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A World Health Organization warning of increased brain cancer risk for cellular phone users had many alarmed but resigned to needing the devices to do their jobs.

"It's really scaring me. Usually, I put it on a speaker, or I only use it in an emergency. And it is really scary because of my kids," Milite Andom, 49, a street vendor with teenaged children, told AFP.

"They talk too much on their cells (mobiles), and I was telling my kids, but they do not want to hear it," Andom added.

The WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced Tuesday after meeting in France that radio-frequency electromagnetic fields generated by such devices are "possibly carcinogenic to humans."

The IARC cautioned that current scientific evidence showed only a possible link, not a proven one, between wireless devices and cancers.

But the news was jarring to people whose lives have changed dramatically in recent years with the personal convenience of the cellphone, to the point where many spend hours with the devices pressed to their heads, day in and day out.

When setting up homes, many people forgo traditional land lines, cells pressed to the ear.

There are now about five billion mobile phones registered in the world, their use so ubiquitous that they have begun to eclipse traditional landlines. Worldwide mobile sales increased 32 percent last year, tracking firms say.

But health experts said it was still unclear what might happen with greater exposure over longer periods.

"Everything new, they just throw it out there with no real testing. And 10 years later they tell you it is all bad for you," sighed bike messenger David Daudu, 31, who spends more than 12 hours a day on the street and on the phone.

Asked if the warning might change his habits, Daudu was clear: "I have no option, workwise."

His sentiments were echoed by construction foreman Michael Harris, 41.

"What are you going to do?," asked Harris, who spends hours every day receiving and relaying instructions, cell at his ear.

"You want to try to stay healthy, but this is the way business is being done today.

Some mobile users reluctant to change their phone habits said they hoped someone would hurry up and disprove the WHO findings.

"Two weeks from now, they'll probably come out with (a study) rebutting it," quipped bank teller Nick Bolden, 25.

The US Centers for Disease Control maintains that research so far does not lean toward a significant association between cell phone use and health effects.

Bernadette Burden, a spokeswoman for the Atlanta-based agency, said of the new report: "We take research seriously. And our experts here are going to examine it very carefully."

Burden noted the phone-use potential risk level announced by the WHO was in the same class as that of coffee.
Yet she told AFP: "We recognize that it is a very serious issue."

A World Health Organization warning of increased brain cancer risk for cellular phone users had many alarmed but resigned to needing the devices to do their jobs.

"It's really scaring me. Usually, I put it on a speaker, or I only use it in an emergency. And it is really scary because of my kids," Milite Andom, 49, a street vendor with teenaged children, told AFP.

"They talk too much on their cells (mobiles), and I was telling my kids, but they do not want to hear it," Andom added.

The WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced Tuesday after meeting in France that radio-frequency electromagnetic fields generated by such devices are "possibly carcinogenic to humans."

The IARC cautioned that current scientific evidence showed only a possible link, not a proven one, between wireless devices and cancers.

But the news was jarring to people whose lives have changed dramatically in recent years with the personal convenience of the cellphone, to the point where many spend hours with the devices pressed to their heads, day in and day out.

When setting up homes, many people forgo traditional land lines, cells pressed to the ear.

There are now about five billion mobile phones registered in the world, their use so ubiquitous that they have begun to eclipse traditional landlines. Worldwide mobile sales increased 32 percent last year, tracking firms say.

But health experts said it was still unclear what might happen with greater exposure over longer periods.

"Everything new, they just throw it out there with no real testing. And 10 years later they tell you it is all bad for you," sighed bike messenger David Daudu, 31, who spends more than 12 hours a day on the street and on the phone.

Asked if the warning might change his habits, Daudu was clear: "I have no option, workwise."

His sentiments were echoed by construction foreman Michael Harris, 41.

"What are you going to do?," asked Harris, who spends hours every day receiving and relaying instructions, cell at his ear.

