Colorectal Cancer Types

Question: What's the News in the Front Line About Cancer? There is a quiet revolution going on that early detection is the best treatment. What I still have to dream with is that a few words are more frightening to hear than "You have cancer." Can you share with me a few words about the following types of cancer: Breast, Lung, Colorectal and Skin? I'll appreciate. It's for a project.

Answer: Regarding Breast Cancer, the incidence has fallen by 3.5 percent a year between 2001 and 2004. In addition, more women are surviving the disease. Since 1990, death rates have fallen by 2.2 percent a year. New predictive and prognostic tools have been developed, including gene expression technology, which helps doctors know whether a patient will respond to certain therepies. These have allowed for more tailored, and thus more successful, treatment. Many procedures are helping to improve a patient's quality of life. Sentinel lymph node biopsies, for example, spare women the postsurgical side effects caused by the automatic removal of the axillary lymph nodes near the breast. Now, for Lung Cancer, the incidence in men has declined by 1.8 percent each year since 1991. But the incidence in women has remained unchanged from the peak it reached in 1998, while lung-cancer death rates for women have gone up by 0.2 percent per year since 1995. Why? Men started to quit smoking beofre women did, and women took up smoking later than men did. Still, about 15 percent of all cases occur in people who have never smoked. Fortunately, there are now drugs that choke off the blood supply in the tumors. Still early detection is the best choice, as it increases cure up to 92 percent. This can be done with CT scans that detect nodules, tiny spots on the lungs, years before they might be seen on regular X-rays. And for colorectal Cancer, although it is the second-most-deadly cancer in America, its incidence has been dropping steadily for both men and women since the late 1990s. More people are surviving too. Advances are linked directly to the increased use of screening tests, which in healthy adults should begin at age 50. Some tests done to detect colorectal cancer are able to prevent it by removing polyps before they actually develop into cancer. Then, we have already drugs that work by direcly targeting cancer cells without damaging healthy cells. Finally, for the Skin Cancer, of the various forms, melanoma is the most deadly. Researchers are on the verge of developing a vaccine, which will take care of that. But the incidence of less lethal forms like the basal and squamous cell carcinomas is increasing. The main cause is overexposure to the sun. New tools such as the dermatoscope allow doctors to see moles at a high degree of magnification, which lets them identify subtle changes and develop the proper treatment.

Question: Cancer on both sides of the family? My Mom's side: her mom (my grandma) died from Breast Cancer, cousin (my aunt? something like that) had every type of female cancer out there pretty much, dad (my granddad) died from heart complications My Dad's side: Cancer goes through there every couple of people I don't know the specifics but his dad (my granddad) had Prostate, Thyroid, and some other cancer. What are the chances of me getting a Cancer? I know the hereditary cancers are breast, ovarian, prostate, thyroid, and colorectal cancer. and someone on one side of the family has had 4 out of those 5. What are the possibilities of me getting cancer? Can it skip a generation? What should I look out for? Is it a hight possibility (that my parents can get it too)? Im currently 16 (female) years old and my parents try their best to get only healthy foods into my system. We cook most all our foods and only eat fast food occasionaly. I exercise alot, ie running and weightlifting as an independent (not at school). I'm not exteremly concerned if I get it. If I do get Cancer I would want to donate my body to help find a cure. If this does happen then it happenens. I'm a pretty happy person so I tend to have a light outlook on this situation. I just want to know my facts. SO if there is a doctor out there that is reading this, please let me know the statistics.

Answer: Good golly Miss Molly! You don't need to be Einstein to know the answer to your question and I bet you know it too. The answer is that yes you are at a much higher risk than the average person. BUT that does not mean that you WILL get cancer...it only means that your are at higher risk. So, the real question is...What do you do with that information? The answer is you DON'T smoke, stay away from alcohol, drink purified water, and try to eat organically grown vegetables( those pesky insectasides have been linked to many cancers) also do not store your food in plastic containers and NEVER cook your food in the plastic containers in the microwave. Eat lots of fresh vegitables... try to eat every color of vegitables and fruits in the rainbow every day...you know..orange, red, purple, yellow, green. Be careful what supplemental vitamens you take because some ( like betacaratene) have been linked to possibly causing lung cancer for instance... too bad I did't know that ten years ago. Get plenty of rest and even more exercise. Keep a positive attitude, try to find something good every day to focus on and to give thanks for. Get a physical every 6 months and ALWAYS follow through immediately with any tests that your doctor wants to do. One last thing...ask God to help you and keep you strong. It does work. Good luck.

