Hello all,
What great weather we have been blessed with this week!!
Wanted to share some information with you all, that hopefully will help prevent you or your loved ones from ever getting Colorectal Cancer. First to know it is the second leading Cancer in women and men and the numbers are on the rise. 90% curable if caught soon enough, here is what you need to know. If anyone has a history of polyps in your family either cancerous or non-cancerous you need to get checked out now!!!! Everyone else by 50! That or any blood in your stools, do not second guess... get it checked out... Ask your doctor for a colonoscopy and do not take no for answer.
A benign tumor is not cancer. It does not spread to other parts of the body. Colon polyps are most often (but not always) benign tumors. By contrast, a malignant tumor is cancer. Cancer cells divide and damage tissue around them. They can enter the bloodstream and spread to other parts of the body. Some colon polyps develop cancer in them, but some colon cancers appear to arise from the lining of the colon without a precursor polyp. Benign colon tumors are usually colon polyps. Colon cancer can originate in colon polyps or can rise without the presence of a polyp in the colon.
Update on my situation, I am changing oncologist what have I said in the past you have to be YOUR OWN ADVOCATE...the oncologist and team I was dealing with have dropped the ball, three critical times, a fourth situation occured this week....when asked if I had lost confidence in the team I replied, yes and they said they understood if I needed to change oncologists...
The oncologist didnt have the courage to deliver the news of their latest mistake direct to me she did it through her nurse, her nurse indicated that the oncologist is a scientist, so bed side manner is not necessarily her specialty....huh?? I am not a lab rat, nor or all the thousands, millions fighting this very challenging illness, come on health care professionals get it together!
We are better educated through the process back on track with regular chemo as tough as it can be it is what will buy time and help shrink the tumours.... more joy and wonderful memories!
A shout out to a friend my age fighting cancer from Onoway. She requires a bone marrow transplant. A fundraiser is being held for Shelly Veltman on September 16. Shelly needs to spend four months in Calgary, along with her family & support team.The expense is enormous, and any money raised will allow the family some peace as they have had to go through so many changes and challenges in a very short time, so Shelley can fight for her life.
The dinner, band and auction is Saturday September 15 at the Redline Diner in Spruce Grove. For more information contact:
Ken Munro
shellysfightforlife@hotmail.com
phone Ken: 780-962-4646 or Nicole 780-968-3848
Shelly my thoughts, support and prayers are with you....strength, positive thinking, and courage girl, and you have the fight in you, stay strong!! You can do it!
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
-Khalil Gibran
I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life’s endeavors. Your attitude-your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people-determines your priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself.
-Carolyn Warner
Peace Out.... :)
What great weather we have been blessed with this week!!
Wanted to share some information with you all, that hopefully will help prevent you or your loved ones from ever getting Colorectal Cancer. First to know it is the second leading Cancer in women and men and the numbers are on the rise. 90% curable if caught soon enough, here is what you need to know. If anyone has a history of polyps in your family either cancerous or non-cancerous you need to get checked out now!!!! Everyone else by 50! That or any blood in your stools, do not second guess... get it checked out... Ask your doctor for a colonoscopy and do not take no for answer.
Colorectal cancer is a disease in which cancer cells grow in either the colon or the rectum. The colon and rectum are parts of the body’s digestive system that remove nutrients from food and store waste until it passes out of the body. Additionally, the colon and primarily the rectum absorb water from ingested materials. Normally, the cells in the colon and rectum divide in a regulated manner. If cells keep dividing when new cells are not needed, a mass of tissue called a tumor forms. A tumor can be benign or malignant.
Colon Cancer
A benign tumor is not cancer. It does not spread to other parts of the body. Colon polyps are most often (but not always) benign tumors. By contrast, a malignant tumor is cancer. Cancer cells divide and damage tissue around them. They can enter the bloodstream and spread to other parts of the body. Some colon polyps develop cancer in them, but some colon cancers appear to arise from the lining of the colon without a precursor polyp. Benign colon tumors are usually colon polyps. Colon cancer can originate in colon polyps or can rise without the presence of a polyp in the colon.
Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in men and women and an estimated Colorectal cancer is one of the most treatable forms of cancer if you seek treatment early, and the rate of success is high, especially when the cancer is treated early.
Ask about your family history, if one of your parents or grandparents had a history of polyps at age 40 for example,you should get checked out in your 30's and the next generation or your children need to get checked out in their 20's. If the age is later deduct 10 years per generation.
Enough preaching no if and's or BUTTS get it checked out please!Update on my situation, I am changing oncologist what have I said in the past you have to be YOUR OWN ADVOCATE...the oncologist and team I was dealing with have dropped the ball, three critical times, a fourth situation occured this week....when asked if I had lost confidence in the team I replied, yes and they said they understood if I needed to change oncologists...
The oncologist didnt have the courage to deliver the news of their latest mistake direct to me she did it through her nurse, her nurse indicated that the oncologist is a scientist, so bed side manner is not necessarily her specialty....huh?? I am not a lab rat, nor or all the thousands, millions fighting this very challenging illness, come on health care professionals get it together!
We are better educated through the process back on track with regular chemo as tough as it can be it is what will buy time and help shrink the tumours.... more joy and wonderful memories!
A shout out to a friend my age fighting cancer from Onoway. She requires a bone marrow transplant. A fundraiser is being held for Shelly Veltman on September 16. Shelly needs to spend four months in Calgary, along with her family & support team.The expense is enormous, and any money raised will allow the family some peace as they have had to go through so many changes and challenges in a very short time, so Shelley can fight for her life.
The dinner, band and auction is Saturday September 15 at the Redline Diner in Spruce Grove. For more information contact:
Ken Munro
shellysfightforlife@hotmail.com
phone Ken: 780-962-4646 or Nicole 780-968-3848
Shelly my thoughts, support and prayers are with you....strength, positive thinking, and courage girl, and you have the fight in you, stay strong!! You can do it!
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
-Khalil Gibran
I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life’s endeavors. Your attitude-your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people-determines your priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself.
-Carolyn Warner
Peace Out.... :)
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