Hearts On Fire Curling

Holland happy to shift focus to curling
Vancouver Sun – Jan 31, 2010
10 in the final of the SaskPower Saskatchewan women’s championship, which had been moved to the Eston Curling Club due to a fire in Kindersley. …
Thunder Bay rinks come up short again
The Chronicle Journal – Feb 17, 2010
27 in the TBayTel championship weekend at the Port Arthur Curling Club. Zechner on fire: The Jeff Zechner rink of Nipigon will once again represent Northern …
Bernard takes successful new outlook to Games
Calgary Herald – Feb 11, 2010
In the end, it took a step back — a realization life would go on without the Olympics and that, in fact, her life was fulfilling even without curling, … Read more

Terramed Alliance News Treating Breast Cancer With Adapted Space-Industry Technology

Terramed Alliance News Researchers at Rush University Medical Center and Argonne National Laboratory are collaborating on a study to determine if an imaging technique used by NASA to inspect the space shuttle can be used to predict tissue damage often experienced by breast Read more

Terramed Alliance News Younger Breast Cancer Patients Have Greater Chance Of Recurrence, Especially After Certain Treatments

Previous studies have shown that younger breast cancer patients consistently have poorer outcomes than patients who develop the disease later in life, which can translate into lower rates of overall survival. While the reason for this is not known, it is suggested that breast cancer in younger patients is more biologically aggressive.

Researchers from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston sought to determine w Read more

Eating Eggs When Pregnant Affects Breast Cancer In Offspring Terramed Alliance News

This finding by a team of biologists at Boston University is the first to link choline consumption during pregnancy to breast cancer. It also is the first to identify possible choline-related genetic changes that affect breast cancer survival rates.

“We’ve known for a long time that some agents taken by pregnant women, such as diethylstibesterol, have adverse consequences for their daughters,” said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chi Read more

HYPERTHERMIA IN CANCER TREATMENT

Breaf History of Hyperthermia
The healing effect of heat treatment was already mentioned in the advanced cultures of the old Egypt (2400 B.C.), but only the medical professionals of the Greek Antique used this therapeutic approach consistently, acknowledged it and called it over-warming (in Greek: Hyperthermia). “Give me the power to produce fever and I heal every illness”, said Parmenides, Greek physician, 540-480 B.C.Read more

Terramed Alliance News Pain From Breast Cancer Treatment Can Linger For Years, Study Finds

Terramed Alliance News Nearly half of all breast cancer patients experienced chronic pain two to three years after treatment and more than half felt discomfort, according to a study by Danish researchers published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New York Times reports. The study found that women younger than age 40, those who underwent radiation treatment and th Read more