Heeding Deadly Whispers (Ovarian Cancer)

For three years, Carol Sprott's cancer hid itself behind the kinds of symptoms ladies don't mention in polite company. Plagued since 2001 by a virtual Pepto-Bismol commercial of problems such as gas, indigestion, constipation and bloating, the Ottawa woman did what thousands of Canadian women do every day: she ignored them. It was a decision that has nearly proven fatal.

Posted in Cancer on 02/06/2009 - 0 Comments

Anti cancer

When it comes to breast cancer, the numbers speak for themselves: 22,400 Canadian women will be diagnosed this year, and 5,000 will die. Scary stuff to be sure, but that's not what keeps Dr. David Servan-Schreiber up at night. For Servan-Schreiber, the French-born author of the international bestseller, Anticancer (HarperCollins) and a clinical professor of neuropsychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, there's another number that worries him more.

Posted in Cancer on 11/22/2008 - 0 Comments