Bay Shore Pharmacy

LeelanauEnterprise 5-16-13 BAY SHORE PHARMACY 93A 4th Street (Next to Hansen Foods) Suttons Bay, Michigan 49682 (231) 271-6111 We Accept TASC Cards Pharmacy Topics “Where your good health is our business” The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Cometriq (cabozantinib) to treat medullary thyroid cancer that has spread to other parts of the body (metastasized). Medullary thyroid cancer develops in cells in the thyroid gland that make a hormone called calcitonin, which helps maintain a healthy level of calcium in the blood. This type of cancer may occur spontaneously or in families with certain genetic mutations that result in one or more cancers of the endocrine system, including the thyroid gland. The National Cancer Institute esti-mates that 56,460 Americans will be diag-nosed with thyroid cancer and 1,780 will die from the disease in 2012. About 4 per-cent of thyroid cancers are medullary thy-roid cancer, making it one of the rarer types of thyroid cancers. *** People who exercise along with taking statins to lower their high cholesterol levels can dramatically reduce thier risk of dying, a large new study published online in The Lancet suggests. Statin drugs include Lipitor (Atorvastatin), Lescol (fl uvastatin), Pravachol (Pravastatin) Crestor (rosuvas-tatin) and Zocor (simvastatin). *** Diabetic patients with ovarian cancer who took the drug metformin for their diabetes had a better survival rate than patients who did not take it, a study headed by the Mayo Clinic shows. The fi ndings, pub-lished in the journal Cancer, may play an important role for researchers as they study the use of existing medications to treat different or new diseases. Metformin is a widely prescribed drug to treat diabe-tes, and previous research by others has shows its promise for other cancers. The Mayo-led study adds ovarian cancer to the list. *** Brought to you as a public service by <pagedata>24:0.036580503:0.941173971:0.50406754:0.772811532</pagedata>