I highly recommend listening to Robyn O’Brien. We hope to have her speak on our shows very soon. She has a very good take on what is happening to our food in the U.S. and as the title of her website shares: SHEDDING LIGHT ON THE FOOD INDUSTRY. You can also follow her on Twitter.
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It’s been 40 years since President Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act in 1971, the historic legislation that focused attention — and perhaps more importantly, government funding — on the need to research and find treatments for cancer. A lot has changed in the past four decades. The disease that doctors thought they knew then is very different from the cancer they’re studying today. For one thing, scientists have a much better understanding that cancer isn’t simply one disease in which cells suddenly start to grow out of control, but rather hundreds of different diseases. In fact, according to the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Cancer Progress Report, cancer is actually more like 200 distinct diseases, each spurred on by slightly different causes and requiring different treatments. And instead of focusing so slavishly on the tumors themselves, as experts did initially, researchers have enlarged the window through which they study cancer, allowing the consideration of other critical features, such as how the patient’s own makeup might affect the disease. Scientists also look at how tumors tend to co-opt their environment for their own pathological needs, turning healthy tissues into diseased ones in a process that makes cancer increasingly difficult to control.
Great TIME Article written by Alice Park
Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2011/09/21/cancer-researchs-40th-anniversary-how-far-have-we-come/
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania announced Wednesday that they have discovered a possibly “huge” breakthrough in the fight against cancer.
In two medical journals, the scientists revealed that a new treatment targeting a patient’s white blood cells, which are part of the body’s immune system, shows signs of early promise in combating leukemia.
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/3/95/95ra73.abstract
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1103849?query=featured_home
“This is a huge accomplishment — huge,” Dr. Lee M. Nadler of Harvard Medical School told theLos Angeles Times. Nadler discovered the molecule on cancer cells that the newly engineered T-Cells were instructed to target.
Musical pioneer Cheb i Sabbah was diagnosed with Stage 4 stomach cancer at San Francisco General Hospital. He is without health insurance and is raising money online through a large support group of listeners and friends.
The artist: http://www.sixdegreesrecords.com/artists.php?artist=Cheb_i_Sabbah
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He was advised that the cancer was spreading to his liver and left lung. Without immediate and proper treatment, the prognosis given is very grim. The phrase “weeks maybe months” was repeated to a devastated group of close friends and family who were there to support him as he received the heartbreaking news.
Like many Americans, “Chebiji” — as he is affectionately known — does not have health insurance. Private health insurance is astronomically expensive and public state funded health insurance barely provides the most basic treatment — and it does so only if you qualify. Due to his weak health condition, Chebiji found himself having to cancel live shows, meaning his income stream has come to a complete halt, with mounting medical bills and future medical costs ahead.
Upon learning of his condition, a few close friends and artists have come together to rally around Chebiji and assist him with his fight. Devastated by the news and outraged that an artist of Chebiji’s caliber cannot afford to care for himself and receive the proper urgent medical treatment needed, we have set up a fund to help.
Artist site: http://chebisabbah.org/
Have you watched the film? A film that hit theaters in 2010 is available online and on Netflix.
Dr. Oz interviewed Director Eric Merola and Dr. Burzynski on May 17th, 2011 on SiriusXM Radio. Cancer is big business and those affected by it will be caught in a dying business model. Have you done the research and are you ready to tackle the disease?
The film was presented at the Newport Beach Film Festival in April 2010. The filmmaker used his own money and credit cards to pay for the film (direct words from the filmmaker Eric Merola). Watch the link below…
The Cancer Documentary by Director Eric Merola featuring Dr. Burzynski
TRANSCRIPT with links to sources mentioned in the film.
Have you watched the film? A film that hit theaters in 2010 is available online and on Netflix.
Dr. Oz interviewed Director Eric Merola and Dr. Burzynski on May 17th, 2011 on SiriusXM Radio. Cancer is big business and those affected by it will be caught in a dying business model. Have you done the research and are you ready to tackle the disease?
The film was presented at the Newport Beach Film Festival in April 2010. The filmmaker used his own money and credit cards to pay for the film (direct words from the filmmaker Eric Merola). Watch the link below…
Seven-time Tour de France champ Lance Armstrongspoke to lawmakers in Washington, D.C., March 24, 2011 to protest proposed cuts to cancer research. 
The 2011 fiscal year funding bill would reduce funding 5.2% to 21% to federal health agencies, and have a dramatic effect on cancer research, Lance argued.
“As cancer’s economic and human costs grow, we cannot back away from our commitment to conquer this disease,” said Armstrong, whose LiveStrong foundation has raised millions for cancer research.
“We hope Congress will recognize that if we reduce our investment now, it will cost us far more in the long run in health care costs and lost productivity.”
http://www.examiner.com/celebrity-fitness-and-health-in-national/lance-armstr…
The Latest With Resident Scientist Simone Celia Klein discusses patient advocacy with Jonny Imerman of ImermanAngels.org and Holly Huber or ILoveMyNewStemCells.com in front of a live online audience on www.thelatestwith.com
Simone Celia Klein interviews Dr. Phyllis Klein and cancer survivor - Jovan Rodriguez. The LA Times wrote a great article about Jovan and his struggles with being uninsured. Be sure to watch Jovan brave a new world and share his struggles on www.thelatestwith.com
by: steve.lopez@latimes.com
At 22, Jovan Rodriguez was carefree, fit, employed but uninsured. So the diagnosis of Hodgkin’s lymphoma came as a shock, and the ensuing bureaucratic nightmare rages on years later.
Jovan Rodriguez, an Orange County supermarket clerk, awoke one day with a stiff neck. He got up to go to the bathroom, felt kind of lousy and went back to bed.
When he woke up again, the neck was throbbing. Rodriguez looked in the mirror and did a double take. Knobbing up on the right side of his neck was a bubble the size of a golf ball. But the lump was growing by the hour, quickly expanding to nearly the size of a tennis ball. He had to see a doctor, but was uninsured. In fact, he’d never had insurance. He hadn’t been working long enough at Albertson’s to qualify, and his mother, who managed property for a real estate company, couldn’t afford a healthcare plan. So Rodriguez paid cash when he went to see a doctor, who suspected the lump was caused by an infection, food poisoning or an allergic reaction. But after two rounds of tests, at a cost of about $2,000, most of it on his mother’s credit card, Rodriguez got a diagnosis he couldn’t believe. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/12/local/la-me-lopezcolumn-20100512
Patrick Swayze’s widow calls for more research into pancreatic cancer.
Patrick Swayze’s widow, Lisa Niemi Swayze, spoke in Washington this week about a bill that would make pancreatic cancer a federal research priority, according to a CNN report.
Swayze died nearly a year and a half ago from the disease, nearly 22 months after being diagnosed. This was actually an uncommonly long amount of time to survive; as the National Center for Biotechnology Information points out, average survival is usually less than a year.
http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-patrick-swayze-cancer-20110…
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