As summer is approaching, it is important to keep your skin healthy and moisturized. On those sunny summer days, it is important to wear sunscreen and to put it in your children before going outdoors. Sunscreen protects the skin from the harmful rays of the sun that can cause an array of problems with the […]
Tag Archives: Kidney Cancer
Also known as “omentum,” belly fat is more threatening to your health than other types of fat because of where it’s located. By hanging off the center of the colon and covering the intestines inside the abdomen, omentum makes hormones that interrupt your body’s normal chemical functions. As these chemicals are able to feed on […]
Bio-Perl users can now use Perl 5.0. Perl 5.0 now comes with the added benefit of being able to handle multi-dimensional arrays. Biologists and genomics systems have to handle huge files of data. Now they can easily record, research, change and update this information. Perl already comes with the utility of processing data “on-the-fly.” Add […]
Like a childhood disorder around the kidneys, Wilms tumor, also known as nephroblastoma, is a cancerous tumor that usually arises in children, around the age of three. Although rare in both kidneys, the diagnosis of Wilms ‘tumor’ creates alarming medical concern for parents, health professionals and the child. Understanding the origin of Wilms tumor, symptoms, […]
Four years ago in June, a partial nephrectomy was performed on my right kidney, lower pole, at Aurora Medical Center, Lombardi Cancer Treatment Center, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Three months prior to this I had been followed up by my Rheumatologist with lab routines, then to my Internal Medicine Doctor for more lab routines because my […]
Stage IV Kidney Cancer, Undetectable, Kidney Cancer. Stage IV Papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma, as required. Those were the words that came from the Oncologist who sent my husband and I to find a swollen lymph node a> Above my left throat . “I’m sorry. This is not good. The worst possible scenario is that you […]