Experiences with
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In focus: targeted therapies - hormone therapies
Some ovarian cancer tumours contain cells that have oestrogen receptors on their surface, so they divide in response to oestrogen. Tumours with a high percentage of these cells are referred to as ‘oestrogen receptor positive.’ This means that oestrogen promotes growth of the tumour.
In focus: diet - vegetarianism, veganism and soy
Although there are similarities between isoflavones and oestrogen, they don’t behave in the same way in the body and their effect is much weaker.
The Road Less Traveled
THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED
written by a prostate cancer patient who wants to be anonymous (posted by me on his behalf.)
Most men if they ever think about their death presume it will be fast and painless. A PCA diagnosis can shatter that presumption. From age 70 to 73 my annual blood work showed an increasing
AGING AND RUNNING
When I was a child I ran for fun, because I could. As a teenager I was, like so many others, forced to run and it, unsurprisingly, was around about then that the magic of running disappeared from my life. Some things in life are inevitable and the alternatives to being an aging runner are either being