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<title><![CDATA[UN FÁRMACO BUSCA ALARGAR LA SUPERVIVENCIA AL CÁNCER]]></title>
<link>http://floredo.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/un-farmaco-busca-alargar-la-supervivencia-al-cancer/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>floredo</dc:creator>
<guid>http://floredo.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/un-farmaco-busca-alargar-la-supervivencia-al-cancer/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[El miércoles 25 de noviembre de 2009, aparecía en el periódico El País, sección Sociedad, esta buena]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>El miércoles 25 de noviembre de 2009, aparecía en el periódico El País, sección Sociedad, esta buena noticia. Aunque tal vez lo más importante no sea tanto alargar la vida como mejorar la calidad de vida. Siempre es positivo saber y difundir que se está investigando en la lucha contra el cáncer. Gracias a los científicos y especialmente a las personas voluntarias que ensayarán este tratamiento.</p>
<p><strong>UN FÁRMACO BUSCA ALARGAR LA SUPERVIVENCIA AL CÁNCER</strong></p>
<p><strong>37 VOLUNTARIOS ENSAYARÁN UN TRATAMIENTO PERSONALIZADO </strong></p>
<p>E. de B. &#8211; Madrid &#8211; 25/11/2009</p>
<p><a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/farmaco/busca/alargar/supervivencia/cancer/elpepisoc/20091125elpepisoc_9/Tes">http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/farmaco/busca/alargar/supervivencia/cancer/elpepisoc/20091125elpepisoc_9/Tes</a></p>
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<div id="attachment_1632" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 88px"><a href="http://floredo.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/ricardo-diez-valle.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1632" title="Ricardo Díez Valle" src="http://floredo.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/ricardo-diez-valle.jpg" alt="" width="78" height="129" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Ricardo Díez Valle</p></div>
<p>“Tratar las células oncológicas como si fueran virus o bacterias es una de las aspiraciones médicas de los expertos. <!--more-->La idea es muy sencilla: educar al sistema inmunitario para que se encargue de destruirlas. La Clínica Universitaria de Navarra va a ensayar con 37 personas (todavía está reclutando voluntarios) la puesta en práctica de esta idea. Para ello, ha escogido uno de los tumores más devastadores que existen: los glioblastomas, una enfermedad cerebral que afecta a unas 2.400 personas, de las que sólo un 5% sobrevive a los cinco años.</p>
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<p><em>La técnica consiste en fabricar vacunas individualizadas. En la teoría es muy sencilla de explicar, pero no tanto de conseguir: primero hay que obtener células tanto del tumor de la persona como de su sistema inmunitario. Luego se cultivan conjuntamente. En este paso las células dendríticas (responsables de la defensa del organismo) tienen que aprender a identificar las proteínas que indican que están ante un tumor. Luego, se reinyectan al paciente, y se supone que su sistema inmunitario aprenderá así a detectar el cáncer, atacarlo y destruirlo.</em></p>
<p><em>El ensayo se dirige a un tipo de tumor muy concreto y muy peligroso. Por eso, de momento sólo se pretende demostrar que aumenta la supervivencia de los pacientes. Los voluntarios, que deberán estar en fases iniciales de la enfermedad, recibirán la vacuna, junto con el tratamiento estándar (cirugía, quimioterapia, radioterapia y medicación). De hecho, se aprovechará la primera fase para obtener una muestra del tumor, que se utilizará luego para educar al sistema inmunitario.</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;Los pacientes que tienen un glioblastoma y han sido tratados mediante el procedimiento estándar presentan una media de supervivencia de entre 12 y 15 meses&#8221;. Sin embargo, en alguno de los escasos estudios efectuados en el mundo, en los casos tratados con inmunoterapia &#8220;la media de supervivencia supera los 30 meses&#8221;, asegura Ricardo Díez Valle, médico que va a llevar a cabo el ensayo.”</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Rectal Cancer Tumour Destroyed by Ultrasound is a First]]></title>
<link>http://iamnotarapperispit.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/rectal-cancer-tumour-destroyed-by-ultrasound-is-a-first/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>iSpit</dc:creator>
<guid>http://iamnotarapperispit.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/rectal-cancer-tumour-destroyed-by-ultrasound-is-a-first/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A patient with rectal cancer has become the first to have part of their tumour destroyed by ultrasou]]></description>
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<p class="first"><strong>A patient with rectal cancer has become the first to have part of their tumour destroyed by ultrasound, say UK doctors.</strong></p>
<p>A team of radiologists, surgeons and oncologists at Hammersmith Hospital in London used high intensity ultrasound to heat up and kill the cancer.</p>
<p>They say the technique will allow faster and more accurate targeting of tumours than conventional treatments.</p>
<p>Hammersmith Hospital will offer the treatment to advanced stage patients.</p>
<p><!-- E SF -->High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is carried out under general anaesthetic.</p>
<p>The device can treat tumours up to about 40cc volume and can heat the tissue up to 90 degrees centigrade<br />
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<strong>First patient</strong></p>
<p>The first patient to have the procedure has requested anonymity.</p>
<p>The patient was given a low dose of heat at 70 degrees.</p>
<p>Doctors say they are planning to treat 50 more patients and they will closely monitor them to discover the most effective temperature at which to perform the procedure.</p>
<p>Unlike radiotherapy, HIFU, can be given to a patient a number of times with minimal risk of toxicity.</p>
<p>The study leader, Professor Paul Abel, from Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, said: &#8220;There is no incision made during the procedure, it&#8217;s completely non-invasive, so recovery time will be quicker too.</p>
<p>&#8220;As this is the first time this procedure has ever been performed for rectal cancer, we need to study a wider group of patients to assess how effective the treatment is and whether it has the potential to be curative or to lengthen a patient&#8217;s life.&#8221;</p>
<p>A spokesman for the charity Beating Bowel Cancer said it welcomes &#8220;advances to improve the quality of patients&#8217; lives and relieve symptoms&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;As this is a world first, we look forward to further studies and results with more patients over a longer period.&#8221;</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Chemo]]></title>
<link>http://chaoskatze.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/chemo/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>chaoskatze</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[So&#8230;. Neue Nachrichten: Monatn habe ich die erste Besprechung wegen Chemo. Eigentlich hatten si]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>So&#8230;. Neue Nachrichten: Monatn habe ich die erste Besprechung wegen Chemo. Eigentlich hatten sich die Leute dort eher für Strahlen entschieden, da hierbei weniger Nebenwirkungen sind und es schneller erledigt ist, aber mir war das ein wenig zu unsicher. Deshalb lieber Chemo, dauert zwar länger, aber von der Wirkung her ist es dasselbe.</p>