"You want to try to stay healthy, but this is the way business is being done today.

Some mobile users reluctant to change their phone habits said they hoped someone would hurry up and disprove the WHO findings.

"Two weeks from now, they'll probably come out with (a study) rebutting it," quipped bank teller Nick Bolden, 25.

The US Centers for Disease Control maintains that research so far does not lean toward a significant association between cell phone use and health effects.

Bernadette Burden, a spokeswoman for the Atlanta-based agency, said of the new report: "We take research seriously. And our experts here are going to examine it very carefully."

Burden noted the phone-use potential risk level announced by the WHO was in the same class as that of coffee.
Yet she told AFP: "We recognize that it is a very serious issue."

Imagine learning that you have prostate cancer and need to undergo a radical prostatectomy — but in order to have the surgery, you’ll have to travel to India or England. That’s the reality for prostate cancer patients in Nigeria, and it puts the treatment out of reach for the vast majority of men who need it. But things are beginning to change, and it all started in an operating room at Shawsand Medical Centre in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

That’s where Willie Underwood III, MD, MPH, MSci, of the Department of Urology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI), recently performed the country’s first documented radical prostatectomy. At his own expense, and on his own time, Dr. Underwood traveled to Port Harcourt in late February at the request of the Nigerian Urologic Society and IVUmed, an international nonprofit organization that works to improve urological care around the world through projects that reflect its motto, “Teach one, reach many.”
An IVUmed board member for several years, Dr. Underwood put that motto into practice as he performed the prostatectomy with two Nigerian surgeons assisting by his side. By the end of his visit, his Nigerian colleagues were ready to do the procedure themselves and are now teaching other surgeons in turn.

The number of Nigerian surgeons trained for radical prostatectomy will start to grow exponentially in November 2011 when Dr. Underwood returns to Port Harcourt with other volunteer surgeons he has recruited. In a multi-phase process, the Nigerian surgeons will assist and observe, then perform the surgery themselves with an American surgeon assisting, and then go it alone with an American surgeon available for consultation. “By the time we’re done, they’ll feel comfortable doing these cases [independently],” says Dr. Underwood.

Providing specialized surgical training is just part of IVUmed’s broader goal of improving care for Nigerian patients with urologic cancers. During his visit, Dr. Underwood met with some 30 Nigerian surgeons to provide advice on such matters as designing an efficient system for diagnosing and treating prostate cancer in a country with limited resources and medical facilities.

Research is another focus of the IVUmed initiative. “Cancer has not been well studied in the African population,” notes Dr. Underwood, so plans are underway for the creation of a tissue repository that will provide information “to begin to build the knowledge and understanding of cancer in West Africa.” The repository will link Nigerian surgeons and institutions with researchers in the United States.

Dr. Underwood developed great respect for his Nigerian colleagues as he worked side-by-side with them. “They’re extremely well trained; I was amazed by their talent,” he says. “Their training is so broad.”

After returning to RPCI, he learned from them that the patient on whom he operated is doing well. “We’ve had a great outcome with this case,” he says. For prostate cancer patients in Nigeria, that’s the beginning of hope
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Imagine learning that you have prostate cancer and need to undergo a radical prostatectomy — but in order to have the surgery, you’ll have to travel to India or England. That’s the reality for prostate cancer patients in Nigeria, and it puts the treatment out of reach for the vast majority of men who need it. But things are beginning to change, and it all started in an operating room at Shawsand Medical Centre in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

That’s where Willie Underwood III, MD, MPH, MSci, of the Department of Urology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI), recently performed the country’s first documented radical prostatectomy. At his own expense, and on his own time, Dr. Underwood traveled to Port Harcourt in late February at the request of the Nigerian Urologic Society and IVUmed, an international nonprofit organization that works to improve urological care around the world through projects that reflect its motto, “Teach one, reach many.”
An IVUmed board member for several years, Dr. Underwood put that motto into practice as he performed the prostatectomy with two Nigerian surgeons assisting by his side. By the end of his visit, his Nigerian colleagues were ready to do the procedure themselves and are now teaching other surgeons in turn.

