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Tuesday, 9 February 2016

Are Clinical Trials Important to Cancer Research?

The battle against cancer hasn't slowed down in 2015. Many new treatment options are surfacing that couldn't have come to fruition if it weren't for professionally orchestrated clinical trials. Experts continue to conduct trials on willing patients, hopeful that they'll be a part of the next big discovery.

Eradication of cancer is a common goal worldwide and will continue to be so until a cure is found.As the disease grows and changes, that is proving to be quite difficult. Still many strides have been made and the survival rate is higher than ever.

There are many reasons for clinical trials, which are necessary in order to advance in the pharmaceutical realm of treatment. Learning about the process may help those who are considering becoming part of one of these trials better understand them and make an informed decision.

Is the New Treatment Safe?

This is the main purpose for conducting clinical trials. Before being used to treat Cancer, a drug must be proven safe as the liability of the company producing it is at stake. Safety concerns must be answered; however there's an understanding no procedure or treatment is completely without risk. Anyone who reads a bottle of medications knows this, as the risks are clearly stated. The man question is if the benefits outweigh the risks. Clinical trials take years and years to complete. In fact, there are many phases.

Each phase of a clinical trial is set up to answer particular questions all while keeping the test subjects safe and comfortable. Each treatment is tested in about three or more phases before determining it is okay to put on the market. The phases of a clinical trial are:

• Phase 0: Exploring if a new drug can actually work
• Phase 1: Is the treatment safe in general?
• Phase 2: Does it actually work to treat cancer?
• Phase 3: Does it trump what is already available for treating cancer?

These are the basic phases. After these are conducted, the drug is submitted for FDA approval via a new drug application, or NDA. Then the fourth phase comes into play once approved.

• Phase 4: What else needs to be known?

In phase 4, thousands of test subjects may be used. Safety over time is looked at, as well as quality of life and overall cost.

Does it Work for Humans?

Unfortunately only 5 % of adults will participate in clinical trials, while 60 % of children do. This makes it quite time consuming to conduct the trials when there aren't enough test subjects. This is why many companies that conduct these trials are beginning to move to other regions, such as South America.

If only they'd take a look at the statistics, they may change their tune as the survival rate for childhood cancer has risen exponentially.

In these regions there are many more willing participants, as they consider it free treatment. If the trial works in humans, and it is better than what is currently being used to treat cancer professionals will consider the side effects and how it works in different groups of people, or different strains of the disease. It's certainly an in depth process.

A Small but Important Part

Though clinical trials are but a small part of the entire process to make a treatment available to those suffering from cancer, it is still one that can't be skipped. From discovery, there are many steps that follow. First, the treatment must be created, then purified, described and lab tested before being moved to clinical testing on humans. On average, new treatments go through about six years of testing and very few drugs that go through the processes are actually able to be tested on humans.

FOMAT Medical Research is one of the world's premier medical research companies. It specializes in developing and managing clinical trials in South America as well as providing them with technology to assist their sites with their trials. FOMAT currently has its headquarters in the United States with regional sites in Ecuador and shortly in Peru and Argentina with English-speaking management teams, investigators and clinical coordinators working at all of their locations. The company's international sites count more than 10 million patients many of which have not participated in clinical trials before.



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A Christmas Gift of Life for a Poster Child

A few days ago, I came across a Google ad of a poster child from St. Jude's Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.

The child is either seven or nine years old, but with a smile to win anyone's heart. I sat there wondering where that child's life was in regards to her health. Was she in the advance stages of cancer with no hope?

I moved on with my life to other things that I enjoy working on, but the girl's face kept coming back, almost like the attraction of one spirit to another. I've had these moments many times in the past, and I normally do something about it.

Not this time. I simply let it go. A day later, I went looking for the same ad from St. Jude's and it simply didn't show up. However, on the following day this child's face came back on in full view, and her smile was striking.

I'm a grandfather of three beautiful children, and I could imagine any one of them in that poster. I am sure that mega churches have taken up the call to pray for this girl.

