I’m now on 70.3% of my donation challenge for the Five Peaks Virtual Run to raise money for Canteen and it’s THE LAST DAY. If you can help out with a donation, please do (and remember Australian citizens, anything above $2 is tax deductible!)
#Cancer #Australia #Running
https://www.fivepeaks.org.au/fundraisers/alexkidman/five-peaks-challenge

[Le Monde] - De nouveaux clusters de cancers pédiatriques détectés autour de La Rochelle

Une étude financée par la Ligue contre le #cancer en #CharenteMaritime a permis d’identifier au moins trois zones où le nombre de cancers de l’enfant et du jeune adulte est supérieur à ce qu’il devrait être statistiquement. La région de #LaRochelle est fortement exposée aux épandages de #pesticides.

https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2025/03/26/de-nouveaux-clusters-de-cancers-pediatriques-detectes-autour-de-la-rochelle_6586310_3244.html?lmd_medium=al&lmd_campaign=envoye-par-appli&lmd_creation=ios&lmd_source=default

#AgroIndustrie #AgricultureIntensive #AgroChimie #Santé #Health #RevueDePresse #Press

[Libération] - Pesticides, aliments ultra-transformés… Il y a urgence à reconnaître l’origine industrielle des cancers
Pierre Sujobert, Marc Billaud

Si la lutte contre les facteurs de risques individuels, comme le #tabac ou l’ #alcool, permet un recul de la maladie, elle reste insuffisante. Il est temps d’admettre que le #cancer est aussi lié à l’ #IndustrieAgroalimentaire ou à l’ #AgricultureIntensive, appellent le professeur #PierreSujobert et le chercheur #MarcBillaud.

https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/tribunes/pesticides-aliments-ultra-transformes-il-y-a-urgence-a-reconnaitre-lorigine-industrielle-des-cancers-20250323_HWYV6ALQBZDETEOB5YGMZHEADU/

#IndustrieAlimentaire #AgroIndustrie
#Santé #Health #RevueDePresse #Press

#Israeli forces advanced deeper into #Gaza Strip on Friday & blew up only specialised #cancer #hospital in the territory

Hospital was located in #Netzarim Corridor, which splits Gaza in 2 and was controlled by Israeli troops for most of the 17-month-long war

Israel moved to retake the corridor this week shortly after breaking the ceasefire with #Hamas

https://www.euronews.com/2025/03/22/israel-orders-idf-troops-to-advance-deeper-into-gaza-as-renewed-operation-expands

#WarCrimes #IsraeliWarCrimes #Israel

In 2022, the #NIH invested ~$6.8B/yr in cancer research. Breast cancer research rec $580M, lung cancer: $477M +leukemia: $287M. Childhood cancer research: ~$272M -only 4% of the NIH budget.

Despite this funding discrepancy *miraculous breakthroughs in pediatric cancer research.

#Trump signed EOs that'd cut funding to the NIH by 15% *temp blocked. If passed -significantly impact the💰allocated for cancer res *more issues for children with #cancer💔.

#Sadism #Health #USPol https://www.miamistudent.net/article/2025/03/funding-cuts-for-pediatric-cancer-research

I can’t get over the cognitive dissonance of spending 12 hours of intense work in clinic, using every minute of my 25 years of training and experience to formulate treatment plans for my patients with #cancer, and then to come home and check the news and to read about every part of the infrastructure needed to attain the knowledge for these treatment plans bring intentionally dismantled

#MedMastodon #healthcare #science #dismantling

The mRNA technology behind coronavirus vaccines is now being used to create bespoke vaccines for cancer patients.

"Cancer vaccines weren’t a proper field of research before the pandemic. There was nothing. Apart from one exception, pretty much every clinical trial had failed. With the pandemic, however, we proved that mRNA vaccines were possible.

mRNA cancer vaccines work by giving the body instructions to make a harmless piece of a cancer-related protein. This trains the immune system to recognize and attack cancer cells carrying that protein. Think of it like a training manual for security guards. The vaccine gives the immune system a guide on what cancer looks like, so it knows exactly who to watch for and remove.

Going from mRNA Covid vaccines to mRNA cancer vaccines is straightforward: same fridges, same protocol, same drug, just a different patient.

