Happy New Year!
I would like to try to post at least once a day. We shall see how long this New Years’ resolution lasts…
Edward
01/02/2015
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Category: cancer
Real patient experiences
How to choose a surgeon (and how to stay alive despite their cookbook approach to treating you)
Doctors are seldom allowed and even less frequently motivated to deviate from standard of care, which frowns upon removing the dandelion (the primary cancer of origin) after the seeds have spread (the distant metastases).
Edward
07/31/2014
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Flaming Zombie Lemming Cars! (or why telomerase doesn’t cause cancer)
Simply stated, telomerase is neither pro nor anti-tumorigenic any more than a foot or a brake pedal cause car accidents while driving down a mountain. Telomerase, like a driver’s foot, prevents carcinogenesis by speeding up or slowing down the car.
Edward
06/29/2014
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Dr. Titia de Lange wins prestigious Gairdner award for telomere studies
Titia de Lange, Ph.D., Leon Hess Professor; American Cancer Society Professor; Head, Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics; Director, Anderson Center for Cancer Research; Rockefeller University, New York.
Awarded the Gairdner Award for her discovery of the mechanisms by which mammalian telomeres are protected from deleterious DNA repair and damage responses.
Edward
05/10/2014
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Breastcancer.org is helping to prevent breast cancer through education
Today, I had the pleasure of listening to and meeting Dr. Marisa Weiss, founder of Breastcancer.org. Her talk was a fascinating review of their partnership with the Environmental Working Group with the tagline “Think Pink, Live Green”. I heard a ton of useful information about toxins that can be read here: http://www.breastcancer.org/risk
Edward
04/30/2014
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TA can’t make you lifeproof (and skin cancers are common in older white men)
I would like to discuss the idea that TA is either all or nothing. TA doesn’t DO anything that your body isn’t already trying to do. It increases the efficiency of telomerase, which may have benefits in prevention of stem cell damage.
Edward
12/24/2013
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