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A Link between Lymphoma and Celiac Disease?

An extensive recent survey of the Swedish cancer registry reveals that people with celiac disease face a 5-fold increased risk of developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma, but that the risk has decreased by more than 50% over the last 40 years.

Researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, Maryland, and Sweden's Karolinska Institute recently undertook a review of more than 60,000 lymphoma cases diagnosed in Sweden between 1965 and 2004. They matched those cases to individual lymphoma-free controls with similar characteristics.

Does Your Job Put You at Risk for Lymphoma?

The occupation or industry in which one works may either increase or decrease risk for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, an immune system cancer often found in middle-aged adults.

Eat Free Pancakes, Help the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

On February 24, 2009, the International House of Pancakes (IHOP) is hosting National Pancake Day. Between 7 AM and 10 PM, you can enjoy a free short stack of their buttermilk pancakes; all they ask in return is that you make a donation to one of their local charities, which includes Children’s Miracle Network and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Read more about IHOP’s National Pancake Day HERE.

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Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.
Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. Why twitter?

9/11 and Lymphoma Links?

As if being involved in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centers wasn't horrific enough, it's now appearing as if people present at the WTC on that world-changing day have higher than normal rates of lymphatic and blood cancers.

While New York city's health commissioner has said there is no evidence linking dust exposure to cancer, the Medical Monitoring Program reports a "handful of cases of multiple myeloma in very young individuals." They add, "multiple myeloma is a condition that ... almost aways presents later in life."

CDC & NCI Release US Cancer Incidence Report

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) recently published the Cancer Incidence and Mortality Data, a report that features the official federal statistics on rates of cancer incidence among the US population from 2001-2005.

The stats show that Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL) is the fifth most common cancer to strike adults males, with an incidence rate of 23.0 per 100,000.

Eat your Soup

Good nutrition starts with healthy food. The Cancer Nutrition Center Handbook contains diet plans and dietary suggestions for various conditions, along with over 100 detailed recipes for a variety of tasty and healthy dishes and drinks. Each recipe indicates its special nutritional value and breakdown and its time to prepare. Here is a sample:

Phytomineral Soup

Cancer and Nutrition

Interested in what role food has with cancer? Check out the Cancer Nutrition Center (http://www.cancernutrition.com/) for more information.

Carolyn Katzin, a Certified Nutrition Specialist offers this advice:

What exactly are you talking about?

One of the difficult aspects of an illness is learning the new vocabulary behind it. Occasionally, in the blog, we decipher some of the phrases you might hear and try to make the information more clear. For today – it’s disease status.

It is how doctors refer to the progression of your cancer and it's response to treatment using the following terms:

• De Novo: In cancer, the first occurrence of cancer in the body.

Lymphoma Cell Bank Announced

The Lymphoma Research Foundation (LRF)has just launched the very first Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL) Cell Bank, a collection of various MCL cell lines created by scientists from all over the world. It was created to provide a single, centralized location where scientists can easily acquire high-quality, well-characterized MCL cell lines in an effort to accelerate discoveries in MCL. LRF is currently in the process of acquiring 15 different MCL cell lines. As additional cell lines become available they will be added to the Cell Bank.