- Westchester Medical Center (WMC) has announced the opening of its new 5,300-square-foot outpatient Infusion Center, ushering in a new partnership with MSKCC, whose staff will provide outpatient cancer care and infusion services.
- Dr. Michael J. Morris of MSKCC was quoted in a New York Times article about a new study that found that men with high-risk prostate cancer treated with only 18 months of hormone therapy live just as long as those treated for a more standard 36 months.
Do You Know: Health Hazards of Sitting Too Long
Can sedentary activity lead to diabetes and cardiovascular disease?
Recent literature supports the growing scientific consensus that sitting for long periods of time has a negative impact on physical health, even for people who are active when not sitting.
An article in Diabetologia presents the results of a meta-analysis and systematic review, examining the association of sedentary activity with diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular mortality and all-cause mortality. Eighteen studies (794,577 participants) were reviewed and found that people with high amounts of sedentary behavior (sitting or lying down) had a significant increase in the relative risk of all four.
An article in British Journal of Sports Medicine focuses on prolonged television viewing and its possible relationship with life expectancy. According to a study that was conducted in Australia, someone who watches a lifetime average of 6 hours of television per day can expect to live 4.8 years less than someone who watches no television. The authors note that further study is required to confirm this.
How much time do you spend sitting at home and at work? For some tips and strategies for staying active, see the CDC’s section on Physical Activity.
Resource Highlights: CancerMath.net
Determining accurate trends and prognoses for various cancer types can be a daunting and stressful task. The CancerMath.net tool helps clinicians to examine therapy options, outcomes ratios, and predictive survival rates for different cancer types: including breast, melanoma, and renal cell carcinoma.
Users choose a calculator under the specific cancer they are investigating. After the fields within the calculators are populated, CancerMath.net generates a graph or other visual to demonstrate information about what was entered. CancerMath.net is an online tool meant for the network of oncology medical professionals which was developed by the Laboratory for Quantitative Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. CancerMath.net is not intended for patient use or to substitute a physician’s professional opinion. It is merely a helpful resource for determining the best possible treatment options and outcomes for personalized patient care based on mathematical calculations.
This resource can be found on the Library’s Reference Resources LibGuide. This webpage also contains other helpful online tools for researchers and clinicians broken down into categories including general science, acronyms/abbreviations, grammar and style manuals, other library catalogs, dictionaries/encyclopedias, and government health databases.