Archive for January 2013

High Fiber Diet Could Slow Prostate Cancer

Thursday, January 31, 2013 · Posted in ,

Do you get enough fiber in your diet? Fiber has many nutritional benefits including lower blood cholesterol levels, better blood sugar control, and bowel regularity. But a recent study published in the journal, Cancer Prevention Research, found in mice models, a diet high in fiber can actually slow the progression of prostate cancer....
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Breastfeeding and Decreased Risk of Ovarian Cancer

Tuesday, January 29, 2013 · Posted in ,

Ovarian cancer is cancer that forms in tissues of the ovary (one of a pair of female reproductive glands in which the ova, or eggs, are formed). Most ovarian cancers are either ovarian epithelial carcinomas (cancer that begins in the cells on the surface of the ovary) or malignant germ cell tumors (cancer that begins in egg cells). While...
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HPV and Cervical Cancer

Monday, January 28, 2013 · Posted in ,

Vaccines are now available that protect against four major types of HPV, including the two types that cause about 70 percent of cervical cancer cases and two types that cause about 90 percent of genital warts. The HPV vaccine is expected to be long-lasting, but because the vaccine does not protect against all HPV types that cause cervical...
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Cervical Cancer Awareness: What is a Colposcopy?

Friday, January 25, 2013 · Posted in ,

January is cervical cancer awareness month. In this blog post, we discuss "What is a colposcopy?" and why a colposcopy may be performed. What is a colposcopy? For women with a history of abnormal pap tests, a colposcopy may be performed to determine the cause of the abnormal test. A colposcopy is an in-office procedure in which your...
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The Main Reasons For A Cashless Systems

Thursday, January 24, 2013

A cashless systems simple means control, in a cashless system they can see how much you spend, what you spend on and where you spend. That information can be used for bad and good. The information on your spending pattern can be sold to other companies to take advantage of you. In a cashless systems your income and expenditure can be...
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A Patient Story: The End of Cancer Treatment and Penn Proton Therapy

Tracy Lautenbach, MSW, LCSW, OSW, is the social work team leader for radiation oncology at Penn. In this article, she discusses what happens when cancer treatment ends. The time of diagnosis is often a time of shock or described as feeling you’re having an “out of body experience." During treatment you may feel you will never get through...
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HPV and Head and Neck Cancer

Wednesday, January 23, 2013 · Posted in , ,

January is cervical cancer awareness month. The human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted virus in the United States, and also a risk factor for cervical cancer. In this blog post, we discuss a new type of cancer associated with HPV- head and neck cancer.  There are over 100 types of HPV, and more than 40 strains...
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About A Cervical Cancer Diagnosis

Tuesday, January 22, 2013 · Posted in

January is cervical cancer awareness month. According to National Cancer Institute, there were more than 12,000 women who received a cervical cancer diagnosis last year. Cervical cancer develops in the cervix, the narrow outer end of the uterus that extends into the vagina. When diagnosed early, cervical cancer is generally curable and...
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Miss America Contestant Plans Double Mastectomy

Thursday, January 17, 2013 · Posted in

Miss America contestant Allyn Rose plans to undergo a double mastectomy now that her participation in the 2013 Miss America competition is over. The 24-year-old says her mother battled breast cancer as a 27-year-old, and then again at 47. Her mother eventually died from breast cancer, as did her grandmother and aunt. Rose’s story highlights...
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App for Weight Loss

Wednesday, January 16, 2013 · Posted in , ,

Carly Roop RD, CSO, is a registered dietitian at the Joan Karnell Cancer Center (JKCC). She provides nutrition education and support to patients while addressing nutrition-related side effects from chemotherapy and radiation. Dietitians at JKCC provide educational nutrition programs that are open to patients as well as the community. My...
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Drinking Green Tea To Lower Blood Presure , Blood Sugar and Lower Cholesterol

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Many prescriptions to achieve better health are tough: they are expensive; they involve complicated cooking, major lifestyle changes, giving up the things we love, following complex procedures or spending hours at the gym or in home training. Today's recommendations have none of these drawbacks. They are very inexpensive, easy, pleasant...
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Aaron Swartz As Committed Suicide

Former Reddit co-owner and founder of DemandProgress, Aaron Swartz committed suicide at the age of 26 in New York City yesterday, according to reports . Swartz had been battling criminal charges related to his attempts to make JSTOR archives public and had been facing up to 35 years in prison and $1 million dollars in fines at the...
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Focus On Cancer Year in Review: Prostate Cancer and Proton Therapy

Wednesday, January 9, 2013 · Posted in ,

2012 was an exciting year for the Abramson Cancer Center. We are featuring blogs featured on the Focus On Cancer blog that highlight cancer treatment breakthroughs, coping tips and ideas, education and inspiration. Today, we are highlighting Bill Barbour, a prostate cancer survivor that had proton therapy for prostate cancer at Penn Medicine.Always...
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Jamaica and Greece "Jamaica the Greece of the Western Hemisphere"

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Since off lately Jamaica as been compared to Greece, Jamaica is now called the Greece of the Western Hemisphere. The reason for this is because of the high debt, Jamaica debt is 1.7 trillion dollars. Last year Jamaica earn 1.6 billion and spend 5 billion, to me that is a joke how can a country earn so little and spend so much. That is just...
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Focus On Cancer Year in Review: Reiki During Cancer Treatment

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2012 was an exciting year for the Abramson Cancer Center. We are featuring blogs featured on the Focus On Cancer blog that highlight cancer treatment breakthroughs, coping tips and ideas, education and inspiration. Today, we are highlighting reiki for cancer patients. For patients undergoing treatment for cancer, the stress can be overwhelming....
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Focus On Cancer Year in Review: Helping Friends with Cancer

Monday, January 7, 2013 · Posted in

2012 was an exciting year for the Abramson Cancer Center. We are featuring blogs featured on the Focus On Cancer blog that highlight cancer treatment breakthroughs, coping tips and ideas, education and inspiration.Today, blogger and breast cancer survivor, Wendy Neilsen, offers tips to help a friend who’s been diagnosed with cancer, or who...
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Focus On Cancer Year in Review: New Treatment for Lung Cancer

Friday, January 4, 2013 · Posted in ,

2012 was an exciting year for the Abramson Cancer Center. We are featuring blogs featured on the Focus On Cancer blog that highlight cancer treatment breakthroughs, coping tips and ideas, education and inspiration. Today, we are discussing new treatments for lung cancer including proton therapy for lung cancer. "At Penn, we care about the...
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Integrative Medicine for People with Brain Cancer

Christine Wilson, cancer survivor, shares her experiences from the Abramson Cancer Center’s 2012- Focus on Brain Cancer Conference. In this blog, she discusses integrative medicine, and its role in those who have brain cancer.The final panel of the day began with a series of yoga stretches that demonstrated how breathing and movement can...
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Make Money Ways To

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Every body want to make money these days, with the present economical crisis that is affecting the world today it is as reach a point where 9 to 5 jobs can't cover your bills.You Have To Find Ways To Make Money.(1) If you are a good writer you can create a blog and write good blog post and make money. If you are passionate about...
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