<p>Auf jeden Fall bin ich am Montag dort und habe so die erste Besprechung, dann gehts bald los&#8230; Ich bin gespannt, wie das so laufen wird! Ihr könnt mir ja die Daumen drücken, dass alles schnell funktioniert (- und dass ich dabei abnehme, dann erspar ich mir die elendige Nach-Weihnachten-Diät *hrhr*).</p>
<p>Was mich daran erinnerte &#8211; meine &#8220;Umfrage&#8221; hatte ja einen netten Erfolg von 100%&#8230; Wenn von diesen 4 Leuten zufällig ein Internist dabei ist (oder selbiger ganz zuuuufällig einen Internisten kennt, der derselben Meinung ist) und selbiger zuuuufällig auch noch eher im Süden von Deutschland ist, und auch noch zuuufällig so unterbeschäftigt ist, dass er einen neuen Patienten braucht, möge er sich melden. Nachdem ich irgendwie eh aus jeder Statistik rausfalle, könnte es ja ernsthaft funktionieren. Theoretisch.  Zufällig.</p>
<p>So. Und wo finde ich jetzt die Motivation zu putzen oder ähnlich lebensentscheidende, spannende  Sachen zu machen&#8230;</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Local Girl Suffers Brain Tumor, Family Gets Foreclosed On...]]></title>
<link>http://elizabethprann.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/local-girl-suffers-brain-tumor-family-gets-foreclosed-on/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Elizabeth J. Prann</dc:creator>
<guid>http://elizabethprann.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/local-girl-suffers-brain-tumor-family-gets-foreclosed-on/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As you prepare to sit down with your family and give thanks, you may try to remember a local family ]]></description>
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<p>As you prepare to sit down with your family and give thanks, you may try to remember a local family who, despite hard times, is thankful for each new day with their daughter.</p>
<p>Amber Howard appears to be an average teenager but in reality, there is at tumor resting on her brain stem and her health fluctuates.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the hardest thing you can ever do to see her hooked up and have to think she&#8217;ll always have to deal with it. You want your children to have a good life. You don&#8217;t want them to have to worry about anything,&#8221; Shawn Howard, whose daughter is suffering from a brain tumor, said.</p>
<p>The journey began in April 2008 shortly after she was diagnosed with Ganglioglioma. The doctors went in to remove the tumor but Shawn said it was a subtotal resurrection and doctors were only able to get 20-25%.</p>
<p>That 25 % regrew less than 9 months later.</p>
<p>Time isn&#8217;t on the Howard families&#8217; side and they have foreclosure papers to prove it.  In September they were served with papers, telling the family of 4, they had to be out of their spacious 3 bedroom home.  After multiple denials from government programs the family now lives in a two bedroom apartment.</p>
<p>&#8220;We decided our best options right now would be to let the house go and take care of our daughter. It&#8217;s hard, it&#8217;s a transition but compared to what she has to go through, when you see her hooked up to the drugs and the machines, it&#8217;s really a small sacrifice,&#8221; Neil Howard said.</p>
<p>Shawn can&#8217;t work, she must home school amber and take her to Gainesville once a week for treatments. Amber needs to refrain from large crowds due to her weakened immune system, but none of this breaks the families&#8217; spirits.</p>
<p>And one thing they&#8217;re all looking forward to, is the holidays..Together, as a family at home..</p>
<p>Shawn said the family is so thankful Amber is home and not in the hospital. And Neil adds, &#8220;when you wake up, even if it&#8217;s in a small apartment, even if it&#8217;s in a tent. You really don&#8217;t care. Just as long as she slept through the night and woke up&#8230; That&#8217;s a good day&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>If you&#8217;d like to help, there is an &#8220;Amber Howard&#8221; fund set up at People&#8217;s First Bank.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Thankful For Life]]></title>
<link>http://chronicillnesspaindevotionals.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/thankful-for-life/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Rest Ministries</dc:creator>
<guid>http://chronicillnesspaindevotionals.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/thankful-for-life/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Now I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance t]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img src="http://chronicillnesspaindevotionals.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/a_thanksgiving_scene1.png" alt="" title="" width="100" height="120" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1459" /></a><em>&#8220;Now I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel.&#8221; (Phillippians 1:12, NIV)</em></p>
<p>Yesterday at our nursing home service that we hold on Sunday Nights,  I asked the people to share what they were thankful for.</p>
<p>Now before I give you the overwhelming answer&#8230; let me say that most of these dear people&#8217;s quality of life is not the best.  They use walkers, wheelchairs, and their ages range from 80&#8217;s to 90&#8217;s and even two are in their 100&#8217;s.  What a great group of people. I would  like to hear all the history of their lives. WOW!!!</p>
<p>Well the answer was LIFE. Overwhelmingly they all said it almost like it was rehearsed.  The thing they are most thankful for was life.</p>
<p>I wondered how many of us who are disabled and suffer daily with pain, walking issues, and many others disabilities could say this same thing?  Many times I myself have complained with pain or of some malady in my body.  I will now look at life much differently after last night.</p>
<p>Our Bible example is Paul for all he went through.  Beatings, shipwrecked, imprisonments, and many other things. He still had the attitude that God allowed these things to happen to him so he could<br />
keep spreading the gospel.  Maybe to a different crowd than everyone else, but at least he was still spreading the gospel.</p>
<p>Paul took what God told him, that my strength is made perfect in weakness, seriously.  He still trusted in God despite what he was suffering.</p>
<p>How about you? Are you like Paul?  Can you thank God for your disability and go on and work for Him?</p>
<p>Father, today may we receive the grace that you gave Paul and others to be able to go out and be thankful even though we are in pain and suffering.  I know this is for the furtherance of the Gospel.<br />
Show me to whom you want me to go, Lord.  In Jesus name, AMEN.</p>
<p><em>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<br />
Pastor Pat Dittert lives in a berm home in Central Iowa with his lovely wife Nancy and 5 fur babies. Pat lives with Chronic Pain from a number of surgeries and injuries. Brain Tumor surgery left him disabled and unable to do most physical activities. He is also a survivor of Cancer and now has 4 stints in his heart. Pat has several Internet Ministries, and is a freelance writer with Christian newspapers, books, Internet, etc.  rivpat77@msn.com</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Neuer Befund]]></title>
