OVERCOMING CANCER: PARTICIPATING IN YOUR HEALTH

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Dr. Elmer Green, a pioneer in the field of biofeedback, has said that when people are attempting to influence their health, it is equally important for them to learn what thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors they are engaged in when they become ill as it is when they are healthy. When people have feedback, or information, concerning both illness and health, they can then more consciously participate in their recovery.
Information about one’s thoughts and feelings when health is deteriorating may be the most valuable information of all. The body is built with homeostatic mechanisms designed to keep it healthy and free of disease; it is when these mechanisms break down and illness results that we most need to concern ourselves with our thought processes and behaviors. When our body is moving in the direction of illness, it may be a sign that the coping mechanisms we are using to deal with stress are not effective.
If you think back, you will probably see how many small ailments in your life, such as colds or headaches, occurred when you were tired, overworked, under tension or emotional strain. You have probably said many times that you caught a cold because you were “run down,” and you most likely meant not just physical fatigue but also emotional depletion, a lack of vigor and enthusiasm. At that moment, life seemed like a chore.
Serious ailments, too, such as heart attacks and ulcers, have been observed to follow periods of overwork, tension, pushing too hard. They tend to occur when the body has reached its upper limit and can carry no more, but the signals of this situation have been ignored. Anyone who has had an ulcer is aware of how it acts as a feedback device for emotional overload, an index of the “state of the organism,” because pain from the ulcer is most likely to occur when one is tense or anxious. A physician friend says that in a way he regrets having had surgery for an ulcer because without the ulcer’s reminder, he can’t tell anymore when he is overly tense, and he worries about what other effects the tension might be having on his body.
All of us participate in becoming sick through a combination of mental, physical, and emotional factors. You may have neglected reasonable diet, exercise, or rest. You may have been very tense or anxious for a long period of time without doing enough to relax. You may have maintained unreasonable work loads or gotten so caught up in meeting everyone else’s needs that you ignored your own. You may have maintained attitudes and beliefs that prevented you from having satisfying emotional experiences. In sum, you may have failed to recognize your physical and emotional limits.
To the extent that you ignored these legitimate needs, you participated in your own illness. When the body’s and mind’s requirements for relaxation, rest, exercise, emotional expression, even for meaning in life are neglected, then the body may communicate this failure to pay attention by getting sick.
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WHAT CANCERS CAN BE CURED BY SURGERY? (GENERAL INFORMATION)

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We have some organs which can be partly or completely removed, even though they have functions which are essential to life. Removal is possible because there are ways of naturally or artificially restoring the functions of these organs. Sometimes this is possible because the organs have a lot of reserve. For example, if ninety per cent of your liver is removed, the other 10 per cent, provided it is normal, can do everything that the whole liver used to do. If certain parts of your stomach or intestines are removed, digestion and elimination of waste products can still be good enough to keep you at your normal weight. The remaining intestine may need some help in the form of a special diet or medications that assist digestion of certain foods. Some hormone glands, such as the thyroid gland, can be completely removed because the hormones it normally produces can be taken in tablet form.

Sometimes the part to be removed can be reconstructed. For example, part of the oesophagus (gullet) can be removed and replaced with a piece of intestine. The bladder can be removed and replaced by an artificial one made of a piece of intestine, emptying through an opening in the abdominal wall into a bag (an ileal bladder). The rectum and anus can be removed and the remaining bowel made to empty into a bag through an opening in the abdominal wall (a colostomy).

Luckily we have two of some of the organs whose functions are essential to life— for example, kidneys, lungs and adrenal glands. One healthy kidney, lung or adrenal gland can keep our bodies functioning quite normally.

There are many organs and parts of the body which are not essential to life. Although, of course, their loss results in varying degrees of mutilation, inconvenience and psychological distress, we can live without things like an arm, a leg, an eye, a tongue, a larynx (voice-box), a breast, an ovary, a testicle or a uterus (womb).

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