I waited another day, and sure enough her poster came back up again on my laptop screen. This time I took her name, and I decided to do something about it. The idea struck me like a bolt of lightning. Why not do a vision of healing for her?

Visions of healing are events that allow a person to see the healing of a patient. However, it requires assistance from Jesus Christ. I've done hundreds of visions where Jesus comes and heals the person, mainly of their disease. I am not the healer but rather the organizer.

I decided that this child should get a vision, and to give it to her as a Christmas present. Some people enjoy praying for others, I like doing visions.

I asked Jesus to help me, and he agreed to see her. I assumed that she's in the hospital in Memphis, and that's exactly where I went.

In visions of healing, the healer's spirit is able to detach itself from the body, and it can travel by the simple process of "thought." You think of the location you wish to be at, and your spirit will appear where the vision of healing will take place. In my case, I went from Atlanta to Memphis in seconds.

I transcribed the entire vision while sitting over at my favorite Starbucks near my residence in Atlanta. The time was 5:45 P.M. Monday, December 22, 2015.

I waited for Jesus outside the girl's room at St. Jude. When he arrived we walked in. I found her mom texting someone while sitting in what looked like a very comfortable sofa.

I will share the vision that took place. Jesus has said many times that his visions of healing are "true and exact." So I leave it to the believers in the world to appreciate this vision which took place a few day ago. The end result is that the girl was healed, and that's all that matters to me for I believe.

Jesus stood by the girl's bedside and touched her face. He did it to feel for fever. She was fine, and then he took two fingers and moistened them with his saliva. He touched her forehead again and made the sign of the cross.

He held my hand and I took the girl's right hand. Jesus looked up toward Heaven and said, "Dear Father, for your glory I shall heal this young girl." (The girl's name was mentioned by Jesus).

He released his healing energy on her, and at the same time it flowed right through me. Jesus then placed his right hand on her chest, and he allowed the healing energy of God's to reach the core of this girl's body.

It was a full minute of healing energy that flowed between us. It felt like a mild current of electricity. Where medicine and radiation sometimes cannot kill the disease, Jesus can do it by simply laying his hand on the patient for as long as he wants.

When the healing process was finished, he leaned over and kissed the girl's soft face. Then he did something unusual. He walked over to her mother (who was still texting), and Jesus leaned over and kissed the top of her head.

He thanked me for coming and left the room. I walked over to stand by the poster child whose smile inspired me to organize the vision of healing. She got her Christmas gift from Jesus Christ, and I got to share her story.

I've enjoyed writing articles on EzineArticles.com, and in the past couple of years I've published two books. There are many people in the world who need help beyond what doctors and modern medicine can do.



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Emma Maembong upset enlarged pregnancy test device issues



KUALA LUMPUR: Actor, Emma Maembong declined to elaborate on his controversial buy a pregnancy test at a pharmacy in order to avoid misunderstanding it than to continue.

Emma real name, Fatimah Rohani Ismail, 23, said he shared the good news of his brother, Yaya, now five months pregnant.

He did not think this matter is manipulated by certain quarters that he has raised controversy.

"I do not understand how this issue can be overwhelming suddenly as it happened five months ago. The purpose of my talk is to share the good news Yaya was pregnant. I did not expect my name was implicated in the controversy.

"I prefer not to tell you more so that this matter can no longer be extended and to avoid misunderstandings. I did not expect the small things can be manipulated by certain quarters that leads into the story I became pregnant again.

"The partnership is based on a conversation between me and a friend of the media, did not think there was the story about my situation when buying a pregnancy test," said Emma to BH Online.

However, he expressed happiness that Yaya is now five months pregnant eldest son of King Wan sharing life together.

Earlier Yaya real name Rabbiati Adawiyyah, 39, and Wan Raja Saiful Redzuan real name is Abu Bakar, 38, survived married in Masjid Al-Redhuan Hulu Klang near here on December 12, 2014 with one pronouncement.