<link>http://chaoskatze.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/neuer-befund/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>chaoskatze</dc:creator>
<guid>http://chaoskatze.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/neuer-befund/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Heute kam ein neuer Befund aus der Molekularpathologie. Daraus ergibt sich der MGMT-Methylierungssta]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Heute kam ein neuer Befund aus der Molekularpathologie. Daraus ergibt sich der MGMT-Methylierungsstatus sowie der IDH1-Mutationsstatus. Lange Geschichte, vor allem für so Laien wie mich, aber ersteres ist gegeben, was, wenn ich das richtig verstanden habe, eine verbesserte Reaktion auf die Chemo anzeigt.</p>
<p>Bei zweiterem fehlt wohl die sogenannte R132-Mutation. Wenn ich das richtig verstanden habe, ist das wiederum nicht so gut, aufgrund der Wildtypsequenz. Was das aber genau heißt, keine Ahnung&#8230; Wobei es anscheinend noch eine IDH2 gibt, die aber selterner auftritt und wohl deshalb auch nicht überprüft wurde.</p>
<p>Also wenn da zufällig gerade jemand vorbeischneit und Ahnung davon hat, könnte ja mal ganz kurz was dazu schreiben&#8230;</p>
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<p>Ansonsten nichts neues, weiß immer noch nicht, ob Chemo oder Strahlen, wann, wo&#8230;</p>
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<title><![CDATA[AUSTRALIAN LIES ABOUT STEM CELL TREATMENTS LEAVE BAD TASTE]]></title>
<link>http://repairstemcell.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/australian-swiss-cheese-leaves-bad-taste/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>David Granovsky</dc:creator>
<guid>http://repairstemcell.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/australian-swiss-cheese-leaves-bad-taste/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[THIS article is full of so many holes, inconsistencies, half truths, biases and misinformation that ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AUSTRALIA LIES ABOUT STEM CELL TREATMENTS]]></title>
<link>http://repairstemcell.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/austrlai-lies-about-stem-cell-treatments/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>David Granovsky</dc:creator>
<guid>http://repairstemcell.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/austrlai-lies-about-stem-cell-treatments/</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[1st down..]]></title>
<link>http://asacancer.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/1st-down/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>asacancer</dc:creator>
<guid>http://asacancer.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/1st-down/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[yesterday (11/20) I went for chemo #6 in the first cycle which is taxol for me. My Mother, doctor an]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>yesterday (11/20) I went for chemo #6 in the first cycle which is taxol for me.  My Mother, doctor and I sat and discussed my progress &#38; future treatment. And discussed the fact that the previous week had been the 1st bad week thus far.<br />
The general aches &#38; pains.. the incessant itching, burning, dry, tight feeling in my head etc.. not much to say, take tylenol or aleve and try to make yourself as comfortable as possible he says.  Gave me some samples of Aquafore to try on my head. Hoping that will relieve some of the discomfort but not sure.<br />
Throughout the week I had called into the office because I was so miserable. The we dont know what to tell yous and the oh try tylenol crap really had me ready to yell &#8220;what am I paying you ppl for?&#8221; but ofcourse I didnt. Im in such a highly emotional state I just cried and said &#8220;ok&#8221;.<br />
He was very happy with the rate of shrinkage to tumors. This week my bloodcount was down just a little bit but not enough to cause alarm &#38; I gained a pound.<br />
The actual chemo treatment went well, no mishaps or loss of breathe or anything. Its strange to say but after such an uncomfortable week I was almost looking forward to treatment. Because I know it is calm quiet time for me. I have no choice but to stop moving and doing and just sit. Being that my mother walks by my side through this journey it has become a time for us to just talk about whatever, and in the end it makes me SLEEP which was much needed after not really being able to sleep comfortably all week. And not to mention working 10 hour days M-Th to make up for the hours I lose on Fridays mixed with the hieghtened emotions.. ugh, i have been a mess lately.<br />
Im praying for a better week this week, more like the previous where the dopiness had worn off in 2 days and I was back at work on Monday with nothing to complain about but the constant taste of paper in my mouth.<br />
I am intending on sending my efforts to promoting a fundraiser being given for me by my church family next month so please stay tuned &#38; show some love for that.  If you would like to participate or donate in anyway please click the To Donate page OR contact Dr. Armstong @ 518-505-4500 or apostle.viv@aol.com</p>
<p>Thank you all for continuing to support me &#38; pray for me.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Esto pasa!]]></title>
<link>http://estopasa.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/esto-pasa/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>La más linda</dc:creator>
<guid>http://estopasa.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/esto-pasa/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Mato a alguien, les juro! Yo no puedo creer el tupé de algunas personas. Voy a contarles desde el pr]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Mato a alguien, les juro! Yo no puedo creer el tupé de algunas personas. Voy a contarles desde el principio.<br />
Tenía que pedir el turno para el oncólogo. En su momento llamé y sin preguntarme el diagnóstico que tenía me dieron hora para un mes después. Haciendo gala de mi conchudez le digo a la chiquita que me atendió &#8220;Un mes tengo que esperar? Menos mal que no me estoy muriendo!&#8221;, a lo que la chiquita contestó &#8220;Bueno, ahra le iba a preguntar el diagnóstico&#8221;, &#8220;Pero qué depende el diagnóstico me das o no turno antes&#8221;, &#8220;No no, igual tiene que esperar un mes&#8221;.<br />
Ok, de ese tema no voy a agregar nada porque a ésta altura ustedes ya conocen qué tipo de reflección haría.<br />
Faltando una semana para la fecha en cuestión se comunican conmigo para decirme que el doctor no iba a estar esa semana en el pais y que debían atrasarme una semana más.<br />
Tampoco agregaré sobre ésto&#8230;.<br />
Bien, llegó el día. Voy con mi marido. Me presento a las 11 am. Me piden que espere. Nos sentamos y esperamos media hora, una hora, una hora y media&#8230;Cuando ya hacia una hora cuarenta y cinco minutos la secretaria me llama y me dice &#8220;El doctor tuvo que atender una urgencia, se va a demorar un ratito&#8221; Si si, &#8220;ratito&#8221;. Mi respuesta fue inmediata y lapidaria &#8220;Cuánto sería un ratito si ya esperé una hora y cuarenta y cinco minutos&#8221;. Por supuesto su respuesta fue &#8220;no se&#8221;.<br />
Fuera de toda joda, es injusto que a uno lo traten como el culo por el solo hecho de que pueden. Es una falta de respeto, si uno saca un turno con un médico es porque necesita ordenar una agenda, preveer, organizar&#8230;<br />
