meat-eaters have much higher colon cancer rates—about 300 percent higher compared to vegetarians.
There's No Room for Chicken in a Healthy Diet
http://www.pcrm.org/magazine/GM00SpringSummer/GM00SpSum2.html
Q: Is chicken…poisonous?!
A: With live salmonella bacteria growing inside one in every three packages of chicken, it is making a lot of people sick. Although deaths from salmonella poisonings sometimes make the evening news, millions more cases that cause flu-like symptoms go unaccounted. Salmonella poisoning can cause vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and low-grade fever lasting for several days. When it spreads to the blood and other organs, it can be fatal—and is, for as many as 9,000 people every year.
Monday, December 30, 2002
Saturday, December 21, 2002
Ontario has among the highest rates of colorectal cancer in the world.
The occurrence of colorectal cancer varies greatly worldwide. Variation among countries is not due to genetic differences. This means that most colorectal cancers in Ontario may be preventable. The best ways to reduce the risk of colorectal cancer are to eat plenty of vegetables and to keep physically active
http://www.cancercare.on.ca/cancerfacts/home.html
The occurrence of colorectal cancer varies greatly worldwide. Variation among countries is not due to genetic differences. This means that most colorectal cancers in Ontario may be preventable. The best ways to reduce the risk of colorectal cancer are to eat plenty of vegetables and to keep physically active
http://www.cancercare.on.ca/cancerfacts/home.html
Saturday, December 07, 2002
Chemotherapy Patients Set Off Subway Alarms!
Radioactive patients set off subway alarms
NewScientist.com news service
Americans undergoing radioactive medical treatments risk setting off anti-terrorism sensors in public places, and subsequent strip searches by police, warn doctors at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.
A 34-year-old patient who had been treated with radioactive iodine for Graves disease, a thyroid disorder, returned to their clinic three weeks later complaining he had been strip-searched twice in Manhattan subway stations. Christopher Buettner and Martin Surks report the case in a letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association.
"Police had identified him as emitting radiation and had detained him for further questioning. This patient's experience indicates that radiation detection devices are being installed in public places in New York City and elsewhere," the doctors write
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993150
Radioactive patients set off subway alarms
NewScientist.com news service
Americans undergoing radioactive medical treatments risk setting off anti-terrorism sensors in public places, and subsequent strip searches by police, warn doctors at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.
A 34-year-old patient who had been treated with radioactive iodine for Graves disease, a thyroid disorder, returned to their clinic three weeks later complaining he had been strip-searched twice in Manhattan subway stations. Christopher Buettner and Martin Surks report the case in a letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association.
"Police had identified him as emitting radiation and had detained him for further questioning. This patient's experience indicates that radiation detection devices are being installed in public places in New York City and elsewhere," the doctors write
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993150
Wednesday, November 27, 2002
Healing Power of Touching; Clinic Offers Alternative Therapy for Low-Income Cancer Patients
http://printerfriendly.abcnews.com/printerfriendly/Print?fetchFromGLUE=true&GLUEService=ABCNewsCom
That sense of suffering just stops at the door," says Wai Chee Leung, one of some 200 patients at the clinic. "In here I feel so well taken care of, so well-received."
Another patient, Karen Holly, agrees. "It is almost magical," she says, "because the healing happens not only with the therapy, but it happens in the entire environment."
All the patients here have one thing in common: They are low-income women with cancer. "This disease," says patient Arie Lathuras, "can turn your life upside down in every possible way — financially, emotionally, spiritually and physically."
The clinic offers pain relief in the form of alternative therapies: acupuncture, a form of meditation known as visualization therapy, herbal medicines custom-mixed on site and massage. All services are provided free of charge by some 120 volunteers.
"It's just a really direct way to help people and to feel like you're making a difference," says massage therapist Eleanor Martineau.
Human Touch Has Powerful Impact
And certainly, the power of human touch does make a difference to these women, many of whom are living alone in poverty, sometimes in homeless shelters. The clinic's co-founder, Barbara Burns, says that can make the fight against cancer almost unbearable.
"Most of the time," says Burns, "you can't go into a shelter until the evening. So if you go to get an infusion of chemotherapy, you're on the sidewalk until the shelter opens at night."
But at the clinic, the women can find a welcome respite from that other world of radiation and chemo. "You get the doctor taking care of you on a medical basis," says Karen Holly, "but what you don't get is the loving hand that you get here."
That loving hand is offered at every turn, from the hug each patient receives upon arriving to the full body massage they could never possibly afford on their own. The clinic was named for Charlotte Maxwell, a social worker who died of ovarian cancer in 1988. She believed alternative therapies greatly enhanced her quality of life in her last years. And she wanted to make those therapies available to women who were less fortunate.
