Dr. David Stewart discusses many aspects of Cancer that he feels need to be changed to make more progress in the field. He also discusses the importance of genetic testing before putting patients into clinical trials. Dr. Stewart is a professor of medicine and head of division of medical oncology at the University of Ottawa. He was previously professor and deputy chair of Thoracic Head and Neck Medical Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Hospital. He has 270 peer reviewed publications and edited the textbook Lung Cancer: Prevention, Management, and Emerging Therapies Published in 2010.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
New Cancer Mentality: Dr. John McGowan on the Bathtub Mechanism to treat Cancer
Dr. McGowan uses mathematics and mathematical software, along with development of image and video processing algorithms to model cancer. He graduated with a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology and a PHD in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In this video, he highlights the Bathtub Mechanism, which he believes could play a significant role in helping cancer patients due to abnormal level of chromosome number routinely found in cancer patients.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
New Cancer Mentality: Krystal Bocanegra on her Experince with Peritoneal Mesothelioma and Advice for Current Patients
New Cancer Mentality: Krystal Bocanegra on her journey fighting Peritoneal Mesothelioma and Advice for Current Patients from David Farzam on Vimeo.
Krystal’s story begins almost 3yrs ago, when she suddenly began experiencing severe stomach pains and exhaustion. At the time, she contributed these symptoms to her body reacting to working too much, but her symptoms consistently kept getting worse and worse each month. Finally, after becoming too fatigued to work, Krystal decided to go see her primary care physician. After, a CT scan was taken and surgery completed to look at what was going on, Krystal was diagnosed with the rare cancer peritoneal mesothelioma. She comes today to inform our audience of her treatment and help others who may be going through similar circumstances she did.
Friday, July 8, 2011
New Cancer Mentality: International Insight: Dr. Laura Soucek of Spain on her experimental findings studying Cancer
New Cancer Mentality: International Insight: Dr. Laura Soucek of Spain on her experimental findings studying Cancer from David Farzam on Vimeo.
Dr. Soucek obtained a PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology at University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy. She then went on to do a Postdoctoral fellowship at the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Francisco. She then moved on to being an Assistant Researcher as a Molecular Biologist at the university of California San Francisco. As of now, she is in in Barcelona, Spain where she is the Head of the Mouse Models of Cancer Therapies Laboratory, at the institute of Oncology Vall d’Hebron. She has received numerous awards including the AACR award for outstanding early-career scientists in cancer research as well as the MIGUEL SERVET fellowship from FIS, Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo. Just last week she also received an award from the Fero Foundation, which was given to her by Princess Letizia of Spain. She speaks about targeting the inhibition of the Myc protein to treat various types of Cancer.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Thursday, June 2, 2011
New Cancer Mentality: Dr. Arnold Glazier on the Requirements for Cure of Cancer: A plan of Action
New Cancer Mentality: Dr. Arnold Glazier on the Requirements for Cure of Cancer: A plan of Action from David Farzam on Vimeo.
Dr. Glazier discusses PRTT and the requirements for the cure of cancer.
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New Cancer Mentality: Dr. Arnold Glazier on the importance of Prevention on Cancer
New Cancer Mentality: Dr. Arnold Glazier on the importance of Prevention on Cancer from David Farzam on Vimeo.
In this video, Dr. Glazier emphasizes many important aspects relating to prevention on cancer risk and what can be done to avoid exposure to carcinogens.
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