SaJune Newsletter

If you're overweight or struggling with obesity, you are not alone. Nearly two thirds of adults in the U.S. are dealing with this epidemic (National Center for Health Statistics (1999), (2000) Prevalence of overweight and obesity among adults). Obesity has been classified as a chronic disease. During the past 20 years, there has been a dramatic increase in obesity with rates rising in 37 states in 2007. Being obese or overweight is not about how you look: it's about your health. Being obese or overweight can affect your basic health and quality of life.

The following information is nothing short of amazing. The oncology industry has spent billions of dollars over the past 40 years “waging war against cancer.” However, even drugs touted as being great breakthroughs have rarely increased survival more than a few months for many late stage cancers. Evidence now clearly points to the fact that cancer surgery, despite offering great hope for many, is far too often itself a major cause of recurrent cancer, metastases, and decreased survival.1,2 The information in the following article, if utilized in a proactive and organized way by cancer patients, could dramatically enhance the published benefits regarding survival touted by pharmaceutical companies for even the most popular of chemotherapy drugs. This is evidence-based medicine at its finest, as it is founded on a growing body of studies published in the peer-reviewed, scientific literature. This approach could literally revolutionize the way cancer surgery is performed in the United States, and dramatically impact the lives thousands of cancer patients for the better.

Mary Anne comes from the “cancer world”, status post opinions and second opinions, surgeons and oncologists, surgery, and treatment with every new chemotherapeutic agent available. She is in remission…..maybe even cured from ovarian cancer (Stage IIa). It had been a long 3 years and finally the Ca-125 has stayed down for 12 months. Mary Anne comes in encouraged but very tired. She can not function for a full day without several naps. She has severe back pain from vertebral degeneration and osteoporosis. She takes several sleep aids and still can not sleep for one full night. She can not think clearly. She has no sex drive and she is losing her marriage. Age 49, she can not work from her fatigue and pain and she is nearly broke. Cancer……Cured???? Or not?