Never Give Up, the Story of Patricia

One day in our lives we'll be asked to do a service, perhaps more than one time. These services are errands of mercy. They are so profound that you'll be surprised to find how critical your part might be.

We may be asked to observe an event; transcribe it; and live to tell the world about it.

Late one afternoon on March 6, 2014, a friend of mine who used to visit hospitals in South Florida brought to me a lead of a patient at stage 4 cancer. Even worse for the patient was the fact that the same hospital had done all that they were planning on doing for her. I recall being told that the patient was only days away from going to hospice at home.

My friend Anne found her crying in her room, all alone in the Rehab ward of the hospital. The nurse in attendance had asked Anne to please visit with this patient as an act of kindness. Anne was only responsible to see cancer patients in the Cancer ward and to pray for them.

Patricia, the name of the terminal patient, was forty-three years old. She was a mother of three young children, and had been divorced and abandoned by her husband. That's all that I knew about her life, and I didn't particularly care to do a vision for her. My hands were full with other patients. Besides, visions of healing for just about anyone take me at least thirty minutes and longer to do, from start to finish.

However, I felt compelled to help this person but against my better wishes. Anne had told me that when she had visited Patricia in her room, she looked amazingly well for her advance stage of cancer. Additionally, I felt drawn to Patricia by the number of fortuitous events that had led Anne to go and see her.

Patricia wasn't even in Anne's list of patients to visit that day; and it was only on the insistence of the floor nurse that Anne took the initiative to see her.

Two days later, I decided to ask Jesus if he would like to see Patricia and he agreed. He asked me to meet him at the hospital, and I left Atlanta in my spirit all the way to Kendall, Florida.

I walked into Patricia's room and I looked at her. I actually found her at peace. Perhaps she had finally resigned herself to her death.

Jesus came in and he went straight over to Patricia's bedside. He took her hand and held on to it for a while. The room was deeply silent, but mainly because Patricia was asleep and her breathing was very shallow. You couldn't even hear her breathe.

Jesus said to me, "Patricia has come pretty far with her cancer, but until she got serious about her health and illness she had neglected to see a doctor. I will heal her for the sake of her children, but she needs to speak with me first."

Jesus then invoked Patricia's spirit to come out of her body. She did, and without hesitation Jesus asked her, "Do you know why you were called?" She wouldn't answer. She remained silent looking straight at Jesus.

He asked her another question, "Do you know who I am?" She surprised me with her blunt answer, while I stood to one side of the room observing this encounter.

Her spirit finally answered Jesus when she said, "I do, but I just can't believe that you bothered to come to me. I pray and pray for my life, but I didn't expect any answers."

Jesus' response to Patricia was, "You have neglected your children many times because of your own bad habits (Jesus alluded to her drug issues in the past). Are you planning on becoming a good and clean mother to your children?"

Jesus didn't wait for an answer, and he followed up by telling her, "But I must warn you, any answer that you may give to me by the laws of Heaven the spirit cannot lie, so think carefully before you respond to me."

She prepared her answer well and then she said, "If you save my life, I will, and if I fail you please take my life. I will not cry if you should take me home, for I certainly don't deserve your kindness!"

"Patricia," Jesus said, "What I do for you today is for the sake of your children and not for you. You owe your life to your children. If you don't follow your words, you will betray your own family. So tell me Patricia, why should I heal you?"

Patricia regained her strength and courage and said to Jesus, "Dear Jesus, I know very well that I don't deserve your healing. I am fully aware of that! And I also know that I am very little to you. But worse people than me get chances. I just need a break. I don't have any options left to me. I've already been told of my future by the doctors, so you are my future. And if I am not grateful now, allow me to show my gratitude later."

Jesus didn't ask any more questions of Patricia. He took my hand and he proceeded to perform a healing for her.

After Jesus healed her body of the cancer that was killing her, he spoke these words for her benefit, "Patricia, I have healed you, now go in peace and sin no more."

He leaned over and kissed her forehead. She responded by saying to Jesus, "My Lord, thank you!"

