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Conventional medicine is now recognizing what is called complementary or alternative treatments, alternative treatments for leukemia is one of them. If you are afflicted with this disease you will want to read further to find out about these alternative treatments.

For those who don’t know, leukemia is a cancer that starts in the blood forming cells. The bone marrow produces both white and red cells, when this disease takes flight a over abundance of abnormal white cells are produced. These cells can attack good tissue, for what ever reasons they see them as the enemy. Continue reading ‘2 Alternative Treatments For Leukemia’ »

In the last article, I discussed how I found out I had breast cancer. I talked about how my family and I reacted. In this article, I will discuss the treatments and how we all pulled through the year from Hell.

Next Step: Lymph Nodes
After having the lumpectomy and finding out it was cancer, my doctor told me we need to check my lymph nodes. First, I had to go get a simple scan to determine where they were. What she didn’t tell me was I would need to lie perfectly still while they shoved a needle into my breast and squirted painful nuclear medicine in.

It seems, to locate the lymph nodes, someone has got to insert nuclear medicine into the site. Then they use a machine to see where the medicine goes. This takes a few minutes but is very freaky thing. Then, they mark you up for the surgery the next day. Continue reading ‘Breast Cancer – Diagnosed at 32, My Story Part 2 – The Mastectomy’ »

Asbestos is a mineral fiber. It can be definitely identified simply with a special kind of microscope. There are many types of asbestos fibers. Formerly, asbestos was added to a range of products to reinforce them and to give heat insulation and fire resistance.

Asbestos-related lung disease happened at very high rates to the middle of the 20th century, when patients who were uncovered decades earlier to asbestos finally developed disease. British asbestos workers were among the first who were detected to suffer lung cancer related to asbestos. Continue reading ‘The Victims of Lung Cancer Related to Asbestos’ »

The breasts sit on the chest muscles that cover the ribs. Each breast is made of 15 to 20 lobes. Lobes contain many smaller lobules. Lobules contain groups of tiny glands that can produce milk. Milk flows from the lobules through thin tubes called ducts to the nipple. The nipple is in the center of a dark area of skin called the areola. Fat fills the spaces between the lobules and ducts.

Breast cancer incidence is much higher in industrialised Western countries, whether in Europe or North America, than in developing countries. North American women have the highest incidence of breast cancer in the world. Among women in the U.S., breast cancer is the most common cancer and the second-most common cause of cancer death (after lung cancer). Women in the U.S. have a 1 in 8 (12.5%) lifetime chance of developing invasive breast cancer and a 1 in 35 (3%) chance of breast cancer causing their death. In 2007, breast cancer was expected to cause 40,910 deaths in the U.S. (7% of cancer deaths; almost 2% of all deaths)

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In my personal experience as a 10-year breast cancer survivor and from watching others, it seems that as time passes after a cancer diagnosis the worries and fears about a recurrence lessen. Ten years out, I now only find myself triggered and fearful again when a friend or loved one has a recurrence, I develop a mysterious symptom or just before my yearly mammogram. But if you’re a little closer to your original diagnosis, it’s not uncommon to still be afraid. It’s like you’re doing the limbo, between the world of the living and the world of the dying. It’s a dance that requires all the agility that doing the limbo does. It asks us to maintain an optimistic belief in our future, yet not deny that death will come one day. And it takes tremendous courage to plan for a future that still feels uncertain.

If practiced, the following tips will help you reduce and lessen your fears about a cancer recurrence. They’re given with the personal knowledge that it can be extremely challenging to manage this fear. But it can be done and has been done by many, the same way you get to Carnegie Hall: practice, practice, practice.

The first thing to do to reduce your fears of recurrence is to monitor your thoughts. As a life, business and results coach, I encourage everyone I meet, survivor or not, to monitor their thoughts. Because success in anything in life comes from how we communicate to others, but more importantly how we communicate to ourselves, by the thoughts we routinely think. Continue reading ‘Cancer Recurrence – How to Handle and Manage Your Fears Around Being Diagnosed a Second Time’ »

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) strongly supports finding a cure for leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, while improving the lives of those living with cancer. As a cancer survivor, I know firsthand how difficult living with cancer can be. I have personally benefited from the many patient services the LLS offers, such as, support groups, financial support, information on the latest news in treatment, free materials, and patient education programs.

The LLS has helped make my first year going through this life changing event, a little less challenging. I have been able to take part in a monthly support group and be among others going through the same thing, sort through my feelings, and learn coping techniques like guided imagery, and art therapy. I receive financial support to help with my on-going additional medical expenses. I have found the LLS website to be an outstanding resource with a multitude of valuable information and resources. And I have been fortunate enough to take part in a patient education program on employee work related issues and understanding your rights, along with, a cooking class on eating healthy. Continue reading ‘Living With Cancer? The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is Improving Lives and Giving Hope’ »

Mesothelioma Attorneys Handle Cases Involving Mesothelioma, Cancer From Asbestos

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which is a cancer that is caused by exposure to asbestos. Malignant Mesothelioma is known as one of the worlds deadliest forms of cancer. This disease claims the lives of thousands of people each year in the United States alone.

Mesothelioma is a cancer of the mesothelium, which is the membrane that surrounds the lungs, abdomen, and heart. It is always fatal and usually takes decades after being exposed to asbestos for the slow growing cancer to be found or cause symptoms. At that point it is usually a poor prognosis due to the progression of the disease. Continue reading ‘Mesothelioma Attorneys Handle Cases Involving Mesothelioma, Cancer From Asbestos’ »

Vaginal cancer the growth of malignant cells in the vagina is rare, representing less than 2 percent of all gynecologic cancers. Most cases of vaginal cancer occur in women over the age 50. However, some types may affect young women during adolescence or early adulthood, and one very rare type appears n children under five. Vaginal cancers are highly treatable land often curable; the outlook is optimistic with early detection and treatment.

Prevention

There is no way to prevent vaginal cancer, according to conventional and traditional medicine, but regular pelvic examinations and pap smears are advised to aid in the early detection and treatment of any vaginal or cervical abnormalities. Women whose mothers took the drug DES during pregnancy should have periodic pelvic examinations and Pap smears of the vagina as well as the cervix at least once a year. Colposcopy is also recommended for these women.

The treatment

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Early civilizations in what is now Finland recognized the usefulness of asbestos about 3,000 years ago. The Persians, Greeks, and Romans continued its popularity 1,000 years later. Even up through the 20th century, we utilized asbestos in a number of different products until it was phased out and banned starting in 1989.

Asbestos is extremely useful both due to its own characteristics, but also as a silicate mineral. Silicates in general tend to be highly resistant to many different things, which makes them great insulators. Silicate minerals protect against chemicals, heat, flame, and electricity. They are also highly resistant to biodegradation. Additionally, asbestos has several useful properties on its own. It has high tensile strength and is very flexible, which means that it can easily be spun into cloth as well as added to other materials. Continue reading ‘Types of Asbestos and Their Uses’ »

In the fight against asbestos mesothelioma cancer, cutting sugar out of your diet is critical in aiding your immune system. When you eat sugar, a chain of events occurs starting with your insulin level increasing dramatically. With the increased insulin levels, growth hormone levels are also reduced which then suppresses your immune system.

When your insulin level increases, any excess sugar is stored as fat cells. And of course, more fat cells in your body means that you put greater pressure on your heart to pump more oxygenated blood to the fat cells, which leaves less oxygen to combat the asbestos mesothelioma cancer cells.

According to one study, eating just 1/2 a cup of sugar or two cans of pop, can suppress 91% of your immune system for up to 6 hours. Continue reading ‘Asbestos Mesothelioma And Sugar – That Chocolate Bar Is Suppressing Your Immune System’ »