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Who doesn’t look forward to school breaks? Both children and parents are so looking forward for the school year to end. I am a parent to a 5-year old who started going to pre-school and some day care of sorts since he was 2-and-a-half. Though not continuously: the first year we lasted only a month, […]
I spent my weekend out-of-town prior to my birthday (Monday, June 9), so as to reconnect with my old friends.
While I had so much fun, I got the mumps instead. The last time I had mumps (according to my mother) was when I was 5. Yesterday I turned 35.
What a birthday gift!
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What: ASCO 2008 Annual Meeting
When: May 30-June 3, 2008
Where: McCormick Place — Chicago, Illinois USA
The ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology) Annual Meeting is considered the premier educational and scientific event in the oncology community.
Abstracts from the said meeting is now available online.
Tags: American Society of Clinical Oncology, ASCO, ASCO Annual Meeting, Chicago, clinical oncology, […]
What: ‘Caring For The Caregiver’ Program
When: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 28
Where: Stabile Research Building at Moffitt Cancer Center, 12902 Magnolia Drive (Tampa, Florida)
Moffitt Cancer Center’s ‘Caring For The Caregiver’ Program is a free education and support program for family cancer caregivers which will be facilitated by Moffitt professionals: Miriam Innocenti (clinical social […]
A new study in the UK revealed that gum disease may increase the risk of cancer.
Though the link is still unclear, people with gum infections have increased amount of inflammatory markers in the blood — inflammation has previously been linked to cancer.
According to lead researcher Dominique Michaud, a cancer epidemiologist at Imperial College London (UK):
“Men […]
Last time I read about cancer-sniffing dogs, though a bit skeptic — I knew it wasn’t going to stop there.
Now, a cancer-sniffing-trained dog is going to be cloned in South Korea.
A Japanese center which says it has trained a dog to sniff out human cancer cells is cloning the animal in South Korea, a Seoul-based […]
Okay, moment of truth…
Earlier today I asked my 59-year-old mother and 5-year-old son to draw the 2 winners of the “Take The Test” HPV Awareness Bracelet Contest.
…and the winners are:
Kendra
Alicia
Before I can take an evidence of the little draw, my son tore the little pieces of paper where the winners’ names were.
But then, you ladies […]
Yes..I was about to get up and call it a weekend when I suddenly remembered the contest I was running here: The “Take The Test” HPV Awareness Bracelet contest.
So far, i have four valid contestants. Because of that and because I wouldn’t be online much, I will extend the contest to Monday, 19th May […]
Just a quick shout out to Lia Emrich for coming up with a list on health blogs - IHM Health Blogs, Part 6 at hr multiple sclerosis blog: Brass and Ivory.
Cancer Commentary made it to the list under the Misc. Consumer Health category. Thanks again, Lisa!
Also, just a short notice that i only had intermittent […]
Paul McGee of American Cancer Society has pointed me to a report from The Washington Post, entitled: The Less the Education, The Higher Risk of Dying Cancer.
Quite catchy eh? I totally agree. From the said report, it says: “The difference in death rates between highly educated and poorly educated people in the United States is […]
Cancer therapies, healing, and society.
Written by Gloria Gamat [email] for b5media.
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