Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Uganda: Olympian Rwamuhanda Dies of Cancer - AllAfrica.com

Norman KatendeKampala

UGANDA's last top hurdler, Simon Peter Rwamuhanda is dead.

The 54-year-old former Olympian, who had been bed-ridden with cancer, died at his place in Nansana yesterday.

Rwamuhanda is from the Toilet Akii-Bua coevals that dominated path and field in the 1970s and eighties.

Having trained with Akii-Bua World Health Organization went on to win 1972 gold at the Muenchen Olympics, Rwamuhanda grabbed his first decoration four old age later, a gold at the 1976 East and Central Africa championships.

He later won 400m hurdling Ag decorations at the Commonwealth Games in Commonwealth Of Australia in 1982 and at the Africa titles in El Qahira the same year.

Rwamuhanda was also in the 4x400m squad that finished 7th at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

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The squad also had other greats of the time-John Goville, Moses Kyeswa and Microphone Okot.

Rwamuhanda had won a 400m hurdling bronze decoration at the 1978 All Africa Games in Algiers.

Rwamuhanda go forths behind five children. His married woman had died earlier.

Monday, June 9, 2008

Surgery dilemma of cancer gene sisters - BBC News

Bronagh Conlon cognizes only too well what it's wish life with cancer.

Two old age ago she establish a hunk in her right breast. It was malignant.

"The malignant neoplastic disease was aggressive and spreading - within hebdomads I had the hunk removed and entire node clearance," she says.

"The chemotherapy took its toll. I lost my hair and establish I had very small energy. It was a dark clip in my life."

But that was only the beginning of Bronagh's journey.

She took the determination to experience familial testing for a rare but deathly factor associated with breast and ovarian cancer.

That determination have changed not only Bronagh's life, but the lives of her four sisters.

They are all at assorted phases of familial testing which they believe will give them picks to assist them survive.


Like most siblings, the Conlon ses have got many things in common.

Born in County Armagh, they grew up on a farm and still share a love of the countryside.

At 45, Virgin Mary is the firstborn sister and Bernadette is the youngest at 40.

In between there's Caroline, Bronagh and Teresa.

All married with families, they are attractive women who are successful in their chosen professions. In fact on the outside they look to have got it all.

But ticking away inside their organic structures is the BRCA 1 gene.

So far four of the ses have got tested positive. Their blood brother Bernard, 38, have recently discovered he too is carrying the factor - this leaves of absence the firstborn of the sibs David, 46, and Mother Teresa to be tested.

In order to protect their organic structures from the depredations of malignant neoplastic disease they have got to take whether or not to maintain their breasts, ovaries and fallopian tubes.

Bronagh Conlon (pictured with her family) was the first of the five ses to experience familial testing

Keeping them intends they have got a 75% opportunity of developing breast malignant neoplastic disease at some phase in their lives. They also have got a 50% opportunity of developing ovarian cancer.

Bronagh was the first of the five ses to experience familial testing.

Her determination was precipitated by growing grounds of a mediocre household history.

Ten old age ago, her sister Virgin Mary was diagnosed with breast cancer. The disease have also claimed the lives of their grandma and one aunt.

Having tested positive for the factor within the past few months, Mary, Caroline and Bronagh have got now had their breasts, ovaries and fallopian tubings removed, everything that on the interior do them a woman.

Support for each other is vital, and through textual matters and telephone set phone calls they've shared their information and experiences, along with many tears.

From her place in Cymru and just years before the operation, Virgin Mary said she felt lucky that she knew about the factor she was carrying.

When Iodine got the news at first I was in denial, then there was this explosive meltdown

Bernie Conlon

"The coevals before us didn't, but we can now pre-empt it and seek and maximise our opportunities of surviving," she said.

"We are fortunate to have got got had our households so we are able to have the ovaries removed and take that hazard of malignant neoplastic disease developing. It's a long operation - eight hours under anesthetic panics the life of me. "

For Caroline and Bernie the journeying is slightly different, as neither of them have got had cancer.

Bernie have recently returned place from England to Armagh to be near to her household while undergoing surgery.

"There's no inquiry about it. Having seen what Bronagh went through and the treatment she had to endure, in some ways it just do my determination easier," she said.

"When Iodine got the news at first I was in denial, then there was this explosive meltdown

"It was like walking through golden syrup trying to acquire through mundane life."

None of the ses have taken the determination lightly, but typically they all hold they are doing it for their children.

Mary have two boys, Liam, 13 and 11-year-old Daniel.

She said: "I really desire to see them turn up and abash them at their weddings. If it's a life or decease determination - well I take life."

You can follow the Conlon family's narrative throughout this hebdomad on Good Morning Ulster.

On Tuesday, Marie-Louise Maureen Catherine Connolly will describe on how the ses have got come up through their surgery and their programs for the future.

Monday, June 2, 2008

Certain Form of Tomatoes Could be Key to Prostate Cancer Prevention

Columbia, molybdenum - infoZine- New malignant neoplastic disease research from the University of Show Me State proposes that eating a certain word form of tomato merchandise could be the cardinal to unlocking the prostate gland cancer-fighting potentiality of the tomato. The positive consequence of tomato merchandises have been suggested in many studies, but, until now, research workers did not cognize exactly what caused this effect. "It looks that the top protective consequence from tomatoes come ups from rehydrating tomato pulverization into tomato paste," said Valeri Mossine, research helper professor of biochemistry in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources. "Processing of many comestible works through heating, grinding, mixing or drying dramatically increases their nutritionary value and cancer-fighting potential." Mossine and his co-workers establish that FruHis - an organic saccharide nowadays in dehydrated tomato merchandises - exerts a strong protective consequence against prostate gland cancer. Rats, injected with prostate gland cancer-causing chemicals, were divided into groupings and Federal different diets. The grouping Federal a diet of tomato paste plus further FruHis demonstrated the longer endurance rate. Only 10 percentage in that grouping had developed prostate gland tumors. Sixty percentage in the control grouping had tumors; 30 percentage of the grouping Federal tomato pulverization had tumors; and 25 percentage of the grouping Federal tomato paste alone had prostate gland tumors. "Before this study, research workers attributed the protective consequence of tomatoes to ascorbic acid, carotenoids or phenolic resin compounds. FruHis may stand for a novel type of possible dietary antioxidant," Mossine said. "Our in progress research now focuses on unraveling the chemical mechanisms behind why this have a good effect. This cognition may take to other avenues of research and drug development for prostate gland and other cancers. Results of this survey certainly justify clinical trials." The survey will be published in the June issue of Cancer Research, a diary of the American Association for Cancer Research. The research was funded by The Prostate Gland Cancer Foundation and the mu Agribusiness Experiment Station Chemistry Lab.