hypocrisy is fucking pathetic.

 

[Mad Scientist]

Shaving yer head doesn't do anything for anybody.

 

[TNHarley]

bout time he showed compassion for an American.

 

[Maryland Patriot]

You won't see Trump doing that.

So I suppose if we are picking the best based on them shaving their head, we can expect the wildebeest hillary to sport the bald look in the next couple days?

 

[NYcarbineer]

You won't see Trump doing that.

You won't see Hillary doing that either, so what's your fucking point?

Trump is a greedy douchebag. That's my point.

Hillary isn't?

I don't support Hillary. She's the Democrats' biggest mistake since Dukakis.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Maybe GW Bush could shave his head in sympathy for all the Iraqi children he murdered.

 

[SuperDemocrat]

Maybe GW Bush could shave his head in sympathy for all the Iraqi children he murdered.

I'm wish they make a video game called "Iraqi Children Showdown". It is where you are a soldier with orders to kill all the innocent children in Iraq. That would be fun. We can watch them cry alli akbar as they get shot.

 

[NYcarbineer]

You won't see Trump doing that.

You won't see Hillary doing that either, so what's your fucking point?

Trump is a greedy douchebag. That's my point.

Hillary isn't?

Note that instead of disagreeing with me, you opted to change the subject.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Maybe GW Bush could shave his head in sympathy for all the Iraqi children he murdered.

I'm wish they make a video game called "Iraqi Children Showdown". It is where you are a soldier with orders to kill all the innocent children in Iraq. That would be fun. We can watch them cry alli akbar as they get shot.

They already had that one. It was Shock and Awe. A real life and death game.

 

[Steve_McGarrett]

Maybe GW Bush could shave his head in sympathy for all the Iraqi children he murdered.

They weren't murdered. They died as collateral damage in the quest for a peaceful Iraq. Things like this have to happen sometimes.

 

[NightFox]

Maybe GW Bush could shave his head in sympathy for all the Iraqi children he murdered.

They weren't murdered. They died as collateral damage in the quest for a peaceful Iraq. Things like this have to happen sometimes.

I'm sure that's very comforting to their families.....

The only difference between murder and 'collateral damage' is that 'collateral damage' is perpetrated at the behest of the state.