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posted by matanmedia2 on Jan 20

Canada has produced a number of fantastic athletes over the years. With its wide open expanses and good natural climate, it is a natural breeding ground for champions. Canada is strongest at hockey and thus it should be no surprise that it has contributed some of the greatest to have ever strapped on a skate, but it has also produced some world beaters in sports such as basketball and baseball.

Without any doubt, the greatest Canadian athlete of all time is Wayne Gretzky. It is no coincidence that he is called The Greatest. Gretzky was an ice-hockey god and successfully transformed from child prodigy to Stanley Cup champion. He played for the Edmonton Oilers, LA Kings, St Louis Blues, New York Rangers and along the way won four Stanley Cups all in a period between 1984 and 1988.

Super Mario is the nickname of Mario Lemieux. He was a champion player for 20 plus-years with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He won three Stanley Cups with the team and broke just about every record there is to break. He is a proud Canadian and was a member of the hockey team which won gold at the 2002 Olympics.

Speaking of the Olympics, Simon Whitfield won gold at the Sydney Olympics in the triathlon. He followed this up with silver in Beijing. This makes Whitfield the most successful triathlon at the Olympics. He is in good enough condition to contend at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Canada is a proud Olympic nation. It has only missed two Summer Olympics and hosted the games in 1976. It also hosted the Winter Olympics in 1988 and will do so again in 2010. Canada has had most success in Athletics where it has won 13 gold medals but it has also done well with rowing and swimming. Track though is where it has been most prominent.

Donovan Bailey won Olympic gold in the men’s 100m in 1996. This was a huge deal for Canada after the Ben Johnson scandal in 1988. Johnson won the 100m in world record time but he was stripped of both the medal and the record due to a drugs scandal. It now turns out that just about every in the race was on drugs of some sort.

Steve Nash would be the greatest basketball that Canada has ever produced. He has been a star for both the Suns and Mavericks where he was the MVP in 2005 and again the year later in 2006. He led a good Canada team at the Sydney Olympics but they were knocked out in the quarter-finals by France. They haven’t been back since for another Olympics.

Baseball may be Americas’s pastime, but the neighbour up north has contributed its fair share of great players. Jason Bay was the rookie of the year in 2004 while Justin Morneau was the MVP in 2006. Led by these two, Canada actually defeated the USA at the 2006 World Baseball Classic. This made huge news at the time and was considered a huge scandal in the States.

Stuart Grayson is a freelance writer and a Canadian native who covers news and events in the Canadian Bingo scene. He is an authority in the gaming sector and is writes regularly on topics such as Cash Bingo at 241bingo.com.

posted by jhernandezlawoffice on Jan 20

There are tests that allow the detection of certain types of cancers before the patient becomes symptomatic. The idea is to diagnose the cancer in the early stages while treatment can be used to cure the cancer rather than wait until the cancer advances and spreads and is no longer curable. With respect to prostate cancer there are two tests that are recommended to be used in combination. The first is a physical examination of the prostate gland for any abnormalities that could be the result of prostate cancer. The second is a blood test called the PSA test. An abnormally high result indicates the possibility of prostate cancer.

When a factor other than prostate cancer causes the PSA level to raise the elevated PSA is called a “false positive.” A biopsy has risks, such as the risk of infection and the risk of excessive bleeding. Given these two facts some doctors advise that male patients follow a plan of “watchful waiting.” Under such a plan the doctor monitors the patient’s elevated PSA over a period of months or years. During this time some doctors advise that the patient try non cancer related treatments, for example, for infection, under the theory that if the PSA is elevated for a reason other than prostate cancer such treatments may bring the PSA back to normal levels.

The danger with doing this is that the physician may wait too long before ordering any tests to determine whether the high PSA level is due to prostate cancer. If waiting results in the spread of the cancer beyond the prostate capsule then the patient will no longer have treatment options that can eliminate and cure the cancer. For patients whose cancer is detected while contained within the capsule, the likelihood is better than 90 percent that they will still be alive 5 years after diagnosis. The percentage is lower for the most aggressive forms of prostate cancer. This measure is referred to as the 5-year survival rate.

Doctors use the five year survival rate to classify, for each stage of the cancer at the time of diagnosis, the percentage of men so diagnosed who will survive the cancer for five years. While men with very aggressive forms of prostate cancer generally have a lower survival rate than men with a less aggressive cancer, when prostate cancer is diagnosed in the early stages, before it has a chance to spread outside the prostate gland itself, the five year survival rate is in the high ninety percent range.

When the cancer is not diagnosed until the late stages, after it has spread outside the prostate, there is no known cure at the current time. Treatment options are more limited and are generally meant to slow the spread and effects of the cancer. In time, however, current treatments for advanced prostate cancer eventually lose their effectiveness and the disease becomes fatal.

After the cancer spreads beyond the capsule, the 5-year survival rates drop significantly.
In general, once the cancer reaches to stage 3 the patient has about a 50-50 percent chance that the cancer will progress. If the cancer is already at stage 4 when the diagnosis is made, the patient generally only has a 2-3 year life expectancy.

Treatment options for advanced prostate cancer may include hormone therapy, radiation therapy, orchiectomy (the surgical removal of the testicles), and possibly chemotherapy. Treatment will usually cause the PSA to drop significantly. Over time, however, treatment ceases to be effective as the cancer continues to progress. This is typically associated with a new rise in the PSA level. After the treatment stops being effective, the cancer is fatal. As of the time this article was written approximately 90,000 men a year are expected to die in the U.S. from advanced prostate cancer.

How many of these 90,000 deaths will be due to a physician advising his patient to follow a plan of “watchful waiting” and then waiting too long to finally diagnose the cancer? We might never know how many of these men’s lives might have been saved had the physician instead advised the patient to undergo a biopsy. However, if you or a member of your family were among those whose physician delayed the diagnosis of prostate cancer until it was at an advanced stage, you should immediately contact a competent medical malpractice attorney. The physician may be liable under a medical malpractice claim.

Joseph Hernandez is an Attorney medical malpractice cases. You can learn more about cases involving advanced prostate cancer and how a cancer attorney can help you by visiting his website.