I have been a risk taker, no calculated risks even.
I do not understand the term calculated risk.
A risk remains one so long it remains.
One Oncologist told me that as far as he is concerned in treating cancer patients, he does not care about the risks,stating that even a miniscule .1% is 100 5 risk for patient!
So is risk taking.
I would simply take any action which appealed me, especially jobs,may be it might offer more benefits or the Job content I liked.
I was very out going, though not easy-going.
These remain the same even this day.
I do things as I used to do, but with slight trepidation, but it will be in my mind, which was not the case earlier,but I do things any way.
As to with people I remain the same.
My close friend of 43 Years tells me I am not easy to approach though I am easy to move with and an extrovert
I do not know.
I used to eat a lot of Chocolates, Ice cream and Sweets.
I still do.
My grand children love me for this as we raid the Fridge together after others sleep.
I used to be irreverent towards every thing, including Religion.
January 12, 2012 — According to a new analysis of data from the Women’s Health Initiative, post-menopausal women who were taking a statin medication had a 50% increased risk of developing Type-2 diabetes. Statins are a type of cholestorol-lowering medication, and include Lipitor, Levacor, Zocor, Pravachol, Crestor and more. The increased risk was found for all statins.
Earlier Studies were conducted on women for Five years, did not reveal any contradictions, side effects.
But recent research has proved that Statin causes Breast Cancer, in addition to Myositis and myopathy,and Diabetes
Women who take statins for more than a decade face double the risk of contracting the most common type of breast cancer.
Alarming findings raise new concerns over the long-term safety of a widely prescribed medicine in the UK.
Previous studies have suggested the cholesterol-lowering drugs, used by an estimated eight million men and women, can reduce the risk of certain cancers – including the breast form of the disease.
However, most research looked at patients who had only been on them for five years or less.
The latest findings identified invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) which starts in the ducts of the breast before spreading inwards. It accounts for around seven out of ten breast cancer cases.
The experts at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle, US, also found the chances of getting invasive lobular carcinoma, which accounts for ten to 15 per cent of breast cancers, went up almost 2.5 times in some women on statins long-term.
Around 48,000 women in Britain are diagnosed with breast cancer each year, equal to around 130 a day. A woman has a one in nine chance of developing the disease at some point in her life.
The reasons why the anti-cholesterol pills might stimulate cancer growth are unclear.
The researchers said one explanation may be that statins affect hormone regulation in the body, especially as the study found women on the drugs were significantly more likely to suffer cancers driven by the hormone oestrogen.
Atorvastain causes the following side effects.
Atorvastatin may cause side effects. Tell your doctor if any of these symptoms are severe or do not go away:
diarrhea
constipation
gas
headache
joint pain
forgetfulness or memory loss
confusion
Some side effects can be serious. The following symptoms are uncommon, but if you experience any of them, call your doctor or get emergency medical help immediately:
muscle pain, tenderness, or weakness
lack of energy
fever
chest pain
nausea
extreme tiredness
weakness
unusual bleeding or bruising
loss of appetite
pain in the upper right part of the stomach
flu-like symptoms
dark colored urine
yellowing of the skin or eyes
rash
hives
itching
difficulty breathing or swallowing
swelling of the face, throat, tongue, lips, eyes, hands, feet, ankles, or lower legs
hoarseness
Atorvastatin may cause other side effects. Call your doctor if you have any unusual problems while taking this medication.
From personal experience, I can say that the use of Atorvastain did not lower my cholesterol level and my Level went up by 15% after its use for 5 years.
I was informed by the Doctor that Atorvastain was not responsible and increase in Cholesterol level was due to stess and my change of Lifestyle.
