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A year and a half ago mom was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, the tumor was 11 centimeters. After chemo a PET scan showed she was cancer free and she has remained cancer free for 14 months. But the doctor said the tumor is still there, slightly less than 1/4 of it’s original size. How can you be cancer free if it’s still there? Does this mean it’s going to start growing again?
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Answer by kmorstatter the tumor is still there but it is not active and it is not harming her..actually its going away because the tumor is shrinking
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Question by crissa_72: A book from the 80′s about a candy striper working in a cancer ward. she fell for a dying leukemia pt.?
He was dying of leukemia. They became good friends, even went camping with them. I would really like to find this book.
I found the book, its called “If I should die before I wake” by Lurlene McDaniel
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Answer by gormenghast10014 “Let Him Live” by Lurlene McDaniel
“A candy striper helps a 17-year-old boy deal with his uncertain future as he awaits a liver transplant. Together, they use his “One Last Wish” money to build a center for terminally ill kids.”
“Megan Charnell’s best friend Cindy died in a car accident. Megan is depressed and when her father Dr.Charnell signs her up to be a volunteer at the hospital he works at Megan doesn’t want to. But then she meets Donovan Jacoby a young man awaiting a liver transplant. her attitude changes. Also she meets a friend named Alana who’s brother Lonnie her father gave a liver transplant to. While waiting for Donovan’s transplant he recieves a special gift $ 100 000 from the One Last Wish Foundation. What will Donovan do with his money? and Will he get the transplant he so desperatly needs? “
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This Month AskDrO.Com is supporting Breast Cancer Awareness we are doing weekly interviews highlighting survivor stories. This week we had the opportunity to interview the president of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women (Mecca Chapter). Tune in to hear her story….
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For some people, losing their hair during chemotherapy is traumatic. For me, it wasn’t. My head itched, it was cold, but aside from those factors, I didn’t really care. I just wrapped my head in hats and scarves and forgot about it most of the time. However, I thought I should buy a wig for those events when I just wanted to blend in and not call attention to my status as a cancer patient. So I bought one. I sent this picture to my brother, to give him a heads-up as to what I looked like now, and he responded, "You look like a Zen monk." He saw bald women all the time, and they were healthy ones. This reminded me that many people shave their heads by choice.
Question by Cheryl K: Does anyone know of the hats off for cancer organization here in the U.S .?
Just recently i was watching the Montel Williams Show. They had a young women who founded hat off for cancer. Iwas wondering if anyone may have seen the program? If they remember if she was from the U.S. or Canada. I would like to know if she is in the U.S because i would like to donate a hat or two to the organization. I would appreciate the input. Thank you ,
Cheryl K
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Answer by Mary G no I don’t but you could call the cancer society and maybe they could point you in the right direction
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Question by simone : How do the keloids on the back your ears form?
is it from cheap earrings? or cancer? what causes it?
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Answer by kraemondo I get them from the piercings I get and then neglect.
I notice a huge improvement when I use good sterling silver earrings rather than earrings from Claire’s.
To get rid of keloids, crush up an Aspirin in a very small amount of water to make a paste. Put that on your keloid for 10 minutes. Do this for a month with a couple days brake every week or so.
If that doesn’t work, I have heard that tea tree oil is good.
They are not from cancer.
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Would the apostrophe be before the s or after the ‘s’?
also, would ‘children’s cancer ward’ need to be capitalized?
(when talking about a hospital)
thanks in advance
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Answer by Panama Joe Children is already plural, so “Children’s Ward”
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my mother needs a pain management/ cancer doctor who accepts medicaid in wichita ks. her previous doctor left in mission in africa.
her previous doctor told her to find her own new doctor. he was not very sincere, but i dont know how to get one, im only 17
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Question by B o s s: How cancer can produce if you have non-exercise life?
How can be produced that disease if you do nothing of exercise or eat crap stuff.If can tell me more specific,better.
