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Treating Advanced Breast Cancer with Adult Stem Cells

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

Reported by David Prentice, The Family Research Council

Stanford doctors have shown that women with advanced breast cancer show greater survival when treated with aggressive chemotherapy and their own adult stem cells. Their study looked at long-term results for women with advanced, stage-4 breast cancer, who were treated 12-14 years ago with high-dose chemotherapy and their own, purified adult stem cells, compared to women who received chemotherapy and unpurified blood stem cells.

While the numbers of patients in this long-term study are small, the results are striking. Five of the 22 women (23 percent) who received their purified adult stem cells are still alive, four of whom have no sign of disease. Only seven of the 74 women (9 percent) who received the untreated cells are still alive, with five of those seven having no sign of disease. Women who received their own purified adult stem cells had a median survival of 60 months, whereas those receiving unpurified stem cells had a median overall survival of 28 months.

Senior author Dr. Judith Shizuru said:

“Our study suggests that the high-dose therapy strategy can be modified to include the use of cancer-free purified blood stem cells to yield better overall outcomes in women with advanced breast cancer.”

The results were published online in the journal Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation.

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Positive Thoughts, Fewer Strokes

Monday, July 25th, 2011

By: Marissa Cevallos – Published July, 25, 2011 www.latimes.com

One more reason to keep your glass half full: Optimists might be less likely to have a stroke.

In new research, the more people believed good things would happen, the less likely they were to suffer a stroke within two years. Psychology researchers examined 6,044 stroke-free adults who said how much they agreed with statements like “In uncertain times, I usually expect the best.”

Two years later, the researchers tracked which participants had suffered a stroke. They found the more optimistic the person, the lower the odds of a stroke: On an optimism scale of 3 to 18, each point increase in optimism was associated with an approximate 10% decrease in the likelihood of a stroke.

When the researchers took into consideration a host of other variables related to out-look on life, anxiety, cynical hostility, depression, negative affect, neuroticism and pessimism – a smaller but still significant association between optimism and stroke remained. The results were published on-line Thursday in the journal Stroke.

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