A los diez minutos de aguantar mi cara de orto me dicen que pase al consultorio que el doctor ya venía. Con mi marido pasamos y nos sentamos. Increiblemente nos dejaron encerrados en un consultorio de 2 por 2 y sin ventanas durante 15 minutos más. ¿Por qué? No lo se, seguramente tuvieron miedo de que les arme un escándalo. Nos dio rabia, ira. El nivel de violencia que me generó fue tan grande que en un momento entró un mina que no se qué era y le pregunté si el doctor tardaría mucho más. Me dijo que no sabía y ahi me saqué. &#8220;¿Por qué me hicieron pasar al consultorio?&#8221;, &#8220;¿Por qué no se respetan los turnos?&#8221;, &#8220;¿Cómo tengo cáncer no tengo vida?&#8221;. Pero en serio, yo hago cosas durante el día y una de esas es ir al médico, no cancelo todas mis actividades por eso, pero de ésta forma no se puede organizar nada. Ojo, lo de la urgencia lo entiendo, pero a la hora de la urgencia yo ya había esperado casi dos horas&#8230;</p>
<p>Nada, después de un rato, vino el médico, a quien había decidido no decirle nada y ver que onda.<br />
LLegó y su primera frase fue &#8220;Cómo estás mujer?&#8221; ¿Mujer? Raro, suponete que es moderno&#8230; Bueno, la dejé pasar. Segunda frase &#8220;¿Qué te anda pasando gorda?&#8221; ¿Gorda?&#8230;<br />
&#8230;98, 99, 100&#8230;Le cuento todo y le muestro los últimos estudios que gracias a Dios habían dado perfectos y el informe de la raadioterapia más una carta de mi ginecólogo.<br />
El tipo mira todo, lee todo y me manda &#8220;¿Por qué tardaste tanto en hacerte los rayos?&#8221; cri cri. Les juro que me subió una calentura con la misma efervecencia de una lata de 7up caliente. &#8220;Son los tiempos de la medicina moderna&#8221; le dije &#8220;Es lo que tardó el lugar en darme turno&#8221;&#8230;&#8221;De hecho acá me pasó lo mismo, me dieron turno un mes despés de mi llamado&#8221;&#8230;<br />
No no, lo escribo y todavía no lo creo&#8230;<br />
El siguiente paso que dió fue decir &#8220;Yo no quiero ir en contra de tu médico, pero ésto está mal llevado. Yo te hubiera mandado directo a quimio. Ahora no se si te voy a poder salvar&#8221;&#8230;.</p>
<p>&#8220;Salvar&#8221; no es una palabra que se le pueda decir a un paciente de cáncer. Pero si, si, me dijo eso. A esta altura con más paciencia que cáncer traté de escuchar con atención todo lo que me decia para poder hacer una buena limpieza de las palabras que no tenían que ver con diagnóstico sino con adornos molestos.<br />
La explicación con la que me quedé fue que de 100 mujeres con cáncer de mama, 85 no repiten después de pasar por el quirófano. De las 25 mujeres restantes, la oncología permite que otras 15 no repitan. Las 10 restantes quedan en manos de Dios. Ante la pregunta lógica de Tom &#8220;¿Ella en qué grupo está?&#8221; el médico dijo &#8220;No lo se&#8221;.<br />
Después de una revisación completa me pidió que con urgencia (en los próximos 4 días) me haga un centellograma y una tomografía y vuelva a verlo.</p>
<p>La verdad es que estoy cansada. Cuando digo cansada lo digo en serio, no tengo más energía en el cuerpo, no puedo pasar por esto una y otra vez. Cuánto más falta. Entiendo los pacientes que se dejan morir, te juro que los entiendo. </p>
<p>Cuando subí al auto, por primera vez desde que me dijeron que me tenía que operar, me quebré. Soporté con una entereza sorprendente que mi médico me dijera &#8220;tenés cáncer&#8221; y no lloré, no me quebré y no porque me haga la canchera sino porque por algún motivo no lo viví dramáticamente. Pero ahora, en el auto, lloré de manera inconsolable. Loré por odio por el maltrato que fui recibiendo durante todo ésto. Lloré por impotencia por no poder explicar todo lo que yo había luchado para hacerme los rayos sin esperar 2 meses. Lloré porque tenía que seguir haciendome estudios horribles, radiactivos e invasivos. Lloré porque mi teta no puede llorar pero me dice que no quiere más. Y se me llenan los ojos de lágrimas ahora mientras lo escribo.<br />
No quiero más, juro que no quiero más.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Celia Deschamps Martínez]]></title>
<link>http://lahuelvacateta.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/celia-deschamps-martinez/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lahuelvacateta</dc:creator>
<guid>http://lahuelvacateta.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/celia-deschamps-martinez/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Hoy vamos a dejar de lado las protestas y queremos abrir una puerta a la esperanza y a la solidarida]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;">Hoy vamos a dejar de lado las protestas y queremos abrir una puerta a la esperanza y a la solidaridad. En este blog no se ha pedido nunca nada a los visitantes, pero lo ocurrido a la sobrina de una onubense, nuestra amiga Ángela, nos ha llegado muy adentro. En palabras de ella misma:</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;text-align:justify;"><em>Mi sobrina Celia tiene 4 años y tiene un tumor cerebral inoperable. Vive en Bruselas y el tratamiento es costoso. Pero hay varios tratamientos en  Barcelona. El coste es de 1.000 € por sesión, más gastos de viaje y estancia.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;text-align:justify;"><em><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2806" title="Celia Deschamps Martinez" src="http://lahuelvacateta.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/celia-deschamps-martinez.jpg" alt="" width="346" height="380" /><br />
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<p style="padding-left:30px;text-align:justify;"><em>Apelo a vuestra generosidad para lo que podáis aportar. </em></p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;text-align:justify;"><em>Cuenta en el BBVA:</em></p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;text-align:justify;"><em>CELIA DESCHAMPS MARTÍNEZ</em></p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;text-align:justify;"><em>0182-3100-82-0201619267</em></p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;text-align:justify;"><em>Gracias por vuestra atención. </em></p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;text-align:justify;"><em>Ángela Gómez Almagro.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;text-align:justify;"><em>Jefa de Equipo de Telecomunicaciones de Huelva.<br />
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://www.lespoir-de-celia.com/index.php" target="_blank">Si queréis podéis visitar la web de Celia desde este enlace.</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[And The Latest Is....?]]></title>
<link>http://psalm20seven.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/and-the-latest-is/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>whatsthemotivation</dc:creator>
<guid>http://psalm20seven.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/and-the-latest-is/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Round one goes to Gemzar! The second scan shows an incredible improvement in every aspect. His tumor]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Round one goes to Gemzar!</p>
<p>The second scan shows an incredible improvement in every aspect. His tumor marker plummeted (147,000 to 3700), many of the spots on his liver were either gone or smaller, and the mass on his pancreas is smaller. I asked how often Dr. Dugan gets to share this good news with patients after round one, and he said only 25% of the time. From this point on, his treatment schedule will be three weeks on, one week off. They took him in for a treatment today in order to give him next week off so I am not sure when the 3/1 schedule will start.</p>
