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The School of Health A place where you can becoming what I call "Medically Aware" and also learn how to heal your body.

Is Alcohol Healthy for You? How about that single glass of supposedly therapeutic wine or beer a day? Sorry to say, but...you have to see these brain studies...

Why You Should Stop Considering Alcohol as a Health Food Alcohol is not a brain food. Find out what drinking just two normal sized glasses of wine a day does to your brain and how you can get healthier habits.

This article published in October 2016 raises important questions. Detecting low stage breast cancers may not prevent many deaths compared to the damage it causes by way of false positive diagnoses is one conclusion they came to in this study.

Google's answer is this as of today:
"Finding breast cancer early reduces your risk of dying from the disease by 25-30% or more. Women should begin having mammograms yearly at age 40, or earlier if they're at high risk. Don't be afraid. ... The procedure is safe: there's only a very tiny amount of radiation exposure from a mammogram.Jun 14, 2016" Ref. www.breastcancer.org

The Swiss study does not deal with some assertions of the linked diarticle, which includes the notion that a mammogram can spread breast cancer via the pressure it creates on breast tissue. It also does not seem to address (at least in this press review) the issue of genetic and family history associated risk in determining how often or whether a women should be screened.

To be clearer than they were, most invasive breast cancers are "real cancer." That is, many of them progress and have the potential to metastasize if left untreated. What is called "low grade" invasive cancer may not be as aggressive and could potentially be treated more conservatively, at least in some patients. Low grade DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma In Situ - a low grade tumor confined to the breast ducts that has not invaded the underlying tissue) may also be a candidate for less aggressive therapy.

I think it's great there is an attempt to challenge what has become routine medical practice and bring scientific rigor to it as well as testing the limits of what could be done more conservatively and what cannot. This recently occurred in the prostate cancer realm as men were told that PSA screening could lead to many unnecessary procedures, particularly if the results were not interpreted properly.

Remember, it was not long ago (the late 80's) that women were having modified radical mastectomies instead of lumpectomies for very small cancers on the East Coast. California doctors were several years ahead of their East Coast colleagues on doing lumpectomies (less surgery).

If you believe women deserve such answers and improvements in diagnosis and therapy, be sure to voice your opinion to the President and to Congress on continued support for federally funded medical research. They listen to voters who care enough to speak up!

Switzerland Completely Abolished Mammography Screenings: Here’s Why You Should Probably Never Get One In 2013, the Swiss Medical Board, an independent health technology assessment initiative, was requested to prepare a review of mammography screening. The team of medical professionals included a medical ethicist, a clinical epidemiologist, a pharmacologist, an oncologic

From ASCO Cancer Meeting: Patients with Metastatic Prostate Cancer Benefit from Upfront Combined Therapy http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/881078

Abiraterone: Now Upfront for Advanced Prostate Cancer? New data from two large trials show substantial benefit from upfront abiraterone used in combination with androgen deprivation therapy.

Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Prostate Cancer is associated with cognitive deficits in many men. Many clinicians have ignored the signs and symptoms for years, but they are now being informed: http://www.cancernetwork.com/asco-prostate-cancer/addressing-physical-cognitive-effects-adt-prostate-cancer-patients?GUID=C739F84B-642B-463C-AA42-09AD843682C4&XGUID=&rememberme=1&ts=02062017

Addressing Physical, Cognitive Effects of ADT in Prostate Cancer Patients | Cancer Network In this interview ahead of ASCO 2017 we discuss the physical and cognitive effects of androgen deprivation therapy in older men treated for prostate cancer.

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Announcements | Trader Joe's Trader Joe's is a neighborhood grocery store with amazing food and drink from around the globe and around the corner. Great quality at great prices. That's what we call value.

"Your Relationships with Cancer and People" and "Is Low Grade Prostate Cancer Bogus?"

I'll be giving a talk at the "US Too" prostate cancer support meeting at Doctors Hospital in Sarasota, FL in the 1st floor conference room this Thursday evening at 6 pm.

I'll take questions from those attending and then briefly discuss the concept of "Low Grade Prostate Cancer" and whether it is a "bogus" diagnosis and how to approach it medically as well as discussing with the prostate cancer patients ,the subject of:

"Your Relationships with Cancer and People."

We will span the range of medical science to the heart!

Feel free to pass this on to anyone you feel may be interested. Thanks!

If you know a man or have a family member with metastatic prostate cancer, they should read about this interesting development that could help men with advanced prostate cancer: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/11/30/man-cured-prostate-cancer-doctors-shock-tumour-death-testosterone/?

Do You Believe Your Doctor Is Selling You Something?

Read this article to be your own advocate =>

https://www.facebook.com/medicalleaders/posts/1800531830229692

Not too hot!

Very hot drinks are 'probably carcinogenic'
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/15/health/coffee-tea-hot-drinks-cancer-risk/index.html

Very hot drinks are 'probably carcinogenic' An international agency classified drinking very hot beverages as "probably carcinogenic" to humans. Coffee itself probably isn't linked to cancer, it said.

From the State of Florida: Zika Virus Public Health Emergency Statement:

REASONS FOR CONCLUDING THAT THE PROCEDURE USED IS FAIR UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES: The Zika virus presents a public health threat to the state of Florida. The Surgeon General has declared a Public Health Emergency in five (5) counties due to the spread of the Zika virus. There is an immediate need to set forth procedures for the control of this communicable disease in the State of Florida.

Practitioners, hospitals, and laboratories shall report any suspected or confirmed cases of the Zika virus immediately, as required in Rule 64DER16-1. Hospitals with suspected or confirmed cases of the Zika virus shall provide case status reports every twenty-four (24) hours to the Department’s State Epidemiologist. Physicians with suspected or confirmed cases of the Zika virus shall provide case status reports every seventy-two (72) hours to the Department’s State Epidemiologist.

For Information About ZIka Virus:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-zika-idUSKCN0VA3O1

http://www.cdc.gov/zika/disease-qa.html

New York to offer free Zika tests New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Monday that the state's health department would offer free advanced tests for individuals with symptoms of Zika, a mosquito-borne virus that is spreading rapidly.