Social media.  Can’t live with it–can’t live without it!

I’m having a bit of fun with this…

Happy Saturday!  I thought this might be a good day to group together and share several different multiple myeloma-related odds and ends…

Our new and improved Help with Cancer.org site is up and running!

I wanted to briefly discuss a few technically related issues.

A few days ago I posted news from my new hometown cancer clinic, Moffitt Cancer Center in Florida, on a site Pattie and I run, Help With Cancer.org.

As promised, I found some more info about the advantages and disadvantages of using antioxidants while undergoing chemotherapy.

Tuesday my wife, Pattie and I, celebrated our 1000th post since we first launched our HelpWithCancer.org site back on October 6th, 2008:

AWESOME! 1000 Posts and Counting…

Here’s something you can’t miss!  Day Two and Day Three report on my colonoscopy experience–including pictures!

How long has it been since you visited our other daily site, HelpWithCancer.org?  Lots of tips about nutrition, supplements, alternative medicine and exercise.

My friend, Thomas from Germany, e-mailed me this a few minutes ago:

Yesterday I shared an important article about how patients often don’t hear what their oncologist is saying: Big Mistake: Most Patients Don’t Listen Carefully To Their Oncologists.

I wrote more about the new, secondary cancer risk revelations connected with Revlimid in an article on our other daily, cancer related site, http://www.helpwithcancer.org/. yesterday: 

I just wrote a follow-up article about Geron’s experimental telomerase inhibitor, imetelstat, on my other daily Website, HelpWithCancer.org:  More Positive Research News About Crossover Cancer Drug Imetelstat – Geron Announces Two Publications Demonstrating That Its Telomerase Inhibitor Drug Targets Cancer Stem Cells.

I can’t resist passing along this article from Canada’s National Post, Vitamin C good for patients’ moods by Tom Blackwell.  I usually save these for our http://www.helpwithcancer.com/ site, but I have already run a nutritionally based story there today.  See what you think:
 
Vitamin C has a storied past, the anti-oxidant’s benefits touted as a potential treatment or preventive for colds, cancer and a host of other conditions. Though a necessary part of our diet, supplements of the vitamin have been thoroughly proven useful only for preventing scurvy – a big issue with 19th Century British seamen, not exactly a common medical complaint these days. But a study just published by researchers at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital suggests a surprising new application for the nutrient: as a mood booster for long-term hospital patients.

I just posted an article on our www.HelpWithCancer.com site I thought my readers here might be interested in:
Controversial Article About The High Cost Of Chemotherapy Drugs

You may want to check-out an article I wrote this morning about POlycythemia vera, New Drug Study OK’d By FDA For POlycythemia Vera on our other site, www.HelpWithCancer.org. Polycythemia vera is an abnormal increase in the number of blood cells (primarily red blood cells) produced by the bone marrow.

Someone asked me today–a bit disappointed–why my posts were so late in the day this weekend.

This is the one of the first articles about nutrition and multiple myeloma I have ever found!  I usually post nutritional related topics on our other site, http://www.helpwithcancer.org/.  But since this article was myeloma specific, I decided to run it here:

Tuesday I wrote a short article on our other daily site, http://www.helpwithcancer.org/, about how researchers discovered fructose speeds the growth of pancreatic cancer: New Study Supports Premise:  Sugar Feeds Cancer.