FACR Cancer Foundation Newsletter

April 2009
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Name: Helen Pichardo Diagnosis: Pancreatic Cancer

I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in July of 1996. The whole world came tumbling down on me as I had seen my sister die a horrible death from colon cancer with metastasis to the liver. The terror and fright was immense. However, my brother-in-law gave me Poly-MVA when he heard of my condition. I gradually improved, and my energy increase was dramatic.
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Editor's Note

A Thought-Provoking Message from a Cancer Blog

This month I'd like to share with you an inspiring and thought-provoking post I recently read on one of the online cancer blogs. It is from a woman who shares her personal cancer journey as well as the information on treatment approaches and long-term health choices that she discovered along the way.

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Cancer in the News


	Eat to Beat Disease - 7 Foods That Fight Cancer Unlike drugs, which are designed to treat an illness or disease, these foods can help prevent them in the first place - even something as big as cancer. [+] READ FULL STORY


	How to Avoid the Four Deadliest Cancers About 1.3 million Americans are diagnosed with cancer each year and about 500,000 die from the disease. Some cancers claim more victims than others, and there are things you can do to avoid becoming a victim. Here are the four deadliest cancers and how you can avoid them.
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	Home Interventions Benefit Older Cancer Survivors A home-based diet and exercise program may improve physical functioning in elderly, long-term cancer survivors, results of a controlled study indicate.
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	More Than 1 in 3 Common Cancers Could Be Preventable More than a third of common adult cancers may be preventable in the U.S., and this does not even count cancers that could be prevented by not smoking or factor in the benefit of effective supplementation, including optimizing vitamin D levels.
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Quality of Life Study


	Want to participate in cancer research? The Foundation is currently participating in a Quality of Life Study. This research study aims to gather information on parameters such as energy, mood, efficacy and others, tracked on a monthly basis, in relation to the use of Poly-MVA. [+] READ ALL ABOUT IT

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