Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 24th, 2008
Following my cancer treatment I was weak and fatigued. This is
not at all unusual for cancer patients. Especially for those of
us who endured chemotherapy, surgery and radiation.
Quite often, cancer patients, weakened by treatments are simply
sent home to rest and recuperate. We are left to regain
physical strength on our ...
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Prior to getting cancer, I never read food labels. If it looked or sounded good, I bought it. Now a days I pay attention to my diet and other health issues. Here are some tips I learned about reading food labels.
You cannot measure every morsel that ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Treating cancer patients with anemia drugs increases their risk of blood clots and death, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday, confirming concerns about these widely used drugs.
Researchers said the drugs, including Amgen Inc's Aranesp and Johnson & Johnson's Procrit, raised the risk of death by 10 ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
I write a lot about my lack of faith and distrust of both the pharmaceutical industry and of the FDA. I still have a port-a-cath, that was implanted during my chemotherapy. I have to have it flushed every four to six weeks. To do this the nurses ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Like many cancer survivors who have endured chemotherapy treatments, I have often said, “The treatment was worse than the disease.” Why is it that, in spite of the very dangerous side effects of chemotherapy, it still seems to be the choice treatment of many oncologists? Do you think ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Tonight my local TV news reported that Patrick Swayze, the star of Dirty Dancing, who has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, was expected to die from the disease within weeks. Fortunately, later national news reports are much more optimistic.
Swayze has pancreatic cancer which has the highest fatality rate of ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
I am a survivor of head and neck cancer. I never thought
much about skin cancer. I was aware of the fact that too much
exposure to the sun could cause skin cancer.
I have always known, to some extent, that our skin tells a
lot about our health. When my ...
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