<p>At this point we are waiting for the insurance information to tell us if they will cover Tarceva. Tarceva is an oral chemotherapy drug that has shown good statistics when used with patients who have responded to Gemzar positively. He will be receiving a tumor marker check, which is a simple blood test, every month. His next scan will be in three months.</p>
<p>As you can imagine, we are happy with the results and look forward to sharing this news with many people. We do not have any info as to how this changes the prognosis however, we can assume it only helps.</p>
<p>Keep up the November support. There are pictures floating around of a large group of people wearing purple and as soon as I get a cpoy&#8230;hint hint&#8230;cough cough..hint&#8230;I will post that here.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Ekstrak Pembatal Operasi]]></title>
<link>http://goldgamat.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/ekstrak-pembatal-operasi/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>goldgamat</dc:creator>
<guid>http://goldgamat.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/ekstrak-pembatal-operasi/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Kisah Nyata &#8211; Majalah Trubus 465 – Agustus 2008 Di ruang operasi sebuah rumah sakit di Jakarta]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Kisah Nyata &#8211; Majalah Trubus 465 – Agustus 2008</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Di ruang operasi sebuah rumah sakit di Jakarta Barat, Maria Prihartini meloncat kegirangan. “Terima kasih, Tuhan,” kata perempuan 29 tahun itu. Tindakan penyelamatan itu urung lantaran beberapa menit sebelum operasi dokter memindai perut Maria. Namun kista cokelat yang ia idap tak ditemukan. Dokter lain memindai ulang dengan alat mutakhir, hasilnya sama: tak ada kista.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Padahal malam sebelumnya pada awal tahun 2007, Maria berpuasa seperti saran dokter. Ia mengetahui mengidap kista berukuran 7 cm itu pada November 2006. Ketika itu Maria pingsan setelah berjam-jam menahan sakit di perut bagian bawah. Keluarga membawanya ke Unit Gawat Darurat Rumah Sakit Kedoya Jakarta Barat. Pemeriksaan dengan ultrasonografi menunjukkan terdapat kista ovarium alias kista cokelat di rahim Maria.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Dua hari kemudian wanita kelahirin Surakarta itu mengalami dehidrasi berat. Itu lantaran ia tidak makan dan minum apa pun pascasiuman. Maklum, is memang kerap muntah usai makan dan minum. Kejadian itu berulang-ulang dalam 3 tahun terakhir, terutama ketika datang bulan. Maria menduga, itu gangguan biasa akibat menstruasi. “Saya kira sakit biasa karena haid.” ujarnya.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://goldgamat.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/gamat-maria-prihartini.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-316" title="gamat maria prihartini" src="http://goldgamat.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/gamat-maria-prihartini.jpg" alt="" width="97" height="115" /></a>Biang keladi di balik semua itu terungkap: kista ovarium. Kista merupakan rongga tertutup berisi cairan darah encer, kental, atau setengah padat berwarna cokelat yang dilapisi epitel alias jaringan set yang melapisi kulit atau selaput lendir. Kista cokelat ini bisa ditimbulkan oleh endometriosis, tumbuhnya jaringan endometrium di luar rahim sehingga disebut juga kista endometriosis. <strong>Menurut Dr Tagor Sidabutar, SpOG dari Rumah Sakit PGI Cikini, kista di kandungan berasal dari indung telur</strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Kista ovarium membahayakan karena menyerang dan mendesak sel telur. Kista menekan indung telur sehingga nyeri luar biasa, persis yang dirasakan Maria. Lalu timbul perlengketan dan pergesekan di usus dan menimbulkan nyeri. Hingga kini penyebab kista belum diketahui “Dugaan sementara, karena faktor genetik,” kata dokter alumnus University  of Paris, Perancis itu.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Maria Prihartini, Sembuhkan Kista dengan Teripang</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Perempuan yang ibunya mengidap kista atau tumor, juga berpeluang mengidap kista. Meski bersifat genetis, gaya hidup memicu munculnya kista. Contoh, kebiasaan mengkonsumsi makanan mengandung hormon, radikal bebas, dan kolesterol -misal makanan cepat saji kaya hormon estrogen dan radikal bebas. Dampaknya, menurunkan antioksidan dalam tubuh schingga imunitas anjlok. Begitu juga dengan merokok yang menyebabkan perubahan genetik dalam sel.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Menurut dr Sidi Aritjahja, dokter dan herbalis di Yogyakarta, kista terjadi karena sumbatan dan peradangan. Akibat sumbatan kolesterol pada saluran tertentu. Sel-sel tumor tumbuh di tempat itu</strong>. Jika peradangan terjadi pada sel kelejnar akan menimbulkan seekresi berlebih. Sayangnya. gejala tidak tampak pada fisik seseorang. Oleh karena itu kista kerap ditemukan secara kebetulan lewat pemeriksaan ultrasonografi.<br />
Sebetulnya kista kelainan sel atau jaringan dapat ditemukan di berbagai bagian tubuh. terutama di organ reproduksi seperti indung telur, leher rahim, dan rahim. Menurut Sidi, dokter alumnus Universitas Gadjah Mada, kista adalah tumor kelenjar schingga namanya tergantung letak kelenjar. Bila tumor ada di ovarium disebut kista ovarium, di ketiak: kista axial, di payudara: kista mame.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>Teripang</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Untuk mengobati tumor cokelat itu. dokter menyarankan Maria melakukan operasi pembuangan kista. Sebab, kista membahavakan keselamatannya. la menolak saran itu dan lebih memilih mengkonsumsi obat-obatan untuk solusi penyembuhan.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Obat resep dokter ia habiskan dalam 3 bulan, tetapi belum ada tanda-tanda kesembuhan. Pada Februari 2007, pendirian Maria mulai goyah karena tidak tahan dengan rasa nyeri dan sakit ketika menstruasi.<br />
Ia memutuskan untuk dioperasi sesuai saran dokter terdahulu. la menceritakan keputusan itu kepada bibinya, Sri Lestari. Ketika itu sang bibi mcmberikan sebotol ekstrak teripang plus spirulina. Sejak saat itu perempuan kelahiran Surakarta 5 juli 1979 itu rutin mengkonsumsi 2 sendok makan ekstrak teripang dan 10 butir tablet spirulina. Frekuensinya 2 kali sehari.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Nah, pada awal Maret ketika hendak operasi itulah dokter memindai perut Maria. Kista ovarium 7 cm itu menghilang. Maria pun sembuh. Menurut Tagor, dalam dunia medis, mekanisme pengobatan kista dengan membangkitkan antitumor lebih dominan. Itu berarti sejalan dengan risct Tong Y dari Divisi Farmakologi Antitumor, Institute Materia Medika Shanghai, yang meneliti efek antitumor pads teripang. Kandungan saponin satwa laut itu mampu mencegah pembentukan pembuluh darah mikro baru atau angiogenesis pada sel tumor.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>Sel tumor mati</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Saponin pada teripang disebut filinopsida A. Penyuntikan 2-10 mikroliter filinopsida A pada aorta tikus menyebabkan sel tumor tidak mendapat pasokan nutrisi sehingga urung berkembang dan mati. Riser Jaime Rodriguez memperkuat fakta itu. Periset Universidad de Santiago de Compostela Spanyol itu membuktikan teripang mengatasi tumor lantaran kan¬dungan glikosidanya.