Part Two: Diagnosing Bladder Cancer

My husband, Dr. T. Stacy Lloyd Jr. was one lucky guy. His doctor was a very knowledgeable physician who knew that there was a connection between smoking and bladder cancer.  This pulmonary internist was also a colleague of my husband and had always seen Stacy with a pipe in his mouth.  When Stacy got a bad bladder infection, the doctor gave him cipro for a week. But when the infection did not clear up, he immediately referred him to an urologist.

Everyone wants a cure.  A television commercial uses this line, while promoting the sale of something pink during the current breast cancer awareness month sham.

Who does everyone include? 

Just mention the word colonoscopy and people start to cringe. Anyone who has undergone the procedure can tell you that the colonoscopy itself is not difficult — most people don’t remember a thing — but the prep is another story. So, here are some suggestions to help you glide through it.

Lung cancer is definitely on everyone’s mind right now. Peter Jennings’ death on Aug. 7 was followed, two days later, by the news that Dana Reeve has been diagnosed with the deadly disease.

Statistics show that in both sexes, lung cancer is the chief cancer killer in the world. This year in the United States, it will kill about 90,000 men and 73,000 women. Sadly, between 70 and 80 percent will die within two years of diagnosis.

One of the best things about Red Flags is that it is so often right. Take the healing power of sunshine, for example. Whilst mainstream medical thinking has become increasingly hysterical about the dangers of allowing one photon to brush your skin lest a host of deadly malignant melanomas are triggered into life, Red Flags runs a story suggesting that getting a suntan is healthy.