theAJCF.org Blog

Upcoming Insights Into Cancer lecture:
SKIN CHANGES AND CANCER TREATMENTS: TIPS FOR HEALTHY SKIN AND HAIR – TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 2010: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Carolyn Goh, MD, UCLA Clinical Instructor, dermatologist and researcher and Jenny Kim, MD, PhD, UCLA Associate Professor, dermatologist and researcher discuss how skin, (the bodys largest immune system), hair, [...]

Upcoming Insights Into Cancer lecture:
RECENT TREATMENT ADVANCES IN RADIATION ONCOLOGY – Tuesday July 13, 2010: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Dr. Percy Lee, MD, UCLA Assistant Professor, radiation oncologist and researcher, discusses radiation therapy as an integral component in the fight against cancer and how recent advances have allowed radiation oncologists to target cancer [...]

Janet W. Battaile
Editor
Late last year, I learned two things at about the same time: My cancer was coming back, and I had gotten a new insurance plan. Since then, I’ve learned something else: It’s far easier to deal with my disease than with my new insurers.
I have multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow [...]

Subject: JOHN HOPKINS UPDATE – GOOD ARTICLE
Good Information regarding our diet
John Hopkins Update – Good article
AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY (’TRY’, BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY.
Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins [...]

10th Annual American Lung Association State of the Air Report Finds 60 Percent of Americans Live In Areas Where Air is Dirty Enough to Endanger Lives
Editors’ Note: Local grades available at www.stateoftheair.org.
(Los Angeles, CA, Embargoed Until: 12:01 a.m. (pacific) Wednesday, April 29, 2009) — California’s air quality scored mixed grades with 38 of California’s [...]

For more than a decade, Life Extension® has reported on small clinical studies that demonstrate beneficial effects in those with certain cancers who supplement with coenzyme Q10.

While cigarette smoking is an undisputed cause of lung cancer, not all cases of lung cancer occur in smokers or former smokers. Gani Fawehinmi, who is reportedly a non-smoker, died of lung cancer on September 5, 2009. Although not every non-smoker suffering from lung cancer will have an identifiable risk factor for development of the [...]

Tens of Thousands of Women Die from Lung Cancer, More Than from Breast, Ovarian and Uterine Cancers Combined
By ANDREA CANNING

In her West Bloomfield, Mich., home, Lisa Roffman wiped away tears as she read from a journal she keeps for her 9-year-old daughter, Leah.
“You are a special gift to the world,” Roffman read. “You will [...]

By MYRNA ULFIK
I have been battling non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, an incurable blood cancer, for the past nine years. Last year, I was also diagnosed with uterine cancer.
I didn’t run to Canada for treatment. Medicare took care of my needs right here in New York City. To endure, I just need the freedom to choose my insurance, [...]

As if confronting a potentially fatal disease were not daunting enough, many cancer patients also have to contend with a host of debilitating side effects induced by chemotherapy and radiation treatment. These range from fatigue and hair loss to life-threatening pneumonia and emboli or a crippling wasting of lean muscle mass.
Today, however, more cancer care [...]