| February designated Spay/Neuter Month
There is an increased incidence of mammary adenocarcinoma (cancer) with each successive heat cycle. • Helps control the pet over population problems. • Please understand that small dog breeds are easy to sell or give away. The larger the breed the more puppies they have. Bigger dogs and especially mixed breed dogs are at times very difficult to get rid of. National statistics show only one out of every 10 dogs and cats being born get a good home. The others are either euthanized or die of diseases. Spaying benefits for female cats: • Reduces overpopulation. • Diminishes the need for some people to “dump" animals at people's barns who have WAY more pets than they want already! • Altering will not change your pet's personality except to make them a calmer pet in many instances.
UK’s first double high-dose cancer treatment delivered in Bristol
Patients are normally suffering from locally-advanced prostate cancer and receive brachytherapy as a boost prior to receiving a full course of external beam radiotherapy. Bristol Oncology Centre, which serves 2.4 million people in the Avon, Somerset and Wiltshire region, has been using a Varian GammaMed afterloader since 2005. The device is used in combination with BrachyVision treatment planning software, which enables clinicians to plan treatments by combining and using MRI, CT and 3D scans for the best possible images of the tumor and surrounding organs. .
Severe storms hit Georgia, Alabama
For five years, Keele Maynor, 38, coaxed co-workers, neighbors and cancer survivor groups to be generous as she battled breast cancer. She later described it as a "charade." In other headlines • Pilots union says Buffalo landing system flawed: A problem with the instrument landing system at the Buffalo, N.Y., airport can cause airplanes to move suddenly to a nose-up position, a pilots' union warned on Thursday, but the flaw seems unlikely to have played a role in the Feb. 12 plane crash. • Senate to take up climate change this year, Reid says: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he wants to take up a bill to tackle global warming by the end of the summer. • Mass. house explosion kills woman: An explosion possibly caused by a gas leak leveled a home Thursday evening, killing a woman and her dog.
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Former Kentucky and New Mexico State football coach Hal Mumme has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Mumme's agent, Russ Campbell, confirmed the diagnosis to The Associated Press. He says the prognosis is good because the illness was detected early. Mumme will undergo a procedure today at the University of Kentucky's Markey Cancer Center. BASKETBALL Swoopes' WNBA career might be finished Sheryl Swoopes might have played her last game. The Seattle Storm waived the three-time WNBA Most Valuable Player and three-time Olympic gold medalist a day before her 2009 contract would have become guaranteed. Swoopes is 37 and might now pursue something she has talked about since September -- coaching and being a full-time mother.
Paper Reveals Potential New Treatment for Ovarian Cancer
New effective therapies for the treatment of advanced stage ovarian cancer are urgently needed.A paper published February 9, 2009, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by Dr. Janet Sawicki, Professor at the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research (LIMR), a team headed by Daniel G. Anderson, Ph.D. and Robert Langer, Sc.D. of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and David Bumcrot, Director of Research at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, shows that a new therapy suppresses ovarian tumor growth and metastasis in preclinical studies.Ovarian tumors highly express two proteins, claudin-3 and -4. These proteins are associated with both an increase is cellular motility and survival of ovarian tumor cells. Claudin-3 is also over expressed in breast and prostate tumors.
Proton therapy fights cancer: Dublin prostate patient treated
Prostate cancer can be treated several ways, including surgery and radiation. Zuber said the treatment methods he researched, including proton therapy, had similar results in getting rid of cancer. "But I looked at the side effects of proton therapy, and they were less," said Zuber, of Dublin. "To me, it was just a matter of identifying where I could be treated." The nonprofit center in Florida opened in 2006 and cost $125 million to build. About 115 patients are treated there daily and 75 percent have prostate cancer, said Stuart Klein, executive director of the center. Most patients stay for two months, and about 25 percent travel from outside the southeastern United States. Zuber received 39 treatments -- one a day, Monday through Friday -- from May 5 to July 1 at a cost of $2,763 for each session.
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People who remain ill for long periods after being treated for Lyme disease are probably suffering from symptoms associated with other disorders, he said. �I don�t know what�s making them sick, but they are obviously very sick with something,� he said. �IDSA gets demonized as the bad guy who doesn�t want people to get better. But Lyme disease is tricky. Long-term antibiotic therapy is dangerous. It�s terrible these folks are suffering, but it�s bad to lump it all under chronic Lyme disease.� Yet many thousands of people continue to suffer flu-like symptoms and a wide array of problems for years after being treated briefly for Lyme. Many of those diagnosed with chronic Lyme say long-term antibiotic treatments or other alternative methods of treatment have helped them to overcome their suffering and reclaim their lives.
Gov. Perry Announces $5.5 Million Research Grant to University of
Initial research has shown that estrogen receptor drugs have potential applications for treatment of breast and uterine cancer in women and prostate cancer in men. Studies have also shown that other nuclear hormone receptors can be used to treat atherosclerosis, type 2 diabetes, Parkinson's disease, Lou Gehrig's disease and depression. The center will work to commercialize this research.The ETF is a $200 million initiative created by the Texas Legislature in 2005 at the governor's request and was reauthorized in 2007. A 17-member advisory committee of high-tech leaders, entrepreneurs and research experts reviews potential projects and recommends funding allocations to the governor, lieutenant governor and speaker of the house. To date, the ETF has allocated $56 million in funds to 16 universities, attracting more than 40 top researchers and their teams to the state and creating more than $69 million of industry capital investment.For more information on the ETF, please visit www.emergingtechfund.com.
LIGHTNING ROUND: CHASING THE BIPARTISAN DRAGON NO MORE.
Ruth Bader-Ginsburg was hospitalized for pancreatic cancer today. The Supreme Court justice had been treated for colon cancer earlier in her career. Andy Card: "The Oval Office symbolizes ... the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I'm going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it's appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President" Me: were these noble thoughts going through your head when your former boss decided to start a war under false pretenses, authorize torture and illegally spy on American citizens? Or were you more concerned about whether a gray flannel is respectful enough of the office? Speaking of whiners, former Senator Norm Coleman believes the unresolved Minnesota Senate recount court case he initiated has deprived Minnesotans of full representation and that's the Democrats' fault.
Health digest: Miller-Keystone Blood Center schedules Berks County
This is a program for men who have or are interested in learning about prostate cancer. Dr. Michael Haas, a Reading Hospital radiation oncologist, will speak. For more information, call 888-227-5445; choose Option 1. lll "Helping Siblings" will be the topic of a class offered through the Breidegam Family Birthing Center on Sunday from 2 to 3 p.m., in the Family Birthing Center Conference Room of St. Joseph Medical Center, Bern Township. Call 610-378-2003 for additional information. lll Adventist WholeHealth Wellness Center will present "Healthy Food Fast," a cooking class taught by registered dietician Clara Iuliano, on Sunday in its offices, 1025 Berkshire Blvd. Suite 700, Wyomissing. There is a $25 fee; call 610-685-9900 to register. lll The Colon Cancer Survivors' Support Group will meet next Tuesday at 7 p.m.
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