In the current trials, we do a biopsy of the patient, sequence the tissue, send it to the pharmaceutical company, and they design a personalized vaccine that’s bespoke to that patient’s cancer. That vaccine is not suitable for anyone else. It’s like science fiction.

The UK was ready. We had fridges and we had world-class manufacturing and research facilities. During the pandemic, we had proven we could open and deliver clinical trials fast. Also, the UK had established a genomic global lead with Genomics England and the 100,000 Genome Project. All doctors and nurses in this country are trained in genomics.

So the UK government signed two partnerships: one with BioNTech to provide 10,000 patients with access to personalized cancer treatments by 2030, and a 10-year investment with Moderna in an innovation and technology center with capacity to produce up to 250 million vaccines. The stars were aligned.

For many years, we believed that research is inherently slow. It used to take 20 years to get a drug to market. Most cancer patients, unfortunately, will succumb by the time a drug gets to market. We showed the world that it could be done in a year if you modernize your process, run parts of the process in parallel, and use digital tools.

We have a trial to stop skin cancer coming back after you cut it out. It’s now completed. We over-recruited again, just like every single one of the trials that we ran, and the trial finished one year ahead of schedule. That’s completely unheard of in cancer trials because they normally run over-long.

What will happen now is that, over the next six to 12 months, we will monitor the people in the trial and work out if there’s a difference between the people who took the cancer vaccine and the ones who didn’t. We’re hoping to have results by the end of the year or beginning of 2026. If it’s successful, we will have invented the first approved personalized mRNA vaccine, within only five years of the first licensed mRNA vaccine for Covid. That’s pretty impressive."

- Dr. Lennard Lee, UK National Health Service oncologist and medical director at the Ellison Institute of Technology in Oxford

https://www.wired.com/story/wired-health-lennard-lee-cancer-vaccines/

#cancer #vaccination #Science #COVID

The really interesting thing in this piece about how drinking alcohol causes cancer is just how much the scientists and writer don't want it to be true...

#IdontWantToBelieve #Cancer #alcohol

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00729-5

Does anyone remember reading articles/posts saying that #COVID would cause #Parkinson's and #cancer in the years after infection? B/c two years after my four bouts, it now appears I have both Parkinson's and cancer. Wish I could find just one such article now.

Act Now
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/act-now

" #DOGE and #DonaldTrump are trying to shut down advanced medical #research, especially #cancer research, in the #UnitedStates...

Reporting is inevitably focused on canceled grants, dismissed researchers, bans on certain forms of #communication...

What’s important is this bigger picture...

They’re shutting down medicine/disease research... throughout the United States."

#ElonMusk #Musk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #Politics #Health #Medicine #USPol #News

English follows

Bonjour tout le monde,

Je porte un manchon et un gant qui va jusqu’au milieu des doigts depuis quelques mois suite à un #cancer du sein, et je n’arrive pas à trouver des ressources, conseils ou encore suggestions sur la gestion du lymphodème, pour le bras et la main, quand il fait chaud vu que l’hiver tire à sa fin. Ou autrement dit comment supporter le manchon et le gant quand il va faire +20. 😔

Je sais que chaque personne réagit et vit différemment au lymphodème, mais n’hésitez pas à partager ce qui fonctionne ou pas pour vous. Pour les ressources elles peuvent être autant en français qu’en anglais. Merci. 😊

Today's #inkyDays drawing is both calming and blood red. Why? because I had to go back to the cancer hospital to get blood drawn for continued testing for any signs of cancer returning. So far, I've been clear. But it's still an odd and emotionally taxing experience.

#ink #drawing #art #cancer #recovery #GenerativeArt #ProceduralArt

Save Hashem from blood cancer

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-child-overcome-cancer

#Palestine #FreePalestine #Gaza #MutualAid #Cancer #Disability

Help support Long COVID Recovery- Surgeries

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-support-my-surgeries-living-expenses

#LongCovid #Covid #Cancer #Disability #DisabilityMutualAid #BlackMutualAid #MutualAid

Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a-garcia-pay-for-cancer-expenses

#MutualAid #Cancer #Disability #DisabilityMutualAid #BlackMutualAid

Main fundraiser photo
Support Ahmad's Family's Journey to Safety

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-ahmads-familys-journey-to-safety

