The Gold Book for Women
- Women's Service Manual for Life
The Gold Book for Women - Women's Service Manual for Life is a service manual, designed to help Women at all ages to prevent diseases from forming, as well as detect Women's diseases at an early stage, before they cause irreparable damage.
Author Dr Guy Hingston has been a doctor for over 20 years, and has specialised in the oncoplastic surgical mangagement of cancer. It is hoped that with the help of this innovative Gold Book Service Manual, that these diseases can be successfully treated without getting to the stage where they threaten lives.
This 184 page paperback has a preventive health introductory Section I, followed by an ‘Age Page’ Section II, consisting of two yearly service manual check-ups from Age 4 to Age 48 and then yearly from Age 50 to Age 90. Teenagers should get into the habit of using these service manuals regularly at school in health education classes so that when they are older, they will be used to this concept.
For every Gold Book for Women purchased, at least $1 will be donated to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, to help with their efforts to fight breast cancer.
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Sunbeds will be banned
Solariums will be banned in NSW from 2014 because of fear they cause melanomas. The ban on commercial ultraviolet (UV) solarium tanning units will come into effect from December 31, 2014, to give tanning businesses time to adjust. Environment Minister Robyn Parker will announce the proposal, which will affect 103 solariums in NSW. Australia has the highest melanoma rate in the world.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/sun-sets-on-ultraviolet-tanning-beds-20120203-1qxld.htmlAustralian women do not face an increased risk of rupture from French-made silicone breast implants
Some 4,500 Australian women have the breast implants made by Poly Implant Prothese (PIP), which was ordered by French authorities to withdraw its implants from the market in 2010 after it was revealed it used unapproved industrial-grade silicone in some products. Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) said all breast implants, not just PIP implants, have a 10 percent risk of rupture over a 10-year period after insertion. The PIP rate of rupture reported to the TGA was approximately 0.4 percent or 37 ruptures in 9,054 implants between 2002 and 2011.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/05/breast-implants-australia-idUSL3E8C50C820120105Vaccine Developed That Successfully Attacks Cancer
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona and the University of Georgia (UGA) have developed a vaccine that dramatically reduces tumors in a mouse model that mimics 90 percent of human breast and pancreatic cancer cases. "This is the first time that a vaccine has been developed that trains the immune system to distinguish and kill cancer cells based on their different sugar structures on proteins such as MUC1," Dr. Gendler says. This has exciting possibilities for treating cancer in men and women.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239221.phpOnly 55% of women undergo screening
Just over half of women in the target age group for breast screening actually have the procedure, a report shows. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report, released today, found 55 per cent of women aged 50-69 are undergoing approved mammography screening. The figure is below the 70 per cent target, and has remained steady since 1996-97. This means that 45% choose not to undergo regular breast cancer screening, thus meaning that many lives are lost from breast cancer each year in Australia due to unnecessary late presentations of this disease.
http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=10737420599Cancer Rate Easily Cut
Making small lifestyle changes might prevent more than four in 10 cancers, a major British study reveals. Scientists have calculated that at least 134,000 cases diagnosed in Britain last year were triggered by such causes as smoking, obesity, poor diet, alcohol or not breastfeeding. Researchers analysed hundreds of studies on the causes of the most common forms of the disease to work out how many were the result of lifestyle or environmental factors. They calculated 40 per cent of cancers in women and 45 per cent in men were preventable. Smoking was by far the biggest cause, responsible for nearly 61,000 cases diagnosed last year, nearly a fifth of the total.
http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v105/n2s/full/bjc2011489a.htmlSharp rise in women with lung cancer
The rate of new lung cancer cases in Australia is raising sharply for women while dropping for men, new government data shows. The report, Lung Cancer in Australia: An overview, was released yesterday by the Australian Health and Welfare Institute and Cancer Australia. It revealed that the rate of new lung cancer diagnoses rose by 72 percent for women but fell by 32 per cent for men between 1982 and 2007.
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