September 29th, 2007
Breast Cancer Death Falls
Mexican Soccer Against Breast Cancer
Pomegranate Juice Compound May Inhibit Prostate Cancer
Tangerine Peel Extract Kills Cancer Cells
Enjoy your weekend everyone! :-D
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September 29th, 2007
We do appreciate you coming over to visit and you commenting to this blog. Blog comments usually start a lively discussion on the blog entry - thereby they are important components of an active blog.
However, there are two things that I (and perhaps other readers of this blog) consider as a “turn-off”:
First of all, if […]
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September 26th, 2007
The 2007 Orange County Race for the Cure is in support of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure - which is an effort to raise funds for breast cancer research.
This just came to my attention because my (cyber) friend and notable Filipino blogger and book author Jay David (currently residing in Orange County, California) […]
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September 25th, 2007
Speaking of cervical cancer vaccines, there are two notables: Gardasil by Merck which was approved by the FDA earlier this year and Cervarix by GlaxoSmithKline which is expected to be approved by the FDA later this year (but already approved in Australia).
Regarding these HPV vaccines that will protect women against cervical cancer, the CDC recommends […]
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September 24th, 2007
I hate Mondays. And then heavy rain just stopped, it was wet the whole weekend. It is school day and our “school bus” for some mechanical reason didn’t show up today, so we had to commute to school.
While I catch my breath, let me share first the following cancer fodder:
Blood test to screen for lung […]
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September 20th, 2007
Vitamin C is an antioxidant (it captures volatile oxygen free radicals) — is the prevailing theory why Vitamin C is an anti-cancer agent.
A new theory has come up: Vitamin C may block growth of tumors by destabilizing their ability to grow under oxygen-starved conditions – according to a new study from a team from The […]
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September 19th, 2007
The b5media Science and Health Channel is growing everyday and one of our new blogs is a fertility blog called Fertility Notes with Gabrielle Sedor as the blogger.
Please check out Fertility Notes because Gabrielle will for sure about cancer that relates to fertility. This post is just the start.
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September 19th, 2007
Prostate Cancer Awareness Week (PCAW) is a yearly event facilitated by the Prostate Cancer Educational Council (PCEC ) that always happen on the third week of September (this year falling on the 16th - 22nd, September 2007).
C/o the PCAW, local screening sites across America offer FREE or LOW COST prostate cancer screenings to men over […]
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September 17th, 2007
The generic drug finasteride not only can shrink an enlarged prostate and reduce the risk of getting prostate cancer by 25 percent – the drug can also raise the chances that doctors can detect prostate cancer early.
It has already been said so many times (in any cancer type) that earliest detection of the cancer is […]
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September 17th, 2007
Mastectomy must be a terrible procedure, just thinking about makes me feel bad. Breast cancer patients (and their oncologists) must do everything to prevent this procedure from happening.
But what if mastectomy is your only best option? Life must go on I guess and post-surgical lingeries must be the last of your worries, but something you’ll […]
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