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The health ministry has released for the first time five-year survival rates for new cancer patients by cancer type that are based on data from Japan’s national registry. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/15/japan/japan-5-year-cancer-survival-rates/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #cancer #surveys #mhlw #health

Fitness Foundry (Coach Julio)

@Fitnessfoundry@mas.to · 7 days ago

🎉 Surprise visit to my mom Millie (2x cancer survivor) in Dorchester… and of course, I didn’t leave empty-handed. She packed me off with locrio de arenque con habichuelas—a 🇩🇴Dominican classic.

She’s my hero. ❤️

#food #Boston #family #Dominican #Latino #Homemade #Cancer #BreastCancer #hero

Hacker News

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social · last week

LMArena is a cancer on AI

https://surgehq.ai/blog/lmarena-is-a-plague-on-ai

#HackerNews #LMArena #AI #cancer #controversy #critique #debate #technology

LMArena is a cancer on AI

Would you trust a medical system whose only metric was “which doctor wins the Internet?” No, you'd call that malpractice. Yet that's LMArena.

Jingle Blues

@APBBlue@thepit.social · 2 weeks ago

It's been bad since my cancer scare. Working with a therapist to get it back under control.

Jingle Blues

@APBBlue@thepit.social replied · 2 weeks ago

Let's just say that Big #Cancer Scare is really not great when you already struggle with health #anxiety.

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Marianne

@noodlemaz@mstdn.games · 3 weeks ago

#introduction
Hi, I'm Marianne, AKA Noodlemaz!

I've actually been here since 2022 but my old instance just got shut down (med-mastodon refugee). Please follow me again here 🙃

I'm a science communicator based in London, UK.

I'm in London's nerdiest choir, Ready Singer One - we do music from video games, film and TV!

My PhD was in cancer biology; molecular pathology of cancer.

I love games, nature, SciFi friends (hi!), music etc. and look forward to chatting here

#videoGames #sciFi #London #choir #choralSinging #music #cancer #scicomm #videoGamesMusic #birds #medMastodon

Marianne

@noodlemaz@mstdn.games · 3 weeks ago

#introduction
Hi, I'm Marianne, AKA Noodlemaz!

I've actually been here since 2022 but my old instance just got shut down (med-mastodon refugee). Please follow me again here 🙃

I'm a science communicator based in London, UK.

I'm in London's nerdiest choir, Ready Singer One - we do music from video games, film and TV!

My PhD was in cancer biology; molecular pathology of cancer.

I love games, nature, SciFi friends (hi!), music etc. and look forward to chatting here

#videoGames #sciFi #London #choir #choralSinging #music #cancer #scicomm #videoGamesMusic #birds #medMastodon

kcarruthers

@kcarruthers@infosec.exchange · 3 weeks ago

Researchers are starting to argue that #Endometriosis is like a #Cancer - Reproductive Sciences

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43032-025-02024-0

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Text Shot: Endometriosis (EMS) is a non-cancerous invasive condition where tissue resembling the lining of the uterus is found outside of the uterine cavity. Endometriotic lesions have been found in nearly every organ of the body. This review highlights examples of EMS exhibiting all eight established hallmarks of cancer: hyperproliferation (e.g. through estrogen signalling), evasion of growth suppression (e.g. through progesterone resistance), immunosurveillance evasion (e.g. through reduction of natural killer cell cytotoxicity), enabling replicative immortality (e.g. through increased telomere length), invasion (e.g. through epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition), induction of angiogenesis (e.g. through upregulation of hypoxia-inducible factors), resistance to apoptosis (e.g. through increased expression of survivin), and deregulation of cellular metabolism (e.g. through increased production of lactate). Therefore, despite being considered a non-cancerous, benign condition, EMS is…

SpringerLink

Endometriosis and the Hallmarks of Cancer - Reproductive Sciences

Endometriosis (EMS) is a non-cancerous invasive condition where tissue resembling the lining of the uterus is found outside of the uterine cavity. Endometriotic lesions have been found in nearly every organ of the body. This review highlights examples of EMS exhibiting all eight established hallmarks of cancer: hyperproliferation (e.g. through estrogen signalling), evasion of growth suppression (e.g. through progesterone resistance), immunosurveillance evasion (e.g. through reduction of natural killer cell cytotoxicity), enabling replicative immortality (e.g. through increased telomere length), invasion (e.g. through epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition), induction of angiogenesis (e.g. through upregulation of hypoxia-inducible factors), resistance to apoptosis (e.g. through increased expression of survivin), and deregulation of cellular metabolism (e.g. through increased production of lactate). Therefore, despite being considered a non-cancerous, benign condition, EMS is highly cancer-like in its behaviours to promote invasion and ectopic survival. The presence of all hallmarks of cancer amongst endometriotic behaviours highlights that to expand understanding of endometriotic metastasis, as well as potential modes for management of EMS, it may be possible to leverage the larger knowledge base associated with cancer.