#Palestine #FreePalestine #MutualAid #Cancer #Disability

help a person back in the hospital pay for cancer medication and doctor appointments, medical debt installment, rent, and hospital bills!

https://paypal.me/thelongestroad
https://ko-fi.com/rebekamash/goal

#MutualAid #Cancer #Help

Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a-garcia-pay-for-cancer-expenses

#MutualAid #Cancer #CrowdFund #Disability

from birdsite

My GI doc had ONE SLOT in 2024 -- ONE -- for my cancer screening & w/my genetic mutation, if you don't get annual screens, you are dead. Full stop. Please help! $60/~$2000

https://paypal.com/paypalme/karriehiggins
https://helphopelive.org/campaign/15968/
V: KARRIE-HIGGINS-2
Cashapp: $CatLadyHiggins

#ChronicIllness #Disability #MutualAid #Cancer

HELP TINU

Asking again for help with the cost of surviving chemo & Long COVID.

2+ years after #COVID19, still sick, 5th type of chemo.

https://Ko-fi.com/TinuWrites

https://cash.app/$TinuWrites

https://account.venmo.com/u/TinuWrites

#Cancer #Disability #MutualAid #BlackMastodon

@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe
@BlackMastodon@chirp.social

PLEASE SHARE AND DONATE

less than 25% funded and its been up since 2022 (last update was may 11th shared down below)

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-support-my-surgeries-living-expenses

Help support Long COVID Recovery- Surgeries

"I have no recent news concerning my surgeries as I have been treated for different respiratory conditions since my last post.

This GoFundMe was created since November 2022 and I didn’t change the goal as I realized that many people didn’t support my cause.

I want to Thank everyone once again that helped support my cause. Many things have changed and my family and I are trying to do our best to survive every medical crisis our family is facing.

My first born daughter has one of the most aggressive form of cancer including my first son that also needs immediate medical treatment and financial support.

It’s devastating for me as illnesses serve as a barrier and a set back for me and my children in the last few years.

This is another call out for support. Please share the link to anyone that can help thank you."

#MutualAid #CrowdFund #LongCovid #COVID #Cancer

HELP A BLACK FAMILY SURVIVE

This woman's gofundme has been up for OVER A YEAR and is not even halfway to her goal. one of her kids posted on birdsite about how they're terrified that so soon after celebrating her birthday, they may have to plan for her funeral. donate and share.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-support-my-surgeries-living-expenses

Originally for this woman's recovery from Long Covid and payment for surgeries needed to help her breathe and move, most of the money is now going towards her daughter who is battling stage two breast cancer (the most aggressive type, which you can see in the updates).

#Disability #Covid #Covid19 #LongCovid #Cancer #MutualAid #BlackMutualAid #BlackMastodon

Inside the Ramallah hotel housing Gaza’s cancer patients

As war destroyed their homes and killed their families, these hotel guests fought another battle – against the diseases attacking their bodies.

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/3/2/inside-the-ramallah-hotel-housing-gazas-cancer-patients

@palestine
#Gaza
#hotels
#cancer

[Le Monde] - Cancers liés aux pesticides : le combat d’Alain Hubo au nom des agriculteurs malades.

Cet ancien exploitant du Pas-de-Calais se bat pour obtenir la rétroactivité d’une indemnisation pour maladie professionnelle liée aux produits phytosanitaires. Dans sa ferme, ses fils utilisent toujours ces mêmes traitements chimiques.

https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2025/02/27/cancers-lies-aux-pesticides-le-combat-d-alain-hubo-au-nom-des-agriculteurs-malades_6566405_3244.html

#AgroIndustrie #AgroChimie
#Cancer #Pesticides #AlainHubo
#Santé #Health #RevueDePresse #Press

Montana Renews Accused Cancer Doctor’s License Despite Criminal, Civil Inquiries
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Questions about whether oncologist Dr. Thomas Weiner would be permitted to continue practicing medicine intensified after a ProPublica investigation exposed a trail of patient harm tied to his practice.

https://www.propublica.org/article/thomas-weiner-montana-medical-license-renewed?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Montana #Cancer #Medicine #Hospital #Health #Law

"Cancer is a political disease... Adopting lax regulations, letting manufacturers evaluate their own products, knowingly allowing carcinogenic substances to be spread to pander to captains of industry, betting on discovery of miracle cures rather than on prevention and hindering consumer information: all this is not inevitable, it's #politics.