The number of Nigerian surgeons trained for radical prostatectomy will start to grow exponentially in November 2011 when Dr. Underwood returns to Port Harcourt with other volunteer surgeons he has recruited. In a multi-phase process, the Nigerian surgeons will assist and observe, then perform the surgery themselves with an American surgeon assisting, and then go it alone with an American surgeon available for consultation. “By the time we’re done, they’ll feel comfortable doing these cases [independently],” says Dr. Underwood.

Providing specialized surgical training is just part of IVUmed’s broader goal of improving care for Nigerian patients with urologic cancers. During his visit, Dr. Underwood met with some 30 Nigerian surgeons to provide advice on such matters as designing an efficient system for diagnosing and treating prostate cancer in a country with limited resources and medical facilities.

Research is another focus of the IVUmed initiative. “Cancer has not been well studied in the African population,” notes Dr. Underwood, so plans are underway for the creation of a tissue repository that will provide information “to begin to build the knowledge and understanding of cancer in West Africa.” The repository will link Nigerian surgeons and institutions with researchers in the United States.

Dr. Underwood developed great respect for his Nigerian colleagues as he worked side-by-side with them. “They’re extremely well trained; I was amazed by their talent,” he says. “Their training is so broad.”

After returning to RPCI, he learned from them that the patient on whom he operated is doing well. “We’ve had a great outcome with this case,” he says. For prostate cancer patients in Nigeria, that’s the beginning of hope
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I AM NOT CANCER.

I am Alaina. I was diagnosed with cancer in December 2007. I am not cancer.

I am a mother of two remarkable children. I am not cancer.

I am a daughter to loving parents. I am not cancer.

I am a sister to two amazing women. I am not cancer.

I am a friend to so many wonderful people. I am not cancer.

Because I have a cancer diagnosis, I have spent the last sixteen months in court defending myself from the attacks of my abusive husband who filed a lawsuit against me in Durham County, NC asking for full, permanent custody of our two children using the argument that I have a cancer diagnosis. He then chose to move to the Chicago area to take a job at Sears Holdings, Inc. leaving our children in my sole physical custody since August 2010.

On Monday, April 25, 2011, the Judge ruled that our children must be uprooted from their home in Durham, NC where they have lived since July 18, 2008 to live with their father in the Chicago area on the basis that I have a cancer diagnosis.

I AM NOT CANCER
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In a bitter child custody battle, Alaina Giordano's terminal breast cancer has been a strike against her in court. A North Carolina judge denied Giordano primary custody of her two children in part because "the course of her disease is unknown" and "children who have a parent with cancer need more contact with the non-ill parent."

Giordano's unemployment was also cited as a factor in the April 25th District Court ruling that her two children must move from their home in Durham, N.C., to live primarily with their father, Kane Snyder in Chicago as of June 17.

"It makes no sense to take them away from me because you don't know how long I'm going to live," Giordano says. "Everybody dies and none of us knows when. Some of us have a diagnosis of cancer, or diabetes, or asthma. This is a particularly dangerous ruling to base a custody case on a diagnosis."

Giordano and Snyder will share custody of Bud, 5, and Sofia, 11, but if Giordano continues to live in Durham, where she is treated by a team of doctors at Duke Cancer Institute, her custody will be limited to holiday and weekend visitation, the airfare for which, she says she cannot afford.

Giordano has stage 4 breast cancer. Though it has metastasized to her bones, she receives monthly treatment and her medical records list her cancer as stable and not progressing. "I'm fully functional and my kids are thriving here in Durham," she says.
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I AM NOT CANCER.

I am Alaina. I was diagnosed with cancer in December 2007. I am not cancer.

I am a mother of two remarkable children. I am not cancer.