Question: What type of markers are good for a runner's skin? I am running a 5k benefit for colorectal cancer, and would like to write the names of those close to me that have been affected by the disease on my arms. I don't want to use sharpies. Does anyone have suggestions?

Answer: if your competing in highschool it is illegal to write on yourself but a good thing to use besides sharpie is a paint marker or halloween face paint because it doesnt come off if you sweat

Question: Have you ever heard of? Anal Cancer. Farrah Fawcett has been diagnosed with it recently. Until I read the article yesterday, I had never heard of it..... for someone as fit as she is, makes you wonder how this could have happened. There are 4600 new cases every year compared to 148,000 colorectal cancer. It develops in the area connecting the large intestine to the outside of the body, and is easily missed. Why haven't we heard about this type of cancer before now?

Answer: Probably these type of things were not detected before. Your question was a formality. Actually You have informed a really useful information. I have never heard of that. Thanks a lot.

Question: what sex and age group are most susceptible to each type of cancer? -Lung -Prostate -Breast -Colorectal

Answer: lung: men- > 50years prostate: men>40years breast : women>30 years colorectal: men >50 years

Question: Question about symptoms/options, serious answers only please? On Dec16, I had a little bout w/ weird bowel movements. It looked bloody & mucousy, but since then have returned to normal, somewhat. The other night the mucousy part came back again, so I went to ER, where they did a digital exam, came back neg for blood, so they gave me a stool kit to collect the mucousy stools to test them. Most of the time I have decent moving bowels, I have had issues with constipation in my past. I have horrid hemmrhoids from giving birth 5 months ago. But I'm tired of all the what if's & wondering whats wrong. What type of test should I discuss with my doctor? I'm a big cancer-fearing nut so I'm fearing the worst (colorectal cancer), but I'm leaving the door open b/c I know there are other things that could be wrong. My biggest wonder is why sometimes I have bile (yellow) in my stools? What would you suggest I get done to have an overall healthy checkup? I'm also 6 wks pregnant. What do you think this is? Any help is appreciated! Please only serious answers! By the way, I'm only 23, so maybe that should help.

Answer: I would suggest a good gastroenterologist.. If you do not know of one--ask you gp or ob doctor for a good one. Sounds like you need a colonoscopy. (up the rectum with a light and look around). If they find nothing, at least maybe he would be the expert in that area. Good luck to you. My opinion.

Question: Could large amts of milk & Coke jeopardise my GI tract? 1st of all, I didn't drink both of them @ the same time. 4 brakefast, I had a tall glass of milk & then cereal w/ milk. & thus I went 2 the bathroom. & than 4 lunch I went 2 Carl's Jr. 2 use a coupon 4 a free 32 oz. drink. & then I went 2 the bathroom again. I can't digest milk or corn EZly & I'm worried that the wrong combo of foods on a daily or weekly basis, including Coke, could mess w/ my GI tract, perhaps allowing the risk for colorectal cancer or diabetes. Am I harming my body w/ the wrong type & amounts of food & drink?

Answer: Milk and coke don't increase your risk of colorectal cancer or diabetes. If you're lactose intolerant then the easy solution is to stop drinking milk. Alternatively you could buy lactaid supplements which contain the enzyme that your body isn't making. If you have problems with corn, stop eating corn easy fix. I suppose technically if you drink an absurd amount of sodas on a regular basis, the calories would make you obese and thus put you at risk for diabetes. So take home message avoid corn and milk or take lactaid. Don't drink too many sodas, they're bad for your bones too. I would limit myself to one 12oz can per day. I hope this helps.

