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What: Navigating Life after Cancer: A Road Map for the “New Normal”
When: Saturday, January 26, from 8 to 11:30 a.m
Where: National Rehabilitation Hospital Auditorium located on the Washington Hospital Center campus, 102 Irving St., NW, Washington, DC 20010
The above cancer seminar is the first event in the Washington Cancer Institute at Washington Hospital Center’s […]
I am not a fitness freak and I have never been one to watch what I eat and how much I eat. Well, most foods anyway, except those that I have never eaten in my whole life. That been said, I would like to mention that I am not an adventurous eater.
I mean I am […]
Fatherhood has always been a controversial factor in relation to prostate cancer and its risks.
A recently study of Danish researchers revealed, rather interesting findings on this issue:
childless men have a lower risk of developing prostate cancer than fathers
BUT, the more children a father has, the lower the risk of the disease
A paradox indeed, suggesting that […]
36-year-old Canadian rocker Bif Naked admitted yesterday in the syndicated radio program “The Strombo Show” that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Recently married to Vancouver sports columnist Ian Walker, the singer (real name: Beth Torbert) stated in the said show:
“I have never been one to give up when an obstacle is placed in front […]
Here’s another celebrity that is in the news this week but sort of in a delicate way because of cancer.
Who can forget former Olympic gold medalist, figure skater Dorothy Hamill? Even if the rest of the world doesn’t know her, America knows her very well.
She is such a public figure who one (or two?) […]
Singer-songwriter Stephen Stills is now recovering after a prostate cancer surgery.
The 63-year old Stills (born in Dallas, Texas) is a member of the group called CSNY or the Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young — one of the few North American groups to rival the Beatles in popularity.
As stated by Stills’ wife, Kristen Stills:
“The procedure went […]
Just four months of hormonal (androgen deprivation) therapy before and with standard external beam radiation therapy slowed cancer growth by as much as eight years–especially the development of bone metastases–and increased survival in older men with potentially aggressive prostate cancer.
Such were the findings reported by researchers of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group.
This “neoadjuvant” hormonal therapy […]
I hope that it is just publicity gimmick that Matthew McConaughey is now dating Kate Hudson.
You know, they have a movie to be released next month - Fool’s Gold - their reunion team-up on screen since the movie How to lose a guy in 10 Days.
Gosh. I’m just glad he dumped that Brazilian bombshell (Camilla […]
Such were the findings of scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center who were able to capture genetic signatures common to head and neck cancer.
The researchers collected the rinsed saliva and filtered out cells thought to contain one or more of 21 bits of chemically altered genes common only to head […]
Hello everyone. In my part of the world, it is already the day after new year’s and most offices and some schools are back to normal businesses.
Same as this blog and blogger: back to normal blogging routine.
First I want to wish you all a wonderful new year. May 2008 be more rewarding in all aspects […]
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