Dr. Andrew Ko of the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center explores how research and advances in technologies are impacting clinical care of colon cancer. Ko’s research is in the development of new treatment strategies, including molecularly targeted therapies, for patients with gastrointestinal malignancies. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [8/2008] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 14831]
February 10th Jade under went amputation surgery of her front leg due to bone cancer. It was a very difficult decision for us to make, but understood it is our only hope for saving her life. This video is day 1 and 2 post surgery. This has changed our lives forever and most of all Jade’s since she is now a (tripod ) tripawd dog. It has been very difficult for her and she is aware of what has happened and is handling it quite well. Although she has frustrations with her new handicap she is strong and improving every minute. She has many hurdles ahead and we are quite confident she will beat this sad disease. This video was released to show others what they may expect post amputation. Jades amputation was done to relieve her of pain. Although she will have a couple of weeks worth it is nothing to the amount she would have endured with the tumor left intact. Jade has an excellent Doctor and a wonderful staff. We thank them for the superior care both prior to and after amputation. Jade was very lucky to have such extraordinary medical attention and true kindness from her Doctor and his staff. Thank you Doctor Jim M. & Staff!
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I have heard that sunburns do not become skin cancer immediately. How many months or years does it take for a sunburn to become skin cancer?
My friend recently had a sunburn. Her sunburn was not healing and it became worse, so she went to a dermatologist 3 months after the sunburn happened. The dermatologist found that she has skin cancer. Could it be that she had skin cancer all along, and the recent sunburn did not cause her cancer?
The treatments for bladder cancer depend on the stage of bladder cancer. Briefly, I break it down into two different stages. The first is what we call “”superficial bladder cancer”"–a small growth in the lining of the bladder that hasn’t grown into the muscle layer of the bladder. Usually this is treated–first we have to diagnose the problem, so we usually look into the bladder with a cystoscope, and we find out if there are bladder tumors .If there are bladder tumors, we either biopsy them or scrape them using a transurethral recession, done with a telescope through the urethra. We scrape the tumor to get staging–how deep it’s gone into the muscle. It’s also curative for those people who have superficial cancer. That one procedure, if it is confined, will be the treatment. Many patients, when they present, will have more than one tumor or a poorly differentiated tumor. Some of those will require some treatments like therapies in the bladder, similar to chemotherapy, but not really chemotherapy–it’s called immunotherapy. We place a small catheter in the bladder and still fluid into the bladder that causes inflammatory changes. The body’s response to that is to attack the lining of the bladder and wipe out all residual cancer cells. We usually do that once a week for about six weeks, and it is dependent on what type of cancer patients have. It doesn’t make people sick, like traditional chemotherapy. It may make them have worsening urinary frequency, or some burning …
As early detection remains the key to fighting skin cancer, researchers now suggest that this disease produces an odor which canines might be able to detect. Dr. Mallika Marshall reports.