Michael Downey 🧢

@downey@floss.social · 3 weeks ago

💚💛🩵 #GiveCancerHell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=296peFzrSCQ

#Portland #Oregon #PortlandOR #cancer

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Flipboard Science Desk

@ScienceDesk@flipboard.social · 4 weeks ago

Researchers at the University of Maryland have evidence of a way to prevent cervical cancer: increase the number of young men who get the HPV vaccination. Read more from @ScienceAlert:

https://flip.it/TnAst8

#Science #Health #Cancer

ScienceAlert

Vaccinating Boys Against HPV Could Eliminate Cervical Cancer

Not enough young men are getting vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV), and in some nations, it may be undermining the elimination of cervical cancer.

Flipboard Science Desk

@ScienceDesk@flipboard.social · 4 weeks ago

Researchers at the University of Maryland have evidence of a way to prevent cervical cancer: increase the number of young men who get the HPV vaccination. Read more from @ScienceAlert:

https://flip.it/TnAst8

#Science #Health #Cancer

ScienceAlert

Vaccinating Boys Against HPV Could Eliminate Cervical Cancer

Not enough young men are getting vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV), and in some nations, it may be undermining the elimination of cervical cancer.

Hacker News

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social · 4 weeks ago

Ultrasound Cancer Treatment: Sound Waves Fight Tumors

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ultrasound-cancer-treatment

#HackerNews #Ultrasound #Cancer #Treatment #Sound #Waves #Fight #Tumors #Healthcare #Innovation #Cancer #Research #Medical #Technology

IEEE Spectrum

Ultrasound Treatment Takes on Cancer’s Toughest Tumors

How does a technique called histotripsy turn tumors into a liquid slurry without harming healthy tissue? Learn about this new noninvasive cancer treatment.

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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:

@bicmay@med-mastodon.com · last month

“'We estimate that over a seven-year follow-up period, the shingles vaccine averts one in five new dementia diagnoses,' says Dr. Pascal Geldsetzer, an assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University and senior author of the study.

The findings were replicated in a similar study in JAMA this year, looking at seniors in Australia when the government rolled out a similar shingles-vaccine program."

🎁🔗: https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/the-unexpected-ways-vaccines-could-boost-your-health-00eb3158?st=NYXDc3&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

#research #science #vaccines #immunizations #dementia #cancer

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Kropotkinson

@amici@loops.video · last month

How whales protect against #cancer, and how humans can do the same. Video touches on some advanced topics in #MolecularBiology

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Regendans

@regendans@todon.eu · last month

Monsanto and Bayer.

Sue them! Shame them! Boycott them!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto#Cancer_risks_of_Roundup

"In June 2020, Monsanto acquisitor Bayer agreed to settle over a hundred thousand Roundup cancer lawsuits, agreeing to pay $8.8 to $9.6 billion to settle those claims, and $1.5 billion for any future claims. The settlement does not include three cases that have already gone to jury trials and are being appealed.[14]"

#boycott #monsanto #bayer #lobbying #cancer

Monsanto - Wikipedia

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The Japan Times

@thejapantimes@mastodon.social · last month

A flagship study that declared the weedkiller Roundup posed no serious health risks has been retracted with little fanfare, ending a 25-year saga that exposed how corporate interests can distort scientific research. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/06/world/science-health/landmark-pesticide-study-fall/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #pesticides #health #cancer #environment

ProPublica

@ProPublica@newsie.social · last month

Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.

Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kenya-trump-usaid-world-food-program-starvation-children-deaths?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #USAID #Hunger #USPolitics #Trump #MarcoRubio #Africa #Kenya

ProPublica

After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death

“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

Kristen

@kristen_d@mastodon.social replied · last month

@ProPublica #Trump = #Cancer to everything that matters. Everywhere. #TheOnlyGoodNaziIsADeadNazi

Kropotkinson

@amici@loops.video · last month

How whales protect against #cancer, and how humans can do the same. Video touches on some advanced topics in #MolecularBiology

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ProPublica

@ProPublica@newsie.social · last month

Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.

They finally got their wish.
https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-formaldehyde-risk-assessment?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Environment #PublicHealth #Health #Cancer #Government #Regulation