Gardasil: Cervical cancer is caused by a virus many people get in their teens and 20s. Now there is a vaccine available to protect women from the most common cause of cervical cancer: a virus called HPV. What is HPV? HPV (human papillomavirus) is a common virus that affects both females and males. There are […]
Category Archives: Cancer
It is official. Spring has sprung, bringing along with it spring fever. I can see it in my students’ eyes. They are practically breaking out in hives itching to soak up the warm spring sun, despite the fact they are sitting in a class that discusses skin cancer prevention. Alas, despite their instructor’s desperate pleadings, […]
1000 years ago in Europe pre-Christian tribes originally had a Goddess culture – a matriarchy where the earth and nature and their cycles and secrets were revered. In pre-industrial societies illness was not seen as a ‘random assault from outside’ but as a deeply significant life event integral to the sufferer’s whole being – spiritual, […]
Following my partner, Glenn’s, diagnosis with an aggressive form of cancer, my hours of research led me to discover a series of medical researchers who have come to the conclusion that cancer is a metabolic disease. A metabolic disease is one that develops as a result of our metabolism becoming corrupted. Simply put metabolism is […]
The process of detecting skin cancer, the most common form of cancer in the United States, can be practiced with a monthly self examination combined with a yearly visit to your doctor. Early detection is key because, if diagnosed soon enough, skin cancer is almost always curable. There are three main types of skin cancer, […]
How to Fight Cancer and Win is a book written by William L. Fischer. You might find this book interesting and useful. Despite being published in 1992, it remains (as of this writing) among the top 20,000 sellers on a popular book-selling site. William Fischer worked for pharmaceutical companies in Germany. He later became a […]