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These 30 inspirational individual cancer survival blogs are therapeutic for the families involved and other patients encountering cancer as well. Read on for some heavy inspiration from these highly personal journeys.

Online Cancer blog tracks information on the advances in the study of cancers, and also other aspects of cancer related issues that concerns majority of people. Learn the latest information and treatment methods on prostate cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, skin cancer, colon cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, liver cancer, throat cancer.

Once diagnosed with cancer, patients can feel isolated and alone, even from those closest to them. Using the internet as a tool, now they can reach out to anyone, anywhere in the world who wants to share their experience with this devastating disease. They can research, ask questions, post their own story, or they can simply read the stories of those who have been where they are going. From breast cancer to leukemia, these 50 sites cover a variety of subjects.

Online Cancer blog tracks information on the advances in the study of cancers, and also other aspects of cancer related issues that concerns majority of people. Learn the latest information and treatment methods on prostate cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, skin cancer, colon cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, liver cancer, throat cancer.

Signs Of Bowel Cancer Can Easily Be Mistaken For Less Serious Illnesses

Know Cancer is dedicated to connecting, educating and empowering all people affected by the many forms of cancer. Through the power of knowledge and collective wisdom we will help people to prevent, endure and survive cancer. Our current focus is KnowCancer.com, an online community that provides social and professional support to patients and their loved ones. The website contains 3 main sections: Education: a comprehensive library of cancer related content Community: a cancer social network, blog, forum and an "ask the expert" section Resources: a nationwide directory of cancer related businesses and organizations

...has been the number one Google search term leading people to the blog this week - and that worries me. As I wrote about a week ago, dichloroacetate, or DCA, is the molecule tested recently by a team at University of Alberta for its ability to slow the growth of human lung cancer in immunocompromised rats. Among DCA's action is the ability to prevent cancer cells from producing lactic acid via aerobic glycolysis, a process used by more than half (but not all) tumors. Scientists continue to debate whether this process is a cause of cancer, or just a byproduct of malignant cell transformation. I am deeply concerned that desperate cancer patients may be trying to purchase dichloroacetate (DCA) and self-treat for cancer based on this highly-hyped single paper. To the credit of the researchers and their institution, who have set up a website to address the intense interest, they discourage such practice:

What if we didn't try to cure cancer, but simply kept tumors from growing too big? That's what radiologist Robert Gatenby of the Moffitt Cancer Center proposes this week in the journal Nature. Gatenby argues that high doses of powerful chemotherapies wreak havoc on a patient's immune system and foster the rapid regrowth of chemoresistant cancers that doctors have no hope of fighting.  So instead of curing cancer, he suggests doctors aim to stabilize the tumor at a tolerable size. In practice, this would mean that doctors identify a target size for an individual tumor that gives the patient the best quality of life.  Then, they will regularly monitor the tumor's growth with medical imaging equipment like a PET/CT scanner (see photo), and regulate doses of anticancer drugs to maintain it at a precise volume.

Antibody sequencing is a technique focuses on the determination of the amino acid sequence of an antibody, as well as which conformation the antibody adopts and the extent to which it is complexed with any non-peptide molecules.

Dogs can help doctors "smell" cancer? It may sound incredible, but in fact, this research has made great progress. Recently, the "Cancer Sniffing Dogs Project", approved by the British NHS, has entered the testing phase. Milton Keynes University Hospital of Buckinghamshire also approved this research program proposed by a charity organization.

Can sniffer dog detection take the place of traditional prostate cancer screening like immunized human antibody library ? It is still too early to draw a conclusion at present. Nobody knows how this sniffer dog detection technology can be applied to clinical use, or whether it can be widely promoted.

November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month and presents a chance to educate the public about one of the most deadly yet least funded forms of cancer.

Recently, the attention as gone to a category of natural biochemical called "Salvestrols." These are a class of natural molecules with dozens of different names. Resveratrol was the first to be identified, from grape skins, but scientists are still lookin

Sharing experiences, support and advise for men with advanced & recurrent Prostate Cancer

Thanks to the U.S. embargo on Cuba, American lung cancer patients have been unable to access a lung cancer vaccine that has been increasing patients' survival rates on the island since 2008.