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When someone is first diagnosed with breast cancer they are in a state of shock and denial and will automatically turn to the health provider they trust the most to help them overcome their problem. We have been programmed to think that when we get cancer we should go straight to our doctor as he has the best treatments for us, but what one needs mainly are facts on the… Continue reading

Unless you are a medical professional trained in the methods for proper catheter placement and catheter maintenance to reduce the risk of infections in patients receiving total parenteral nutrition, you may not know that, as of 1996, there was no standard protocol to ensure that a patient would not get an infection at the tpn site. A good resource to use in assisting the healthcare professional or the nurse… Continue reading

There are two new reports by cancer prevention specialists at Moores Cancer Center, Univsrsity of California, suggest that vitamin D in new prescriptions may prevent up to one half of all cases of breast cancer. The study is published online in the current issue of The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. It pooled data from two earlier studies by the Harvard Nurses Health Study and the St. George’s Hospital… Continue reading