Thanks
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Answer by Fickle Me Eating ‘crap stuff’ alone can cause cancer. Cancer maybe hereditary or be caused by an infection. Having a ‘sloth-like’ lifestyle is an unhealthy lifestyle. It may trigger imbalance in a body’s system that can cause over production or under production of certain hormones. Which may also lead to cancer.
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In autumn of 1993, a then record, 20 pound kidney cancer that went metastatic to distant organs ambushed Gerald White at the peak of a successful scientific career. After 2 killer surgeries and 8 solid months of treatment failed, he was left to reckon with that dreaded pronouncement that every cancer patient dreads to hear; “There is nothing more we can do and you likely have 3 more months at most”. Gerald actually told his doctor that, “If medical science cannot solve this problem , then engineering science will and I will not die in these three months!”. Far too often cancer victims are in such shock by news like this that they just accept the diagnosis and give up. This book tells how Gerald set about to learn about the elements of the human immune system and how mind/body medicine, through a self administered program of Guided Imagery was used to effect a full remission – within the 3 months that had first been predicted for death. MAARS is an acronym for Mind Activated Antigen Recognition System and readers will learn the healing power of these terms. This book represents the first time ever that the cancer killing ability of the human immune system is presented in a reader friendly narrative by one who has actually been there and done that . This book was written to give patients who are interested in fighting cancer with the mind, the “how” as well as the “why” to give a scientific as well as a spiritually based reason to hope. . If, by force of logic, we can turn that fear into hope and then move through hope to expectation, then the stage is set for remission. It IS possible! You CAN defeat cancer!!.
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Young leaves and bark of Tithonia diversifolia , Wild Sunflower, Mexican Sunflower….Vỏ cây Dã Quỳ và lá non ….#2
Taken in Gò Công little town, Tiền Giang province, South Vietnam.
Vietnamese named : Dã Quỳ, Cúc Quỳ, Sơn Quỳ, Quỳ dại, Hướng Dương dại, Hướng Dương Mexico, Cúc Nitobe .
English names : Shrub flower, Mexican Tournesol, Mexican Sunflower or Nitobe Chrysanthemum, Wild Sun Flower.
Scientist name : Tithonia diversifolia ( Hemst. ) A. Gray
Synonyms :
Family : Asteraceae ( Compositae ). Họ Cúc ( Họ Hướng Dương )
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Dã quỳ, cúc quỳ, sơn quỳ, quỳ dại, hướng dương dại, hướng dương Mexico, cúc Nitobe (danh pháp khoa học: Tithonia diversifolia) là một loài thực vật trong họ Cúc (Asteraceae), hiện nay phân bổ rộng khắp trong các khu vực cận nhiệt đới và nhiệt đới, chẳng hạn như Trung Mỹ, Đông Nam Á và châu Phi. Phụ thuộc vào khu vực, nó có thể là cây một năm hay cây lâu năm, dạng cây bụi cao tới 2-3 m với thân cây mọc thẳng và đôi khi hóa gỗ. Hoa màu vàng cam. Nói chung người ta công nhận rằng nó ở một giai đoạn nào đó là cây bản địa của khu vực Trung Mỹ hoặc Mexico, vì thế mà có tên gọi hướng dương Mexico.
Biểu tượng và sử dụng
Tại Nhật Bản, vào cuối thời kỳ Minh Trị, loài cây này được nhập khẩu như là cây cảnh mặc dù nó đã từng được trồng tại đây, dù rất ít. Có vị đắng đặc trưng, nó được sử dụng để gây sốt nhằm chống lại ngộ độc, mặc dù không được sử dụng cho các mục đích y học trực tiếp. Người ta cho rằng loài này được Nitobe Inazo đưa vào Nhật Bản, vì thế mà có tên gọi trong tiếng Nhật là cúc Nitobe (ニトベギク; Nitobegiku).
Tại Mexico, nó được sử dụng để chữa bong gân, gãy xương, các vết thâm tím và các vết giập.
