Archive for July 21st, 2010

When Doctors Do Not Follow Up After PSA Results Signal The Chance Of Prostate Cancer

Male patients frequently possess a poor knowledge of prostate cancer, their own chances for the cancer, and how to determine whether they have prostate cancer. Many men have little, if any, knowledge of the advantage of screening for prostate cancer or of the guidelines for when to start screening, how frequently to screen, and the meaning of screening test results. They put their confidence in their physician to do whatever is appropriate to detect any cancer early and cure them.

Delayed diagnosis of prostate cancer incidents are all too common. One typical medical mistake that is at the root of these cases arises when the male patient’s primary care physician (1) actually screens the individual for prostate cancer by tracking the amount of PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) in his system, (2) finds abnormally high levels of PSA and but (3) does not inform the patient, does not refer the patient to a specialist, and fails to get a biopsy to confirm whether the elevated PSA is a result of prostate cancer. The lawsuit below illustrates this situation.

A physician, an internist, discovered that his male patient had a PSA of 8. (anything above a 4.0 is normally viewed as high). The physician did not inform the patient. The physician did not refer the patient to a urologist. The doctor did not order a biopsy. Two years later the doctor repeated the PSA test. This time it had gone up to 13.6. Again, the doctor said nothing to the patient. Again, the doctor did not refer the patient to a urologist. And again, the physician did not order a biopsy. Two years later the doctor repeated the PSA test. It was not until three years after first finding out about the patient’s elevated PSA level that the physician at last advised him that he probably had cancer. Further testing showed that at this point he had metastatic prostate cancer. A prostatectomy was no longer an option. Treating physicians alternatively recommended radiation therapy and hormone therapy. Neither of these would cure the cancer but they might impede the cancer’s advancement and further spread. The law firm handling this matter reported that the case proceeded to mediation and settled in the amount of $600,000.

But not following up after observing abnormal test results brings about a situation in which those patients who do actually have prostate cancer might not find out they have it until it has spread outside the prostate, decreasing the patient’s choices for treatment, and substantially reducing the chances that the patient will be able to survive the cancer.

As the above claim illustrates physicians sometimes comply with the guidelines by performing screening for prostate cancer yet when the test results are abnormal they fail to do anything about it.

Breasts – A Detailed Study

How much do you really know about breasts aside from its mammary glands for milk source, enticing power against men or self-esteem source? In this discussion, we cover some of the facts about breast that you haven’t heard even from your science teacher back in senior high.

The woman’s breasts are the symbols of femininity and motherhood. From psychosexual point of view, woman’s breasts are the symbol of men’s weakness obsessing them with its large and well-shaped form. According to the study of Handel, Silverstein and Waisman in the Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in 1990, women are found to obtain high sense of wellness from their breasts. Logically, the woman’s breasts are indeed the illustration of their womanhood. Insecurities and frustration usually results if anything happens to their breasts.

How much do you really know about breasts aside from its mammary glands for milk source, enticing power against men or self-esteem source? In this discussion, we cover some of the facts about breast that you haven’t heard even from your science teacher back in senior high.

Breasts Swell During Sex

Have you ever experienced sudden tenderness or pain during sexual activity? Well, according to Sculpher, Bryan and Fry et al. in their British Medical Journal, women can really experience breast swelling up to 25% during sexual activity due to the increased sexual drive and activity brought by the hormonal surge in their bodies. Physiological analysts proposed that breast swelling is a natural way of increasing the seductive powers of their breasts towards men especially if a woman needs a dramatic breast size boost.

Breast Enlargement Can Now Be Resourced from a Woman’s Tummy

The company – Cytori Therapeutics, Inc. – is now offering their new reconstructive technology using their cell-enhanced reconstruction procedure. According to them, regenerative cells and adipose tissues, such as those found in our tummy, can actually be used as surgical implants for breasts. The process involves the classic stem-cell concept wherein adipose stems found in the tummy are injected to the breasts in order to induce growth of adipose tissues in a natural way. However, the procedure has not yet been approved in the United States due to its clinical trial state. Hmmm… does anyone prefer their tummy transferred to their chests? That sounds weird.