Patricia is a woman of immense faith and courage. When she faced Jesus for the first time, she came to the realization that even if she wasn't worthy of a healing to miss this chance would have been fatal to her, and a great loss to her children.

Jesus knew all along that she needed to want to live for the sake of her children; otherwise, she wouldn't have appreciated Jesus' kind gesture of love. Her attitude was bad enough when she reproached Jesus for not having come sooner.

Patricia had given up on God. So, Jesus placed her children as the main reason for the healing that would spare her life. Her life hadn't been exemplary, but her dying wasn't the answer either. Not for her, and certainly not for her children who were the innocent ones and the victims in her case.

Perhaps the biggest lesson of this true story is to never give up on God, and definitely not on ourselves. If God wants us to continue to live, He'll send someone to visit with us.

The story of Patricia was told in her honor. I never met her, but her spirit came across as I tried to tell it.

There are many patients like Patricia in the world, forgotten and in hospital rooms all alone waiting and hoping against all hope for a miracle. She never pretended to deserve the presence of God, but God needed to help her in His own way.

I've been present to many visions of healing for people in desperate situations. I wish to tell their stories so that people learn how Jesus works his miracles every day.



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When Parents Won't Listen to God's Messages

There is a way that God employs to communicate with parents in particular. But, are parents willing to listen, and will they follow-up on His messages?

First of all, how do we know if God is actually speaking to us?

If God wishes to speak to anyone, it will be through another person, a dream, a spirit, an angel, a saint, or a written message. I have experienced all these methods, and for sure there are other ways that I'm not aware of.

I remember the cases of two young cancer patients whose names were given to me by a parishioner at my old church in South Florida. I had opened myself up to doing visions of healing for any and all leads. I needed the experience with different type illnesses and ages of patients, so I volunteered. This was in early 2012.

Unfortunately, both patients were lost within a year from the actual healing performed for their benefit by Jesus Christ. I was responsible for organizing the visions, but I had expected things to have gone smoother. I lacked in experience, but I believed in the visions and still do.

Michael was a twenty-one-year-old student and a very handsome boy. I was told that he was suffering from a rare brain cancer. I took his name to Jesus right at the adoration chapel of my church.

I asked Jesus if he would like to see Michael and he agreed. In fact, I've never had Jesus refuse to see any patient that I've brought to him. He has always been willing to help anyone, even if some of the patients I've taken to him have been uncooperative, and sometimes unwilling to accept a healing from him.

The healing went through at the boy's home, while I physically sat at the adoration chapel. (All visions are in the spiritual world, while the actual healing of a patient is in the physical.)

Jesus asked me to advise the parents that Michael had been healed, but that he was required to show up at the adoration chapel on a regular basis, and to thank God for the healing. This was the only thing that Jesus had requested of Michael. I explained this to his father in my email of the vision, and again when I saw him at a local event.

Subsequent to the day of the healing, I became aware of two events: One, the father took a copy of the vision of Michael's healing to a local healer. The parent wanted a second opinion, or maybe a third one. So, he consulted with a "curandero" (a medicine man who works with herbs, spiritualism, and other elements), and are quite prominent in South Florida.

And two, the boy didn't bother to attend the chapel and thank God for the favor, as Jesus had requested in the vision. His dad told me that he was doing all the thanking to God for his boy. I had nothing else to say.

The issue with the curandero became a sore point with Jesus, and he advised me; otherwise, I would've never known about it. He felt that Michael's dad should have remained faithful to God's word. And the fact that Michael decided to party instead of praying in gratitude for his new lease on life, it didn't help either. His dad was notified of these two events by me. I never heard from him again.

Exactly a year after the day of the healing from Jesus, Michael died. I found out that his Oncologist had submitted him to very aggressive "experimental" drugs, as of last resort.

Brandon was a nine-year-old-boy with an inoperable brain tumor. I took the case to Jesus for he was also referred to me at the parish. I did the vision at the adoration chapel, and the boy was healed by Jesus at his home.

I provided the family an email of the vision. I didn't hear from them for months.

