What is Critical Illness?
Critical Illness (CI) is a relatively new coverage in Canada that guarantees the payment of a lump sum benefit between $50,000 to $2,000,000 if you are stricken by a critical illness such as cancer or a heart attack. CI provides the financial resources to fill the gap that may be create... (Full Article)
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Breast Cancer
In December of 2001, breast cancer was the furthest thing from my mind. I was busy. I had a loving husband, a nice home, three beautiful stepchildren, a good job. Then my perfect little world was suddenly turned inside out and upside down.A routine, suspicious mammogram. A phone... (Full Article)
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Mesothelioma Research
Research offers hope of cure for mesothelioma. A laboratory mouse fully recovered from mesothelioma and built up immunity to further tumors during trials of a new mesothelioma research & treatment regime being tested by West Australian researchers.Mesothelioma cells were transpla... (Full Article)
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How Diet Influences Cancer Risk
Diet is a double edged sword. Improper diet increases the risk of cancer but a proper, well balanced diet reduces the cancer risk.Diet is one of the most important lifestyle factors and has been estimated to account for up to 80% of cancers of the large bowel, breast, and prostat... (Full Article)
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Peritoneal Mesothelioma
Peritoneal mesothelioma is a rare disease. The tissue lining the abdomen is called the peritoneum. It helps to protect the contents of the abdomen. It also produces a lubricating fluid. This helps the organs to move smoothly inside the abdomen as we move around. Mesothelioma of the tiss... (Full Article)
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Mesothelioma
Tragically the word mesothelioma is becoming more and more well known, the mere mention of it striking fear into all of us for we know that it is associated with death. Asbestos is the reaper, mesothelioma its hand maiden.Asbestos, the wonder product of the fifties is now recogn... (Full Article)
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Childhood Cancer Awareness Month is September
When September rolls around, I look like any other haggled parent standing in the checkout with three kids. The shopping cart is filled with packs of pencils, note paper, crayons, markers and tissues."Why do we need to buy tissues for school?" my kindergartener asked last year.... (Full Article)
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Changing Paradigms in Cancer
A paradigm is a sort of cultural, consensual pattern of thought or model of something. For example the ‘current consensus in scientific medicine’. Paradigms change, like the impact of Galileo’s work on disproving the flat-earth theory or Copernicus’ heresy that the Earth moves round the... (Full Article)
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Dont Get Cancer
One antidote to cancer is information.
In general our responses to cancer are converging, but very slowly. Presently all cancer authorities are agreed on only one thing:Cancer cannot take hold in a healthy immune systemThe World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) is pro... (Full Article)
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