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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 1, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba health Winnipeg free press Friday september 1, 2006 a9 acis head of surgery said yesterday transfusion. In 15 of the 17 patients family photo from bethesda., my. So we re very who received the therapy the fortified Mark Origer shown with his daughter Katie at her wedding last fall had enthusiastic about it As a new to cells remained in the body but grew feared he would t live to see the wedding. at Low Levels Over a few months. The while the therapy had no Impact 15 eventually succumbed to the removed. A checkup from Sci doctors malignant Melanoma and almost 900on the other 15, who have since died Melanoma. Rosenberg said his team has found a Only two saw their cancer disappear. This week confirmed that Origer is still will die says the Canadian cancer Sci Way to strengthen the genetically Engi they Are currently disease free and cancer free he told the associated Ety. Needed to cells in the Hope of improve their super to cell Levels remain High press. Despite optimism about the expert i know How fortunate i am to have mental treatments Promise Nelson ing the Success rate among other two years after treatment. Patients with advanced Melanoma. I a cured for now said one of the gone through this and responded to cautioned that safety of Gene therapy we have receptors that is genes two Mark Origer 53, of Watertown this he said. Not everybody a that remains a concern since it is to cells that go awry in autoimmune diseases that Are 10 to 100 times More Power-wis., who saw his Tumours Start to still the researchers admit there a such As Type 1 diabetes in which they Ful than the ones we used just a couple shrink just a month after his Decem of years ago so i have every expect Ber 2004 treatment. A year ago Only a no guarantee that the cancer wont attack healthy insulin producing cells come Back. An estimated 4,500 Cana in the pancreas. Tion that we re going to be Able to Small cancerous spot on his liver Diane will be diagnosed this year with Canadian pres improve upon this remained which surgeons later Keyhole surgery alleviates pain worry by or. Luis Oppenheimer y of have just been told that you will need surgery. The Prospect of surgery no matter How minor is scary. Immediately a million thoughts run through your mind. You re afraid of being Cut open being put under anaesthesia wearing the thin Blue cloth gown with the open Back possible complications and in addition to these rational fears there is worry. You worry about the length of time you will need to recover because during this time you May miss work and family commitments. Good news Over the past 20 years significant advances have been made in surgical procedures. An example is Keyhole surgery. Key Hole surgical procedures allow for a smaller incision to be made and hence less pain and a Shorter recovery period for our patients. Examples of a few common Keyhole surgical procedures include gallbladder hernia gynaecology and Bowel surgery. The purpose of Keyhole surgery is to reach the target organs and perform the surgery with minimal disruption to skin and Muscles where the pain is created. How does it work narrow and deep cuts Are pierced through both the skin and Muscles of the designated area to obtain Access you health and visibility of the body a internal organs. These narrow cuts allow the surgeon to reach the specific health problem by using surgical instruments that can reach the internal organs and Are then used to Cut suture and Complete the procedure. It is necessary for the surgeon to make another narrow Cut to insert a source of Light much like a Small Cam Era that carries optical fibres so that images from inside the body can be seen on a television Monitor. To be Able to see a space is created inside the body by allowing the inflow of Gas at an extremely Low pressure rate. Once inside the body the Gas which has created a space much like the inside of a balloon allows the sur Geon to see the affected area and proceed with the surgery. These minimally invasive approaches Are now generally available in just about every area of surgery. Because skin and Muscles Are spared except for the Small incisions where the original narrow cuts were mad Post operative pain is further reduced and physical recovery is fast. The surgical wound no longer needs to be the most painful debilitating and limiting part of surgery. Surgical procedures that used to require 1 to 1 1/2 weeks of Hospital stay mostly to help the control of pain and to allow for restoration of muscle function and recovery Are now per formed on a Day surgery basis or require less than three Days of stay in a Hospital. This allows you to recover More quickly and to resume your work and family activities. Keyhole surgical procedures Are radically changing the performance of surgery. In Many cases though the recovery period is much quicker the operation procedure does take longer to per form. Not surprisingly the equipment is also More expensive which sometimes makes the economical justification of these procedures difficult. But the availability of this technically advanced equipment has a real Impact on staff and for patients. The Benefit to patients simply out weighs the Cost. Patients receive a quicker recovery time have less Surgi Cal risk and a smaller Chance of infection thus making Keyhole surgical procedures a benefiting investment and need. Along with these new surgical proce dures and advancing equipment is the need to educate surgeons on How to perform both traditional and minimally invasive surgical procedures. This Means that there is much More to learn the faculty of Medicine because our main goal is to give our patients the Best possible treatment and care that we can provide. A surgeon who is educated on both types of surgical procedures can offer More to their patients and Are More prepared to handle possible complications that May arise during surgery. So your tentative surgery Date does not need to cause you or your family to worry or to be afraid. Keyhole surgical procedures and the training our surgeons Are receiving from the faculty of Medicine and at our hospitals Are Mak ing it possible for you to have a quicker and safer recovery. It is just one other Means of How we at the faculty of Medicine and at our hospitals Are providing Medicine with a difference. Your health is an occasional column written by staff on the University of Manitoba a faculty of Medicine. Or. Oppenheimer is professor and head department of surgery faculty of medi Cine University of Manitoba. He is also medical director surgery program Winnipeg regional health authority. juices prevent disease study higher consumption cuts alzheimer a risk by Susan Mohammad Ottawa ? people who drink three or More Servings of juice per week have a 76 per cent lower risk of developing alzheimer a than those who Only drink juice less than once a week according to a research study released yesterday. The study ? conducted by or. I Dai assistant professor of Medicine at the Vanderbilt University medical Center and his colleagues ? will be published in the september Issue of the american journal of Medicine. The team collected information on consumption of fruit and vegetable juices from 1,836 dementia free people Over the age of 65 from the Seattle area. They measured their cognitive functions every two years for about a decade. All of the participants were japanese in origin because of the Low rate of the disease among the japanese population. However Dai said japanese people Liv ing in North America have a greater incidence of alzheimer a than those still living in Japan because of changes to lifestyle and diet. Dai said researchers first thought that High intakes of antioxidant vitamins such As vitamins a e and carotene might help protect against the disease but he sought to study the role that another Type of antioxidant called poly phenols play in reducing risk. Poly phenols Are found in teas juices and wines and Are Rich in the skins and peels of fruit and vegetables. The Levels of poly phenols were measured in blood samples taken from the participants of the study. In our daily diet poly phenol is the major antioxidant. We wanted to see if it plays the role in reducing alzheimer a disease not antioxidant vitamins Dai said. The study does not determine what kinds of juices or in what combinations they Benefit people the most. Dai said he and his colleagues want to study that next. The study would also look at the Best Way to prepare fruits and vegetables for optimal results. If you re peeling an Apple the major Ity of poly phenol just goes away but As a juice its Rich in it he said. We want to study which compounds and which juice May be More factors such As smoking activity Levels and fat intake were also taken into account in the study. Although it is unknown which juices work Best Dai said he suspects that the juices from apples grapes and onions work Best. Similar studies Point to the poly phenol lev Els in red wine play ing a significant role in reducing the risk of dementia if consumed in moderate Levels. ? can West news service ;