Tại miền nam Trung Quốc nó được sử dụng để chữa trị một số bệnh đường da (như bệnh nấm bàn chân), ra mồ hôi trộm ban đêm, cũng như trong vai trò của thuốc lợi tiểu, thuốc nhuận gan, thuốc chữa bệnh vàng da và viêm bàng quang.
Dã quỳ được bán tại thị trường thuốc thảo mộc ở Đài Loan như một loại trà để cải thiện chức năng gan.
Nó là biểu tượng của tỉnh Mae Hong Son, Thái Lan.
Tại Việt Nam, dã quỳ đã được người Pháp đưa vào các đồn điền ở Lâm Đồng. Nó được trồng khi đó để làm phân xanh cho các vườn cà phê, cao su. Thân dã quỳ chứa nhiều chất P, Ca, Mg nên làm phân hữu cơ khá tốt. Nhờ hạt dễ phát tán, cây dễ trồng nhờ giâm cành nên loài cây này dần dà chiếm lĩnh các nơi hoang dại ở khắp Tây nguyên. Tên dã quỳ xuất hiện trên văn chương từ thập niên 1970, trước đó người ta gọi nó là sơn quỳ. Dã quỳ cũng đã được sử dụng làm biểu tượng chính cho lễ hội hoa Đà Lạt tháng 12 năm 2005.
Ở Việt Nam, dã quỳ thường ra hoa vào mùa đông, vàng rực cả triền đồi và thảo nguyên. Loài cây này có thể coi như là một loài cây báo hiệu cho sự xuất hiện của mùa khô, khi hoa dã quỳ nở có nghĩa là mùa khô đã đến rất gần. Lá của cây này còn sử dụng trong một bài thuốc dân gian để chữa bệnh ghẻ.
Hướng dương dại, Sơn quỳ – Tithonia diversifolia (Hemsl). A Gray, thuộc họ Cúc – Asteraceae.
Mô tả: Cây bụi hằng năm cao 2-5m, thân có lông sát, phân cành nhiều. Lá thuôn, phiến có thuỳ, mép có răng nằm. Hoa đầu ở ngọn trên cuống dài, có mùi thơm, lá bắc hai hàng cao đến 2cm; hoa ở mép hình môi màu vàng tươi, lép; hoa ở giữa hình ống; giữa hoa có vẩy cao 1cm. Quả bế có hai răng.
Hoa tháng 12-2 quả 1-2
Bộ phận dùng: Lá – Folium Tithoniae Diversifoliae.
Nơi sống và thu hái: Loài cây của nhiệt đới châu Mỹ, được nhập trồng nay mọc hoang dại ở nhiều nơi, nhất là dọc đường đi, bãi hoang, phổ biến từ đồng bằng cho tới vùng núi.
Công dụng, chỉ định và phối hợp: Thường được trồng làm cây phân xanh. Người ta cũng dùng lá đắng xát trị ghẻ.
Tithonia diversifolia (Hemsl.) A. Gray
SHRUB SUNFLOWER
Wang ye kui
Gen info
Genus name derives from the Greek god Tithonus, a favorite of Aurora, goddess of dawn.
Botany
Small to medium-sized annual shrub with rather stout, almost glabrous branches. Leaves are alternate, petioled, membranaceous, ovate to orbicular, entire or 3- to 5-lobed, with toothed margins.
Distribution
Introduced to the Philippines as an ornamental.
Has escaped cultivation to become a weed in waste places.
Constituents
- Leaf oil showed an abundance of a-pinene (32.9%), b-caryophyllene (20.8%), germacrene D (12.6%), b-pinene (10.9%), and 1,8-cineole (9.1%).
- Flower oil yielded germacrene D (20.3%), b-caryophyllene (20.1%) and bicyclogermacrene (8%).
Properties
Properties
Parts used
Parts used.
Uses
Folkloric
No reported folkloric medicinal use in the Philippines.
In Central America, leaf extracts are used externally for the treatment of wounds and hematomas.
