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New Ways to Fight Cancer in Your Genes

Our live webcast last night with two cancer experts from Vanderbilt Medical Center, and a patient who owes his life to them, provides a clear picture, in my opinion, of the future for beating cancer.

The headline is: It’s in your genes.

What we learned is that there are 30 to 40 genes that play [...]

Discovering How Some Foods Can Hurt us

Discovering How Some Foods Can Hurt us from Patient Power® on Vimeo.

Sounding off About the Healthcare Reform Debate

Sounding off About the Healthcare Reform Debate from Patient Power® on Vimeo.

Worries about “Pulling the Plug on Grandma

President Obama has been trying to calm fears among senior citizens that healthcare reform will significantly curtail their Medicare benefits, put their health at risk, and deny them essential care at a critical time.

The President was quoted as saying “We are not going to pull the plug on grandma,” with a nod to fears [...]

Are Cancer Stem Cells the “Bad Guys”?

A new discovery from a joint venture of M.I.T. and Harvard has devised a test to see if experimental chemicals can kill cancer stem cells – the “mother,” if you will of millions of other cancer cells that mature and spread. Their theory is that, in many solid tumor types, unless you kill the cancer [...]

Hooray for Hollywood! Life After Cancer

Hooray for Hollywood! Life After Cancer from Patient Power® on Vimeo.

CLL Patients: Doing Our Part

CLL Patients: Doing Our Part from Patient Power® on Vimeo.