CANCER ARTICLES FOR IMNY

By: Kristie Moore- Executive Dir. of Marketing/Public Relations-  LI2DAY Walk Kristie Moore (2nd from Left) at the October LI2DAY 5k Race- Organizer of major charity cancer events on Long Island. Everything I’ve learned over the last decade working with a local grassroots cancer organization is that EARLY DETECTION is key.  Scheduling routine appointments and screening is imperative to your health.  Sounds good right?  I am a busy mom of two very active boys who play multiple travel sports year-round.  Like many, I juggle, work, the kids’ demanding schedules and make sure they have annual physicals, eye exams, teeth cleaning and routine bloodwork.  I was trying to make a conscious effort to do the same for myself.   But somehow, I managed to forget my 2016 mammogram!  I scheduled my 2017 mammogram and sonogram in October because it was Breast Cancer Awareness month after all! After my mammography was finished I had to wait for my sonogram to...

John Graziano is recognized in the Long Island athletic circles as a champion triathlete, a health coach and a published fitness lifestyle writer/columnist. In this feature article, he associates the mind set of PREVENTION and EARLY DETECTION with his philosophies of awareness and foresight prevalent in fitness training which he constantly imparts onto his students... "where the race against TIME is a focal point of both disease prevention and the personal conditioning in sports training."  Today, John Graziano explores the Cancer Prevention lifestyle with the many parallels between his training regimen, the right attitude toward a healthy disciplines and the proactive pursuits to a healthier future. PROLOGUE I've seen healthy people lose their battle to cancer because they were blindsided by its surprise appearance. They thought, "It couldn't happen to me... I'm healthy... I eat well, I train well, I do this." The next thing you know, it's too late....

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 18, 2018- this year marks the 20 th anniversary of Stoff Institute for Medical Research (SIMR) - a non-profit organization founded by Dr. Jesse Stoff dedicated to cancer research and the advancement of integrative medicine.   As of early 2016, SIMR kick-started AWARENESS FOR A CURE, a local media-based resource program supporting all Island-based cancer charities.  “With the help of my colleagues in the healthcare and care-giving communities, we produced AFAC to facilitate grant-searches for patients and survivors- and also to assist in the promotion of cancer charities, fundraising events and educational efforts,” states Dr. Stoff. One of AFAC's partners is BEST ANSWER FOR CANCER (bestanswerforcancer.org)- an international organization of doctors working to shift the cancer paradigm to a more patient-centered treatment approach.  Dr. Stoff carried the same free-resource access and education-based principles into the AFAC blueprint to h...

One of the main reasons for public awareness includes the empowering inspiration of 'good news'. Especially in the fight against chronic diseases like cancer, success stories from innovations, medical breakthroughs and personal achievements, "positivity" in the form of a testimonial can be quite impactful to us all. Hearing about a survivor's journey can reinforce our inner strength throughout our own personal challenges. They can easily help us through the dark loneliness of illness and help elevate us through the emotional hurdles of the treatment and (even) post-treatment phases. Here is just one of a growing number of stories direct from a cancer survivor working her way into remission. Rachel Klein has completed her treatments battling Leukemia and reflects on how it all happened. Ms. Rachel Klein - a Long Island mom who shares a then-to-now perspective of what it was like to first get the diagnosis and with the help of cancer foundations like the Leukemia ...

Story by: Jennifer Hunt (co-founder of " FIGHT LIKE A GIRL " team) Edited by: Lennard M. Gettz ( imworx.com ) On December of 2010, (I was 38 years old at the time) I went for a routine yet early sonogram and then mammogram due to some curious lumps found from an earlier exam.  Though my doctor didn't express heavy concern, he sent me for testing and it was there that they saw something suspicious.  Within two days, they proceeded with a biopsy and the results showed that I had DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma in Situ), which is an early stage cancer that's contained in the milk ducts of the breasts.    At this point, I was confused and didn't know what to do; I didn't know anybody else who had gone through something like that so it was just a bit shocking for a few weeks to get used to the idea. I knew it was in an early stage so I wasn't panicking with 'end of the world'  thoughts .   I just had to figure out what to do to take care of the situation and to ...