Living With Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma And Fighting Depression
Posted on April 7, 2008 - Filed Under Leukemia Lymphoma Cancer | Leave a Comment
When living with non-hodgkins lymphoma there are many ups and downs, mentally, physically, and spiritually on the road to surviving cancer. Here are a few of the do’s and don’ts that I’ve learned as time went on during and after my non-hodgkins lymphoma diagnosis. If they helped me become a cancer survivor, intact, beating the odds, why couldn’t they help you? So here they are…
DO make sure you know and understand what your protocol is about while living with cancer, whether it’s non-hodgkins lymphoma, or any other type of cancer, to help maintain a level of control and reduce depression… Continue reading
Read More..>>Obesity Makes Hard Your Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
Posted on April 2, 2008 - Filed Under Prostate Cancer | Leave a Comment
I am not sure that you are aware that Obesity and cancer of all kinds are related to the extent that experts believe that the death rates of the two health problems are associated. Yes, studies have proven that there is a valid relationship between cancer death rates and obesity estimated at about 100, 000 deaths every year in the U.S.
Having revealed that to you; be further inform that overweight, according to experts, makes it very hard to detect early prostate cancer putting overweight men in the greater risk of getting help very late and thus have less chances of… Continue reading
Read More..>>Fear or Fact? Cervical Cancer and the HPV Vaccine
Posted on March 14, 2008 - Filed Under Ovarian Cervical Uterine Cancer | Leave a Comment
Unless you’ve been living in isolation for the past 1 - 2 years, you would have found it almost impossible to avoid hearing about the risk of cervical cancer, and the two new HPV (Human Papillomavirus) vaccines (Gardasil and Cervarix) that have now been introduced as a prevention strategy against this disease.
In a revolutionary age where media campaigning has tremendous power and potential to infiltrate thinking and ideas on national and global scales, distinguishing fact from emotion becomes a confronting, yet subtle dilemma.
The platform for the introduction of these 2 new HPV vaccines onto the worldwide market has been on… Continue reading
Read More..>>Is Cervical Cancer The Real Threat We’ve Been Led To Believe?
Posted on March 14, 2008 - Filed Under Ovarian Cervical Uterine Cancer | Leave a Comment
With the vast amount of media attention given to cervical cancer since the introduction of the new HPV (Human Papillomavirus) vaccines, any female or parent could certainly be forgiven for believing that the risk of cervical cancer is a serious health threat to the female population.
But exactly how serious is the risk, and what percentage of the population is actually affected?
Consider these facts. Cervical cancer only represents a small proportion of all cancer diagnoses and deaths each year. For example, according to the American Cancer Society, American women are 16 times more likely to develop breast cancer than cervical cancer… Continue reading
Read More..>>Just One More Interesting Thing
Posted on March 12, 2008 - Filed Under Breast Cancer | Leave a Comment
It may sound trite and Pollyannish, but it took a diagnosis of breast cancer to bring me back to my own inner wisdom, to startle my soul into asking what it meant to live an authentic life.
At the time, I was 45 years old, and completely unaware of how physically and emotionally bone-weary I was from helping raise two of my husband’s children for the past ten years. I was beginning to feel dissatisfied with an all-consuming, low-paying job, and was hearing faint murmurings of inner parts of myself who wanted time to write, to create art, to do something… Continue reading
Read More..>>The Truth Behind Ovarian Cancer Survival Rates
Posted on March 9, 2008 - Filed Under Ovarian Cervical Uterine Cancer | Leave a Comment
What is the truth behind ovarian cancer survival rates? Well, if you were to type “the truth behind ovarian cancer survival rates” into a search engine, you might be upset at the type of information you find. This is because most sites that are dedicated towards telling the truth behind ovarian cancer survival rates tend to do so from a more negative angle. For example, in the United States only 50 percent of women who have been diagnosed with ovarian cancer will live beyond five years. And this statistic does not provide any official hope that… Continue reading
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