Others
Others
Studies
• Analgesic / Anti-Inflammatory: Study of methanol extract of dried leaves of TD produced dose-related inhibition of carrageenan-induced paw edema and cotton pellet-induced granuloma in rats. The analgesic effect was observed with hot plate latency assays. Results confrim the traditional use of TD for the treatment of painful inflammatory conditions.
• Toxicity Studies: (1) Study of a 70% methanol extract showed a dose- and time-dependent toxic effect. Used in mice to reduce parasitemia with Plasmodium, the observed kidney and liver toxcity at the lowest dose tested, although reversible, raises concern over the safety of the use of the plant extract against malaria. (2) Study resulsts on the aqueous extracts of TD leaves suggest it may have adverse effects on the functions of the liver, heart and kidney.
• Sesquiterpene Lactones / Anti-Inflammatory / Antibacterial: The main sesquiterpene lactones of species growing in Costa Rica – diversifolin, diversifolin methyl ester and tirotundin – were studied for their anti-inflammatory activity. Results showed inhibitory activity of the 3 compounds, attributed to aklation of cysteine residues. Diversifolin was also found to have antibacterial activity, moderately active against B subtilis.
• Antimicrobial: Chemical analysis of the leaf of Tithonia yielded sesquiterpene lactones, e.g. Tagitinin which possess insecticidal properties. Study showed it possessed antimicrobial activity, active against both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, with activity against S aureus, E coli and P aeruginosa, suggesting they can be used in treating gastrointestinal infections, skin diseases and urinary tract infections in man.
• Anti-Diabetic: Study on an 80% ethanol extract of TD showed reduction of blood glucose in KK-ay mice 3 weeks after a single oral dose, also significantly lowering plasma insulin, decreasing blood glucose in an insulin tolerance test. Results suggest it may be useful for the treatment of type2 diabetes.
• Potential Cancer Chemopreventive: Study isolated three new sesquiterpenoids – 2a-hydroxytirotundin, tithofolinolide, and 3a-acetoxy-8b-isobutyryloxyreynosin along with 8 known sesquiterpene lactones. Among the isolates, 2 compounds showed significant antiproliferative activity, 3 compounds induced HL-60 cellular differentiation, one significantly inhibited lesion formation in the mouse mammary organ culture assay.
• Antimicrobial / Germacranolide-type Sesquiterpene Lactone: Results indicate the non-polar leaf extract of T diversifolia could be useful in the treatment of some disease conditions and the sesquiterpene lactone is a potential candidate as a phytotherapeutic agent against some bacterial infections.
• Anti-Inflammatory / Hepatoprotective: Results indicate the treatment with a water extract of the aerial part of T diversifolia decreased paw edema induced by carrageenan, with reduction of the elevated liver enzymes, with improvement in the pathologic hepatic changes caused by carbon tetrachloride.
• Anti-Malarial / Repellant: The aqueous and methanolic extracts had 50% and 74% clearing of parasites respectively, compared to 100% for chloroquine, more effecgtive when administered at the onset of infection, suggesting a time-dependency of the anti-malarial effects. On mosquitocidal repellency, although the volatile oil extract showed higher repellent effect on Anapholes gambiae, its repellant and protective effects on all the other species of mosquito can not be underestimated.
Availability
Wild-crafted.
Description
Bolivian sunflower is the towering big brother of the popular Mexican sunflower (T. rotundifolia Easily reaching up to 16 ft (5 m) tall and more than 12 ft (3.6 m) across, this sunflower makes a commanding statement. Bolivian sunflower has many branches and large coarse and hairy leaves that are oblong with marginal lobes and up to 14 in (35 cm) long. Bolivian sunflower grows fast and large during the spring and summer, then in autumn and winter it covers itself with hundreds of yellow-orange sunflowers, 3-6 in (7.5-15 cm) across. Each composite flower has 11-13 ray florets and 200-300 disc florets. All can give rise to seeds. The flowers smell like honey and are attractive to bees and butterflies. The seeds are small and can ride on the wind for several meters.