Men Can Have their Natural Breasts

Contrary to the general public’s awareness of men having breasts only due to surgical reconstruction, a common genetic condition called gynecomastia actually exists among males. This condition gives men an actual breast engorgement far from adipose deposits or trained chest muscles. Gynecomastia is theoretically brought by the increased estrogen levels in the male’s body resulting to the modification of breasts patterned from the female features. In fact, man’s breasts also possess milk glands that can produce small amounts of oxytocin and prolactin – hormones required for milk production. However, since these hormones are only produced in smaller amounts, males are still incapable of producing milk from their breasts. Well, Mother Nature does not allow mom and dad to switch places during breastfeeding.

Breast Feeding Can Help You Lose Weight

Lactation generally provides undisputable nutritional and health benefits for both the baby and the mother, especially the colostrums for the baby and the natural-birth control for the mother. However, another benefit of breastfeeding has recently been determined by medical science. According to the study of Dewey, Heinig and Nommsen of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, women breastfeeding from 3 to 6 months have experienced a net loss of fat from 2.4 mm down to -0.4. Kramer and Kakuma in Advanced Experimental Medical Biology journal said that breastfeeding until six months speeds up the postpartum weight loss.

Age 50 Gives Women Higher Risk for Developing Breast Cancer

Harris Interactive survey of approximately 2,000 women found out that only 37% of women in their 50s are concerned about developing breast cancer as they age. Furthermore, the findings show that most of these women do not really understand the dangers of developing breast cancer as they age. According to S. Wysocki of NPWH, one of the greatest factors in developing breast cancer is old age. As the woman age, cellular mutation and hypertrophy increase its rate due to hormonal variations and overexposures. Many people believed that breast cancer is genetic; however, according to statistics by the National Breast Cancer.org, 85% of women with breast cancer do not have a family history of breast cancer. In fact according to the National Cancer Institute, women of 50 to 59 develops breast cancer at a risk of one out of 37, while at the age of 60 to 69, the risk is one out of 26 women. Comparing these to the risk of women in the age of 30 to 39, which develops only one out of 229, women at their 50′s should be much more concerned about developing breast cancer.

FDA Re-Approves Breasts Silicone

In 1992, FDA banned silicone implants due to the associated risk of developing breast cancer among women. Early studies indicated that these silicone implants can actually trigger autoimmune diseases. However, last 2006, the FDA reconsidered approving the saline-filled silicone implants since according to them women are still requesting breast reconstruction using these implants. Although, according to Roxanne Guy, M.D., ASPS president. “Silicone breast implants have been scrutinized more than any medical device, and we applaud the FDA for making its well thought-out decision and allowing American women to make informed choices about their health care.” As of 2004, ASAPS research indicated that a whopping 83.4 percent of respondents used saline implants, while only 16.6 percent used the silicone implant.

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FDA says breast cancer drug Avastin did not extend lives

FDA says breast cancer drug Avastin did not extend lives
WASHINGTON — Federal health scientists say follow-up studies of a Roche breast cancer drug show it failed to slow tumor growth or extend patient lives, opening the door for a potential halt in sales. The Food and Drug Administration approved Roche’s blockbuster Avastin in 2008 based on early-stage trials showing …

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Nebraska flag football team gains experience

Nebraska flag football team gains experience
By Brian Rosenthal

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CCTP focuses on drugs for cancer stem cells

CCTP focuses on drugs for cancer stem cells
Cancer and stem cell biology researchers at the University of Colorado are launching the nation’s first program focused on identifying and testing drugs that target and destroy cells thought to be at the root of cancer-cancer stem cells (CSCs).The Cancer Stem Cell-Directed Clinical Trials Program (CCTP) is a collaboration between the University of Colorado Cancer Center and the Charles C. Gates …

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Breast Reconstruction after Mastectomy

Cancer manifests itself in many ways. For some, bleeding from the nipple is the first sign of a problem. For others it’s a painful lump. Some have no signs at all and find out at a routine mammogram screening.

