Posted by
thomenda7xx on Thursday, May 31, 2012

Amazing Health Benefits of Artichokes;1 ) Cancer Prevention - Treatment and Cure:Studies done with artichoke leaf extract have found that they induce apoptosis (cell death) and reduce cell proliferation in many different [...]
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Posted by
thomenda7xx on Saturday, May 26, 2012
Medical Tourism? We are hearing more about people going to India and other parts of Asia to get hip replacement and other medical procedures due to the expense and lack of coverage available in the US. This seemed like an interesting concept [...]
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Posted by
thomenda7xx on Sunday, May 20, 2012
A few weeks ago I posted a message on the Association of Cancer Online Resources (ACOR) listserv for carcinoids asking about debulking surgery and other invasive procedures used to remove tumors. This post got a lot of responses, both on and off list. [...]
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Posted by
thomenda7xx on Saturday, May 19, 2012
May 19, 2012I figured that I would start a blog to talk about having cancer. I am a 53 year old woman from New York City who was diagnosed with a rare form of gastrointestinal cancer called carcinoid in August 2010 when I was 51. Carcinoids [...]
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