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Ia menguji khasiat teripang terhadap penumpasan sel kanker limpa P-388, A-549 (kanker paru-paru), HeLa (tumor rahim). dan B-18-Fl (melanoma). Untuk mengetahui senyawa aktif yang berpengaruh, Jamie mengekstrak 300 teripang dalam metanol. Setelah kering tersisa 79 gram bubuk ekstrak teripang. la memasukkannya ke kromatografi dan memperoleh 0,93 g glikosida. Glikosida senyawa alami bersifat antitumor dan antikanker.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Setelah dimasukkan ke alat rekroma¬tografi DCCC, terlihat kandungan glikosida berupa 40 mg holothurinosideA, 9 mg holothurinoside B, 15 mg holothurinoside C. 10 mg holothurinoside D. dan 20 mg des¬holothurin A. Kelima senyawa itulah yang terbukti efektif menggempur segala tumor. Kandungan asam amino teripang juga memperkuat kekebalan tubuh schingga ketahanan terhadap penyakit meningkat.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">(Ari Chaidir)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[LING ZHI JAMUR KEHIDUPAN DAN KEBERUNTUNGAN]]></title>
<link>http://shirath.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/ling-zhi-jamur-kehidupan-dan-keberuntungan/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>shirath</dc:creator>
<guid>http://shirath.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/ling-zhi-jamur-kehidupan-dan-keberuntungan/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Keampuhan jamur Ling zhi ( Ganoderma Lucidum ) di cina begitu melegenda, yaitu sejak sejak masa peme]]></description>
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<p>Keampuhan jamur Ling zhi ( Ganoderma Lucidum ) di cina begitu melegenda, yaitu sejak sejak masa pemerintahan kaisar Shi Huang Tie ( 259 M ). Dan di era modern ini legenda tersebut terbuka secara alamiah.<br />
Ada beberapa nama sebutan dari jamur Ling Zhi, yaitu :<br />
Arab &#8211; Al-Kummah., artinya Panasea.<br />
Cina – Ling Zhi, artinya Jamur kehidupan.<br />
Jepang – Mannentake, artinya jamur keabadian atau jamur 10.000 tahun.<br />
Reishi, artinya jamur spiritual.<br />
Saiwatake, artinya jamur keberuntungan.<br />
Malaysia – Kulat</p>
<p>Beberapa penelitian yang dilakukan pada jamur Ling Zhi untuk mengetahui khasiatnya, yaitu :<br />
Departemen Farmakologi “ Health Science Center “, Peking University, meniliti mencit diinduksi dengan sel tumor sarkoma180.Kemudian diberikan Polisakarida pebtida yang diekstrak dari Reishi dengan dosis 50 mg, 100 mg dan 200 mg per kg bobot tubuh, dan hasilnya dapat menghambat pertumbuhan tumor pada mencit masing-masing sebesar 35,2 %; 45,2 % dan 61,6 %.<br />
Penelitian yang dilakukan oleh Shiuh Sheng Lee, Departemen Biokimia  National Yang-Ming  University, Taipe. Yaitu Polisakarida pada Reishi dapat merangsang sel mononuclear darah untuk meproduksi sitosin, TNF-a, IFN-g,  IL-1b dan IL-6 yang berperan menghambat Proliferasi sel LeukimiaU937.<br />
Disetiap 100 gram Ling Zhi terkandung Germanium organic Geo 6000-12000 ppm didalam mycelium atau sporophore yang berfungsi mempertahankan keawetan organ tubuh dan menetralisir bahan beracun, serta mengandung senyawa tapenoid, protein, serat dan sulfur yang berfungsi sebagai antioksidan yang memusnahkan radikal bebas.<br />
Kandungan antioksidan yang tinggi dari Ling Zhi berasal dari pigmen merah yang dimiliki jamur Ling Zhi. Dengan cara kerja menyerang dan mengisolasi sel-sel kanker sehingga tidak menyebar sel tubuh lain.</p>
<p><strong>Apa yang menyebabkan Ling Zhi ampuh dalam mengatasi kanker …?</strong><!--more--></p>
<p>Ling zhi mengandung senyawa Polisakarida yang molekulnya berkaitan beta, fakta ilmiah itulah yang mendorong Dr. Raymond Chang, MD, FACP dari Sloan – Kettering Cancer Center New York, menganjurkan yang menjalani kemo atau radioterapi untuk mengkonsumsi Ling Zhi 5-10 ram per hari, yang berguna untuk mencegah metastesis atau penyebaran sel kanker ke organ tubuh yang lain.<br />
Ada 2 macam Ling Zhi yang dikonsumsi oleh masyarakat pada umunya yaitu Ling Zhi yang dibudidayakan dan Ling Zhi yang berasal dari tangkapan di alam.</p>
<p>Semuanya mempunyai khasiat yang sama dalam penyembuhan. Tetapi Ling Zhi tangkapan dari alam yang berumur 3 tahun keatas lebih banyak dicari oleh masyarakat pada umumnya, karena khasiatnya benar-benar lebih hebat dan luar biasa kekuatannya yang berlipat dai pada yang hasil budidaya.</p>
<p>Macam-macam penyakit yang dapat disembuhkan denagn Ling Zhi<br />
Mengobati Kanker Paru-paru<br />
Nasofaring<br />
Esofagus dan lambung yang disertai lemahnya gejala energi vital<br />
Fungsi sel darah atau menurunnya sistem imun<br />
Bronkitis<br />
Asthma hepatitis<br />
Cormunal<br />
Jantung koroner<br />
Kolesterol darah tinggi<br />
Hipertensi<br />
Kanker Payudara<br />
Diabetes<br />
Radang lambung<br />
Rematik<br />
Sel darah putih menurun ( Leukopenia)<br />
Leukimia<br />
Ukuran otak lebih kecil<br />
Neurastenia<br />
Jerawat<br />
Pencegahan penuaan dini<br />
Kanker dan Tumor<br />
Kista</p>
<p><a href="http://shirath.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/gana.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-881" title="jamur lingzhi" src="http://shirath.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/gana.jpg?w=277" alt="" width="277" height="300" /></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Growing blood vessels]]></title>
<link>http://tricuspid.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/growing-blood-vessels/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a medical discovery made by cancer researchers that can benefit Funky Hearts, too. Rese]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Here&#8217;s a medical discovery made by cancer researchers that can benefit Funky Hearts, too. Researchers at <a href="http://www.uu.se/en/" target="_blank">Uppsala University</a> in Sweden have recently discovered a <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/uu-nme111109.php" target="_blank">protein that controls the growth of new blood vessels</a>. These researchers want to limit blood vessel growth in cancer patients, at least temporarily: if a tumor connects to a blood vessel, it then has access to all the resources it needs to grow. It&#8217;s almost like throwing gasoline on a fire.</p>
<p>But for someone with a Congenital Heart Defect it could be useful to <em>encourage</em> blood vessel growth. Everyone is born with a set of Collateral Blood Vessels &#8211; these are tiny &#8220;extra&#8221; blood vessels that are the body&#8217;s backup blood delivery system. Normally, they never really have to do anything.</p>
<p>But if you suffer a heart attack (or are born with a Heart Defect) your collaterals can &#8220;wake up&#8221; and begin to pump blood to the affected heart muscle while avoiding regular blood vessels that are damaged or missing.</p>
<p>Now that we are learning how to slow down or stop blood vessel growth, perhaps we can figure out how to make certain blood vessels grow more.  Wouldn&#8217;t it be <em>really cool</em> if a doctor could diagnose a heart defect and then take steps to counter it by injecting a localized drug right where it is needed?</p>
