President Obama appointed Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius (D) as his nominee to be Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Read the rest of this entry »

UC San Diego: Glowing Nanoparticles

Safer silicon nanoparticles glow, then degrade into harmless by-products. The tiny, newly designed nanoparticles, a thousand times smaller than the human hair, lodge in cancers too small to see, helping doctors see where tumors are or delivering precise doses of chemotherapy.

Scientists at the University of California in San Diego have a developed a new nanoparticle technique that doesn’t leave toxic metals behind in the body. Because the tiny particles are porous, chemotherapy molecules can be embedded in holes in their structure ten thousand times smaller than a human hair. Read the rest of this entry »

We know that throughout history people have lived well when their diets were rich in fruit and vegetables. There is evidence that eating fruits and vegetables helps to reduce gastric and colon cancer. All fruits and vegetables contain fiber which is helpful in preventing colon cancer. Now science has proven without a doubt that there is a relationship between intake of fruits and vegetables and health. Read the rest of this entry »

Tell a Friend that March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

It’s March 1, the first day of a busy Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.

It’s time to celebrate our successes and then push even harder to end suffering and death from colon and rectal cancer.

For the tenth year, Congress has declared March to be Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and we’ve come a long way in those ten years.  From a disease that everyone was too embarrassed to talk about, we’ve seen colonoscopies on TV, explanations of how screenings prevent colon cancer illustrated with mashed potatoes and peas, and Blue Stars of Hope popping up everywhere. Read the rest of this entry »