I am a daughter to loving parents. I am not cancer.

I am a sister to two amazing women. I am not cancer.

I am a friend to so many wonderful people. I am not cancer.

Because I have a cancer diagnosis, I have spent the last sixteen months in court defending myself from the attacks of my abusive husband who filed a lawsuit against me in Durham County, NC asking for full, permanent custody of our two children using the argument that I have a cancer diagnosis. He then chose to move to the Chicago area to take a job at Sears Holdings, Inc. leaving our children in my sole physical custody since August 2010.

On Monday, April 25, 2011, the Judge ruled that our children must be uprooted from their home in Durham, NC where they have lived since July 18, 2008 to live with their father in the Chicago area on the basis that I have a cancer diagnosis.

I AM NOT CANCER
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In a bitter child custody battle, Alaina Giordano's terminal breast cancer has been a strike against her in court. A North Carolina judge denied Giordano primary custody of her two children in part because "the course of her disease is unknown" and "children who have a parent with cancer need more contact with the non-ill parent."

Giordano's unemployment was also cited as a factor in the April 25th District Court ruling that her two children must move from their home in Durham, N.C., to live primarily with their father, Kane Snyder in Chicago as of June 17.

"It makes no sense to take them away from me because you don't know how long I'm going to live," Giordano says. "Everybody dies and none of us knows when. Some of us have a diagnosis of cancer, or diabetes, or asthma. This is a particularly dangerous ruling to base a custody case on a diagnosis."

Giordano and Snyder will share custody of Bud, 5, and Sofia, 11, but if Giordano continues to live in Durham, where she is treated by a team of doctors at Duke Cancer Institute, her custody will be limited to holiday and weekend visitation, the airfare for which, she says she cannot afford.

Giordano has stage 4 breast cancer. Though it has metastasized to her bones, she receives monthly treatment and her medical records list her cancer as stable and not progressing. "I'm fully functional and my kids are thriving here in Durham," she says.
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A Canadian man who blogged about his battle with cancer has died, but not without leaving a post-mortem message.

"Here it is. I'm dead," read the last internet post of Derek Miller, who died last week after more than four years of blogging about his struggle with colorectal cancer.

"In advance, I asked that once my body finally shut down from the punishments of my cancer, then my family and friends publish this prepared message I wrote -- the first part of the process of turning this from an active website to an archive," he wrote on his blog, penmachine.com.

A day after his death, a longtime friend, Alistair Calder, published the final message.

"I felt as though I was putting Derek's ... last moments on the web," Calder said. "It was really, really, really hard."

Meanwhile, news of Miller's death -- and his final post online -- went viral.

The site "got 3 million visitors and it shutdown," said Miller's wife, Airdrie.

The 41-year-old writer and musician of Banbury, British Columbia, left behind two daughters, Marina, 13, and Lauren, 11.

"There can't be answers today," he wrote. "While I was still alive writing this, I was sad to know I'll miss these things -- not because I won't be able to witness them, but because Air, Marina, and Lauren won't have me there to support their efforts."

Airdrie Miller said her husband "was always a blogger."

"He'd been blogging prolifically for 10 years," she said.

Miller had written about his physical deterioration, documenting his chest cough, abdominal pain, voice loss, and the emotional toll of wearing diapers and becoming housebound.

"I'm at the point with my cancer that the car has finally bumped down off the pavement and we're driving on gravel now," he said in one of his final posts. "What I mean is, the end of the road is somewhere up ahead, not too far, and I'm not going back to smooth speedy travel, ever."

His writings discussed a range of topics from his craving for Diet Cherry Coke to his "Living Wake," which his family held for him in March.

His blog also connected him with a man named Jean-Hugues Pierson, a French citizen diagnosed with colorectal cancer on the same day.

"I could talk with someone who had to live the same experience," said Pierson, who had been able to battle his cancer into remission.

"Together we made our way through treatment in part by sending messages back and forth online," Miller posted on April 23.

Last month, Pierson traveled to British Columbia to visit Miller.

"I'm amazed JH would take time and spend money to see me," Miller wrote. "But it is our last chance, because it's my last chance, my last Easter, my final spring."

He died Tuesday.
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A Canadian man who blogged about his battle with cancer has died, but not without leaving a post-mortem message.

"Here it is. I'm dead," read the last internet post of Derek Miller, who died last week after more than four years of blogging about his struggle with colorectal cancer.

"In advance, I asked that once my body finally shut down from the punishments of my cancer, then my family and friends publish this prepared message I wrote -- the first part of the process of turning this from an active website to an archive," he wrote on his blog, penmachine.com.

A day after his death, a longtime friend, Alistair Calder, published the final message.

"I felt as though I was putting Derek's ... last moments on the web," Calder said. "It was really, really, really hard."

Meanwhile, news of Miller's death -- and his final post online -- went viral.

The site "got 3 million visitors and it shutdown," said Miller's wife, Airdrie.

The 41-year-old writer and musician of Banbury, British Columbia, left behind two daughters, Marina, 13, and Lauren, 11.

"There can't be answers today," he wrote. "While I was still alive writing this, I was sad to know I'll miss these things -- not because I won't be able to witness them, but because Air, Marina, and Lauren won't have me there to support their efforts."

Airdrie Miller said her husband "was always a blogger."

"He'd been blogging prolifically for 10 years," she said.

Miller had written about his physical deterioration, documenting his chest cough, abdominal pain, voice loss, and the emotional toll of wearing diapers and becoming housebound.

"I'm at the point with my cancer that the car has finally bumped down off the pavement and we're driving on gravel now," he said in one of his final posts. "What I mean is, the end of the road is somewhere up ahead, not too far, and I'm not going back to smooth speedy travel, ever."

His writings discussed a range of topics from his craving for Diet Cherry Coke to his "Living Wake," which his family held for him in March.

His blog also connected him with a man named Jean-Hugues Pierson, a French citizen diagnosed with colorectal cancer on the same day.

"I could talk with someone who had to live the same experience," said Pierson, who had been able to battle his cancer into remission.

"Together we made our way through treatment in part by sending messages back and forth online," Miller posted on April 23.

Last month, Pierson traveled to British Columbia to visit Miller.

"I'm amazed JH would take time and spend money to see me," Miller wrote. "But it is our last chance, because it's my last chance, my last Easter, my final spring."

He died Tuesday.
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Hunky singer Jason Derulo hopes his nude shoot for a top British women's magazine will encourage his male fans to regularly check for testicular cancer.

The Ridin' Solo hitmaker has stripped off for the June issue of Cosmopolitan in a bid to raise awareness of the disease and he wants men everywhere to "take care" of their privates.

He says, "I'm very proud of my manhood. It's the best part of my body, so I want to look after it. That's why it's important to raise awareness of testicular cancer; we need to be more open about our health, go for check-ups and take care of our bodies.

"I was actually quite shy on my photoshoot. I take off my shirt in front of thousands of people on stage, but when there are just a few people around, it's nerve-racking. I said, 'Just make sure the room is warm and I'll be good'."

Hunky singer Jason Derulo hopes his nude shoot for a top British women's magazine will encourage his male fans to regularly check for testicular cancer.

The Ridin' Solo hitmaker has stripped off for the June issue of Cosmopolitan in a bid to raise awareness of the disease and he wants men everywhere to "take care" of their privates.

He says, "I'm very proud of my manhood. It's the best part of my body, so I want to look after it. That's why it's important to raise awareness of testicular cancer; we need to be more open about our health, go for check-ups and take care of our bodies.

"I was actually quite shy on my photoshoot. I take off my shirt in front of thousands of people on stage, but when there are just a few people around, it's nerve-racking. I said, 'Just make sure the room is warm and I'll be good'."