Question: Help me understand FDG please? FDG is an analog of glucose does that mean its an isotope or is there another anme for it like an isnome (heard this somewhere) Can someone help me wiht this paragraph and paraphase it i dont quite understand it In PET imaging,18F-FDG can be used for the assessment of glucose metabolism in the heart and the brain. It is also used for imaging tumours in oncology.18F-FDG is taken up by cells, phosphorylated by hexokinase (whose mitochondrial form is greatly elevated in rapidly-growing malignant tumours),[1] and retained by tissues with high metabolic activity, such as most types of malignant tumours. As a result FDG-PET can be used for diagnosis, staging, and monitoring treatment of cancers, particularly in Hodgkin's disease, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, colorectal cancer, breast cancer, melanoma, and lung cancer. It has also been approved for use in diagnosing Alzheimer's disease. Anyone know how it emits a positron?

Answer: Yes, F-18 has more protons than neutrons. Nuclei need the right balance of neutrons and protons to maintain a stable energy, ie the lowest possible energy state. This is quantum mechanics, but their are semi-classical and thermodynamic models that can give you an explanation. But, we don't really need to go into to that. All we need to know is that if you have more protons than neutrons it usually becomes unstable. When that happens, the nucleus emits a positron particle (meaning a particle that has a charge of a proton but the size of an electron) emitted from the nucleus and a neutrino (some particle that rarely interacts with stuff) and BAM your proton becomes a neutron and it becomes more stable. Sometime they have to decay a few more times to be completely stable hence non-radioactive. At lot of physical processes tend to the lowest energy configuration as possible.

Question: 10 Reasons Why American Healthcare Is Better Than You've Been Told - How do you feel about obama's? "Health Care" Program? Saturday, August 01, 2009 10 Reasons Why American Healthcare Is Better Than You've Been Told By Jonah Goldberg From Hoover's Scott Atlas (who's also the head of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical School: 1. Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers. Breast cancer mortality is 52 percent higher in Germany than in the United States and 88 percent higher in the United Kingdom. Prostate cancer mortality is 604 percent higher in the United Kingdom and 457 percent higher in Norway. The mortality rate for colorectal cancer among British men and women is about 40 percent higher. 2. Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians. Breast cancer mortality in Canada is 9 percent higher than in the United States, prostate cancer is 184 percent higher, and colon cancer among men is about 10 percent higher. 3. Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries. Some 56 percent of Americans who could benefit from statin drugs, which reduce cholesterol and protect against heart disease, are taking them. By comparison, of those patients who could benefit from these drugs, only 36 percent of the Dutch, 29 percent of the Swiss, 26 percent of Germans, 23 percent of Britons, and 17 percent of Italians receive them. 4. Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians. Take the proportion of the appropriate-age population groups who have received recommended tests for breast, cervical, prostate, and colon cancer: Nine out of ten middle-aged American women (89 percent) have had a mammogram, compared to fewer than three-fourths of Canadians (72 percent). Nearly all American women (96 percent) have had a Pap smear, compared to fewer than 90 percent of Canadians. More than half of American men (54 percent) have had a prostatespecific antigen (PSA) test, compared to fewer than one in six Canadians (16 percent). Nearly one-third of Americans (30 percent) have had a colonoscopy, compared with fewer than one in twenty Canadians (5 percent). 5. Lower-income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians. Twice as many American seniors with below-median incomes self-report “excellent� health (11.7 percent) compared to Canadian seniors (5.8 percent). Conversely, white, young Canadian adults with below-median incomes are 20 percent more likely than lower-income Americans to describe their health as “fair or poor.� 6. Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the United Kingdom. Canadian and British patients wait about twice as long—sometimes more than a year—to see a specialist, have elective surgery such as hip replacements, or get radiation treatment for cancer. All told, 827,429 people are waiting for some type of procedure in Canada. In Britain, nearly 1.8 million people are waiting for a hospital admission or outpatient treatment. 7. People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed. More than 70 percent of German, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, and British adults say their health system needs either “fundamental change� or “complete rebuilding.� 8. Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians. When asked about their own health care instead of the “health care system,� more than half of Americans (51.3 percent) are very satisfied with their health care services, compared with only 41.5 percent of Canadians; a lower proportion of Americans are dissatisfied (6.8 percent) than Canadians (8.5 percent). 9. Americans have better access to important new technologies such as medical imaging than do patients in Canada or Britain. An overwhelming majority of leading American physicians identify computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as the most important medical innovations for improving patient care during the previous decade—even as economists and policy makers unfamiliar with actual medical practice decry these techniques as wasteful. The United States has thirty-four CT scanners per million Americans, compared to twelve in Canada and eight in Britain. The United States has almost twenty-seven MRI machines per million people compared to about six per million in Canada and Britain. 10. Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations. The top five U.S. hospitals conduct more clinical trials than all the hospitals in any other developed country. Since the mid- 1970s, the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology has gone to U.S. residents more often than recipients from all other countries combined. In only five of the past thirty-four years did a scientist living in the United States not win or share in the prize. Most important recent medical innovations were developed in the United States. Despite serious challenges, such a

