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The Ovarian Cancer National Alliance is a survivor-led, national umbrella organization that was established in 1997 with the goal of uniting ovarian cancer survivors and their families, women’s health advocates, health care providers, researchers and the general public in the battle against ovarian cancer. Our mission is to conquer ovarian cancer by uniting individuals and organizations in a national movement.

In the United States this year, approximately 22,000 women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer and the vast majority of them will be diagnosed in late stages of the disease. Unfortunately, the five year survival rates for ovarian cancer have not significantly increased in the last 30 years, and less than 50 percent of women will live five years from diagnosis. The majority of patients with advanced disease will undergo chemotherapy, and while the response rates for primary treatment are fairly high, more than 70 percent of women will have at least one recurrence of her ovarian cancer. Once a patient recurs, there are many choices of chemotherapy drugs, however response rates are typically below 50%. Regardless of response, all of these women, will incur the side effects of chemotherapy. Additionally, with each round, the probability of finding a responsive drug decreases due to acquired drug resistance.

Increasingly, new tools are becoming available to individualize and optimize treatment decisions. These include chemosensitivity and resistance tests or drug response markers that individualize cancer care by providing a decision support tool. These test results help physicians, in consultation with their patients, to select the most effective chemotherapy regimen for each patient. We believe it is important for patients and doctors to have access to tools that improve quality and efficacy of treatment, thereby increasing a patient’s probability of survival and quality of life.

We are asking you to ensure that the decision to use these drug response markers stays with the oncologist. Most physicians that treat gynecologic cancers have used these types of tests in the treatment of their patients. Furthermore, Medicare currently covers these tests. It seems only reasonable and principled that patients have access to technologies that assist the oncologist in personalizing cancer treatments. We encourage you to provide coverage of chemosensitivity and resistance tests for all gynecologic cancers.

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Blood is a part of the body. Blood has different components sch as red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets and plasma. The red blood cells (RBC), platelets also called monocytes because it is belong to the “myeloid” group and other white blood cells belong to the “lymphoid” group. Lymphoid cells are affected. Disease progresses quickly. This is most common among children. Blood cancer or Leukemia is actually a group of diseases, each of which impede with the normal functioning of blood cells and progressively weaken the system. Leukemia is classified as either Acute or Chronic. Blood and urine samples may also be tested for various substances, called tumor markers, which may indicate cancer.

Causes

A weakened immune system – this may be a result of drugs that suppress the immune system (such as those used for organ transplants), high doses of radiation (such as in radiotherapy for (more…)

Breast cancer and the long term side effects of chemotherapy and radiation treatment, stretches the emotional well-being to the limit of over 200,000 patients each year in the U.S. alone. When you take into account friends, family and extended family, the number becomes even more staggering. That the breast cancer story doesn’t always end with successful treatment, makes it even more difficult to handle.

Shortly after diagnosis the volumes of information to sort through can be overwhelming. But as time moves on, it’s important to get the facts about what long-term side effects to watch for after you or someone close to you receives treatment for breast cancer.

Experiences may differ greatly or they may be eerily similar. A co-worker of mine succumbed to breast cancer after it had metastasized to her brain, but the tumors had gone unnoticed since her head had never been (more…)

throat cancer (throte KAN-ser)

Cancer that forms in tissues of the pharynx (the hollow tube inside the neck that starts behind the nose and ends at the top of the windpipe and esophagus). Throat cancer includes cancer of the nasopharynx (the upper part of the throat behind the nose), the oropharynx (the middle part of the pharynx), and the hypopharynx (the bottom part of the pharynx). Cancer of the larynx (voice box) may also be included as a type of throat cancer. Most throat cancers are squamous cell carcinomas (cancer that begins in thin, flat cells that look like fish scales). Also called pharyngeal cancer.

What causes throat cancer?

·    Smoking
·    Excessive consumption of alcohol.
·    Inhaling coal, asbestos or diesel fumes.
·    Poor oral hygiene.
·    Excessive consumption of salty meat.
·    Abnormal tissue growth.

