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Ask Dr. Gott: Reader has questions about prostate treatment

Ask Dr. Gott: Reader has questions about prostate treatment
Q: My father is 93 years old. Owing to an enlarged prostate, he is not able to completely empty his bladder. He is feeling no pain and minimal discomfort from this condition. In fact, he feels it is more of a nuisance having to urinate frequently.His urologist recommends GreenLight laser surgery to relieve the problem. He has been told that this condition, if left untreated, could lead to kidney …

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‘I Heart Boobies’ ruling against Easton Area School District leaves questions

‘I Heart Boobies’ ruling against Easton Area School District leaves questions
Where do you draw the line?

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Chemo or No Chemo: Questions of What to Do

Updating what’s happening with my Breast Cancer treatment, chemotherapy or not, as of February 29 2008 and the role that prognosis and pre-existing conditions like fibromyalgia play in my decision making.

Five Questions for April 3, 2011: Shelly Hope Fisher

Five Questions for April 3, 2011: Shelly Hope Fisher
Shelly Hope Fisher is founder and president of Hope Paige Designs, which was incorporated seven years ago. The Hope Paige medical alert jewelry is at the pharmacy counters of Price Chopper stores in the Capital District. Fisher, who is from outside of Philadelphia, attended Syracuse University and Med UNC Chapel Hill. She is married with three children: Julia, 21, Sam, 19, and Joey, 17.

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Expert questions Lansley’s key arguments for NHS reform

Expert questions Lansley’s key arguments for NHS reform
England’s health secretary Andrew Lansley has said that his reforms for the NHS are needed because the country’s health outcomes are among the poorest in Europe. But in an article published in the British Medical Journal today, John Appleby, Chief Economist at the King’s Fund, reviews the data and finds the UK in better health than Lansley suggests.

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Another Study Questions the Benefit of Routine Mammograms

Another Study Questions the Benefit of Routine Mammograms
When the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) changed its screening-mammography guidelines last year — recommending against routine annual mammograms for women in their 40s — the announcement met with some resistance. Now a new study from Norway supports the … Continue reading ?

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Questions to ask after Breast Cancer Diagnosis

What are the key questions to ask your doctor after you have been diagnosed with breast cancer? Surgical breast specialist Dr. Kristi Funk, founder of the Pink Lotus Breast Center, shares her suggestions.

Questions and Answers about Cancer, its causes and its treatments

We don’t have cancer prevention today and nearly everyone is ignorant about its causes. People are faced with so many distorted facts about cancer and too many just accept what’s on offer. Here are some common questions I’ve been asked about cancer so you can gain a little knowledge about the subject.

Q. Why is there so much cancer now days?

A.  It’s because of the way we now live compared to 40 to 50 years ago when cancer was rare and it’s these changes that has caused the problem.

Q. What is the cause of cancer?

A. Cancer doesn’t have a single cause, it has many causes, our wrong food choices being just one of them but it’s the most important cause. Other contributing factors are our sedentary lifestyle and the chemicals we encounter everyday. All these causes weaken our defence system which allows cancer cells to become established.

Q. My friend’s father had treatment for his cancer but died a year later, why didn’t it cure him?

A. The treatments now days are only removing cancer growths; they don’t look at the root cause why it first appeared so naturally it will just reappear again, usually in some other location.

Q. If my cancer has reappeared is it too late to do something about it?

A. No, it’s never too late, the human body has a natural ability to heal itself but it does need a little help by making simple lifestyle changes.

Q. What is the connection between cancer and the immune system?

A. The immune system is very important because it’s the reason why the cancer appeared in the first place; it had been weakened and allowed cancer cells to become established.

Q. How does our wrong food choices cause us to get cancer?

A. We need to maintain our health throughout life and the food we eat daily with its vitamins and phytochemicals does that for us. Today we are mostly eating processed food and any food that’s been processed has lost its nutritional value.

Q. Can cancer be passed from one person to another?

A. No, it can’t, it is not contagious.

Q. What about genetics, we are told that if our parents had cancer it is likely that we will also get cancer?

A. It’s not genetics in so much as lifestyle factors; we pick up bad habits from our parents because they were our teachers. These habits can be easily broken.