'#Cancer is, at least in part, a political disease' - Le Monde

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2025/02/13/cancer-is-at-least-in-part-a-political-disease_6738127_23.html https://archive.ph/tzLiA #Capitalism #health #bigpharma #medicine

Notorious US #ChemicalPlant polluting water with toxic #PFAS, lawsuit claims

Complaint says #Chemours factory dramatized in Hollywood movie #DarkWaters continues to pollute #WestVirginia river

by Tom Perkins, January 27, 2025

"The chemical giant Chemours’s notorious West Virginia PFAS plant is regularly polluting nearby water with high levels of toxic 'forever chemicals', a new lawsuit alleges.

"It represents the latest salvo in a decades-old fight over pollution from the plant, called Washington Works, which continues despite public health advocates winning significant legal battles.

The new federal complaint claims #WashingtonWorks has been spitting out levels of PFAS waste significantly higher than what a discharge permit has allowed since 2023, which is contaminating the #OhioRiver in #ParkersburgWestVirginia, a town of about 50,000 people in #Appalachia.

"The factory was the focal point of a Hollywood movie, Dark Waters. It dramatized the story of how the pollution widely sickened Parkersburg residents, and the David v Goliath legal saga in which a group of residents and attorneys took on Chemours, then part of DuPont.
The findings ‘highlight the importance of careful scrutiny of novel chemicals’, said Irene Jacz, a study co-author and Iowa State economist.

"An epidemiological study stemming from the case blew the lid off of the health risks of PFAS, and ultimately cost #DuPont about $700m.

"Though the landmark case still reverberates across the regulatory landscape, the suit started almost 25 years ago, concluded in 2016, and Chemours’s pollution continues. The new lawsuit is part of other legal actions related to the facility that have filled the gap left by weak regulatory action, local advocates say. The never-ending struggle 'wears you out', added Joe Kiger, a Parkersburg resident who was one of the original litigants in 2001.

"'We have put up with this for 24 years, and [Chemours] is still polluting, they’re still putting this stuff in the water,' Kiger said.

"The new lawsuit, filed by the #WestVirginiaRiversCoalition, alleges 'numerous violations' since the level of PFAS the company is permitted to discharge per a consent order was lowered in early 2023. Among the contaminants are #PFOA, a PFAS chemical to which virtually no level of exposure in drinking water is safe, the #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency (#EPA) has found. It also includes #GenX, a compound for which the EPA has similarly found very low exposure levels can cause health problems.

"The EPA ordered Chemours to take corrective action, but the company has done nothing in response, and the agency has not taken further action, the suit states. The complaint does not mention drinking water, which is largely filtered. But the suit alleges the ongoing pollution prevents residents from using the river for recreation.

"In a statement, Chemours said the 'concerns are being addressed' through the consent order. It also noted it was renewing discharge permits with the state, and was working with regulators 'to navigate both the consent order and the permit renewal process'.

"'Chemours recognizes the Coalition as a community stakeholder and invites the Coalition to engage directly with the Washington Works team,' a spokesperson wrote.

"The EPA and West Virginia Rivers Coalition declined to comment because litigation is ongoing.

"Kiger and others who have taken on Chemours and DuPont railed against the company, accusing it of 'greed' and putting profits above residents’ health. Some in Parkersburg refer to the waste as the 'Devil's Piss'.

"'They do what they can to make money,' said Harry Deitzler, a West Virginia attorney who helped lead past lawsuits.

"'The officers in the corporation sometimes don’t care about what’s right and wrong – they need to make money for shareholders and the lawsuits make everyone play by the same rules.'

"Still, most residents are not aware of the ongoing pollution, those who spoke with the Guardian say. Chemours is a large employer that still wields power locally, and spends heavily on charitable giving. Many remain supportive of the company, regardless of the pollution, Kiger said.

"'That’s the kind of stuff you’re up against,' he added. 'People put a blind trust in them. It could be snowing out and Chemours would tell everyone it’s 80F [27C] and sunny, and everyone will grab their tan lotion.'

