With all of the technology available to science, sometimes it can take days for a test to reveal if you have cancer or not. Sometimes, the cancer can be detected easily, but other tests can take much longer. For example, my daughter has a rare condition that causes multiple tumors to form. Some can be
There are numerous studies out there that show that people with a dog as a pet tend to live longer and there are reasons for that and perhaps reasons you may not be aware of. The leading killer of both men and women in the United States is heart disease. The cause of each person’s
From talking with many other older folks, I have learned that many of us waited until we hit 50ish to start taking vitamins and supplements on a regular basis. It usually starts when we begin to have more things affecting our health, so we look to vitamins and supplements to help address some of our
Ever hear of Peto’s Paradox? In 1977, statistical epidemiologist Richard Peto questioned the incidence of cancer in different animal species based upon the number of cells in the body. It was once thought that the more cells an animal has, the greater likelihood that animal has of developing cancer. But if that was true, when
How many of you suffer for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)? About 12% of people in the United States have IBS. With a population of about 327 million people in the US, that means about 39.2 million Americans suffer from IBS. Numbers are not as high in many countries, but could be even higher in some.
If you look at the risk factors for many forms of cancer, you will find that one of those risk factors is unavoidable – it’s called aging. Yep, the older we get the greater the chances of our developing some type of cancer. Some cancers that especially increase with age are breast, colon, prostate and
I worked at an international ministry when I heard that one of my co-workers, Clayton had developed liver cancer. He had hepatitis C for years and the disease progressed to cancer. Clayton lost a lot of weight before he died. At the same ministry a few years later, another co-worker, Phil, got sick while traveling
Cancer is the one word no one likes to hear from their doctor, but the older we get, the greater are our chances of developing some type of cancer. The risk of developing breast and prostate cancer increases dramatically as we get older. The same is true with colon and rectal cancer. Around 60% of
Is there any one word in the English language that is more feared than ‘cancer’? How many of you have heard that word? And how many of you that have heard that word first thought it was a death sentence? According to the National Cancer Institute: In 2018, an estimated 1,735,350 new cases of cancer
Being told you have any form of cancer is scary to most people. When I was younger, just hearing you had cancer was like hearing you were just given a death sentence and for many types of cancer, it was true. However, over the last half century, there have been many new developments in detecting,