Answer: The obama's should move to Kenya and fix that place. Get all of America/Americans out of their claws.

Question: How can all these liberals think health care is so great around the world? Dont they read? DOnt they travel? I guess if you live in public housing, you dont get to travel much. I guess if you are told you have to swallow the pied pipers claims book line and sinker you gotta do what you gotta do or he wont pay you for your vote next time. 1. Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers. Breast cancer mortality is 52 percent higher in Germany than in the United States and 88 percent higher in the United Kingdom. Prostate cancer mortality is 604 percent higher in the United Kingdom and 457 percent higher in Norway. The mortality rate for colorectal cancer among British men and women is about 40 percent higher. 2. Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians. Breast cancer mortality in Canada is 9 percent higher than in the United States, prostate cancer is 184 percent higher, and colon cancer among men is about 10 percent higher. 3. Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries. Some 56 percent of Americans who could benefit from statin drugs, which reduce cholesterol and protect against heart disease, are taking them. By comparison, of those patients who could benefit from these drugs, only 36 percent of the Dutch, 29 percent of the Swiss, 26 percent of Germans, 23 percent of Britons, and 17 percent of Italians receive them. 4. Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians. Take the proportion of the appropriate-age population groups who have received recommended tests for breast, cervical, prostate, and colon cancer: * Nine out of ten middle-aged American women (89 percent) have had a mammogram, compared to fewer than three-fourths of Canadians (72 percent). * Nearly all American women (96 percent) have had a Pap smear, compared to fewer than 90 percent of Canadians. * More than half of American men (54 percent) have had a prostatespecific antigen (PSA) test, compared to fewer than one in six Canadians (16 percent). * Nearly one-third of Americans (30 percent) have had a colonoscopy, compared with fewer than one in twenty Canadians (5 percent). 5. Lower-income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians. Twice as many American seniors with below-median incomes self-report “excellent� health (11.7 percent) compared to Canadian seniors (5.8 percent). Conversely, white, young Canadian adults with below-median incomes are 20 percent more likely than lower-income Americans to describe their health as “fair or poor.� 6. Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the United Kingdom. Canadian and British patients wait about twice as long—sometimes more than a year—to see a specialist, have elective surgery such as hip replacements, or get radiation treatment for cancer. All told, 827,429 people are waiting for some type of procedure in Canada. In Britain, nearly 1.8 million people are waiting for a hospital admission or outpatient treatment. 7. People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed. More than 70 percent of German, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, and British adults say their health system needs either “fundamental change� or “complete rebuilding.� 8. Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians. When asked about their own health care instead of the “health care system,� more than half of Americans (51.3 percent) are very satisfied with their health care services, compared with only 41.5 percent of Canadians; a lower proportion of Americans are dissatisfied (6.8 percent) than Canadians (8.5 percent). 9. Americans have better access to important new technologies such as medical imaging than do patients in Canada or Britain. An overwhelming majority of leading American physicians identify computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as the most important medical innovations for improving patient care during the previous decade—even as economists and policy makers unfamiliar with actual medical practice decry these techniques as wasteful. The United States has thirty-four CT scanners per million Americans, compared to twelve in Canada and eight in Britain. The United States has almost twenty-seven MRI machines per million people compared to about six per million in Canada and Britain. 10. Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations. The top five U.S. hospitals conduct more clinical trials than all the hospitals in any other developed country. Since the mid- 1970s, the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology has gone to U.S. residents more often than recipients from all other countries combined. In only five of the past thirty-four years did a scientist living in the United States not win or share in the prize. Most important recent medical innovations were developed in the United States. (http://www.hoov you gotta love dullards that think "everything you say is just wrong" passes for debate. My My you are a democrat No what is funny is democrats had total control of the congress 52 years since 1933 and republicans had 17. Yet democrats blame everything on republicans despite them having power 3 times as much! again jenny is wrong. every post she does that! THe fact is that every nations people DO trade it, every single day! They fly across the world to the US to get the best healthcare on the planet. ISnt it odd that every single rich person that gets really sick comes to the US? did you ever think to ask why? ad as for #6 and dustbin the fact is I used to work for WHO. THey rank health care based on the difference between the rich health care and the poor health care. If you give everyone a bandaid for a heart attack, according to them, you have great health care. Yea, you are geniuses! WHy yes green. I had a compound fracture of my lower leg in germany. Id say that means I do have first hand experience. jenny its not just hte rich that have great health care. IM not rich and mine is better than anyone in europe or australia gets. I had a seizure one time 3 years ago. I went to the hospital and was given my choice of which kind of MRI I wanted right then, not 3 weeks later. I opted for the open one and got it then. Wow whining that a cancer survivor files bankruptcy? So you get to keep your car, your house... and your life. I guess you are right. ITs better to be dead. Mr bad you are correct! My link was incomplete. accept my apologies and my link http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/49525427.html Mr bad because it is. I lived in seattle and they actually have waits for non emergency health care exactly because of the burden of canadians. BUT it has been mitigated by simply more drs per capita moving there. See that is the great thing about real health care is you have flexibility NO jenny. REmember Natasha richardson? SHe was rich. SHe fell down and hit her head. She thought she was OK> A few hours later she started passing out. They rushed her to the hospital where they DID NOT even give her a ct scan. After all they needed to get approval and there was the matter of cost... well anyway since they saved $392 she died of bleeding on the brain. A ct scan would have shown that and a quick drainage hole would have saved her life.. but look at the bright side, they saved $392! I hope that helped canada recover. Con man the only difference is if my insurance company screws me, I can sue them. If obama care screws you you are expressly forbidden from any remedies. YOU are not allowed to sue them. You should just go take advantage of some of their end of life suicide seminars..... Very good momma! >If your country's health care system is so great, why are Americans, going to India, Thailand, Mexico, etc., for health care? http://www.alternet.org/workplace/98045/… BEcause when they go it makes the news. when people come here it doesnt. alternet? yes a well known news source. Why do so many from Canada and Great Britain come on here and say they wouldn't trade theirs for ours at gunpoint? A combination of pride and ignorance. >Most Canadians are able to come here for care only because the Canadian government pays the bills. Yes, because even the canadian supreme court says the health care system kills its subscribers. Why do so many Americans die from lack of health care every year? 136,000 died from 2000 to 2006. http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/tal… which is zero percentage wise compared to canada. Here you go. about 1000 people had sars in canada. 49 died. about 1000 people had sars in the US. ONE died Really momma? the fact that .00001% of americans go over seas for health care versus what? 20% go from canada doesnt seem like there is a difference? Maybe you should go to a good 3rd grade math class Really momma? the fact that .00001% of americans go over seas for health care versus what? 20% go from canada doesnt seem like there is a difference? Maybe you should go to a good 3rd grade math class see brittanys dumb ass, I posted a link to the numbers, proving that only you are stupid.

Answer: Great post! They say it works because they have no idea what they are talking about; they repeat what people from those countries say. People in those countries say it works because it's all they've ever known.

