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SEXUALITY AND GYNECOLOGICAL CANCER: SEX SURVIVAL STRATEGIES

admin — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:30:17 +0000

• Don’t place unrealistic expectations on yourself-discuss with each other what aspects of intimacy and sex you can cope with at each phase of your recovery• Have a very supportive partner whom can act as an advocate in consultations, particularly when you are not well enough to think clearly• Maintain a sense of humour – try and build in times for laughter and relaxation with your partner and others who can laugh with you during this tumultuous time• Try to accept the changes in your physical appearance as necessary to preserving your life – most partners will be relieved you are still living• Try to feel better about your physical appearance -buy some hats, new clothes, make-up, fragrance, facial. Ask friends to donate some of these as gifts instead of flowers. The physical outcomes of treatment (hair/weight loss) may be the hardest things to cope with• Participate in a free ‘Look Good, Feel Better’ session at your treatment centre – does wonders for the soul and reminds you that you are still a ‘glamour puss!’• Pamper your partner as well as yourself- as often as possible! This is the one time when you both deserve extra attention• Communicate, communicate, communicate*44/144/5*

REDUCING YOUR RISKS OF CANCER: WHAT IS CANCER?

admin — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 09:06:00 +0000

Cancer is the name given to a large group of diseases characterized by the uncontrolled growth and spread of at normal cells. It may seem hard to understand how normal healthy cells become cancerous, but if you think of a cell as a small computer, programmed to operate in a particular fashion, the process will become clearer. Under normal conditions, healthy cells are protected by a powerful overseer, the immune system, as they perform their daily functions of growing, replicating, and repairing body organs. When something interrupts normal cell programming, however, uncontrolled growth and abnormal cellular development result in a new growth of tissue serving no physiologic function, which is called a neoplasm. This neoplasmic mass often forms a clumping of cells known as a tumor.Not all tumors are malignant (cancerous); in fact, most are benign (noncancerous). Benign tumors are generally harmless unless they grow in such a fashion as to obstruct or crowd out normal tissues or organs. A benign tumor of the brain, for instance, is life threatening when it grows in a manner that causes blood restriction and results in a stroke. The only way to determine whether a given tumor or mass is benign or malignant is through biopsy, or microscopic examination of cell development.Benign and malignant tumors differ in several key ways. Benign tumors are generally composed of ordinary-looking cells enclosed in a fibrous shell or capsule that prevents their spreading to other body areas. Malignant tumors are usually not enclosed in a protective capsule and can therefore spread to other organs. This process, known as metastasis, makes some forms of cancer particularly aggressive in their ability to overcome bodily defenses. By the time they are diagnosed, malignant tumors have frequently metastasized throughout the body, making treatment extremely difficult. Unlike benign tumors, which merely expand to take over a given space, malignant cells invade surrounding tissue, emitting claw-like protrusions that disrupt chemical processes within healthy cells. More specifically, malignant cells disturb the ribonucleic acid (RNA) and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) within the normal cells. Tampering with these substances, which control cellular metabolism and reproduction, produces mutant cells that differ in form, quality, and function from normal cells.*3/277/5*

THE BASICS FOR SAFE NON-TOXIC CLEANING SOLUTIONS (WHITE VINEGAR AND LEMON JUICE; LIQUID SOAPS AND DETERGENT; MOLD KILLERS AND DISINFECTANTS)

admin — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:09:40 +0000

White vinegar and lemon juice are acidic—they neutralize alkaline substances such as scale from hard water. Acids dissolve gummy buildup, eat away tarnish, and remove dirt from wood surfaces.Liquid soaps and detergents are necessary for cutting grease, and they are not the same thing. Soap is made from fats and lye. Detergents are synthetic materials discovered and synthesized early in this century. Unlike soap, detergents are designed specifically so that they don’t react with hard water minerals and cause soap scum. If you have hard water buy a biodegradable detergent without perfumes; if you have soft water you can use liquid soap (both are available in health food stores).For a substance to be registered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a disinfectant it must go through extensive and expensive tests. EPA recommends simple soap to use as a disinfectant. There are many essential oils, such as lavender, clove, and tea tree oil (an excellent natural fungicide), that are very antiseptic, as is grapefruit seed extract, even though they aren’t registered as such. Use one teaspoon of essential oil o 2 cups of water in a spray bottle (make sure to avoid eyes). A grapefruit seed extract spray can be made by adding 20 drops of extract to a quart of water.Note: Make sure to label all your homemade cleaning products, and keep them away from pets and children.*32/165/1*

WHAT DOES RADIATION DO TO HUMAN CELLS?

admin — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:03:26 +0000

Ionising radiation is harmful to all human cells — both normal and cancerous. You will remember that, because cancer cells are simply a ‘disobedient’ form of our own body cells, there is no type

of treatment that can kill them without harming some of our normal cells. Radiation treatment is no exception to this rule.

Thus, it is never possible to destroy cancer deposits with radiation without injuring nearby normal tissues. This means that radiotherapists are faced with the same challenge every time they plan a person’s treatment—how to produce the greatest possible damage to the cancer growths without risking dangerous

or otherwise very serious reactions in the normal tissues. In

Meeting this challenge, they firstly exploit those differences between cancer and normal tissues which make the cancer, on average, more vulnerable to the harmful effects of radiation. Secondly, they plan the treatment so that the cancer cells receive a higher dose than any normal cells and so that tissues which can give rise to dangerous or otherwise serious reactions receive a smaller dose than tissues whose reactions are less troublesome.

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