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Cancer: The Gift Of Perspective

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Eastern Loudoun Relay For Life - Luminary made by Kids for Scott

I am thankful each and every day for Scott’s health and that he is here with us and we are able to move forward with our family’s life. Seeing him fight has given me strength to do things personally that I never imagined and has given our family the gift of perspective.

Cancer Sucks: Donna Summer, Disco Queen, Dead at 63

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Donna Summer, the singer who came to be known as the “Queen of Disco” during her 1970s heyday, died today after battling cancer, a family member confirmed to ABC News. She was 63.

I grew up with Ms. Summer’s music. One of my first vinyl albums was Donna Summer’s Bad Girls.  Cancer sucks.

Cancer Survivors Who Stay Active Live Longer

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Cancer Survivors Who Stay Active Live Longer

Can going for a walk improve cancer survivors’ long-term prognosis? It may, according to new research showing that exercise can lower survivors’ risk of premature death, not only from cancer but from any cause. The findings are likely to resonate widely at a time when about 14 million Americans, and many more worldwide, have survived cancer.

In one report, a major new review published this month in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute, scientists at the agency gathered available studies examining exercise and cancer survivorship, dating to 1950. Most had been published in the past five years.

“This is an area of growing scientific interest,” says Dr. Rachel Ballard-Barbash, the associate director for applied research at the National Cancer Institute and lead author of the study. “Exercise is an accessible, low-cost intervention. But before we can suggest that cancer survivors become physically active, we need to understand what effects exercise has” on the bodies and life spans of those who’ve been given a cancer diagnosis.

To date, messages about the effects of exercise on cancer patients have been mixed. Some physicians have worried that exercise might exacerbate the fatigue that is common after cancer treatment. Others have raised concerns that the physical stress of exercise could even create conditions within the body that might contribute to tumor recurrence.

Cancer Sucks: Adam Yauch

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Scott is a pretty big Beastie Boy fan — and this news has really thrown him for a loop. Adam was 47. Cancer steals away a lot of seriously cool people way too young…

Adam Yauch Dead: Beastie Boys’ MCA Dies After Battling Cancer

It is with great sadness that we confirm that musician, rapper, activist and director Adam “MCA” Yauch, founding member of Beastie Boys and also of the Milarepa Foundation that produced the Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits, and film production and distribution company Oscilloscope Laboratories, passed away in his native New York City this morning after a near-three-year battle with cancer. He was 47 years old.

Get out there and Exercise!

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Exercise Could Lower Fatigue And Depression In Breast Cancer Patients: Study

Exercise could be the secret weapon to help breast cancer patients combat common side effects of cancer and cancer treatments.

A new study that was presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine shows that physical activity could help women being treated for breast cancer to have less fatigue and depression.

The study included 240 women with non-metastatic breast cancer, who were enrolled in the study anywhere from four to 10 weeks after they’d undergone surgery for their cancer. Some women who were put in a 10-week program where they learned Cognitive Behavioral Stress Management, while the other women completed a one-day “self help” group. Researchers also kept track of how much exercise all the study participants were getting.

The researchers found that the women who exercised the most during the time between the surgery and starting their assigned therapy were also the ones whose fatigue got in the way of their daily lives the least. In addition, these women’s moods were not as depressed.

The Truth About Heart Disease

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As a family recovering from Cancer – I am very interested in looking at what chronic inflammation can do to our bodies and how it sets up a perfect environment for cancer and other diseases to thrive.  We are all so conditioned to believe what we are told in terms of proper nutrition and what we should and should not eat, that most of us never question the validity of it. Well – just as we re-look and revise how we approach business, education and everything else – nutrition and the science of how our bodies function needs to change as well. We know so much more today than ever about what’s going on inside our bodies, how come nutritional advice hasn’t changed that much? Come on — think about it.

World Renown Heart Surgeon Speaks Out On What Really Causes Heart Disease

It Is Not Working!

These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible. The discovery a few years ago that inflammation in the artery wall is the real cause of heart disease is slowly leading to a paradigm shift in how heart disease and other chronic ailments will be treated.

The long-established dietary recommendations have created epidemics of obesity and diabetes, the consequences of which dwarf any historical plague in terms of mortality, human suffering and dire economic consequences.

Despite the fact that 25% of the population takes expensive statin medications and despite the fact we have reduced the fat content of our diets, more Americans will die this year of heart disease than ever before.

Statistics from the American Heart Association show that 75 million Americans currently suffer from heart disease, 20 million have diabetes and 57 million have pre-diabetes. These disorders are affecting younger and younger people in greater numbers every year.

Simply stated, without inflammation being present in the body, there is no way that cholesterol would accumulate in the wall of the blood vessel and cause heart disease and strokes. Without inflammation, cholesterol would move freely throughout the body as nature intended. It is inflammation that causes cholesterol to become trapped.

Inflammation is not complicated — it is quite simply your body’s natural defence to a foreign invader such as a bacteria, toxin or virus. The cycle of inflammation is perfect in how it protects your body from these bacterial and viral invaders. However, if we chronically expose the body to injury by toxins or foods the human body was never designed to process, a condition occurs called chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation is just as harmful as acute inflammation is beneficial.

[VIDEO] Colonoscopy: It’s Not That Bad

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With March being Colon Cancer Awareness month, StopColonCancerNow.com hopes this video will encourage people get over their fears and get screened. One test could save a life.

Most people need to get their first colonoscopy at age 50. You may need to get screened earlier if you are 45 years of age or older and African American, or have a family history of polyps or colon cancer.

There is no better test, no better time to help in the fight against cancer. Find a doctor today and schedule your colonoscopy: http://stopcoloncancernow.com/find-a-center

Join Us In The Fight

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This is Dr Marshall – our wonderful oncologist who helped Scotty beat cancer…

March On — Colon Cancer Fighters!

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Colon Cancer Awareness Month

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I’m the guest blogger over at Workout Mommy who was kind enough to ask if I would write something to encourage everyone to be aware of the signs and symptoms of Colon Cancer in honor of Colon Cancer Awareness Month. I had no idea that she was also touched by this horrible disease and lost her mom 3 years ago this month –

Many thanks to Stephanie for writing today’s guest post for colon cancer awareness month. I wish I could turn back the hands of time and read this post to my mother, but I can’t.  She died of colon cancer  3 years ago this month. Every single day I wonder how the outcome might have been different had she gotten a routine colonoscopy.   By the time her cancer was discovered, it was too late.  Please read this post.  Please get yourself checked out and please consider donating to Stephanie’s team.

Head over to Workout Mommy and read my post! 

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