Q. How successful is radiation and chemotherapy?

A. While our orthodox medical system does have its share of success with some leukaemia’s and lymphomas, unfortunately the most common cancers are as resistance to their treatments as they were 40 to 50 year ago.

Q. What about cancer tests like mammograms for breast cancer and PSA test for prostate cancer?

A. They are important but they are not 100 percent reliable. Also for cancer to be detected it has to be of a certain size so it takes many years before symptoms become apparent.

Q. Is there other ways to treat cancer or are there only surgery, radiation and chemotherapy?

A. Yes there are other ways and that is to address the reasons why the cancer first appeared and allow the body to heal which it will do. By doing so you are strengthening the immune system and the body will remove the cancer naturally.

Q. How long will it be before we have a cure for cancer?

A. Unfortunately that’s not going to happen. We’ve been looking for a cure for nearly 40 years since President Nixon declared war on the disease in 19:71. Cancer is a deficiency disease and you won’t fix that with a pill. The only way to cure it is to remedy the deficiency.

We spend billions of dollars in treating cancer today yet we spend little promoting the consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables, foods that medicine well knows are helpful in preventing and reversing cancer. Unfortunately the bulk of research money goes towards looking for a cure, not preventing cancer or promoting treatments that are beneficial.

Alan Wighton is an independent health researcher, having spent many years specialising in cancer. For further information on more effective ways to overcome cancer using the powerful natural healing ability of the human body; please visit http://www.cancerhealed.com/

UPDATE:FDA Questions Benefit, Risks Of Avastin In Breast Cancer

UPDATE:FDA Questions Benefit, Risks Of Avastin In Breast Cancer
UPDATE:FDA Questions Benefit, Risks Of Avastin In Breast Cancer

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6 Tips For Creating Book Club Discussion Questions For Your Book and Other Book Marketing Tips

Book marketing is an activity that most book authors undertake to promote their books.

If you’re a book author, you may have a website where you have downloads of your first chapter or chapters. But have you also made available discussion questions for book clubs to use?

Book groups can be a good target market for your book, especially if it’s fiction. But given how busy people are, it’s helpful for readers to know that if they suggest a book to their reading group they won’t have to struggle to come up with questions. All the work has already been done for them by you the author!

If you haven’t yet provided downloadable questions off your website, do so now.

Here are 6 tips for creating these discussion questions:

? Direct your questions at the appropriate age level for your book. If you’ve written a children’s fiction or non-fiction book, questions should be targeted at the reading level of your book’s market.

? Questions for adult fiction or non-fiction books should include a range of questions so that different levels of book groups can find questions that appeal to their groups.

? For fiction books, are there any current or historic events that impact the story you’ve told? If so, create questions based on these events

? As people often read discussion questions before reading the book, be careful about accidentally revealing a fiction book’s surprise plot points in the questions. With careful consideration, you will usually be able to find a way to discuss a question topic without revealing these plot points.

? Before making available your discussion questions, test them on friends who haven’t read the book yet. Check that the questions mean to others what these questions mean to you.

? Offer the questions to anyone who might be interested besides making the questions available as a free download on your website or other author platforms.

By making available good discussion questions for your book, you’re providing book clubs with the resources for a better discussion. And, with any luck, the better the discussion the more buzz will be created.

In addition, to encourage book clubs to choose your book you should provide the first chapters for free on your website so that prospective readers can get a good feel for the story and characters. You can do this with pdf downloads or audio or video recordings or all three methods.

If you have other information related to your book that you can share on your website, do so. For example, if your novel is connected to an historical event, you can include photos or videos or commentary about that actual event.

Or let’s say you wrote a non-fiction book about breast cancer. You could include on your website names and contact information for organizations that help breast cancer patients. By sharing such information with your prospective readers you’re creating a bond between you and them.

Of course, there is the basic question of do you need a website at all? Couldn’t you put your book club discussion questions on book author websites and forget about having your own website?

Yes, you could. But you’d be foolish to pass up the opportunity to have a destination URL for you and your books.

On the other hand, there is an alternative to having a website designed for you. You could do what many people are doing now – using WordPress blog software to create a website. This is usually less expensive and easier than having a programmer design a website, and you have the added advantage of more easily changing content.

With your own website featuring sample chapters, helpful information and book club discussion questions, you will be providing prospective readers with a number of reasons to say yes to reading your book.