Many women ignore the first signs of breast cancer, thinking the signs they have don’t warrant concern. Bleeding from the nipple can be passed off as some sort of injury or fluke. Lumps are often attributed to the normal swelling of breasts due to menses cycles. But before long, the signs get worse and become impossible to ignore. At that point, most women go to the doctor. Some women keep ignoring the symptoms. Most of these women do not survive. Early detection is the key to beating this disease.

Blood tests, genetic tests, mammograms and biopsies are performed before the diagnosis of cancer is given. When the patient gets the diagnosis of cancer it is devastating. Many women feel shock, disbelief, fear and more all in a few seconds time. The fear never really goes away.

Recently, some surgeons are suggesting women who come up positive for the breast cancer gene have mastectomies as a preventative measure. Women with the breast cancer gene are virtually guaranteed to get breast cancer.

When women have preventative mastectomies performed, a lot can be done to save the appearance of the breasts. Surgeons incise the breasts in the same manner they would for a breast augmentation procedure. The dangerous or precancerous tissue is removed and replaced with implants. By doing this, the likelihood of developing breast cancer is diminished. If there is no breast tissue to develop cancer with, then cancer won’t develop. It’s as simple as that. This new procedure is saving lives.

For many women who have an actual cancer diagnosis a bi-sectomy or mastectomy procedure is imperative to beat cancer. Even with these drastic measures, many patients must undergo chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Fighting cancer is a hellish ordeal. So many changes happen to the body it is hard for women to accept it. Extreme pain, weight gain from chemo therapy, weight loss from not being able to keep down food, hair loss, and rapid aging are just a few of the things that happen to women with cancer. Once the patients are in remission, and their lives settle down, the realization that one or both of their breasts are gone for life settles in.

Most women choose to have breast reconstruction or breast augmentation performed. Insurance has gotten much better about paying for these procedures in recent years. Therefore, plastic surgeon Los Angeles doctors are becoming specialists in the field of breast reconstructive surgery. The more plastic surgeons perform this surgery, the more they learn about it and the safer it becomes for cancer survivors to have it done.

The outcomes of breast reconstructive surgery improve all the time. Women are given a piece of themselves back. Sometimes the new breasts are better than the ones they had before. These women get their confidence back. It’s no wonder so many women elect to have this procedure performed. To learn about Dr. Calvert, a breast reconstructive surgery specialist, go to http://www.drcalvert.com/.

ARUP Laboratories Ink Partnership to Offer deCODE ProstateCancer(TM) Test

ARUP Laboratories Ink Partnership to Offer deCODE ProstateCancer(TM) Test
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Beat Cancer Naturally – Natural Therapies to Conquer Cancer Today

Cancer is a reaction to something that the body finds foreign. It is a RESULT of something, usually a chemical, toxin or even a viral invader that secretes toxins that your body eventually becomes overwhelmed by. There are may instances where we can point to an event and identify it as a cause of the cancer. If you look at Chernobyl or Hiroshima you can clearly see how the occurrences of cancer went through the roof as a result of an EXPOSURE to a toxic substance.

What I find fascinating though is that some people living in those areas didn’t get cancer.

Consider all of the people world wide who smoke tobacco. We know that inhaling toxins and tars from cigarettes, cigars and pipes causes an increase in lung, throat, mouth and tongue cancers, as well as some other internal cancers. It is also true, however, that many people who smoke do not succumb to cancer.

There are people in the world who, as a result of exposure to asbestos, have been overtaken by a rare form of lung cancer called mesothelioma, and yet we know without a doubt that exposure only increases your chances, and that some people who have the same exposure NEVER get mesothelioma at all.

I could list numerous examples where some people develop cancer and others do not. While we don’t know exactly why, we do know that some of us have the ability to fight off diseases including cancer.

