20
Oct
Posted on 2010 under Coach Quit Blogs |
New Pencil Like Proton Beam Radiation Therapy available at MD Anderson, Houston
Science is turning the corning with new advanced therapies for lung cancer at Houston’s, MD Anderson hospital. Up until now there were limited therapies available for lung cancer patients. One is chemo therapy, whose chemical coctails are sometimes made to order depending on the type of lung cancer small cell or large cell. In some cases radiation therapy is recommended. But with now “old school” radiation methods, the radiation beams are large, and will affect not only the tumor in question, but also nearby tissue that is healthy.
MD Anderson’s new proton therapy derives its advantage over the more conventional forms of radiation because of its ability to deliver radiation dosage to a targeted tumor. This new technology works with incredible precision and accuracy that avoids surrounding tissue.
Dr. James D. Cox said “The advantage lies in the beam’s capacity to approach the tumor from multiple directions, creating a “U” shape around these structures and avoiding them entirely during treatment.” Dr. Cox who is the head of the Division of Radiation Oncology at MD Anderson also said, “Pencil beam is more like a very fine airbrush. Instead of needing a brass template to define the shape, the proton beam is made ultra fine to conform to the contours and landscapes of the tumor.”
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To us at Coach Quit this looks like a marvelous new technique that has a bright future. It should allow much more pinpoint accuracy and therefore higher efficiency for killing cancer tumors while saving large sections of healthy tissue. The unique problem with lung cancer is that the lungs are so close to other vital areas, such as heart, spine and aorta.
MD Anderson’s Proton Therapy Center, which began treating patients in May of 2006, is the first in North America and only one of three clinical centers in the world to treat patients with pencil beam scanning technology. Additionally, MD Anderson is the first center in the world to treat lung cancer patients using pencil beam scanning proton therapy.
According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 222,520 new cases of lung cancer will be diagnosed in 2010. Despite advances, the long-term survival rates of lung cancer remain low, reinforcing the need to expand therapies that offer a greater combination of potency and accuracy. Quoted from the PR Newswire article.
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14
Oct
Posted on 2010 under Coach Quit Blogs |
How many exposures Lead directly to Cancer?
I was sitting around the other day, thinking about how smokers are pretty oblivious to how many contacts with serious cancer causing chemicals they really come into contact with. Now, my brother was a carpenter, and a job like that can really put you in touch with some pretty nasty chemicals. It is true also that much of the time, carpenter types come into contact with much that to me is quite nasty. Like flooring varnishes, glues, paints, caulks and just a whole slew of vaporized badness.
There are many many fields of work that put the workers in harms way constantly. If this is you, maybe you should rethink your job. Maybe you can use a mask, or a ventilation system. Trust me, I have seen many times that people in this line of work will over look even the most basic of safety rules, just to try to hurry the job along. Ray, my step dad from years ago, said that back in the day, you could buy cans of BENZENE, and use it like a solvent. If you missed the blog about him, he has leukemia right now. He wonders if on the job exposures were partly to blame? He also smoked like a chimney for years, so I am sure that didn’t help.
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How many exposure do SMOKERS have due to cigarettes?
Ok, I want all smokers to think about this. It is reported everywhere that there are about 4,000 nasty chemicals in cigarettes. Of which about 250 are known to cause cancer. 50 chemicals in tobacco smoke are extremely dangerous!
Smokers, let’s do the Math
Ok, the average puff of cigarette smoke has about 250 chemicals that are strongly related to cancer. What that means smokers, is that every puff you come into contact with 250 killers. Think about that for a minute. Every puff, you come into direct contact with 250 chemicals that can cause, or lead to your death. The chemicals can damage your DNA, and when the DNA gets messed up, cancer can be a result. The damage could occur in cells in your lips, tongue, mouth, throat, lungs all from direct exposure. Indirectly, virtually any cell in your body can be weakened, or attacked by these chemicals.
But, it’s NOT Just One Puff!
Unfortunately it’s not just one puff. So, lets see, in one puff you get 250 nasty contacts. But a cigarette usually has at least 10 puffs. So, that means you get on average 2,500 exposures to cancer causers, in about a ten minute time frame. But, it doesn’t end there does it? Oh no! You still have 19 more cigarettes to go, and why let them go to “waste”? So, 2,500 cancer contacts per cigarette, and 20 cigarettes on average a day is 50,000 cancer causing contacts A DAY!
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But, Smokers Smoke More than One Day
If you multiply 50,000 times 30 days, you get 1.5 million cancer causing exposures a month. Well, they are “potentially” cancer causing. However, there are 12 months in a year right? In a year, a smoker will get 18 million potentially cancer causing chemical exposures. But what about in 10 years? Most smokers smoke at least 10 years at least. Well, in 10 years it would be 180 million exposures to cancer causing chemicals. You have to realize that these smokers are not thinking. They are completely unaware that they have this many exposures. 180 million cancer causing chemical exposures? That is an immense amount of cancer causing contact. And yet there is more. What if a smoker smokes for 30 years? well that’s an easy answer. 540 million! Can you imagine being in contact, not just slightly, but ingesting, inhaling into the innermost part of your body, your lungs over half a Billion cancer causing chemicals?
The Cancer Causing Chemicals go Straight to Every Part of Your Body
It is true that when you inhale smoke and all the cancer causing chemicals that go with it, you are sending them all over your body! Smoking sends these chemicals to the strong parts, to the weak parts, and to any random parts. There is No Control over what parts of a smokers body will come into contact with cancer causing chemicals once they are inhaled. But it should be obvious that many parts come into direct contact. All the way from a smokers lips, to the deepest recesses of his lungs will be irritated and accosted by the cancerous chemicals. But many will find their way into the blood stream, where they can and will reach everywhere.
If you have smoked for 30 years, at the rate of 20 a day, you have seen half a billion cancer causing chemicals enter your body with a free pass to go anywhere and do anything. When I started thinking about this, it really made me think. It also made me very glad once again that I was finally able to quit smoking. If you are a smoker, or know anyone who is, use the highlighter at the top of this page and tweet it to your friends. this is serious business. If a person gets cancer, it will become the biggest pain in the butt that person has to date ever known.