<p>The main stumbling block to this idea is the fact that even when they are active, the collaterals are still tiny blood vessels. We&#8217;d need a lot of them, and there is really no rhyme or reason in determining where they are located. They grow as needed. Right now we don&#8217;t have any visualization equipment that is sensitive enough to find all these extra blood vessels. And surgery of any kind in an area where the location of the blood vessels aren&#8217;t known would be pretty risky. There are a lot of obstacles to be overcome before this idea could ever be a reality.</p>
<p>But who knows what the future holds?</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Kanker Leher Rahim(Serviks)]]></title>
<link>http://tirsawp.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/kanker-leher-rahim/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Kanker leher rahim adalah tumor ganas yang tumbuh di daerah leher rahim (serviks), yaitu suatu daera]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><strong>Kanker leher rahim</strong> adalah tumor ganas yang tumbuh di daerah leher rahim (serviks), yaitu suatu daerah pada organ reproduksi wanita yang merupakan pintu masuk ke arah rahim yang terletak antara rahim (uterus) dan liang senggama (vagina). <a href="http://tirsawp.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/kanker-serviks.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-15  alignleft" title="kanker-serviks" src="http://tirsawp.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/kanker-serviks.jpg?w=150" alt="kanker serviks" width="172" height="128" /></a>Kanker leher rahim terjadi jika sel-sel yang ada di daerah tersebut membelah secara tak terkendali dan menjadi abnormal. Jika sel-sel tersebut terus membelah, maka akan terbentuk suatu massa jaringan yang disebut tumor,,,</p>
<p><!--more-->jika tumor tersebut menjadi ganas, maka keadaanya disebut sebagai kanker leher rahim. Kanker ini disebabkan oleh beberapa <a title="Penyebab Kanker Serviks" href="http://tirsawp.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/penyebab-kanker-serviks/"><strong>penyebab </strong></a>yang timbul dari<strong> <a title="Gejala Kanker Serviks" href="http://tirsawp.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/gejala-kanker-serviks/">gejala-gejala</a></strong> yang sering muncul dan dari semuanya itu juga ada <a title="Mencegah Kanker Serviks" href="http://tirsawp.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/mencegah-kanker-serviks/"><strong>pencegahannya</strong></a>.</p>
<p>Untuk para wanita yang masih muda,marilah kita menjaga kesehata anggota tubuh kita khususnya daerah reproduksi kita karena itu adalah mahkota kita semuanya&#8230;.jauhilah hal2 yang negatif agar kita tetap berada dalam hal yang positif&#8230;.keep healthy,,,</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Precision Horoscopes #6]]></title>
<link>http://carlsagansdanceparty.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/precision-horoscopes-6/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>geekysteven</dc:creator>
<guid>http://carlsagansdanceparty.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/precision-horoscopes-6/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Aries (Mar. 21-Apr.19) When teaching your children how to thumb wrestle, you will forget that the ga]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Aries (Mar. 21-Apr.19)</span></strong><br />
When teaching your children how to thumb wrestle, you will forget that the game does not begin with the phrase &#8220;One, two, three, four, I declare fist war!&#8221; And your attorney will be powerless to help you.<br />
<strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;"> Taurus (Apr. 20-May. 20)</span></strong><br />
Your gung-ho attitude toward censorship will be revealed for what it really is next week, when you are caught masturbating to a magazine full of black bars.<br />
<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong> Gemini (May. 21-Jun. 21)</strong></span><br />
When you attend the church dinner on Thursday, it will behoove you to remember that it is considered rude to bring your own deity.<br />
<strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;"> Cancer (Jun. 22-Jul. 22)</span></strong><br />
Your upcoming 30th birthday will be ruined when every person you promised to marry when you turned 30 decides to cash-in all at the same time.<br />
<strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;"> Leo (Jul. 23-Aug. 22)</span></strong><br />
The stars wanted to tell you that your friend is not suicidal, but rather has a phobia of hemophobes.<br />
<strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;"> Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22)</span></strong><br />
Being unemployed sucks, but seriously:have you even applied for that wizard iternship yet? Show some ambition dammit.<br />
<strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;"> Libra (Sep. 23-Oct. 23)</span></strong><br />
It would be in your best interests to stop calling whales the &#8216;gentle giants of the deep&#8217;. Did you even once think about all the dead krill at the fins of these genocidal fucks?<br />
<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong> Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21)</strong></span><br />
Due to the ascent of Neptune, your doctor will discover that you have a massive tumor. Its big, and hairy and has teeth in it. Did I say tumor? I meant cat.<br />
<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong> Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)</strong></span><br />
Your life-long dream of owning your own pet shop will crash and burn shortly after fruition, when you make the mistake of hiring Edwin Schrodinger as a clerk.<br />
<strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;"> Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)</span></strong><br />
The stars predict great terror in your future when you meet Stan, the local beekeeper. Beekeepers. Holy fuck, beekeepers. These fuckers scare the ever living fuck out of me.  These guys are badasses.  They just walk right up to mother fuckin’ bees.<br />
<strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;"> Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)</span></strong><br />
This Tuesday, you will get the nicknames, “Horsepecker,” &#8220;Penis McLong” and “Phallus Giganticus.”  This surely would be good news, if only you were a man.<br />
<strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;"> Pisces (Feb. 19-Mar. 20)</span></strong><br />
You will drown in sorrow next Friday as your website on proper English is devastated by grammatical e-terrorists.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[High]]></title>
<link>http://thetransformationalworkshop.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/high/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Diana Bourel</dc:creator>
<guid>http://thetransformationalworkshop.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/high/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Flying  34 000 feet over the earth&#8217;s surface, I am  watching the day wane, the clouds reflecti]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Flying  34 000 feet over the earth&#8217;s surface, I am  watching the day wane, the clouds reflecting the last soft rays of the sun.  At first, the clouds look like sunflowers tracking the sun or small children, wanting to be bathed for just a few more moments in the benevolent gaze of their beloved mother or father.  Up here, everything changes so quickly. A moment ago, the skyline turned a red the intensity of a matador&#8217;s cape. Seconds later, darkness came to the clouds, flattened into a foamy sea above which I am sailing.</p>
