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3 years ago on April 30 I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Im different now, in good and not so good ways, but I'm happy and I'm thankful and sometimes that's enough.
From the Mainichi Newspaper. Mar.13, Kooriyama-shi, Fukushima pref. REUTERS
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pro tip for people with 'difficult' health : seriously never get medical tests done on a friday. You will cannibalize yourself with worry over the weekend and then spend all of monday shitting emotional water while your docs catch up on all the other cases.
Also : probably go directly home and don't stop and buy and iPod touch.
Got the bill for my first surgery...so I definitely will be fundraising. I'm supposed to be getting financial aid through the hospital so hopefully the final total won't make my heart stop and my brain pee its pants.
You think this looks bad? You should have seen the other guy.........calls himself Doctor something or other
Hello FlickrWorld! Hello FlickrWorld! I glanced at this image and thought it was a peacock feather, but it's another great story about space-related cancer research has appeared on the International Space Station Research site: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/tackling... Happy and hopeful Friday to all!
Caption:Thyroid cancer cell line FTC-133 after four hours of exposure to simulated microgravity. Nuclei are stained blue, components of the cytoskeleton stained green and red. (Image credit: Team Daniela Grimm)
In space, things don’t always behave the way we expect them to. In the case of cancer, researchers have found that this is a good thing: some tumors seem to be much less aggressive in the microgravity environment of space compared to their behavior on Earth. This observation, reported in research published in February by the Federation of the American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) Journal, could help scientists understand the mechanism involved and develop drugs targeting tumors that don’t respond to current treatments. This work is the latest in a large body of evidence on how space exploration benefits those of us on Earth.
Research in the weightlessness of space offers unique insight into genetic and cellular processes that simply can’t be duplicated on Earth, even in simulated microgravity. “Microgravity can be approximated on Earth, but we know from the literature that simulated microgravity isn’t the same as the real thing,” says Daniela Gabriele Grimm, M.D., a researcher with the Department of Biomedicine, Pharmacology at Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark, and an author of the FASEB paper.
True weightlessness affects human cells in a number of ways. For one thing, cells grown in space arrange themselves into three-dimensional groupings, or aggregates, that more closely resemble what happens in the body. “Without gravitational pull, cells form three-dimensional aggregates, or spheroids,” Grimm explains. “Spheroids from cancer cells share many similarities with metastases, the cancer cells which spread throughout the body.” Determining the molecular mechanisms behind spheroid formation might therefore improve our understanding of how cancer spreads.
The FASEB paper resulted from an investigation in the Science in Microgravity Box (SIMBOX) facility aboard Shenzhou-8, launched in 2011. Cells grown in space and in simulated microgravity on the ground were analyzed for changes in gene expression and secretion profiles, with the results suggesting decreased expression of genes that indicate high malignancy in cancer cells.
The work was funded by a grant from the German Space Life Sciences program, managed by the German space agency, DLR, in collaboration with Chinese partners.
Grimm and her colleagues are following up with additional research, a Nanoracks Cellbox investigation called “Effect of microgravity on human thyroid carcinoma cells,” scheduled to launch in March on SpaceX's third commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station. Another follow-up investigation, “Spheroids,” is planned in 2015. The overall goal is to find as many genes and proteins as possible that are affected by microgravity and to identify the cellular activities they influence. Researchers can then use this information to develop new strategies for cancer research.
In a recent paper published in Nature Reviews Cancer, Jeanne Becker, Ph.D., a cell biologist at Nano3D Biosciences in Houston and principal investigator for the Cellular Biotechnology Operations Support System (CBOSS) 1-Ovarian study, examined nearly 200 papers on cell biology research in microgravity during four decades. This body of work shows that not only does the architecture of cells change in microgravity, but the immune system also is suppressed. Other studies in addition to Grimm’s have shown microgravity-induced changes in gene expression. The key variable, Becker concluded, is gravity. And the only way to really mitigate gravity is to go into space.
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quickie portrait walking the halls at the hospital in a daze and not at all okay about walking busy halls without underpants on.
surgeon re-ultrasounded my neck and it looks like my thyroid cancer has recurred. I would like to read or make a mini comic on what you should physically do after getting bad news. I don't think you're supposed to run around buying things but it's what I've done every time.
In this image: Poorly differentiated follicular thyroid cells shortly before launch. The cells were then exposed to microgravity aboard the International Space Station for the Cellbox-Thyroid investigation.
From the article: The multi-national efforts that go into research aboard the International Space Station show that working together can yield results with universal benefits. This is especially the case when talking about human health concerns such as cancer. Researchers make use of the microgravity environment aboard the space station to seek answers to questions about the nature of cancer cells. With the Microgravity on Human Thyroid Carcinoma Cells (Cellbox-Thyroid) study, recently conducted in orbit, the hope is to reveal answers that will help in the fight against thyroid cancer.