Signs and symptoms

An (more…)

Give me at least twenty minutes with any new cancer patient and I can turn that cancer patients frame of mind into one of pure love and positive healing energy, guaranteeing that patient that they already have the best alternative cancer treatment working now right along side their team of doctors.  I do this with hypnosis.

In 2009 I treated over 100 patients who had cancer with hypnosis.  Probably like you these patients all were down and quite negative about their dis-ease but the thing that I found most was that these people where like this their whole lives.  Instantly hypnosis can change all that and give your mind a break and to give it the positive injection that it needs.  You can do all this and more with hypnosis right from privacy of your own home using an mp3 hypnosis download.

My favourite session for cancer patients is the ‘Cancer – Stay Positive’ session.  It installs new thought forms into your mind instantly changing the way your feeling and the way you feel about your dis-ease.  No longer do you need to have that terrible feeling and can have a feeling of strength and positivity and fight.  And ahead of you is probably literally going to be the fight for your life.

We all know now the power of our minds and of our thoughts.  Negative thoughts can create illness and dis-ease and positive thoughts can heal our bodies and make us healthy again.  With a dis-ease like cancer you need to fight for your life and give the fight everything you have.  In one corner you have your team of doctors doing their job.  Without your negative thinking, their job is done much easier and their treatments have a much better chance of working.

In the other corner, you have your mind.  It needs to be fixed first and foremost with definite healing and positive thinking which hypnosis can give to you instantly.  In the third corner you have your intelligence which will now with its positive energies begin to feel out another best alternative cancer treatment.  I recommend you begin reading anything by Louise Hay such as ‘You Can Heal Your Life’.  In your fourth corner you have your friends and family fighting for you.  But believe me they will give up on your fight unless you stay positive too.

My friend, your best alternative cancer treatment is right there ready now in your own body.  Use your mind well and help it as much as you can.  Hypnosis can give you instant relief and begin your new treatment and life right now.

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The most common prostate cancer treatment is complete surgical removal of the entire prostate gland, a procedure which can leave many men with annoying side effects. However, a new version of this surgery has grown exponentially in recent years. Called “minimally invasive radical prostatectomy,” this treatment is nothing all that radical, and does have it’s uses in addition to potential drawbacks.

Minimally invasive surgery is just that: instead of cutting a large slice across the abdomen and opening a wide hole, small half-centimeter or so cuts are incised and an small video camera called a laparoscope is pushed into the hole to remove the prostate. Sometimes this is even done robotically, with the surgeon remote controlling the laparoscope and surgical instruments.

The practical upshot of this type of prostate cancer treatment is that recovery time is shorter, and hospital stays are greatly diminished, from an average of 4 (more…)

Colon cancer is cancer of the large intestine (colon), the lower part of your digestive system. Colon cancer is the second most common cancer in the USA with equal distribution between men and women. Colon cancer usually affects people over the age of 40, with the majority of people who are diagnosed with the condition being over 60 years of age. Colon cancer may affect any racial or ethnic group; however, some studies suggest that Americans of northern European heritage have a higher-than-average risk of colon cancer.

INCIDENCE
Colon cancer is more common in industrialized nations and in those societies where red meat is a major part of the diet, although evidence tends to suggest that merely changing your diet to white meat and seafood as in for instance Japan, tends to just swap stomach cancer for colon cancer. In almost all cases colon cancer is a (more…)

Management of Gastric Cancer

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Breast cancer radiotherapy is at best an ordeal and at worst a living nightmare for many women.

The worst moment after being told you really do have cancer is being told you will need chemotherapy and radiotherapy as treatment to fight the disease. Having been there I know it’s shocking and I felt I just simply would never cope with it all. I’m writing this article and describing my experiences in the hope that it will make it easier for others to cope. If that applies to you then my thoughts are with you – good luck on your journey. Be strong and you’ll see it through.

My own breast cancer treatment regime was to consist of four treatments of FEC chemo, four weeks of radiotherapy treatment then four treatments of Taxotere chemo. This would all take the best part of ten months.

Having survived the first (more…)

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