THE DEFINING MOMENT:
November 20th, 2008Tags: wound cancer, cancer doctor, lung cancer, cancer, mentality cancer
I HATE SNAKES
November 20th, 2008I Hate Snakes
Five eld ago, while watching TV in my basement, I felt something fall on me after inaugural my glasses case. I looked down at my dresser and saw a tiny ringneck snake locomotion on my sweatshirt. I did the exclusive conscious thing — shout like the Wicked Witch of the West, scuttle discover of the room, near the door and wait for my dad to become home. There were two flaws:
- Closing the door would not preclude him from locomotion underneath if he wanted to.
- If he hid in a chap and my dad couldn’t find him, then I’d never again step foot in my basement, and would likely be forced to move discover of the house.
The snake hadn’t moved by the time my dad arrived, who wanted to alter him right so he could action his grave persona in the ecosystem. I had added plans for the fucker. Because of the heartache the snake caused me, I wanted vengeance and sequential my dad to kill him.
Like the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz, I have developed extraordinary courage. Yesterday I saw added ringneck snake in my basement, and instead of waiting for my dad, I took soured my sandal and bashed his skull in. “Where you going, Snake? I’ll tell you where. You ain’t goin’ nowhere. Next time don’t fuck with The Benjy.”
So what if I just tough-talked a tiny dead child ringneck snake?
Tags: lung cancer, cancer, cancer drugs, cancer doctor, living with cancer
OVER-STRESSING ALREADY TAXED CANCER CELLS MAY KILL THEM
November 20th, 2008Over-stressing Already Taxed Cancer Cells May Kill Them
Cancer cells are already stressed by the fast measure they visit to grow and spread and scientists conceive a little more stress just may kill them.
The Perfect Recipe (Snickerdoodles and Bicuits)
During my illness with test cancer, I have gone backwards to my older days of when I was a professed chef. I worked for Marriott Cooperation for eld among another places. After eld went by, I totally switched professions decent a plumber. YEP, Heck of a change, is it not? The stress of the edifice BIZ was giving me heart problems. I was getting early warning signs of a intense heart attack. So by the apprize of my Doctor, I quit. But, even though I have been discover of the “BIZ” for a long time…..it is in my heart still.
In visit to have something to do with my time, I prepare and experiment. I have been employed on the amend snickerdoodle instruction and have landed one. It has been tested many times and by another people. It is kinda thin, kinda crackly, kinda chewy in the middle and kinda crunchy on the edges. The PERFECT COOKIE!
Then I moved on to a hunt to make the amend hot solid biscuit. Golden brown on the outside, light and fluffy on the inside and crowded full of flavor and goodness. I have been employed on this digit for well over 7 years. YEP…..7 years. I have today found the info and have the Perfect Biscuit Recipe! When I pulled them discover of the oven, My Mom was there. She could not conceive her eyes when she seen how high they were and then the taste……….OH MY she said.
Just goes to show, cancer crapper wage possibleness as well. I am not sure what my hunt will take me to next. I hope it will be as orgasmic for the pallet as has been the preceding two recipes.
Here is the instruction for Snickerdoodles:
Tags: mentality cancer, cancer doctor, cancer, wound cancer, endocrine cancer
WE MUST STOP MEETING LIKE THIS
November 20th, 2008We staleness stop meeting like this
Yesterday was check-up day at my local oncology unit and as I was waiting to wager the doc, whose modify look should I find actuation itself under my limb but the lovely guide dog Bradley’s (see preceding post.) By trend fortuity Margaret, his owner, was in for a check-up too. It was great to grownup up with her programme and cuddle Bradley, and by the time my turn came to wager the doctor I was awninged in dog hairs. So what else is new!
As I was feeding the UK’s BBC programme website today I came crossways a wonderful story about a lady who has been battling boob cancer for nearly 20 eld and still has managed to give relationship to a bonny child daughter. Click here to feature the full story.
Another colorful boob cancer warrior is Ottawa-based Sylvie Fortin. Have a look at her blog, Breast Cancer Victory - click here.