If we can agree that cancers, at least some if not all of them, are caused by an exposure to toxins (chemicals, metals, or other substances that are not normal for our body’s immune system) then it would follow that by eliminating exposure to that toxin you could prevent the cancer. The problem is, most people who find “Cancer Can Be Beaten” already have breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer, liver cancer, lung cancer, bowel cancer or some other cancer in their body. It’s too late for prevention. You want to BEAT CANCER NOW.

What if I told you I’ve found a way to….

Eliminate The Toxins That Caused the Cancer.

It’s not a pill, a capsule, a powder or a cream. It’s not a patch, a soak or a juice. It’s something you can put in your water and drink 4 times a day, and it will virtually eliminate ALL heavy metals, chemicals, nitrosamines, viral particles and a lot more, with no side effects. When you remove all the toxic waste that is bogging your body down, and clogging your system, all of a sudden your body starts working better. You have more energy, you sleep better, and your immune system gets to work beating those tumor cells back attacking your cancer.

In fact, the evidence regarding this natural cancer fighter is so strong (and so requested) that the famous Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center now has a page regarding this supplement… here is an excerpt from their page.

A few in vitro studies indicate that XXXXX inhibited protein kinase B; and induced expression of tumor suppressor proteins. In animal studies, XXXXX product was shown to reduce metastasis and increase the effect of doxorubicin due to its antioxidant property

You will be able to read more about this important supplement in the ebook “Cancer Can Be Beaten”.

Once you have the toxins removed with the important supplement mentioned above, the next step is to boost your immune function. Your body is very capable of fighting off this attack on it’s own. Your immune system was designed to do this job, and in fact cancer cells begin every day and are hastily removed by your natural killer cells. The fact that the cancer has been allowed to grow large enough to be detected means that your immune system has been a bit overwhelmed lately. Sometimes it is enough to just remove the chemicals and let the immune system recover, but sometimes the tumor cells have been gaining strength and speed. It’s time for you to help your immune system out if you want to beat cancer for good.

A general immune system booster is not necessarily the answer for you in this case. You need to boost the Natural Killer Cells.

Natural Killer (NK) cells are yet another type of lethal lymphocyte. Like cytotoxic T cells, they contain granules filled with potent chemicals. They are called “natural” killers because they, unlike cytotoxic T cells, do not need to recognize a specific antigen before swinging into action. They target tumor cells and protect against a wide variety of infectious microbes. In several immunodeficiency diseases, including AIDS, natural killer cell function is abnormal. Natural killer cells may also contribute to immunoregulation by secreting high levels of influential lymphokines.

Both cytotoxic T cells and natural killer cells kill on contact. The killer binds to its target, aims its weapons, and then delivers a lethal burst of chemicals that produces holes in the target cell’s membrane. Fluids seep in and leak out, and the cell bursts. source- Immune Central

What if I told you I have found an all natural organic and pure product that will….

Increase the Numbers and Aggressiveness of the Natural Killer Cells

Is that something that you could get excited about? These natural killer cells are a part of your own body’s defense system, that attach themselves to cancer cells, inject a potent toxic chemical mix into the invading cancer cell and cause it to burst. You need a product that is will give these cells the strength they need and you need more of them.

I’ve found something that is 10 times stronger than anything you may be able to find to beat cancer, and I am going to tell you more about it. You will be able to read more about this important Natural Killer Cell Boosting supplement in the ebook “Cancer Can Be Beaten”.

To beat cancer effectively though, you need all of the help you can get. Much of that help is found in a cancer diet rich in foods that kill cancer cells, and proper drinking water to adequately hydrate your body. A cancer diet that is rich in cancer fighting compounds and nutrients is crucial. Would you be excited if I told you that I know…

That’s right. Nature has provided us with everything we need to stay healthy including foods that have the ability to kill cancer cells. Many people, when they get sick, are looking for a cancer diet that they can eat every day that will increase their odds of beating cancer, but also provide them with the nourishment and energy they need for this battle of their lives. I have outlined such a “Cancer Diet” for you in the ebook “Cancer Can Be Beaten”.

