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“CANCER `THE nUTS & bOLTS”

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Ken

Cancer is looked at as this elusive thing,  when in all actuality,  it is something that happens every day in every person.  You  develop  one million cancer cells  in  your    body every day.  And,  every day,  your body kills one … Continue reading →

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Sunny’s Experience

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Ken

  In the Solitarius group page on Facebook I meet everyday amazing new people… this is Sunny’s experience with Retroperitoneal Leiomyosarcoma.   Occurs most commonly in the fifth to seventh decades. There has no known predilection for race or gender.  The … Continue reading →

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Understanding the Immune System

Posted on October 5, 2014 by Ken

The immune system protects the body against infections by bacteria, viruses and other parasites. It is really a collection of responses that the body makes to infection. So it is sometimes called the ‘immune response’. The immune system is important … Continue reading →

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Gene Therapy Scores Big Wins

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Ken

   In one of  the biggest advances against leukemia  and other blood cancers in many years,  doctors  are reporting unprecedented success  by using gene therapy to transform patients’ blood cells into soldiers that seek and destroy cancer.  A  few patients  … Continue reading →

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Synopsis On Cancer

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Ken

  Cancer is an individual disease: what works  for one individual may not work  for someone else. While talking to others many similarities in belief    a bound.  In a world of  shrinkage  in  health care insurance  and a broken system with many … Continue reading →

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Ocular Melanoma

Posted on March 12, 2014 by Ken

   Another cancer type  I didn’t cover  in my  18 Major Types top tag is                Ocular Melanoma.  OM  arises  from  the  pigment cells  (melanocytes)      that give color to the eye. In which tumors are quite rare diagnosed in approximately  2,000 … Continue reading →

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Management 0f Cancer

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Ken

    When you look  at  cancer biology  and  the  treatments  for cancer this information  can  be  overwhelming.   What  I’ll  attempt  to  do  in  the blog post  for May  is  build  on this video library.  With  some  of  the treatments being surgery  (cyber … Continue reading →

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Palliative Cancer Care

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Ken

   Patients under going cancer treatment often experience,  not only,   nausea, pain and discomfort from their disease, but also, potentially debilitating side effects  caused  by  their  treatment.  Chemotherapy without  supplementation  is  wrong,   seek  the  advice  of  a  medical professional … Continue reading →

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Sarcomas and Skin Cancer

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Ken

    Sarcoma is a cancer: that arises from transformed cells of mesenchymal origin, thereby, malignant tumors made  of  cancerous bone,  cartilage,  fat, muscle, vascular or hematopoietic tissus are often, by definition considered sarcomas.  This  is  in  contrast  to  a  malignant … Continue reading →

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Breast, Brain, Bone & Bladder Cancer

Posted on August 11, 2012 by Ken

   Breast Cancer: estrogen tell cells to grow – grow while progestrone, on     the other hand, counteracts the estrogen stimulation;  while  encouraging  the cell to mature and die on time.  Damaged  breast  tissue  that  receives   this message  from estrogen without … Continue reading →

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