Location
Tithonia diversifolia occurs naturally in Mexico and Central America. It has escaped cultivation and become established in tropical and subtropical areas throughout the world, including South Florida.
Culture
Light: Sunflowers need full sun.
Moisture: Although Bolivian sunflower does best in hot, dry climates and well drained soils, it still needs plenty of water.
Hardiness: USDA Zones 9-11. Light frosts and freezes will kill Bolivian sunflowers to the ground, but if the damage isn’t too bad, they come back in spring. Some people have had success with this tropical in Zone 8. In frost free climates, this sunflower can achieve the proportions of a small house.
Propagation: The easiest way to start a new Bolivian sunflower is just to take a piece of stem, say 10 in (25 cm) long and an inch (2.5 cm) or so in diameter, and stick it in the ground. Don’t water too much, and it should start producing roots and new leaves in a few days. You can also plant the seeds as soon as they ripen.
Usage
Bolivian sunflower is an imposing shrub and is best suited to the larger landscape. It is a big, rangy plant and not inclined to be neat and tidy. Several of these fast growing biggies will make a great screen, and make it fast. Sometimes branches break off and may take root where they lie on the ground, thus speeding the development of the screen. Alternatively, place a Bolivian sunflower in back of the shrub border or all alone as a single specimen. When in bloom, Bolivian sunflower draws attention to itself. Dead-heading is recommended to prolong the flowering season, but you may need a bucket truck to reach the higher flowers. You can prune Bolivian sunflower back hard after blooming to keep it from overtaking the neighborhood.
Bolivian sunflower has various medicinal uses among herbalists in tropical America, southern Asia and Africa. It currently is being investigated for anti-malarial properties.
Features
Unfortunately, I can’t grow Bolivian sunflower in my yard because the squirrels and the deer eat them to the ground. The white-tailed deer eat the leaves, and the gray squirrels eat the stems. Even pieces of stem that I tried to start in nursery pots and hid behind the greenhouse were discovered and eaten by the squirrels. Researching this article, I learned that Tithonia diversifolia leaves and stems are particularly high in nutrients (especially N, P and K) and are used as fertilizer in tropical regions. I guess the squirrels already knew that.
WARNING
In frost free areas Bolivian sunflower can spread and become an invasive nuisance. The species is still relatively new to North American gardeners and it has not yet been placed on Florida’s invasive plant list. However, Bolivian sunflower has established in many areas of South Florida and reports are coming in that it is causing damage to native plants.
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Girls’ Night Out for Women’s Health, hosted by Christiana Care
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On Thursday, Oct.13, Christiana Care hosted more than 300 women at the first ever Girls’ Night Out event at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center.
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Attendees at this free event took advantage of lectures on breast-cancer diagnosis and prevention, and the role that genetics plays in cancer prevention. The lectures featured experts from the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center, including Diana Dickson-Witmer, M.D., associate medical director of the Breast Center, radiologist Jacqueline Napoletano, M.D., and genetic counselor Chandra Somerman.
Girls’ Night Out attracted a diverse crowd of women of all ages, races and ethnicities from throughout the area, including New Castle, Kent and Sussex Counties, Southeastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey and Cecil County, Md.
“I have a sister-in-law who had breast cancer,” said Wilma Whittington, a Girls’ Night Out attendee. “I came so I can spread the word to my family and friends about the importance of taking care of yourself and prevention.”
Christiana Care staff provided free bone-density and blood-pressure screenings for 186 attendees, while Breast Center staff led tours of their new offices and performed mammograms for 40 women. The inaugural event also featured healthy food demonstrations, a photo booth and giveaways provided throughout the evening.
Event organizers partnered with the Avon Foundation for Women and Susan G. Komen for the Cure to help promote the event and provide on-site education and resources.
The event was a collaboration of several departments within Christiana Care, including Women’s Health Services, Community Outreach & Education, the Breast Center, Imaging, Center for Heart & Vascular Health, Preventive Medicine & Rehabilitation Institute’s Food & Nutrition Services, and the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center.
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