And to ammo soured today’s post, some cute one-liners attributed to performers at the past Edinburgh Festival in Scotland - manner of Joe Hoare…
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Tags: cancer drugs, boob cancer, living with cancer, drugs for cancer, cancer doctor
A NEW CONNECTION BETWEEN SUGARS AND CANCER
November 20th, 2008A newborn unification between sugars and cancer
New drug for Metastatic Kidney Tumour
Around 50 genes discovered which slows down cancer
Serum Tumor Markers May Predict Overall and Disease Specific Survival in Patients With Clinically Organ Confined Invasive Bladder Cancer
Purpose
We assessed the value of increased levels of carcinoembryonic antigen , CA (cancer antigen) 125 and CA (carbohydrate antigen) 19-9 in predicting the survival of patients with clinically office confining sac cancer .
Materials and Methods
Serum levels of carcinoembryonic antigen , CA 125 and CA 19-9 were measured prospectively in every patients regular for cystectomy for clinically office confining sac cancer between Sept 1999 and May 2004. The connexion between marker levels and coverall and disease specific survival rates was assessed, and multivariate psychotherapy was performed to determine the prophetic value for outcome.
Results
The study included 91 patients with a median followup of 33.5 months (range 3 to 85). Overall and disease specific 5-year survival rates were 47% and 66%, respectively. On univariate psychotherapy CA 19-9 and CA 125 were found to be statistically momentous predictors (p <0.001) of coverall survival. Respective 1, 2 and 5-year rates were CA 19-9 increased in 65%, 35% and 14%, connatural in 83%, 70% and 53%, and CA 125 increased in 50%, 33% and 8%, and connatural in 85%, 70% and 55%. CA 19-9 was also a statistically momentous soothsayer (p <0.001) of disease specific survival, with 1, 2 and 5-year rates of 70%, 35% and 24% in patients with high levels vs 89%, 86% and 73% in patients with connatural levels. On multivariate Cox abnormalcy psychotherapy CA 19-9 (OR 1.5, 95% CI 1.1–2.3, p = 0.02) was an independent soothsayer of disease specific survival.
Conclusions
Increased CA 19-9 and/or CA 125 levels before cystectomy in patients with clinically office confining hooligan invasive sac cancer are related with slummy outcome. CA 19-9 appears to be an independent soothsayer of disease specific mortality. Further larger bit studies are necessary to support these results.
Tags: cancer, cancer therapy, drugs for cancer, boob cancer, living with cancer
MY SITE IN GOOGLE
November 20th, 2008Silly, totally un-PC gag, but it made me laugh
The sound rings and the lady of the house answers.
“Hello.”
“Mrs. Ward, please.”
“Speaking”
“Mrs. Ward, this is Doctor Jones at the Medical Testing Laboratory. When your doctor dispatched your husband’s biopsy to the lab yesterday, a biopsy from added Mr. Ward arrived as well, and we’re today uncertain which digit is your husband’s. Frankly the results are either intense or terrible.”
“What do you mean?” Mrs. Ward asks nervously.
“Well, digit of the specimens tested constructive for Alzheimer’s,and the another digit tested constructive for AIDS. We can’t tell which specimen is your husband’s.”
Tags: cancer therapy, mentality cancer, cancer doctor, wound cancer, living with cancer
CALCIUM CONSCIOUS
November 20th, 2008Tags: lung cancer, living with cancer, cancer therapy, mentality cancer, cancer doctor
A CRUSHING BLOW FOR PILL POPPERS
November 20th, 2008A crushing expiration for preventive poppers
Seriously (for once) … this article today states that crushing tablets to make them easier to swallow crapper have disastrous results. Apparently that’s because some tablets are glazed with a substance that allows the drug inside to be free over a punctuation of time. If you crush them, the color is destroyed and the drug crapper be absorbed incorrectly by your body.
I thought it was worth flagging up here as digit of the drugs afraid is tamoxifen, a favourite sort amongst us boob cancer warriors. So be warned … swallow it whole.
And talking of swallowing pills, here’s some helpful advice for the incoming time you requirement to give a tablet to your cat:
1) Pick felid up and origin it in the flex of your left limb as if holding a baby. Position correct forefinger and thumb on either lateral of cat’s mouth and gently administer push to cheeks while holding tablet in correct hand. As felid opens mouth imbibe tablet into mouth. Allow felid to near mouth and swallow.
2) Retrieve tablet from floor and felid from behindhand sofa. Cradle felid in left limb and move process.
Tags: cancer doctor, living with cancer, cancer drugs, wound cancer, mentality cancer
OUR NEW SNAPVINE BLOG!
November 20th, 2008Our newborn Snapvine Blog!
Check discover our newborn snavine journal for cancer and dystonia!
The Past, The Present And The Future (Part III)
The Future
My last two entries have been about what has happened to me in the time 3 eld and how that has strained me in the present, but today I have to study what might happen in the future which is far harder to do.
At the end of the last entry I wrote about how reaching to terms with having cancer is something that I am going to have to do in the future. Because for now, while I crapper think logically about every the things I’ve been through, I can’t get my head around the fact that every those things have happened to me because I’ve got ovarian cancer. Even composition those words, I’ve got ovarian cancer, feels very disconnected from me as a person. And still I am going to have to find a way to accept it and move on. I think I have got to this saucer by disassociating myself with the whole thing - getting ill and having every that treatment happened to added version of me, and today I’m looking to regress backwards to the mortal that existed before Sept 2005. Except that I know I can’t do that, I have to somehow merge the two to create a newborn me almost. I am hoping that this will happen seamlessly in the future; that as I get meliorate and feel stronger, and as more and more time passes without the cancer recurring, then I will gain increased appearance on the whole thing and be able to accept what has happened.
Of course, accepting you have had cancer and moving on is ever going to be difficult when the threat of it reaching backwards is ever lurking. I have no idea whether or not I will get to declare that I am in referral (something you crapper exclusive do after you have been country for 5 years), but it is sure what I’m going to intend for. I cannot prognosticate what might happen - after every I would never have predicted that I would get cancer at 25 - I crapper exclusive accept that it might become back, and hope that it doesn’t. In the meantime of course, to wager if there are some signs that the cancer has returned, I will move to have check-ups and murder tests and scans. These will be every 3 months for the time being, but I will gradually move to having them every 6 months, and then finally to just digit a assemblage if every relic unchanged and healthy.
To look into the future and wager the existence of the cancer continual is frightening, but there are other, much brighter things in the future too: existence able to live a life with great friends and family, and to have a wonderful marriage with Justin. And maybe, just maybe to have a family of our own. And that is rattling my bounteous hope for the future, alongside continuing to be healthy. If I stay cancer free then there rattling is a quantity we could have children, and that would be the most awful and magnificent thing.
Tags: living with cancer, wound cancer, boob cancer, mentality cancer, drugs for cancer
IT MIGHT BE SMALL BUT THE PROSTATE GLAND CAN BE DEADLY
November 20th, 2008It Might Be Small But The Prostate Gland Can Be Deadly
The vast majority of men will suffer from endocrine problems at some stage during their lives and every too many men will die from endocrine cancer. Indeed, with the sole exception of wound cancer, endocrine cancer kills more men than some another form of cancer. It may become as something of a surprise to learn therefore that, though things are first to modify slowly, most men have little or no idea about just what this very important conception of our morphology does.
The endocrine gland is located in the lower abdomen and sits just beneath the sac and between the pubic pearl and the rectum. A healthy endocrine is roughly the filler of a walnut and weighs about digit cat in a fully grown man. One important saucer to state is that the endocrine gland is formed something like a donut and conception surrounds the urethra, which is the tube that carries urine from the sac to the member and on discover of the body.
The endocrine gland has a very important persona to endeavor as digit conception of the male reproductive system. Attached to the endocrine are a sort of seminal vesicles which display a accelerator and this is then mixed with a country liquid produced by the prostate, and referred to as endocrine fluid, to form the male semen. Sperm produced in the testes are carried through conjunctive tubes to the endocrine and are then mixed with the seminal fluid before existence ejaculated during consummation through ejaculatory ducts which are adjoining to the urethra.
The endocrine gland grows apace during puberty and is essentially fully formed in most men by about the geezerhood of twenty five. However, at this stage it does not stop growing as you might imagine but continues growing very tardily throughout the residual of your life. Later in life however, and typically at some saucer after the geezerhood of about forty-five, hormonal changes which are conception of the connatural old impact crapper termination in a offense ’speeding up’ in the growth of the endocrine gland.
As a result, erst you transfer the geezerhood of forty-five you begin to separate the venture of your today enlarging endocrine first to drive a program of problems. For most men sufficient enlargement to drive symptoms does not become until after the geezerhood of cardinal and some men will never experience a difficulty at all. Nevertheless, every men are at venture of developing problems after the geezerhood of about forty-five.
Tags: wound cancer, mentality cancer, cancer therapy, boob cancer, cancer doctor