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Leon Ned Nedbalek
Hi, I’m Ned. I’ve been living with lung cancer since 2006.
I had an exploratory thoracotomy (right side) on 8/31/06. It began as a thoracoscopy, but all the tissue samples taken during the scope procedure were inconclusive, and the surgeon deemed it necessary to proceed with a full thoracotomy (muscle-sparing incision, ribs spread). This did confirm lung cancer, moderately-differentiated adenocarcinoma. Because of the various periods waiting for pathol…
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E-Nose Can Detect Various Cancers
The cancer sniffing E-Nose is quite amazing, if capable of doing what this article suggests. Can you imagine a technique, as non-invasive as a breath analyzer, capable of indicating cancer? Although the studies are small, they suggest a potential to detect cancer prior to tumors becoming visible in X-rays. In further development, such a device could be quite valuable in monitoring treatment and…
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Hope For Two provides information, hope, and peer-to-peer support by telephone and email to women diagnosed with cancer while pregnant.
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Fertile Hope provides reproductive information, support and hope to cancer patients and survivors whose medical treatments present the risk of infertility.
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Beans Help Prevent Cancers
Legumes like garbanzo beans contain diosgenin, a substance that may help prevent intestinal and other cancers.
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