"The saga began in the late 1990s when the plant’s pollution was suspected of sickening nearby livestock, and an investigation by attorneys revealed the alarming levels at which PFAS was being discharged into the water and environment.

"A class action lawsuit yielded about $70m in damages for area residents in 2004, but the litigation did not prove DuPont’s PFAS pollution was behind a rash of #cancer, #KidneyDisease, stubbornly high cholesterol and other widespread health problems in the region.

"Instead of dividing the settlement up among tens of thousands of residents, which would have only provided each with several hundred dollars, the money went toward developing an epidemiological study with independent scientists to verify that widespread local health issues were caused by DuPont’s pollution.

"The move was a gamble that ultimately paid off – the study of about 70,000 people showed by 2012 that PFOA probably caused some forms of cancer, #ThyroidDisease, persistently #HighCholesterol, pregnancy-induced #hypertension and #autoimmune problems.

"Subsequent studies have shown links between the chemical and a host of other serious health problems – #BirthDefects, #neurotoxicity, kidney disease and #LiverDisease – that residents in the area suffered.

"DuPont and Chemours in 2017 settled for $671m in costs for about 3,500 injury suits, and have paid more to install water-filtration systems throughout the region. Separately, Chemours in 2023 settled with the state of #Ohio for $110m for pollution largely from Washington Works.

"The EPA and state regulatory agencies have at times been staffed with former DuPont managers or industry allies, and litigation has been the only way to get any meaningful movement, said Rob Bilott, the attorney who led the original class-action suit.

'"It’s infuriating,' Bilott said. 'It took decades of making DuPont documents and internal data public, and getting the story out through movies, news articles, books and public engagement, and that’s what finally pushed the needle here. This is the impact of citizens forcing it through decades of litigation.'

"The latest lawsuit is a citizen’s suit under the #CleanWaterAct. Such suits give citizens the power to ask a judge to enforce federal law when a polluter is violating it and regulators fail to act.

"The lawsuit asks a judge to order the company to pay $66,000 for each day it has been in violation, which is stipulated in the permit. That would total around $50m, but the main goal is to stop the pollution.

"The EPA has acknowledged Chemours is violating the law, but has 'taken no further enforcement action regarding Chemours’s violations as of the date of this complaint', the suit reads."

Source:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/27/chemours-pfas-pollution-lawsuit

Archived:
https://archive.ph/p3wA6
#Environment #PFASPollution #PollutionRunoff #WaterIsLife #DevilsPiss

Catherine, Princess of Wales, has announced her cancer is in remission after visiting the hospital where she began treatment last year. Read more from @CBSNews

https://flip.it/Te00rS

#Kate #Catherine #Princess #UK #Wales #Cancer #Royal

Lads, lads!

("lads" being "people born with & still having a prostate" regardless of current identification)

I'm about to have my 5th round of chemotherapy for advanced metstatic prostate cancer. A close friend has had surgery to remove theirs today, and another friend in the USA had theirs removed on Thursday.

If you are 50+, then FOR THE LOVE OF WHATEVER DEITY YOU DO OR DON'T HAVE please get a PSA test.

Save yourself being in our position.

#cancer #prostate #PleaseBoost

'Out of control': #Cancer surgeon claims #UnitedHealthcare questioned her mid-procedure https://www.democraticunderground.com/114236313

#EPA Report Finds That Formaldehyde Presents an “Unreasonable Risk” to Public Health
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The report was published weeks after a ProPublica investigation found that the chemical causes more cancer than any other toxic air pollutant and can trigger asthma, miscarriages and fertility problems.

#News #PublicHealth #Health #Pollution #Cancer #Environment

https://propub.li/4fIZP60

About fucking time! If you think #smoking is a health menace worse than alcohol, let me put it this way... Not JUST from a biological perspective;I'm Alcohol KILLS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS ON THE HIGHWAYS EVERY YEAR, ALONE. Usually it's not not the drunk that gets killed either. This is also not counting destroyed families and other sociological, medical causes.

Surgeon general calls for cancer warning on #alcohol

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/surgeon-general-calls-for-cancer-warning-on-alcohol #alcoholism #health #cancer