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High non-compliance with cancer therapy in teens
Updated Thu. Mar. 30 2006 3:34 PM ET Canadian Press TORONTO Parents and doctors must keep a close eye on adolescents with cancer, who may not keep up with pills and other chemotherapy regimens because they're more concerned with surviving the debilitating treatment than beating the disease itself, researchers say. A study conducted in part by researchers at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children suggests compliance in adhering to chemotherapy among teens may not be as high as expected - and that could put young people's lives at risk, says co-author Dr. Gideon Koren. "The success of cancer therapy is closely dependent on you taking your medications in a very religious manner," said Koren, a Sick Kids pediatrician and pharmacologist who supervised the study. "There's no question that drug therapy changes the prognosis, ... How Inequality Kills... Most of this comes from epidemiologists and public health researchers. The articles, dry and overlooked, are gray with columns of statistics. The earliest ones, buried in the stacks at the university, show these scientists hardly believing their own findings. It was only because George Kaplan (1) and John Lynch (2) and their associates at the University of Michigan, for example, and Richard Wilkinson (3) at the University of Sussex all made discoveries pointing in the same odd direction that this topic wasn’t dismissed as a quirk. We’ve always known poverty is correlated with poor health. But separately, if you measure the inequality of any society—its shape, hierarchical or egalitarian—and if you correlate that with infant mortality, or death from violence, or life expectancy, the correlation number jumps off the page. Now a whole book of collected reports has been published, showing the same patterns (4). Whether researchers compare different countries, different cities or different states, steeply unequal societies ... 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | All news Global business blog, Economy, Human sexuality advice, Settlement funding, Taxes news blog, Cerebral problematics news, Marketing advances, Start-up news and ideas blog, Science news blog, Genetics journal, Recreation journal |