The clinic works with oncologists by monitoring patient care and sharing information about changes in treatments. There are social workers on staff to help obtain financial aid and housing. They are hopeful they can find a place for Juanita Kindley, who has stage-four ovarian cancer and, as of the end of this month, no place to live.
"I'm really scared about it," says Kindley, choking back tears. "I don't have a lot of money."
The clinic itself depends on charitable donations and grant money, and right now it receives only enough to operate three days a week. But no one here acts as though they are impoverished, neither the volunteers nor the patients. At least you'd never know by the big smiles and friendly hugs
http://printerfriendly.abcnews.com/printerfriendly/Print?fetchFromGLUE=true&GLUEService=ABCNewsCom
That sense of suffering just stops at the door," says Wai Chee Leung, one of some 200 patients at the clinic. "In here I feel so well taken care of, so well-received."
Another patient, Karen Holly, agrees. "It is almost magical," she says, "because the healing happens not only with the therapy, but it happens in the entire environment."
All the patients here have one thing in common: They are low-income women with cancer. "This disease," says patient Arie Lathuras, "can turn your life upside down in every possible way — financially, emotionally, spiritually and physically."
The clinic offers pain relief in the form of alternative therapies: acupuncture, a form of meditation known as visualization therapy, herbal medicines custom-mixed on site and massage. All services are provided free of charge by some 120 volunteers.
"It's just a really direct way to help people and to feel like you're making a difference," says massage therapist Eleanor Martineau.
Human Touch Has Powerful Impact
And certainly, the power of human touch does make a difference to these women, many of whom are living alone in poverty, sometimes in homeless shelters. The clinic's co-founder, Barbara Burns, says that can make the fight against cancer almost unbearable.
"Most of the time," says Burns, "you can't go into a shelter until the evening. So if you go to get an infusion of chemotherapy, you're on the sidewalk until the shelter opens at night."
But at the clinic, the women can find a welcome respite from that other world of radiation and chemo. "You get the doctor taking care of you on a medical basis," says Karen Holly, "but what you don't get is the loving hand that you get here."
That loving hand is offered at every turn, from the hug each patient receives upon arriving to the full body massage they could never possibly afford on their own. The clinic was named for Charlotte Maxwell, a social worker who died of ovarian cancer in 1988. She believed alternative therapies greatly enhanced her quality of life in her last years. And she wanted to make those therapies available to women who were less fortunate.
The clinic works with oncologists by monitoring patient care and sharing information about changes in treatments. There are social workers on staff to help obtain financial aid and housing. They are hopeful they can find a place for Juanita Kindley, who has stage-four ovarian cancer and, as of the end of this month, no place to live.
"I'm really scared about it," says Kindley, choking back tears. "I don't have a lot of money."
The clinic itself depends on charitable donations and grant money, and right now it receives only enough to operate three days a week. But no one here acts as though they are impoverished, neither the volunteers nor the patients. At least you'd never know by the big smiles and friendly hugs
Sunday, November 17, 2002
Possible Link Found Between Virus and Colon Cancer
NEW YORK Nov 15, 2002 (Reuters Health) - A common type of herpesvirus may play a role in the development of colorectal cancer, preliminary research suggests.
The virus, called cytomegalovirus (CMV), is widespread and normally causes no problems in healthy individuals. As many as 90% of US adults may carry CMV, which in most cases remains dormant.
However, some research has suggested CMV infection can help promote heart disease, possibly by causing long-term inflammation in the body. Now the new study hints at a potential role in cancer of the colon and rectum--although, the lead author told Reuters Health, it does not prove the virus helps cause the cancer.
Saturday, November 09, 2002
Friday, November 08, 2002
check out the pictures of ;
The Colossal Colon is a 40-foot long, four-foot high replica of a human colon. Visitors who crawl through the colon, or look through the viewing windows, will see healthy colon tissue, colon disease, polyps and various stages of colon cancer. The Colon was modeled after a real colon taken from colonoscopy film footage, and was built by Adirondack Scenic, known for their building of Broadway theatre sets and theme park sets
http://www.preventcancer.org/colossalcolon/
The Colossal Colon is a 40-foot long, four-foot high replica of a human colon. Visitors who crawl through the colon, or look through the viewing windows, will see healthy colon tissue, colon disease, polyps and various stages of colon cancer. The Colon was modeled after a real colon taken from colonoscopy film footage, and was built by Adirondack Scenic, known for their building of Broadway theatre sets and theme park sets
http://www.preventcancer.org/colossalcolon/
Thursday, November 07, 2002
There were a lot of us colonites, at least 6 at the same time,on yahoo cancer chat this afternoon;some new ones, Msmoonsoon,Sam or ‘shornesq’ ,my regular pals, ‘duskrover & Lindy,I_comp, all of us struggling with this disease
For comic relief ; I think of cancer like it’s dirty politics, "There are sinister forces at work here..."
