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The short answer to why Frank Middleton doesn’t eat bacon: cancer prevention
BY AMBER SMITH The backstory: Today Frank Middleton is an associate professor at Upstate with appointments in three departments and extensive research related to neurological and psychiatric diseases....
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An aspirin a day: Can a pill protect you from colorectal cancer?
Aspirin has long been recommended to help prevent heart disease and reduce stroke risk in some patients. Now the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force says evidence shows the anti-inflammatory pill can...
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Formerly known as cancer: Experts now view one type of thyroid growth as...
The thyroid is a small gland at the base of the neck. BY JIM HOWE Thyroid cancer can usually be cured if caught early, and one type of abnormal thyroid growth may no longer be considered a cancer at...
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Should you be getting 3-D mammograms?
Upstate radiologist Ravi Adhikary, MD, reviews images from a 3-D mammogram. (PHOTO BY SUSAN KAHN) Women with dense breast tissue have the most reason to seek 3-dimensional mammography, says Ravi...
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Immune therapy: Training the body’s immune system to kill cancer
William Kerr, PhD, in his lab at Upstate. (PHOTO BY WILLIAM MUELLER) BY AMBER SMITH Rarely does a primary tumor kill. In cancer, death is more typical after the cancer spreads, or metastasizes....
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Experiences with cancer point medical student toward career in immunotherapy...
BY JIM McKEEVER Ogochukwu Ezeoke is excited about advances in cancer treatment, especially the idea of using a patient’s immune system to fight disease. Many breakthrough drug approvals in the past...
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Breast cancer treatment affects bone mass, but you can protect your bone health
Ruban Dhaliwal, MD, discusses estrogen and bone loss. (PHOTO BY SUSAN KAHN) BY AMBER SMITH No matter whether her breast cancer is treated with surgery, radiation or medications, a woman’s resulting...
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Breast cancer gene also increases risk of prostate cancer
BY AMBER SMITH Although prostate cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in men in the United States, the disease kills fewer than 3 percent of those diagnosed. It typically grows slowly, becoming...
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Have you seen the summer issue of Cancer Care magazine?
Welcome to Cancer Care magazine’s summer 2016 issue. Medical student Ogochukwu Ezeoke, smiling from our cover, aspires to a career in cancer research, and like many scientists she’s intrigued with the...
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Window to an ill youngster’s world: Therapy with miniatures and sand goes...
Knai Bridges, 13, creates a sandplay assemblage as Ruth McKay, medical family therapist looks on. (PHOTOS BY SUSAN KAHN) BY JIM HOWE A box of sand and an assortment of miniatures helps young patients...
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Sugar and soy: dispelling the 2 biggest food myths about cancer
Don’t blame sugar Maria Erdman Glucose feeds all cells in the body, and cancer cells use more blood sugar than do less active cells. But that doesn’t mean eating sugar (or not eating sugar) influences...
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Sun smart: Teaching kids to protect themselves from skin cancer
BY JIM McKEEVER Protecting your skin from the sun starting at an early age is an important way to guard against skin cancer. That’s the message a group of medical students shares with elementary school...
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Marking milestones: Patients invited to ring bell in celebration
(PHOTO BY KATHLEEN PAICE FROIO) When a bell rings in the Upstate Cancer Center, everyone within earshot cheers. The sound of a ringing bell means that a patient has finished treatment or reached a...
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Early detection of cancer appears to improve survival odds
While the incidence of cancer is rising, death rates are dropping, presumably because of improvements in screening that allow for earlier detection and improvements in cancer treatment options. This...
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A 50-year anniversary: Meet one of Upstate’s oldest living pediatric brain...
Michelle “Shelly” Kikta-Kiner, at home with her grandchildren, Cole, 8, and Rowan, 7. (PHOTO BY SUSAN KAHN) BY AMBER SMITH Some of the details are fuzzy, but 50 years after her treatment for a brain...
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Quality or quantity? Serious illness prompts serious discussion
Ajeet Gajra, MD, in the second-floor lobby of the Upstate Cancer Center. (PHOTO BY ROBERT MESCAVAGE) BY AMBER SMITH Some doctors are reluctant to recommend palliative care, particularly for patients...
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She’s resilient: 11-year-old faces Ewing sarcoma
Part of Maddie’s resilience may come from the way her family deals with her disease. “We don’t make life about the cancer,” her mother, Amy Shaw, explains. Her sister, Alexis (left), and Maddie are...
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‘In good hands’: Patient appreciates Cancer Center’s energized staff, warm,...
Carol Pesko (right) with his husband, Tom Krahe, at the Upstate Cancer Center. (PHOTOS BY ROBERT MESCAVAGE) BY AMBER SMITH When Carl Pesko is at the Upstate Cancer Center for treatment, he receives...
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Up-close look at a precision surgical tool
Surgery on the lungs was done as an open operation as early as 1911. Starting in the 1950s, lung surgery became more commonplace because of the increase in lung cancer. Open surgery remains an option...
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Instead of a biopsy: Scientists seek better, noninvasive diagnostic tool to...
Positron emission tomography images of the same patient with advanced liver cancer. At left, the large lesions are visible using F18-fluorocholine radiotracer. At right, the same lesions are not...
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