Andrew Madoff, the sole surviving son of imprisoned Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff, is fighting for his life after his treatment for his cancer hit a snag, he tells People exclusively. On Wednesday, Madoff received a donor lymphocyte infusion in hopes of salvaging the stem cell transplant he received on May 29th, after several rounds of chemotherapy and radiation to treat his mantle cell lymphoma. "Things were humming along nicely, but then one of the components of the transplant started failing," he says. "We kind of waited it out a couple of weeks to see if it would fail entirely." His situation did not improve,...
- 8/9/2013
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan
- PEOPLE.com
Actor Sir Ian McKellen, who will appear in the upcoming movie "The Hobbit," has announced that he has been battling prostate cancer for the past "six or seven years," according to news reports.
However, he isn't actually being treated for the cancer right now, and is instead employing the "active surveillance" approach, the Daily Mirror reported.
"When you have got [cancer] you monitor it and you have to be careful it doesn't spread. But if it is contained in the prostate it’s no big deal," McKellen, who is 73, told the Daily Mirror. "Many, many men die from it but it's one of the cancers that is totally treatable so I have 'waitful watching.' I am examined regularly and it's just contained, it's not spreading. I’ve not had any treatment."
Prostate cancer -- which is cancer that forms in the prostate -- is different from some other cancers because...
However, he isn't actually being treated for the cancer right now, and is instead employing the "active surveillance" approach, the Daily Mirror reported.
"When you have got [cancer] you monitor it and you have to be careful it doesn't spread. But if it is contained in the prostate it’s no big deal," McKellen, who is 73, told the Daily Mirror. "Many, many men die from it but it's one of the cancers that is totally treatable so I have 'waitful watching.' I am examined regularly and it's just contained, it's not spreading. I’ve not had any treatment."
Prostate cancer -- which is cancer that forms in the prostate -- is different from some other cancers because...
- 12/11/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Having a baby boy may lead to male DNA lingering in the mother's brain, says a new study from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Keep reading for more details. There's nothing like a bond between a mother and her son, but now the connection goes further than scientists originally thought, according to a new study. When a woman is pregnant with a baby boy, some of his DNA can be transmitted through the mother's body and up to her brain, researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle have determined. The same way a woman passes oxygen and nutrients to her unborn baby through the placenta, the fetus can also send DNA up to the mother, the study suggests. The baby's cells and his descendants can stay in a woman for decades -- male DNA was found in the brain of a 93-year-old woman after she died.
- 9/27/2012
- by Dory Larrabee
- HollywoodLife
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