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	<description>(living with smoldering myeloma)</description>
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		<title>Smoldering myeloma with diabetes or Addison’s Disease?</title>
		<link>http://margaret.healthblogs.org/2010/03/22/smoldering-myeloma-with-diabetes-or-addison%e2%80%99s-disease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I received a message from a blog reader/curcumin-taker who was recently diagnosed with smoldering myeloma (SMM). She also has Addison’s Disease*. She asked me a very good question: do any of your blog readers have smoldering myeloma in addition to having Addison’s Disease or diabetes? I have no idea, and that is why I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amusing signs</title>
		<link>http://margaret.healthblogs.org/2010/03/21/amusing-signs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A blog reader (thanks!) sent me most of these&#8230;I added a few&#8230;enjoy!  
Apartment laundry room sign: “Please be courteous and remove your clothes promptly.”
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Photographer&#8217;s studio: “Out to lunch: If not back by five, out for dinner also.”
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High school wall: “Fite Illiteracy.”
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Podiatrist&#8217;s office wall: &#8220;Time wounds all heels.&#8221;
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Proctologist&#8217;s  office door: &#8220;To expedite your visit, please [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Melanoma update&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://margaret.healthblogs.org/2010/03/19/melanoma-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have been following my blog for at least a month, you will know that my father-in-law was recently diagnosed with invasive melanoma (for a reminder, please see my Feb 6 and Feb 16 posts). In early February, we were told that the cancer had spread to his lungs (the nodules are small, which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dilemma&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://margaret.healthblogs.org/2010/03/17/dilemma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Is this a little white kitty hanging out of a cat tree 
OR a rare sighting (in Italy, anyway!) of a Hairy-legged or White-winged vampire bat&#8230;? I can&#8217;t decide&#8230;
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		<title>A great day&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://margaret.healthblogs.org/2010/03/16/a-great-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;It began with my reading a message from a MGUS blog reader who had contacted me last fall, after noticing that her markers, especially the freelite ones, were steadily worsening. After receiving my reply, she began the curcumin protocol. Today she received her test results: normal. No, I am not kidding: NORMAL. And her freelite chains are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smoldering myeloma study, part II&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://margaret.healthblogs.org/2010/03/15/smoldering-myeloma-study-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://margaret.healthblogs.org/2010/03/15/smoldering-myeloma-study-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I looked up the three small melphalan-prednisone studies on SMM patients mentioned in the abstract. Here are the links: 2009 abstract: http://tinyurl.com/ygnlwr5; 2000 full study: http://tinyurl.com/yjfneba, and 1996 full study: http://tinyurl.com/yhogw2y). A cursory glance shows that there was no difference in survival…indeed, a couple of patients in the first study developed acute leukemia during treatment. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smoldering (asymptomatic) multiple myeloma: current diagnostic criteria, new predictors of outcome, and follow-up recommendations. Part I.</title>
		<link>http://margaret.healthblogs.org/2010/03/14/smoldering-asymptomatic-multiple-myeloma-current-diagnostic-criteria-new-predictors-of-outcome-and-follow-up-recommendations-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to split this post into two parts, since it’s soooo long (I will publish part II tomorrow). It concerns a study on smoldering (asymptomatic) multiple myeloma published last month in the “Journal of Clinical Oncology”…Sherlock, grazie!, sent me the full text…
In the abstract (see: http://tinyurl.com/ybwtzke), there is a list of some of the risk factors for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Curcumin for pets with cancer</title>
		<link>http://margaret.healthblogs.org/2010/03/11/curcumin-for-pets-with-cancer/</link>
		<comments>http://margaret.healthblogs.org/2010/03/11/curcumin-for-pets-with-cancer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I received a Google Alert that took me to a vet&#8217;s webpage discussing the possible benefits of administering curcumin to dogs with cancer. The vet&#8217;s name is Dr. Dressler, and he apparently is known as the &#8220;dog cancer vet.&#8221; Anyway, his post (see below link) and his readers&#8217; comments were very interesting, but one of the comments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New study shows that papaya has cancer-fighting properties</title>
		<link>http://margaret.healthblogs.org/2010/03/10/new-study-shows-that-papaya-has-cancer-fighting-properties/</link>
		<comments>http://margaret.healthblogs.org/2010/03/10/new-study-shows-that-papaya-has-cancer-fighting-properties/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember my post on papaya and myeloma? If not, here is a reminder: http://margaret.healthblogs.org/2010/01/13/myeloma-papayas-and-papain/. Well, today I have a promising papaya (&#8230;promising papaya? hehe, sometimes my fingers type the darndest things!) update. According to a newly published University of Florida study, a papaya leaf extract had a dramatic anticancer effect against a broad range of lab-grown tumors, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dolphin slaughter documentary, &#8220;The Cove,&#8221; wins the Oscar.</title>
		<link>http://margaret.healthblogs.org/2010/03/08/dolphin-slaughter-documentary-the-cove-wins-the-oscar/</link>
		<comments>http://margaret.healthblogs.org/2010/03/08/dolphin-slaughter-documentary-the-cove-wins-the-oscar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just learned that &#8220;The Cove,&#8221; a documentary on the incredibly cruel and senseless slaughter of dolphins in a secluded cove in southern Japan, won the Oscar for best feature documentary. Well done! 
I found out about this massacre&#8211;which, incidentally, has been going on for years&#8211;when, months ago, I watched an Italian news broadcast showing a group [...]]]></description>
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