Do Your Part for the Environment, Your Health, and Your Wallet

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Vehicle owners nationwide have the same complaint the high priceof gasoline. It's as if you're going to work just to pay for the gas tofill up your tank. Everyone knows when the price of oil goes up, thecost of everything else rises. And the price of keeping your enginerunning smooth always puts you back in […]

John Wayne - “The Duke”

Friday, September 19th, 2008

The Duke was plagued by health problems which came to a head in 1964. He lost his left lung and two ribs to cancer in September of that year. Although rumors spread that he had developed the disease while filming in Utah, where the U.S. government had been testing nuclear bombs, he denied […]

Alternative Medicine for Treating Cancer

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Cancer is the name given to any illness resulting from one of our body's own cells growing out of control. There are many processes that control a cell?s growth and division, each of which can go wrong. Several of these control mechanisms need to be damaged before a cell becomes cancerous. There are more than […]

Small Cell Cancer

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Small cell cancer is one of the scarier forms of lung cancer. There isn?t any kind of lung cancer that isn?t scary, as they are all more often terminal than not, however small cell cancer tends to be the most aggressive. Most people with small cell cancer will die in 2 to 4 […]

Would You Like To Be Statistically Diagnosed?

Monday, June 30th, 2008

The above title may sound funny but with the advent of microarray technology it is entirely possible for your doctor to ask you a question like this. Namely, any array-based diagnostic test that determines a multi-component disease signature is inherently generating a statistical statement. For example:

The test results demonstrate with 90% confidence that your chances […]

Know the Brutal The Facts - Quit Smoking

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Its common knowledge that smoking is an addiction but how much do we actually know about it? There are over 4000 known chemicals found in cigarette smoke. one of these such chemicals is known as nicotine. Nicotine is known to be more addictive than many illegal drugs, making it very difficult for the user to […]

An Aspirin A Day In Texas May Keep Cancer Away

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Individuals in Dallas, Houston and elsewhere in Texas who take an aspirin a day may lower the odds of colon, prostate and breast cancer if you are at high risk for those malignancies, researchers at the American Cancer Society report.

Men and women who used adult-strength aspirin daily for five or more years had about a […]

Death From Cancer: A Poem About My Father

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

My father died from lung cancer on January third, 2005. After entering a nursing facility for rehab, we soon discovered that he had stage four small-cell lung cancer. He lived for three and one-half weeks after his diagnosis.

While January third never had any signficance before, it now holds signficance for me that I would never […]

Alarming Rates: Many Types of Cancer

Friday, April 18th, 2008

The many types of cancer diagnosed every day that affect most parts of the body is over a hundred. The most common type is non-melanoma skin cancer. Skin cancer can be found in two forms. Melanoma and non melanoma skin cancers with over half the cancers diagnosed in the United States being non-melanoma skin cancer. […]

Cancer Causes: Know Your Risks

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Cancer causes can be found genetically, through our lifestyle choices and hazardous environmental exposure. Realizing what causes cancer can help you to prevent it. The first step in cancer prevention is learning what can cause cancer and your? risk factors. By avoiding as many risk factors as you can from your life you’re more likely […]