For comic relief ; I think of cancer like it’s dirty politics, "There are sinister forces at work here..."
Monday, November 04, 2002
( I don’t think of myself as “Cancer-stricken” .but that's how the media labels anyone with cancer !)
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Cancer-stricken Sharon Osbourne says she wishes she hadn't agreed to MTV show
If she had to do it over again, Sharon Osbourne says she wouldn't have invited MTV's cameras into her home.
The cancer-stricken matriarch of television's favorite dysfunctional family told ABC's Barbara Walters that she's calling it quits after an upcoming, 10-episode season is through.
"This is definitely the last year," Osbourne said in an interview that will be broadcast on "20/20" Wednesday. "We can't do it anymore."
MTV's second season of "The Osbournes" begins Nov. 26. The first set of episodes drew record ratings for the network this spring and made aging heavy-metal star Ozzy Osbourne and his family household names.
Sharon Osbourne, who is fighting colon cancer, said the show has "changed us all so much." Her teenage children now have lawyers and business managers, she said.
Sharon said Ozzy has begun drinking again in response to her cancer.
"We agreed to do the show and so the cameras are here all the time," she said. "So it's a little bit invasive right now and we have no privacy. You know when you're sick, you want to be on your own? I can't throw up on my own and Ozzy can't get drunk on his own."
Two of the Osbourne children, Kelly and Jack, participate in the series. An older daughter, Aimee, did not. She told Walters that she worries about what will happen to her father if anything should happen to Sharon.
"I don't think he even wants to know what life will be like without her," Aimee Osbourne said. "And I don't think he would last more than a year without her."
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Cancer-stricken Sharon Osbourne says she wishes she hadn't agreed to MTV show
If she had to do it over again, Sharon Osbourne says she wouldn't have invited MTV's cameras into her home.
The cancer-stricken matriarch of television's favorite dysfunctional family told ABC's Barbara Walters that she's calling it quits after an upcoming, 10-episode season is through.
"This is definitely the last year," Osbourne said in an interview that will be broadcast on "20/20" Wednesday. "We can't do it anymore."
MTV's second season of "The Osbournes" begins Nov. 26. The first set of episodes drew record ratings for the network this spring and made aging heavy-metal star Ozzy Osbourne and his family household names.
Sharon Osbourne, who is fighting colon cancer, said the show has "changed us all so much." Her teenage children now have lawyers and business managers, she said.
Sharon said Ozzy has begun drinking again in response to her cancer.
"We agreed to do the show and so the cameras are here all the time," she said. "So it's a little bit invasive right now and we have no privacy. You know when you're sick, you want to be on your own? I can't throw up on my own and Ozzy can't get drunk on his own."
Two of the Osbourne children, Kelly and Jack, participate in the series. An older daughter, Aimee, did not. She told Walters that she worries about what will happen to her father if anything should happen to Sharon.
"I don't think he even wants to know what life will be like without her," Aimee Osbourne said. "And I don't think he would last more than a year without her."
Saturday, October 26, 2002
to review my history:
56 yrs old, Colon Cancer. Stage III (1 pos lymph node)
T3N1Mx
dx nov 10,2000 after colonoscopy & CAT scan
right hemi-colectomy dec 4/2000 : removed right half of my colon
start 6mth chemo january /2001 5FU & Leucovorin
2d colonoscopy may 14,2001
CEA rose to 10 sept / 01
CAT scan sept/ 01
3d colonoscopy oct/ 01
NED as of may 15 /02 blood tests CEA 5.7
by aug 02 had risen 9.1,last week was 10
had my 4th colonoscopy 2 wks ago,was clear,now scheduled for a bone scan to try & find possible metastis,and why my CEA is up
56 yrs old, Colon Cancer. Stage III (1 pos lymph node)
T3N1Mx
dx nov 10,2000 after colonoscopy & CAT scan
right hemi-colectomy dec 4/2000 : removed right half of my colon
start 6mth chemo january /2001 5FU & Leucovorin
2d colonoscopy may 14,2001
CEA rose to 10 sept / 01
CAT scan sept/ 01
3d colonoscopy oct/ 01
NED as of may 15 /02 blood tests CEA 5.7
by aug 02 had risen 9.1,last week was 10
had my 4th colonoscopy 2 wks ago,was clear,now scheduled for a bone scan to try & find possible metastis,and why my CEA is up