Your Health First Article RSS http://www.yourhealthfirst.com Your Health First Article RSS feed. . Your Health First http://www.yourhealthfirst.com/images/RadioMedicalMinute_chptr.jpg http://www.yourhealthfirst.com no Copyright 2005, Your Health First Tendenci Membership Management Software by Schipul - The Web Marketing Company en-us noemail@yourhealthfirst.com Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:09:43 GMT Articles http://www.yourhealthfirst.com/en/art/562/ <div><img alt="" src="/attachments/wysiwyg/1/Caruso-Rocco.jpg" align="left" border="0" width="75" height="100" />This week Dr. Rocco caruso, a hematologist and oncologist, will be joining Dr. Galati to discuss Chronic myelogenous leukemia, a&nbsp;<a href="https://health.google.com/health/ref/Cancer"><font color="#0000ff">cancer</font></a> that starts inside bone marrow, the soft tissue inside bones that helps form blood cells. The cancer grows from cells that produce white blood cells. Dr. Caroso practices in New York, and is an expert in the diagnosis and management of leukemia. </div> <div><br>Basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said today he had been living with leukemia for nearly a year but no longer considered the disease a death sentence.&nbsp; Abdul-Jabbar, 62, told "Good Morning America" that he'd been diagnosed in December with <a href="http://www.cmlalliance.com/cml-chronic-myeloid-leukemia.jsp" target="external"><font color="#336699">Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia</font></a>, or PH+CML, a rare <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/CancerPreventionAndTreatment/story?id=7718919&amp;page=1" target="external"><font color="#336699">cancer</font></a> of the blood and <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/CancerPreventionAndTreatment/story?id=7183236&amp;page=1" target="external"><font color="#336699">bone marrow</font></a>.&nbsp; "I heard the world 'leukemia,' and I thought this was definitely a death sentence," Abdul-Jabbar said. </div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div></div> <div></div><param value="1" name="autoStart" /><param value="1" name="showControls" /><param value="0" name="showstatusbar" /><param value="false" name="windowlessvideo" /><param value="http://www.youtube.com/v/R2v_J4GISug&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" name="movie" /><param value="true" name="allowFullScreen" /><param value="always" name="allowscriptaccess" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/R2v_J4GISug&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" width="560" height="340" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"></embed>"&nbsp;&nbsp; <div>Links of interest on chronic leukemia are listed below.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/leukemiaadultchronic.html" target="_blank">Chronic Leukemia</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000570.htm" target="_blank">Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia </a>(CML)</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><a href="http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/CRI_2x.asp?sitearea=&amp;dt=24" target="_blank">Leukemia in Children</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><a href="http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_6X_Leukemia_Classifications_24.asp" target="_blank">Leukemia Classifications</a>&nbsp;(American Cancer Society)</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <br><br>15-Nov-09 1:00 PM Rocco Caruso, M.D. : Medical Hematologist/Oncologist <div><img alt="" src="/attachments/wysiwyg/1/Caruso-Rocco.jpg" align="left" border="0" width="75" height="100" />This week Dr. Rocco caruso, a hematologist and oncologist, will be joining Dr. Galati to discuss Chronic myelogenous leukemia, a&nbsp;<a href="https://health.google.com/health/ref/Cancer"><font color="#0000ff">cancer</font></a> that starts inside bone marrow, the soft tissue inside bones that helps form blood cells. The cancer grows from cells that produce white blood cells. Dr. Caroso practices in New York, and is an expert in the diagnosis and management of leukemia. </div> <div><br>Basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said today he had been living with leukemia for nearly a year but no longer considered the disease a death sentence.&nbsp; Abdul-Jabbar, 62, told "Good Morning America" that he'd been diagnosed in December with <a href="http://www.cmlalliance.com/cml-chronic-myeloid-leukemia.jsp" target="external"><font color="#336699">Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia</font></a>, or PH+CML, a rare <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/CancerPreventionAndTreatment/story?id=7718919&amp;page=1" target="external"><font color="#336699">cancer</font></a> of the blood and <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/CancerPreventionAndTreatment/story?id=7183236&amp;page=1" target="external"><font color="#336699">bone marrow</font></a>.&nbsp; "I heard the world 'leukemia,' and I thought this was definitely a death sentence," Abdul-Jabbar said. </div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div></div> <div></div><param value="1" name="autoStart" /><param value="1" name="showControls" /><param value="0" name="showstatusbar" /><param value="false" name="windowlessvideo" /><param value="http://www.youtube.com/v/R2v_J4GISug&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" name="movie" /><param value="true" name="allowFullScreen" /><param value="always" name="allowscriptaccess" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/R2v_J4GISug&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" width="560" height="340" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"></embed>"&nbsp;&nbsp; <div>Links of interest on chronic leukemia are listed below.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/leukemiaadultchronic.html" target="_blank">Chronic Leukemia</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000570.htm" target="_blank">Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia </a>(CML)</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><a href="http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/CRI_2x.asp?sitearea=&amp;dt=24" target="_blank">Leukemia in Children</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><a href="http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_6X_Leukemia_Classifications_24.asp" target="_blank">Leukemia Classifications</a>&nbsp;(American Cancer Society)</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> no http://www.yourhealthfirst.com/en/art/562/ Joseph Galati Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:00:00 GMT