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The story they are telling is that I’ll be going in for my surgery around 10:30 this morning. Like I said before, I know better than to put money on them keeping a tight schedule. I just hope that they give me an IV early, because I know by 10:30 I will be dehydrated and […]
So this morning we leave to head to Tampa so I can talk to the anesthesiologist before my second surgery tomorrow. I’m not sure if it’s because of all I’ve been though, but I’m not nervous this time. I’ve pretty much got the let’s get this shit over with already attitude about all of the […]
Treatment with a blood pressure control hormone - angiotensin-(1-7) – has been found to reduce the lung cancer tumor in mice by 30%, as opposed to a tumor growth of more than double in mice that did not receive the treatment.
Suggesting a new way to treat cancer, these findings have been revealed by scientists at […]
Intake of isoflavone chemicals from soy food has been found to decrease the risk of localized prostate cancer but increased the risk of advanced prostate cancer.
Such were the contradicting results of the largest that evaluated the relationship between the traditional soy-rich Japanese diet and development of prostate cancer in Japanese men.
Indicative that the beneficial effects […]
According to a study by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research, obese men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer have more than two-and-a-half times the risk of dying from the disease as compared to men of normal weight at the time of diagnosis.
According to senior author of the study to be published in the March […]
I’m relatively new to the world of blogging and I find it so fascinating to be let into the workings of people’s everyday lives. So I’ve been out on the Internet looking. At first I was looking for female breast cancer patient-survivors, but I found so many fascinating stories everywhere I turned. I want you […]
A product of GlaxoSmithKile Plc - TYKERB® (lapatinib) – has recently been approved by the USFDA, in combination with Xeloda® (capecitabine), for the treatment of patients with advanced or metastatic breast cancer whose tumors overexpress HER2 and who have received prior therapy including an anthracycline, a taxane, and trastuzumab.
TYKERB® (a pdf file) - a small […]
There’s a part of me that’s thankful that my chemo experience wasn’t a horror story. (Though there is a part of me that wonders if that meant I was under-dosed somehow and that the little bit I had actually did nothing to help my cause.) I did two dose dense regimens: Cyclophosphamide […]
You have to understand how much I’d embraced the non-Western medicine lifestyle. (Well at least as much as I was able to on my limited budget.) For twelve years I’d gone to see regular doctors for annual check-ups and for very little in between. I’d managed to control my lifelong allergies by eating differently and […]
Utilizing nanotechnology and advanced sensing based on high-temperature superconductors, Audrius Brazdeikis (research assistant professor of physics in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Houston) and Quentin Pankhurst (a professor of physics from the University College of London) have developed a novel handheld tool that surgeons can use for staging and […]
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