Question: Why do liberals want to trash health care? The fact is that using every single metric, the US has the best health care on the planet. 1. Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers. Breast cancer mortality is 52 percent higher in Germany than in the United States and 88 percent higher in the United Kingdom. Prostate cancer mortality is 604 percent higher in the United Kingdom and 457 percent higher in Norway. The mortality rate for colorectal cancer among British men and women is about 40 percent higher. 2. Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians. Breast cancer mortality in Canada is 9 percent higher than in the United States, prostate cancer is 184 percent higher, and colon cancer among men is about 10 percent higher. 3. Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries. Some 56 percent of Americans who could benefit from statin drugs, which reduce cholesterol and protect against heart disease, are taking them. By comparison, of those patients who could benefit from these drugs, only 36 percent of the Dutch, 29 percent of the Swiss, 26 percent of Germans, 23 percent of Britons, and 17 percent of Italians receive them. 4. Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians. Take the proportion of the appropriate-age population groups who have received recommended tests for breast, cervical, prostate, and colon cancer: * Nine out of ten middle-aged American women (89 percent) have had a mammogram, compared to fewer than three-fourths of Canadians (72 percent). * Nearly all American women (96 percent) have had a Pap smear, compared to fewer than 90 percent of Canadians. * More than half of American men (54 percent) have had a prostatespecific antigen (PSA) test, compared to fewer than one in six Canadians (16 percent). * Nearly one-third of Americans (30 percent) have had a colonoscopy, compared with fewer than one in twenty Canadians (5 percent). 5. Lower-income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians. Twice as many American seniors with below-median incomes self-report “excellent� health (11.7 percent) compared to Canadian seniors (5.8 percent). Conversely, white, young Canadian adults with below-median incomes are 20 percent more likely than lower-income Americans to describe their health as “fair or poor.� 6. Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the United Kingdom. Canadian and British patients wait about twice as long—sometimes more than a year—to see a specialist, have elective surgery such as hip replacements, or get radiation treatment for cancer. All told, 827,429 people are waiting for some type of procedure in Canada. In Britain, nearly 1.8 million people are waiting for a hospital admission or outpatient treatment. 7. People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed. More than 70 percent of German, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, and British adults say their health system needs either “fundamental change� or “complete rebuilding.� 8. Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians. When asked about their own health care instead of the “health care system,� more than half of Americans (51.3 percent) are very satisfied with their health care services, compared with only 41.5 percent of Canadians; a lower proportion of Americans are dissatisfied (6.8 percent) than Canadians (8.5 percent). 9. Americans have better access to important new technologies such as medical imaging than do patients in Canada or Britain. An overwhelming majority of leading American physicians identify computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as the most important medical innovations for improving patient care during the previous decade—even as economists and policy makers unfamiliar with actual medical practice decry these techniques as wasteful. The United States has thirty-four CT scanners per million Americans, compared to twelve in Canada and eight in Britain. The United States has almost twenty-seven MRI machines per million people compared to about six per million in Canada and Britain. 10. Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations. The top five U.S. hospitals conduct more clinical trials than all the hospitals in any other developed country. Since the mid- 1970s, the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology has gone to U.S. residents more often than recipients from all other countries combined. In only five of the past thirty-four years did a scientist living in the United States not win or share in the prize. Most important recent medical innovations were developed in the United States. http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/49525427.html See that link on the bottom of the article canadian? Most americans are smart enough to follow the link when they need to verify the info. How dumb can you butt monkeys be? See the "additional details"? See the link under it? COULD you 2 clowns be any lamer? And some people are so dumb they compare average life expectancy. You do realize that includes car accidents, murders, as well as premature deaths that occur naturally dont you? I mean you cant be that stupid can you? Ok so that includes 40 million illegals that may have never seen a doctor in their lives as well as the 12000 mostly teenagers that shoot themselves fighting for drug turf. I mean you do realize that dont you? Ok so add in the number 12000 18 - 25 year olds (mostly) and lets see, do you think that might skew the numbers? Are you people really all that stupid? and endo, only a dumb butt monkey would disagree with such a well written article that went into such detail and cited with.... um.... nothing. GOod job. nice question tada. "ranked 37th in the world" Despite your lack of citing WHO ranked it (a common mistake amongst those that want to use discredited numbers) I do realize it is the UN or the WHO that did it. Having worked for the WHO I know how they do their rankings. They compare the health care that the richest person gets to the care the poorest person gets. The closer they are to identical, the higher you rank. So if you wanted to hand out bandaids and peroxide for compound fractures, and did that for everyone, you would rank #1. See why people laugh at these organizations run by 3rd worlders? The fact is that anyone with a dime on the planet, when they get seriously ill, flees to the US for medical care. ok mewto lets compare the SARS outbreak of a few years back. both the US and canada had about 1000 cases of SARS. IN canada 49 people died. In the US ONE 70+ year old died. Id say that makes US health care better for infectious diseases too! Tada you want to hear horror stories? IF your insurance company turns you down you can sue the crap out of them. If you are turned down by obama care, you cant do a thing. ITs written right in the obama care law.

