Archive for July, 2008
Will there be an epidemic of kidney cancer?
Submitted by Dr.Kattlove’s Cancer Blog
The other day, newspapers carried the story about James Levine having surgery for kidney cancer. Mr. Levine is the highly regarded conductor of both the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as well as the Boston Symphony. He is also fat. I have never seen him in person, but on the tube, he looks [...]
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
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Survive Cancer, Have Baby
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(Editor: Fertile Hope gets a nod but it’s not enough)
The emerging field of oncofertility offers hope to patients who worried that they couldn’t conceive.
When Annie Dauer’s oncologist told her she’d need a stem-cell transplant to cure her non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Dauer’s first thought wasn’t about death but about life. “I asked [...]
YOGAPALOOZA i[2[y Benefit A Success!
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Special thanks to YOGABEAR and i[2]y’er Halle Tecco for being teh awesome!
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stupidcancerSTRONG!
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This is the band WideAwake who sing “LIVESTRONG”, which is the official theme song for Lance Armstrong Foundation. It would appear they’re “stupidcancerSTRONG” now with special thanks to i[2]y’er Matthew Lowney for making this happen!
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Medical Marijuana And Minors
Submitted by The Stupid Cancer Blog
Reason TV has a story about a 17-year-old high school kid from California who got bone cancer and had to get his leg amputated. His medicine was making him feel worse, so his parents decided to try medical marijuana. The marijuana greatly helped Owen, easing his pain and nausea. Then [...]
Cancer Cure Found in LSD? Timothy Leary Back From Dead, Rolling In Toxic Waste Awaiting His Diagnosis
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From “The Morning Show” With Mike & Juliet….
Can this dangerous party drug help (LSD) extend the life of terminally ill patients?
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Cigarettes Are The Cure For Cancer. (What?)
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Personalized vaccine made of tobacco plants, which normally cause cancer, can be used to help people suffering from lymphoma in challenging the disease…
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i[2]y Australia Is Kiwi-tastic!
Submitted by The Stupid Cancer Blog
In the throes of chemotherapy, two women who had never met were both thinking the same thing: “I’m too young for this.”
That thought led single mother Shari Falls, 33, of Canberra, and Newcastle university student Louise Mackay, 21, to meet online and form Australia’s only cancer support group for young [...]
i[2]y Australia Happy Hour Is Teh Awesome!
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“The Empty Cup Runneth Over” – A Great Read by i[2]y’er and Young Breast Cancer Survivor Cindy Papale
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From WritersBreak.com
Having survived a July, 2000 diagnosis of a stage I, left multi-focal invasive breast cancer, Cindy Papale decided to embark on writing a book to educate young women and men on the many facets of her often misunderstood disease. Within The Empty Cup Runneth Over (Dorrance Publishing Company, 2008), [...]
Living with Cancer: 8 Things You Need to Know
Submitted by The Stupid Cancer Blog
(Editor: Special Thanks to Kris Carr for the props in this piece!) Rather than surrendering to despair and impersonal medical treatments, growing numbers of cancer patients are empowering themselves with information and control over their therapies. The trend is finding acceptance in mainstream medicine and helping people with cancer lead [...]
Get Cancer. Get Married. Big Money. No Whammies!
Submitted by The Stupid Cancer Blog
A Tampa bride-to-be who defied doctors’ expectations after being told she had a year to live four years ago has celebrated another victory — she and her fiancee won a $100,000 dream wedding.
Courtney Dempsey, 33, and Gary Courtney, 37, were among 40,000 couples who entered US Magazine’s wedding contest. The [...]
Breast Exams Useless? Fewer Boobs Felt-Up. Entire Male Species Grossly Saddened And Disappointed.
Submitted by The Stupid Cancer Blog
Medical advice can be frustratingly contradictory, especially when it comes to the issue of screening. Now, a new report questions the usefulness of breast self-exams, finding that the commonly recommended screening tool may not help save women’s lives — and may even do more harm than good.
According to a review [...]
Katie Reider, 1978-2008
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Screw Chemo. Let’s Go ‘Shrooming
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Screw Chemo. Let’s Go ‘Shrooming
The spiritual effects of a substance in “sacred mushrooms” can last more than a year, Johns Hopkins researchers claim. The scientists said their investigations may lead to new ways to help people with conditions such as cancer, depression and drug dependence.
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i[2]y’er Leah Shearer (Chair, Upstate NY) Gets Sweet Gig Blogging For “The Rochester Insider”
Submitted by The Stupid Cancer Blog.
Rock on, Leah!
Excerpt from her first post….
So this is the first blog entry for Insider. Although I’m not new to the blogosphere and have blogged for about two years, (if you call the year of myspace authentic) I am honored to have been asked by Insider to share with you [...]
Olympic Swimmer Diagnosed With Cancer, Will Compete
Submitted by The Stupid Cancer Blog.
American swimmer Eric Shanteau, who qualified for the Beijing Games in the 200-metre breaststroke, has revealed he is battling testicular cancer.
Shanteau, 24, said he learned of the diagnosis just a week before the recent U.S. Olympic trials in Omaha, and that he was cleared to compete by doctors.
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Study: Melanoma Cases Rising Among Young Women (Note To Self: TANNING BEDS MAKE YOU CANCERIFIC!)
Submitted by The Stupid Cancer Blog
Increasing numbers of young women continue to be diagnosed with the most dangerous form of skin cancer even as the rate has leveled off in young men, federal health officials reported today.
An analysis of government cancer statistics between 1973 and 2004 found that the rate of new melanoma cases in [...]
What about your risk of dying from breast cancer?
Submitted by Dr.Kattlove’s Cancer Blog
Many things increase a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer. Some she can control, others she can’t. Uncontrollable items are, starting periods at a young age, ending them at a late age, having few or no babies and having them late in life. Of course, the biggest uncontrollable gorilla in the [...]
Chicago i[2]y’er Kairol Rosenthal Makes The NY TImes, Stupid Cancer Show Plugged!
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NY TIMES Article: Cancer-Specific Products: An Unnecessary Balm?
For the last seven years that Kairol Rosenthal, 35, has battled thyroid cancer with hormone pills, radiation, surgery and grit, she has had to contend with 101-degree fevers, heart palpitations and a lack of appetite so pronounced she has to force herself to [...]
Best Testicular Cancer PSA… evarrrrrrr
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Don’t believe those ads
Submitted by http://kattlovecancerblog.blogspot.com/
Recently, the FDA sent warning letters to a bunch of companies selling “cancer cures”, telling them to stop.
The products contain ingredients such as bloodroot, shark cartilage, coral calcium, cesium, ellagic acid, Cat’s Claw, an herbal tea called Essiac, and mushroom varieties such as Agaricus Blazeii, Shitake, Maitake, and Reishi. Some of the fraudulent [...]
Best Testicular Cancer PSA… evarrrrrrr
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