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With more than 64 million active users and around 250,000 new users joining every day, you can tap into the social networking revolution with a free page on Facebook for your blog or business … yes, I said free.Previously you had to be BIG business with a BIG marketing budget to create a corporate or company Facebook account. Blockbuster...

Cassandra Hogue (left) with her sister, Caroline at LIVESTRONG event.“This was never supposed to happen to her, I remember thinking, outraged, as if she and I had been given some kind of special exemption from sickness and suffering.”Joan Didion wrote those words in her recent memoir, Blue Nights, about her 38-year-old daughter who was seriously...

Collage artwork by a Walkabout program participantWalkabout: Looking In, Looking Out is an innovative survivorship program at the Joan Karnell Cancer Center at Pennsylvania Hospital that addresses the normal psychological and physical changes that come with a cancer diagnosis and treatment. The goal of the program is to support participants...

                Nocturnal enuresis, commonly called bedwetting, is unintentional passing of urine while asleep after the age at which bladder control usually occurs. Bed wetting of children may be simply a delay in the establishment of voluntary control over the act of micturitionIt is the most common...

Vinay Chandrasekhara, MD, is a gastroenterologist at Penn Medicine. Here, he discusses the one cancer screening you shouldn’t avoid. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the few cancers that can be prevented with screening. In the United States, it is recommended that everyone over the age of 50 be screened for CRC. If you have a family history...

Cary B. Aarons, MD, is an assistant professor of surgery in colon and rectal surgery. In this blog, he discusses surgical treatment of colorectal cancer. Colorectal cancer is the third most common type of cancer diagnosed in the United States. Fortunately, the overall prognosis for treating colorectal cancer is quite favorable if it is discovered...

Carmen E. Guerra MD, MSCE, Michael L. Kochman, MD, FACP, Alicia Lamanna, Medical Assistant and patient liaison for the program and Josh Ramos, a Penn junior who was awarded a grant to work on the navigation project.Colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of cancer deaths in the United States. Although studies...

How To Get Traffic To Your Site Fast!Getting traffic to your website can be exhausting and a hard battle. Some online marketers tend to give up rather quickly because of not getting enough traffic to their website. While it is not an impossible task, you will need determination and the right resources to starting getting at least 1000 visitors a day to your website. Here is how to do it really fast:1.       Article...

One element of a pathology report that every urologist looks for after performing a prostatectomy is the status of the surgical margins.  The term “margins” refers to the cut surfaces of the prostate and, specifically, whether prostate cancer can be found at these cut surfaces.  When pathologists receive a prostate specimen after a prostatectomy they usually cover the surfaces of the prostate with ink.  They then...

Cassandra Hogue (left) with her sister Caroline at a LIVESTRONG eventCassandra Hogue is a new contributor to the Focus On Cancer blog. Cassandra’s sister is a cancer survivor who was treated at Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center. Through her sister’s surgery, several rounds of chemotherapy, radiation therapy and most recently, proton therapy,...