Aside from a general diet though, did you know that there are certain foods that have cancer fighting compounds in them naturally? These foods have been demonstrated in the lab, in animals and in humans to actually kill cancer or stop tumor growth. These foods are common enough that you can buy them inexpensively at your local grocery store year round. There is a strong possibility that you even have a few of them right in your refrigerator right now.

My next question is …

Are You Drinking REAL Water?

Now most people know by now how important alkalinity of the body is for health. Did you know, however, that cancer cells can not thrive in an alkaline environment? In the ebook “Cancer Can Be Beaten”, I will share with you how to increase the pH of your body fluids ever so slightly. This will give you the added boost that you need to Beat Cancer. This strategy will involve Drinking A SPECIAL water that will help to change your pH to a bit more alkaline. This special water costs pennies a day ( a month’s supply costs less than a meal for one at a good restaurant) This particular supplement is one almost no one even knows about yet. You’ll be one of the first.

The message in the ebook www.cancercanbebeaten.com is clear. There are no miracle cures, but you absolutely CAN BEAT CANCER/a> with these ‘based on science’ cancer beating strategies.

Warning signs of breast cancer

Breast cancer is one of the most common and widely spreading cancer in the world, awareness about its warning sign is really important as it will help in early detection of disease and consequently helps in saving lives.

1)      Lump or thickening of area around breast and underarm
any kind of unusual lump or growth should not neglected.

2) Pain
long lasting or any kind of unusual pain in breast and armpit should not be over looked.

3Change in breast size and appearance
If skin of breast may become rough and scaly, redness or irritation is present. then breast cancer examination should be done

4)      Nipple discharge
discharge from nipples  such as fluid or blood is early sign of breast cancer and should be considered seriously

5)      Change in bowel movement

Simply by paying attention to warning signs and regular screening can help in saving lives and to helps in controlling its spread.

Nipple discharge is usually harmless and does not signify anything seriously wrong. most women can squeeze some discharge out of their nipples, especially if they have had children in the past. This may be whitish or may be yellow-green or almost black.

On the other hand, nipple  discharge is bloodstain it can be a symptom of breast cancer. you should definitely discuss any nipple discharge with your doctor. If you are a man, you should see your doctor straight away, because the usual cause is a tumour and you will need treatment.

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Breast Cancer Drive Fundraising

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Breast cancer is a cause that everyone should regard as something worth giving to. By donating money to breast cancer fundraising, you would be paving the way for researchers that are trying to find a cure for the disease. There are many ways that you can support breast cancer research. For the most part cancer organizations, particularly those dealing with breast cancer, always need some help with fundraising. Whether the money is needed for medical study, patient services, or an affected family’s daily needs, breast cancer fundraising will always be greatly appreciated. If you are interested in having a breast cancer fundraiser, get in touch with a cancer charity or group and ask if they would be interested in letting you raise money to support their cause. Don’t let little formalities be an obstacle of doing a good thing for a good cause. For breast cancer fundraising events at the work place, you can have “Theme Days”. Some examples of this would be, a casual dress day, or a “pink day” to show your support for breast cancer awareness and fundraising. These can be effortless and very popular ways to raise funds fast. Simply suggest the idea to the administration, publicize the event and collect a fee from employees who are interested in being involved. Then sit back and watch as the money rolls in. A great idea for breast cancer fundraising is to ask individuals to sponsor someone at a sports event. It can be a 5 kilometre fun run, admission to a charity basketball tournament or it can be a whole marathon. Participants in this type of fundraising, always feel great about raising funds this way, because supporters are there cheering them on.

You can arrange gala events. This idea can be expensive and time consuming, but it can also generate a humongous amount of money. You can have a charity ball or a silent auction. These events will require great diligence in planning, but the high tickets prices should help bring in exceptional amounts money.

An additional breast cancer fundraising idea is a “Spare Coins Drop Box”. It is very easy because you simply have to get permission to leave them in different establishments, let others know their location and then make sure that you have lots of spare time to count up all the coins and possibly bills.

Breast cancer fundraising support is only limited by your imagination. So, you can discuss with your group and do your research on how you can help raise money for breast cancer awareness and support.