One morning, I was informed that the boy had a relapse. I took the case back to Jesus, and he said that Brandon was fine. I advised the family timely, and not long after I found out that the boy had died. Again, from the day of the vision to the day of his death a year had gone by. This was in 2013.

A month later, I invited Brandon's mom to a weekly morning Mass in his memory. She came, and afterwards we went for coffee at a Starbucks near the church. I told her that I was awfully sorry for Brandon's death, and I thanked her for coming.

I asked her about Brandon's last days, and what exactly had happened. I reminded her that Jesus had said that he was fine. It pained me to even say it to her, but I needed to find out what went wrong.

She proceeded to tell me a very sad story. She said that her husband had no respect for or affinity with God; and neither had he bothered to acknowledge the vision, or the following message that I had sent to them from Jesus. She said that her husband was all for trying out "new drugs," and doing extensive research into Brandon's rare illness through his blog and Facebook with other parents.

Before Brandon's mom left, she asked me for a favor. She wanted me to make contact with Brandon's spirit, and to tell him these words from her: "Dear Brandon, I am very sorry that your dad and I argued so bitterly in front of you a few days before your death. Please forgive me!"

I did the favor for her a few days later when I paid a visit to the chapel. I delivered the message directly to Brandon, but first I asked Jesus if he would allow me to do it.

He did! Jesus had Brandon's spirit come to the altar of the chapel and he held his hand. He was such a beautiful boy! I felt the loss as if he were my own child.

The parents in my true story of Michael and Brandon's life made some critical decisions, all in good faith, I am sure. However, for the sake of clarification, I'm convinced that there was a disparity of opinion between the parents.

Brandon's mother insinuated to me when I last spoke to her that she might have stayed with God's vision and post assurance until the very end, if needed to. Her husband on the other hand didn't bother at all with God, and based on her own words he had the final say.

Michael's dad took a different approach. He was all over South Florida looking for help from many, including: priests, curanderos, and me for a vision of healing. I never saw or met Michael's mom, only his dad.

I don't have an explanation for parents whom I've helped in the past and their actions. Whatever decisions they made to save their children, with or without God, even at the last hour, I'm fine with that.

Being a parent is hard enough sometimes, add to that the profound sorrow of seeing your child, or any other family member, live through an illness that has no viable solution. So you focus on prayers, and hope that a "miracle drug" is produced in time to save your loved one.

All my visions of healing for cancer patients have been done at stages 3 and 4 mainly. I've seen positive results through visions, and I've seen disasters by parents who failed to follow Jesus' advice after their children had been healed.

Jesus explained to me a few years back that a patient cannot have both: a vision of healing from him, and then continue to submit to very aggressive treatments. It was heartbreaking for me to have seen both Michael and Brandon fall into a vicious cycle where there was absolutely no margin for error.

I wish to help parents with true stories of patients of all ages. Hopefully, they illustrate that once people resort to God for help, He wishes that they remain steadfast with Him right through the storm. Hopefully that would mean both parents.

To advise parents personally when you aren't exactly well-known to them, and your help is not understood or may not even be accepted, it is indeed a sad commentary.

Thus, articles are a great vehicle for communicating to people the experiences of true cases in life. And to speak about one of the deadliest diseases in the world, cancer, you hope that parents who might benefit from this information take advantage.

My blog at: http://tonymccleary.blogspot.com will serve the readers to find current information on the power of prayers, holy water, and general guidance.

To learn of God's ways for communicating with Him is one of the major subjects which I developed in my last book: Will Heaven Help Me If Ask? And you may find it by reading it on Kindle Unlimited for free.

If you wish to know what answers God has provided to many of the patients that I've taken to Him for a healing, I've set up the book in quotes for fast reading and convenience.



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What Is Cancer to You?

How much can be done, can be done.

How much more you can do, will be done.

Do you have the will to live?

Yes, as you must first acknowledge the environment.

The environment is consisted of your family, your friends and your numerous caregivers.