<p>There is something so peaceful up here, hovering above all the people I love below. That is my world, down there, my planet, and up here, my deep attachment to it is always so clearly felt.  This is one of my favorite places to think, or just to  look out the window and sit in the silence that seems to well up inside me. Something holy about this quiet.</p>
<p>This has been a surprising week. One friend my age, after an emergency admission into the hospital,  has learned he has blood cancer. In two days, tests will reveal how severe his condition. Currently, he is told the prognosis is not life-threatening. His wife writes to tell me she is already holding him a little more tightly in her arms.  Another friend, not yet 11, has moved closer to London with her family. Her parents know she needs a hospital nearby so that when the inoperable tumor nestled in her young brain is ready to cast its own dark net , her family will be able to keep her comfortable until the end.  Each day they share together is the gift.</p>
<p>Last night, a friend calls. She is ready, quite literally, to come out of the woods. After 19 years of dedicating herself to her family, she is ready to go back out in the world, to share her gifts, to  be part of  a community&#8230;.</p>
<p>I am told that this is a period of dissolution, and that the energetic invitation du jour is to let go. To let go of ego-centered certainties. To let go of archaic limbic brain-organized patterns that never get updated. To let go of debt and doubt and fear and anger and anything that keeps us little, and teaches our children smallness.</p>
<p>Up here, as clouds bleed into the blanket that evening rides in on, I can let go. I am aware of the death in me, too, even as my cells stretch into new spaces, even as I grow, even as happiness fills out my features and lights up my eyes.</p>
<p>This high up, I fly over you, somewhere down there, on the far side of this cloud blanket.<br />
May you be blessed, May you be happy. May you unfold, like this night, into whoever it is you are becoming, Life in its infinite goodness.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Vaarwel lieve Gipsy]]></title>
<link>http://lauryne.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/vaarwel-lieve-gipsy/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lauryne</dc:creator>
<guid>http://lauryne.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/vaarwel-lieve-gipsy/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Vandaag is mijn lieve Gipsy ingeslapen&#8230; We hadden een tumor ontdekt in z&#8217;n buikje (de di]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;">Vandaag is mijn lieve Gipsy ingeslapen&#8230; We hadden een tumor ontdekt in z&#8217;n buikje (de dierenarts vond er zelfs een tweede)  en je merkte dat hij begon af te zien. Daarom hebben we in samenspraak met de dierenarts besloten om hem zachtjes te laten inslapen. Het was wel even moeilijk moet ik zeggen, maar langs de andere kant: ik heb de troost dat hij een goed leventje heeft gehad en dat hij anders maar had afgezien als we hem nu nog hadden laten leven.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Het is mijn tweede hamstertje waarvan ik afscheid moet nemen, elk met hun eigen karaktertje, hun eigen willetje&#8230; Gipsy was een beetje hyper in alles. Hij hing altijd ondersteboven aan z&#8217;n plafond en kon klimmen als de beste. Maar hij was ook heel gevoelig: bij de minste koude kreeg hij een wintervachtje (wat hamsters in gevangenschap vaak helemaal nooit krijgen).</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Ik zal hem missen mijn lieve sjattie&#8230; Hij is net geen twee jaar geworden, wat voor een hamster toch een mooie leeftijd is. Hopelijk maakt hij snel vriendjes hierboven in de hamsterhemel&#8230;</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;text-align:center;"><a href="http://lauryne.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/gipsy-klimt-2.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-204 aligncenter" title="gipsy klimt (2)" src="http://lauryne.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/gipsy-klimt-2.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a> <a href="http://lauryne.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/alles-187.jpg"></a></p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;text-align:center;"><a href="http://lauryne.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/alles-187.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-205   aligncenter" title="alles 187" src="http://lauryne.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/alles-187.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;text-align:center;"><a href="http://lauryne.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/wintervachtje-14.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-206" title="wintervachtje (14)" src="http://lauryne.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/wintervachtje-14.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA["Mosaic Armor" by Judi Kaufman]]></title>
<link>http://lkthayer.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/mosaic-armor/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lkthayer</dc:creator>
<guid>http://lkthayer.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/mosaic-armor/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Photo by Alexis Rhone Fancher Judi Kaufman I have become a messenger for brain cancer casualties as ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><div id="attachment_5063" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 235px"><a href="http://lkthayer.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/img_0776-1.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-5063" title="Mosaic Armor" src="http://lkthayer.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/img_0776-1.jpg?w=225" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Photo by Alexis Rhone Fancher</p></div>
<div id="attachment_5064" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 122px"><a href="http://lkthayer.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/img_0769.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-5064" title="Mosaic Armor" src="http://lkthayer.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/img_0769.jpg?w=112" alt="" width="112" height="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Judi Kaufman</p></div>
<p>I have become a<br />
messenger for<br />
brain cancer<br />
casualties</p>
<p>as a poster child</p>
<p>I have<br />
turned into a<br />
hard shell</p>
<p>emails from around the world<br />
from people with <a href="http://www.ABTA.org"><em>GBM<br />
Glioblastoma<br />
Stage IV</em></a></p>
<p>looking for hope<br />
from me<br />
<em>“the safety woman”</em><br />
and her experiences</p>
<p>an ethical dilemma<br />
fragile hope</p>
<p>I am a moron<br />
a messenger<br />
with a<br />
mosaic armor</p>
<p>glass beads that<br />
usually break<br />
maybe I am the one<br />
with fragile hope</p>
<p>like<br />
when I know<br />
the tumor<br />
will get</p>
<p>the best of them</p>
<p><a href="http://www.judikaufman.com/">Judi Kaufman</a></p>
<p>also see:</p>
<p><a href="http://wp.me/pE2tL-14n">&#8220;Planet Judi&#8221; by L. K. Thayer</a></p>
<p><a href="http://wp.me/pE2tL-Md">&#8220;Caring &#38; Baring Witness To Baa-Baa Black Sheep&#8221;</a></p>
<p><a href="http://wp.me/pE2tL-Md">by Judi Kaufman</a></p>
<p>All Rights Reserved</p>
<p>© 2009</p>
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