Answer: Wow this one is going to be easy. All I need to do is post something that isnt full of liberal BS and contorted facts and I get the best answer award! Thanks for the 10! Ok the reason is the federal govt doesnt give a shit about health care. it is just another way to extort more money from americans and use it to hand out to the lazy that vote democrat. THey can actually give a raise to liberals that vote for them that way. I mean $3 TRILLION more dollars per year for hand outs? JACKPOT! Heres a clue. if you want something how about earning it? Has that idea ever crossed a democrats mind?

Question: What are the genetic sex difference or problems that causes women to live longer then men? I’ve altered my diet, which is 80% healthy and 20% slip-ups. I’m the only one that cooks in my household. Therefore, my parents consume whatever I compose. My dad (48) has Diabetes (type 1: needles & Insulin) and Depression and my mom has Asthma (50). However, I know their eating God-knows-what behind my back. I don’t desire my parents to be part of the proportion of passing away early. Therefore, all I can do is frighten them on the crisis, work out with them and maintain cooking. There are 70% more women then men in my family, since complications. As experience also being around my family and other, it appears that women has additional emotion and physical problems than men. I’ve done some reading and studying for myself, loved ones and parents. Which leads to my question… WOMEN: Pregnancy, Menstrual Cycle, Obesity, Breast Cancer, Cervical Cancer, High Cholesterol, High Blood Pressure, Colorectal Cancer, Diabetes, Depression, Osteoporosis, Chlamydia and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections, HIV MEN: Obesity, High Cholesterol, High Blood Pressure, Colorectal Cancer, Diabetes, Depression, Sexually Transmitted Infections, HIV, Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm What am I missing or don’t recognize?

Answer: You've completely missed the psychological aspect. And to say that psychology has no effect on human health would be absurd. I think that, generally, women are more attached to their lives than men. Women attach themselves emotionally to their children, their grandchildren, their friends, etc. As men get older, they have a tendency to become reclusive and solitary. Consequently, they lose their will to keep going because they no longer have anything around them worth living for. In short, men die sooner and women die later by choice.

Question: why is there no financial assistance for people in a certain wage group and with no minor dependents in the h? I have done some research on this subject and it is very unfair in my opinion. This is what i would like to hear from you and that is your opinion. I have a friend who did 21 years of active duty military service and retired from the air force at the age of 41. He has been employed in the construction industry as metal building erector since his retirement. Three years after retirement his wife wanted and was granted a divorce along with 49% of his military retirement. He was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in Sept.07 and has underwent pre surgery radiation and chemo and had the surgery in Feb 08. He is now having post surgery chemo to help prevent the cancer from returning. This man has spent all his savings on medical treatment and other care and here is the big one.He has been denied any type of government assistanc except for ten dollars a month in food stamps and is about to be evicted from his home. What is wrong with the system or do i just not understand?

Answer: Sorry, his primary language is English, He served in the military & he's a legal citizen of the US. All three by themselves are disqualifiers nevermind the trifactor.