Look into their eyes of pure sincerity, as they look at you in a pathetic state. Communicate happiness that cancer is simply a statement to yourself and the world out there that you are chosen for the test of a lifetime.

Adversity only makes a person think, take action; not evasive but with the will to win.

Winning is not the main thing athletic coaches tell their 'students' to focus on, but the will and want to win, as an unrelenting mindset.

In that way, you see that how many times they should fail to be good in the eyes of the public, they get better.

Moreover, they never think of giving up. That is the mindset any cancer victim must have.

If in doubt, take me as an example; I had tumors in my brain and neck. Yet, I pray to the skies above that there are many of me to be dignified. To add, I am now working in the hospital industry, as my status was dignified and respected.

As able to understand, feel and see the arising problems before they occur. Patient caregivers all know what to do, they stand by the weak, do what is to be done for the hopeless.

Living for a lifetime
With the brain, brawn is easier. Take me for an example. I am not the best in this category of achievement, but I did this to return to normalcy in life.

Physical motivation is seen, heard and at times; tangible. But Psychological motivation is to insert positive thoughts into the mind before making things work.

Things people do seem impossible, but it is done; eventually, by somebody else.

These times are actually meant for you to do and stop the thoughts of doing. Just thinking and no action implemented is simply the ways of a person who is efficient, BUT; INEFFECTIVE!

There is a lifetime ahead of you, what you think, is where you will be, and what you will do, in the process of the project, called lifetime.

Think before acting
Initially, I failed that test, but my mind told me to go on, again. Yes, I fell, again, but I fall after a longer distance has been travel-led. The process repeated itself, but the mind keeps 'saying'; "AGAIN". Go about this journey, and employ a different strategy.

Thoughts before execution are the factors that will make a result. So, think before you act. Remember, to check the sling before taking a making the 'sling shot'

Action, will result in reaction; what is your response?

Weigh the pros and cons
Know the cause and consequence
In the subject: accounting; know what you will gain, with that amount of losses.

Stanley Lai is a cancer survivor who achieved in an awkward way and lived on. He now writes articles to inspire others and help them to overcome challenges in life; and living with life.

Despite the forces of nature; much help is available around you.

I had the need, so I approached my belief, that my family is key.



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Lenovo current 18 transformative tools, new accessories



CONSUMER Channel Lead, Microsoft Ireland, Bruce Howe (second from left), Country General Manager, Lenovo Malaysia, Khoo Hung Chuan (third from left), Chairman of the MNC and Telco Intel Malaysia and Singapore, Karen Chow (third from right) and Senior National 4P Users experts, Lenovo Malaysia, Andy Tan (second from right) during Lenovo "Evolution Technology" media launch at Aloft Hotel, Bangsar.

KUALA LUMPUR: Lenovo, a multinational computer company has launched 18 new equipment transformative and accessories for computing, entertainment and gaming users.

This is part of MyLENOVOtainment that allows it to strategically connect MyLENOVOMusic, MyLENOVOMovie and MyLENOVOGaming.

"Lenovo has seen consistent demand not only for laptops and smart phones but also for tablets, and personal computers node range because we have different customer groups," said Country General Manager, Khoo Hung Chuan told reporters during the launch of the products here , today.

Khoo said MyLENOVOtainment approach will allow it to continue to improve the lives of everyone.

"Around the world, we are known for innovation, style and personal expression and still maintain this advantage through our new product range," he said.

With MyLENOVOtainment, Lenovo will continue to remain as the only company that has a digital heritage and global reach to enhance the user experience for digital entertainment fun.

It will make it easier for each section to deliver product value chain, content, services and industry partnerships to help consumers make the connection at every stage of their life style.

The new products consist of Series Y for the game, the series YOGA, ideacentres, ideapads, Series Lenovo hub (Phone + Tablet) together with game accessories and Lenovo Pocket Projector.

The price range of 18 products ranging from RM399 to RM6,999.

Lenovo is a Fortune 500 company and global technology leader with US $ 46 billion (RM195 billion) in sales, with products sold in more than 160 countries worldwide.