My Skirmish With Cancer - A Tale Of Dumb Luck, Manly Stupidity, And The Lessons That I Learned
By Glenn Hyman
First of all, calling my ordeal a “fight” with cancer would be giving me too much credit. I know a whole bunch of people who have full-blown, knock-down, drag-out slugfests with cancer. They re the toughest […]

Studying and Treating Cancerous Tumors - About Radiation Oncologists
By Art Gib
Oncology is the study of cancerous tumors, while an oncologist is a doctor that treats cancer. Though different countries and schools of medicine might divide oncologists into several different categories and specialties, in America, there are two main types of oncologists. A radiation oncologist is […]

Preventing Cancer
By Kieran Waldron
Governments throughout the world rarely tell their populations what the individual
can do to prevent a disease occurring in the first instance. While all the emphasis
is put on building more hospitals, better equipped hospitals and reducing waiting
lists, lowering the need for hospital space by preventing diseases largely gets
ignored.
Cancer is a good example of […]

Blueberries May Help Prevent Colon Cancer
By Timothy Moore
Researchers from Rutgers University and the US Department of Agriculture have found that a naturally occurring key compound in blueberries, pterostilbene, may be able to prevent the onset of one of the most virulent and dreaded neoplasms, colon cancer.
Colon cancer, also known as bowel cancer or colorectal cancer, […]

Stroke, Prostate Cancer, Laughter and the Melting Mood
By Kerry Wood
My recovery from a stroke suffered in 2001 seemed glacially slow while it was taking place. Now, howeverI feel almost completely recovered, and the difficulties with my right hand and arm and the speech problems are like dim recollections of something that happened decades ago.
I still […]

How to Avoid Hearing, “You Have Breast Cancer…”
By Sherri Tenpenny, DO
Breast cancer strikes fear in the hearts of all women. Most of us have known someone-a friend, a family member, a co-worker, a neighbor-who has been treated for breast cancer or worse, has died from the disease. Historically, breast cancer was diagnosed after a woman […]

Compound in Abortion Pill May Prevent Breast and Ovarian Cancer
By Ron Swerdfiger
The chemical compound in the “abortion pill” has been found to prevent the development of mammary tumors caused by the mutant gene responsible for the majority of breast and ovarian cancers, a group of scientists from UC Irvine reported.
The key compound, known as mifepristone, […]