4/22/08 Update on mom
April 22, 2008
UPDATE 4/22/08
Found out the reason why mom had to stay in hospital was because of infection, the worst type being MRSA type infection. Could be from hospitals and surgery and chemotherapy, basically all that poking of the skins, these little bacteria bugs get in ya. We are waiting to see if it is something serious like the MRSA, or something not so serious and can be treated w/ antibotics. Funny how things that help you can cause other problems, like how too many cat scans/pet scans can cause other cancers when trying to prevent a different cancer. How surgery and chemotherapy solves one problem, but then causes another. where does it end??
anyways, here are some links of MRSA infection, although i hope its not that:
Also to note, that she fainted right after taking number 2, not number 1 which we all thought. She just came to the realization today, similar to what happened to grandpa about 2 months earlier. She said it was dry and probably needs stool softner. This may/may not be reason why she fainted because I did read somewhere that have trouble going to the bathroom causes loss of oxygen in the brain. I’ll be sure to tell the nurse and doctor and maybe they can give some stool softner or something else. Hey, taking big dry dumps takes a lot out of ya. Dehydration? Arizona heat? Who knows, but time to drink it up.
The Staphylococcal family of infections:
S.aureus is just one of a family of staphylococcal bacteria. Their normal home is on human skin. The commonest non-S.aureus staphylococcus on human skin is S.epidermidis. This is generally harmless and is called part of the ‘normal commensal flora’ of the human body. Many S.epidermidis are resistant to antibiotics including methicillin and they have the same resistance mechanism (the altered target) as MRSA and therefore are referred to as MRSE.
Although present harmlessly on the skin of everyone, S.epidermidis can cause significant infections if it enters wounds on medical devices such as artificial hip joints or heart valves, or when staff use intravenous catheters to access the bloodstream. This is especially so for severely ill patients such as those in intensive care units or those undergoing cancer chemotherapy.
Study reveals why cancer cells like sugar
April 17, 2008
Study reveals why cancer cells like sugar
DURHAM, N.C., April 17 (UPI) — U.S. medical researchers say they’ve discovered why cancer cells like sugar so much — a finding than might lead to better cancer treatments.
Duke University School of Medicine Assistant Professor Jeffrey Rathmell and graduate student Jonathan Coloff found that tumor cells use glucose as a way to avoid programmed cell death.
The cancer cells make use of a protein called Akt that promotes glucose metabolism. That, in turn, regulates a family of proteins critical for cell survival, the researchers said.
In normal cells, growth factors regulate metabolism and cell survival, they said. Removing those factors leads to loss of glucose uptake and metabolism, causing cell death. But they found cancer cells maintain glucose metabolism by utilizing Akt to maintain glucose usage, thereby resisting cell death even when deprived of growth factors.
The findings were presented Tuesday in San Diego during the annual meeting of the American Association of Cancer Research.
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