Dr. Barry Dworkin

  • Shingles does not increase cancer risk nor is it associated with cancer

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for September 18, 2012 [display_podcast] Source: Shingles patients don’t have higher risk of cancer, study finds Reference: Risk of cancer among patients with herpes zoster infection: a population-based study 

  • ASA may improve survival for men with aggressive prostate cancer

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for August 30, 2012 [display_podcast] Source: Aspirin May Prolong Prostate Cancer Survival Reference: “Aspirin Use and the Risk of Prostate Cancer Mortality in Men Treated With Prostatectomy or Radiotherapy”; Kevin S. Choe, Janet E. Cowan, June M. Chan, Peter R. Carroll, Anthony V. D’Amico, and Stanley L. Liauw; Journal of Clinical Oncology,…

  • Melanoma risk directly affected by tanning bed UV exposure

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for July 25, 2012 [display_podcast] Source: Melanoma on Rise with Indoor Tanning Reference: Boniol M, et al “Cutaneous melanoma attributable to sunbed use: Systematic review and meta-analysis” BMJ 2012; DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e4757.

  • Prostate cancer surgery results no different from not doing the surgery: study

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for July 20, 2012 [display_podcast] Source: Prostate Cancer Surgery Fails to Cut Death Rate in Study Reference: Radical Prostatectomy versus Observation for Localized Prostate Cancer

  • Cold virus used to attack cancer cells

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June 14, 2012   [display_podcast]   Source: Cold virus holds promise as cancer therapy: study Reference: Cell Carriage, Delivery, and Selective Replication of an Oncolytic Virus in Tumor in Patients

  • Early data using targeted breast cancer therapy shows promise but study remains unpublished for now

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June 5, 2012   [display_podcast]   Source: Study: ‘Smart Bomb’ Drug Attacks Breast Cancer  

  • Google algorithms help identify biomarker proteins for pancreatic cancer

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for May 23, 2012   [display_podcast]   Source: Google algorithm proves extremely useful in cancer study Reference: Google Goes Cancer: Improving Outcome Prediction for Cancer Patients by Network-Based Ranking of Marker Genes

  • Cancer risk increased with sleep apnea

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for May 21, 2012   [display_podcast]   Source: Sleep Apnea Has Higher Risk Of Cancer Mortality Reference: http://www.med.wisc.edu/news-events/news/sleep-apnea-associated-with-higher-mortality-from-cancer/37687  

  • HIV treatment with modified T cells successful in small study

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for May 3, 2012   [display_podcast]   Source: Gene Therapy Safe in Decade-Long HIV Study That May Widen Use Reference: Decade-Long Safety and Function of Retroviral-Modified Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells