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Increase your odds for surviving prostate cancer

by on January 11, 2011
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Exercise increases survivorship by as much as 61%

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) — A new study of men with prostate cancer finds that physical activity is associated with a lower risk of overall mortality and of death due to prostate cancer. The study appeared Wednesday in an advance online edition of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Prostate cancer is one big fear for aging men. It doesn’t get the PR that breast cancer receives but prostate cancer is the most common cancer for men (other than skin cancer). It is strongly age related. More than 65% of all diagnosed casse occur in men over 65. The odds for a man to get prostate cancer after age 65 is one in fifteen. After age 65, prostate cancer is the most common cancer for either men or women. Prostate cancer is racists as well.  African-American men are 60 % more likely to get prostate cancer than caucasian men. [continue reading…]

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Looking back over one year of retirement!

by on January 10, 2011
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It is another anniversary for Ralph Carlson Blog

It has been one year since I retired for the second (and last) time.  It has been a time of growth, challenge, false starts, stumbles.  Now I’m looking back over the year to PDCA my efforts.  I started by looking at the year at Ralph Carlson Blog and discovered that this month marks the end of year two for the blog.  When I started, I knew little about blogging.  I thought I knew a lot because I had another blog for nearly two years before that.  I had learned that I needed to host my own blog and the advantages of the WordPress environment.   Over the year I learned that I didn’t know s*** about blogging but I’m a stubborn cuss and I pushed myself even when I didn’t know my goal or how to proceed.

What I learned this year [continue reading…]

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