I have told him that there was no such changes and I discontinued the drug.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (NMRI), or magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to visualize internal structures of the body in detail. MRI makes use of the property of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to image nuclei of atoms inside the body. MRI can create more detailed images of the human body than are possible with X-rays. An MRI scanner is a device in which the patient lies within a large, powerful magnet where the magnetic field is used to align the magnetization of some atomic nuclei in the body, and radio frequency magnetic fields are applied to systematically alter the alignment of this magnetization.[1] This causes the nuclei to produce a rotating magnetic field detectable by the scanner—and this information is recorded to construct an image of the scanned area of the body.[2]:36 Magnetic field gradients cause nuclei at different locations to precess at different speeds, which allows spatial information to be recovered using Fourier analysis of the measured signal. By using gradients in different directions, 2D images or 3D volumes can be obtained in any arbitrary orientation.A new study has found hat Sugar makes it easy to detectcancer growth in MRI.
Certain type of sugars are absorbed by the cancer cells more than the healthy cells.
In MRI the area lights up.
If put into practice, this process could be completed in a local hospital rather than refereed to Specialty Hospitals.
Story:
The new technique, called ‘glucose chemical exchange saturation transfer’ (glucoCEST), is based on the fact that tumours consume much more glucose (a type of sugar) than normal, healthy tissues in order to sustain their growth.
The researchers found that sensitising an MRI scanner to glucose uptake caused tumours to appear as bright images on MRI scans of mice.
Lead researcher Dr Simon Walker-Samuel, from the UCL Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging (CABI) said: “GlucoCEST uses radio waves to magnetically label glucose in the body. This can then be detected in tumours using conventional MRI techniques. The method uses an injection of normal sugar and could offer a cheap, safe alternative to existing methods for detecting tumours, which require the injection of radioactive material.”
Professor Mark Lythgoe, Director of CABI and a senior author on the study, said: “We can detect cancer using the same sugar content found in half a standard sized chocolate bar. Our research reveals a useful and cost-effective method for imaging cancers using MRI — a standard imaging technology available in many large hospitals.”
He continued: “In the future, patients could potentially be scanned in local hospitals, rather than being referred to specialist medical centres.”
The study is published in the journal Nature Medicine and trials are now underway to detect glucose in human cancers.
Simon Walker-Samuel, Rajiv Ramasawmy, Francisco Torrealdea, Marilena Rega, Vineeth Rajkumar, S Peter Johnson, Simon Richardson, Miguel Gonçalves, Harold G Parkes, Erik Årstad, David L Thomas, R Barbara Pedley, Mark F Lythgoe, Xavier Golay. In vivo imaging of glucose uptake and metabolism in tumors. Nature Medicine, 2013; DOI: 10.1038/nm.3252
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It is shocking that some one has blogged containing the image of a Child supposedly suffering form Cancer, while it was not.
Fraudulent Blog.
Such posts .especially on a Subject on Health that too on Cancer involving a child, is sickening.
Is it because of ‘Hits”
If your writing does not provide information, at least desist from posting incorrect and sensational posts just to attract attention.
Unfortunately many take the information from the Internet seriously with out cross checking.
I tell my children not to Google for serious subjects and be guided by the First ten or twenty results in Google Search.
They might have appeared, not because of the authenticity or correctness of the information but because of tagging and keywords.
However much the Machines try, they can not avoid this fraudulent writing from appearing in top results.
My suggestion is not to find a cure for illnesses from the Internet, but check with your Physician.
if you are forced to search,check the Trustworthiness of the site with WOT. cross check with Alexa,compare with other results from the search one each from the first three pages of the Search results.
Story:
For about 10 months, a person claiming to be a mom named Casey Bowman kept a blog called “Remembering Reilly” documenting her son’s battle with leukemia. The dark and detailed posts articulated painful milestones after Reilly’s passing — the moment she had to tell her older son, Langston, the family’s first Thanksgiving without Reilly, and even her own struggle with packing up Reilly’s things.
The boy’s cancer wasn’t the only tragedy that Bowman wrote about. She claimed to have lost another baby to SIDS, and wrote vividly about the miscarriage she had following Reilly’s diagnosis.
Not long after “Remembering Reilly” appeared, a network of other sites popped up that were somehow related to the boy, Gilliam said. There was another blog that seemed to have been written by Bowman while her son was alive, and an updated Facebook page in Reilly’s honor. A “friend” of Reilly’s, a little boy named Noah, also had his own tribute blog. And finally, there was a five-minute YouTube video — a montage made up of several pictures of Reilly (really Jack) with inspirational messages laid on top.
Every single one of these pieces was created by the person behind the hoax.
According to the Columbia Daily Herald, Bowman never asked for donations on Facebook, but posted images of shirts that were supposedly available for purchase as tribute to both boys.
Hoax Busters
According to The Tennessean, Shelly Jackson, a member of the Warrior Eli Hoax Group — a blog that aims to expose Internet hoaxes — came across “Remembering Reilly” because she had a Google alert set for “chronic myelogenous leukemia,” a diagnosis that her own son shares with Reilly. She realized that the details of Reilly’s diagnosis seemed off, so she looked into the story further. Using a reverse Google image search, Jackson found Sarah Gilliam’s blog, with dozens of matching photos. In an email to Gilliam that she sent to HuffPost, Jackson wrote:
One of my most recent cases involves someone using photos that I believe are of your son Jack claiming he was a leukemia patient named Reilly Bowman. This is particularly close to home for me because the blog was for a child with the same type of leukemia my son has, and I thought a child had died from it when I initially read the blog for “Reilly.”
Gilliam then posted a screenshot of the blog to her Instagram and Facebook accounts asking friends for help, she said. Her husband contacted WordPress, which hosted the blogs, and asked for them to be removed. By that night, all traces of “Remembering Reilly” were gone. The Huffington Post has obtained images from the defunct blog, which are available below.
It is widely believed , and recommended by Doctors , that anti oxidants prevent formation of cancerous Cells.
As Fruits and vegetables contain Anti Oxidants‘ consuming them is recommended to ward off Cancer.
Now it is proved to be incorrect.
Anti oxidants And Cancer.
As in Smoking where it is said that Smoking Causes Cancer,the reason being that higher percentage of people who have Cancer were found be Smokers,
In the same vein,” Some studies have shown that people who eat more fruits and vegetables have a lower incidence of cancer and heart disease and live longer. The logic is obvious. If fruits and vegetables contain antioxidants, and people who eat fruits and vegetables are healthier, then people who take supplemental antioxidants should also be healthier.”
The Logic is faulty in both the cases.
My wife wears a Green Saree.
It does not mean who ever wears a Green Saree is my wife!
Science often jumps the Gun by touting incomplete data as Conclusive and we blindly follow it!
It hasn’t worked out that way.
The likely explanation is that free radicals aren’t as evil as advertised. (In fact, people need them to kill bacteria and eliminate new cancer cells.) And when people take large doses of antioxidants in the form of supplemental vitamins, the balance between free radical production and destruction might tip too much in one direction, causing an unnatural state where the immune system is less able to kill harmful invaders. Researchers call this the antioxidant paradox.
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Can antioxidants prevent cancer?
Considerable laboratory evidence from chemical, cell culture, and animal studies indicates that antioxidants may slow or possibly prevent the development of cancer. However, information from recent clinical trials is less clear. In recent years, large-scale, randomized clinical trials reached inconsistent conclusions.
What was shown in previously published large-scale clinical trials?
Five large-scale clinical trials published in the 1990s reached differing conclusions about the effect of antioxidants on cancer. The studies examined the effect of beta-carotene and other antioxidants on cancer in different patient groups. However, beta-carotene appeared to have different effects depending upon the patient population. The conclusions of each study are summarized below.
The first large randomized trial on antioxidants and cancer risk was the Chinese Cancer Prevention Study, published in 1993. This trial investigated the effect of a combination of beta-carotene, vitamin E, and selenium on cancer in healthy Chinese men and women at high risk for gastric cancer. The study showed a combination of beta-carotene, vitamin E, and selenium significantly reduced incidence of both gastric cancer and cancer overall (1).
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