The American Cancer Society estimates about 62,980 cases of thyroid cancer in the U.S. for 2014. The thyroid is a gland in the neck that secretes hormones that help the body to regulate growth and development, metabolism, and body temperature. The Cellbox-Thyroid study is enabled through a collaborative effort between NanoRacks, Airbus Defense and Space, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) to facilitate the microgravity investigation aboard the space station.
“NanoRacks is hosting this German research study aboard the U.S. National Laboratory,” said Jeff Manber, CEO of NanoRacks. “It may well make critical advances in understanding and even delaying the onset of cancer in the thyroid.”
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february was rough. I had quit smoking since diagnosis and all through treatment but started smoking heavily during the post-treatment-fuckit-phase. Off regular tobacco and on electronic cigarettes and not wallowing in this particular mental ditch(as much).
While thyroid cancer is very treatable with surgery and other therapies, it remains the fastest growing cancer in the United States.
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...taking Iodine-131.
Self portrait taken with Holga-120WPC using Rollei Infrared 400 film but without filters. A plastic pinhole camera meant there would be no lens glass between me and the film. If there was an effect from being radioactive I wanted to see it. The film was developed in Adonal (1:25) for 7:30 minutes.
This photo was shot around an hour after taking the I-131 capsule, when the radioactive salt would have been ingested and entered my blood stream.
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The global concern about victims of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant implosion leaves a big question unanswered: Do Americans have to worry about radioactive fallout from Japan?
strobist- alien bees ring flash, bare
My friend is a Cancer survivor. Before the shoot she said that she had this hat and wanted to take some pictures in it. We waited until the end of the shoot to try it out (didn't want to mess up her hair too much :) ). The rest of the shoot was very light and goofy. Lots of funny faces and big smiles.
That changed when she put the hat on. It very quickly got very serious and very emotional. It was very powerful for me as the photographer when I was taking the pictures, and I hope that translates well in the photo.
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Chris Holsinger, M.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery, is applying technology to the neck and thyroid gland. He was the first ENT surgeon in the United States to perform a robotic thyroidectomy, using Dr. Woong Youn Chung's technique, which allows the removal of tumors from these sites through an incision in the upper arm without carbon dioxide insufflation.
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Using robotic surgery, one of the minimally invasive approaches used at MD Anderson, surgeons are able to minimize trauma, to maximize outcomes and enable patients to return to their normal lives more quickly.
Chris Holsinger, M.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery, is applying technology to the neck and thyroid gland. He was the first ENT surgeon in the United States to perform a robotic thyroidectomy, using Dr. Woong Youn Chung's technique, which allows the removal of tumors from these sites through an incision in the upper arm without carbon dioxide insufflation.
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RAISING AWARENESS FOR CANCERS
I'm trying to make the world a better place. I'm raising awareness for all cancers. teespring.com/Cancers
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U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Alisha Martell, Air Forces Central intelligence analyst, (right) receives a folded American flag from a 20th Fighter Wing honor guard member during her retirement ceremony, March 29, 2013, Shaw Air Force Base, S.C. Martell retired from active duty due to Thyroid Cancer which she battled throughout her Air Force career. (U.S. Air Force photo by SSgt. Kenny Holston/Released)
Cancer survivor Rachel Peck stands at the podium telling her personal story of being sick in America.
When my daughter totaled her car in March 2011, she had no idea that a miracle could come of it. Because of a CT scan of her neck right after the accident, she found out she had nodules on her thyroid, and a biopsy later revealed thyroid cancer. She had her thyroid removed in June 2011 and it saved her life.
Sometimes, accidents can be a blessing.
Rachel Peck, cancer survivor, stands at the presidential podium and addresses the students at the Comcast Center about her personal story of being sick in America. The rally was in support of health insurance reform. Ms. Peck spoke and then introduced President Obama.
Cancer is a leading cause of deaths among men and women in the world, hence regular screening proves to be beneficial in diagnosing cancer at an early stage. . Because of the early detection of cancer, patients can be treated and the chances of survival increases. Below discussed are some of the common forms of cancer.
I'm Leanna Richmond. I am the Designer and Owner of The Passionate Plum shop. I am passionate about support all the causes of awareness. I have designed quilt squares that display all the different color ribbons to raise awareness. The piece is then all HAND Embroidered which takes about five hours to complete each one. I do custom orders and am a sponsor for a couple of different fundraiser events. Please come see my art and all the ribbons at: