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	<title>Dr. John Hong &#187; Cancer</title>
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		<title>Fox29 &#124; Weight Loss Pill, Cell Phone and Brain Cancer, Alzheimer&#8217;s Early Detection</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Edema &#124; More than a swollen head</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/edema-more-than-a-swollen-head/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 14:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[    Ex-Governor Eliot Spitzer must have had a pretty big ego to think he could hire prostitutes and not get caught. Hello! But then again, it seems most powerful people get a swollen head and feel untouchable-until they get a swollen lip when they get caught. Perhaps if the head did visibly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lung Cancer in Nonsmokers &#124; An Unfortunate Surprise</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/lung-cancer-in-nonsmokers-an-unfortunate-surprise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 19:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Speechless&#8221; is a glam-rock type of song from the one, the only: Lady Gaga. Love Lady Gaga. Want to see her perform in Atlantic City, but I can&#8217;t find anyone to join me to see her brilliance. I wonder if Thomas Jefferson will be speechless when she performs at John Paul Jones Arena. 
Many things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ovarian Cancer</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2009/ovarian-cancer-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2009/ovarian-cancer-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 21:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ovarian cancer occurs in over 22,000 American women a year. Ovarian cancer kills 16,000 of them. Ovarian cancer survival rate is 20% in 5 years.

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		<title>Pancreatic Cancer</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2009/pancreatic-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 21:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pancreatic cancer is the #4 cause of cancer deaths. Pancreatitc cancer has a low survival rate. Pancreatic cancer is usually diagnosed too late, making it hard to cure
 
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		<title>Edema &#8211; Swollen legs, arms, and hopefully not heads</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2008/edema-swollen-legs-arms-and-hopefully-not-heads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2008/edema-swollen-legs-arms-and-hopefully-not-heads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Injuries]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Ex-Governor Eliot Spitzer must have had a pretty big ego to think he could hire prostitutes and not get caught. Hello! But then again, it seems most powerful people get a swollen head and feel untouchable-until they get a swollen lip when they get caught. Perhaps if the head did visibly swell up, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inflammatory Breast Cancer &#8211; Easily Misdiagnosed</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2007/inflammatory-breast-cancer-easily-misdiagnosed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2007/inflammatory-breast-cancer-easily-misdiagnosed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Tara is what Scarlett O&#8217;Hara fought for. But is land so important to fight for that you reduce yourself to wearing drapery and marrying a man you don&#8217;t love?  
Someone once told me, &#8220;The secret to being a lady is knowing when to be a woman.&#8221; So Scarlett got Tara back, but her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pancreatic Cancer &#8211; Something to get an upset belly over</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2007/pancreatic-cancer-something-to-get-an-upset-belly-over/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2007/pancreatic-cancer-something-to-get-an-upset-belly-over/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Hypochondria is a horrible thing. One of my best friends suffers from it &#8211; - although it&#8217;s getting better each year. I didn&#8217;t realize he suffered from hypochondria when initially he kept thinking he had testicular cancer. What he had was a groin pull. In his head it was definitely testicular cancer, and it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ovarian Cancer</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2007/ovarian-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  &#8220;Friends come and go, Talking of Michelangelo&#8221; is my adaptation of T.S. Eliot&#8217;s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. I never really got into poetry, so to challenge myself, at Denison University I enrolled not just in a poetry class, but in an honors poetry class.  
Ho ho ho&#8230; hum. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Non-Hodgkin&#8217;s Lymphoma: NHL doesn&#8217;t stand for hockey</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2006/non-hodgkins-lymphoma-nhl-doesnt-stand-for-hockey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2006/non-hodgkins-lymphoma-nhl-doesnt-stand-for-hockey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Blood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drama&#8211; what does it mean? When I moved to LA., I met one billion people who worked in the Hollywood &#8220;industry.&#8221; I had never heard the expression &#8220;drama in one&#8217;s life,&#8221; though, girlfriend, I&#8217;ve definitely lived it in the past. (At least I hope it&#8217;s in the past.)
I have a friend who doesn&#8217;t like drama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basal Cell Carcinoma: BCC is not Blind Carbon Copy</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2006/basal-cell-carcinoma-bcc-is-not-blind-carbon-copy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2006/basal-cell-carcinoma-bcc-is-not-blind-carbon-copy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 21:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cooking is an art form. When I was a medical student, I didn&#8217;t know how to cook. Everything I made was either a salad or a sandwich. One time I invited my now partner-in-life to dinner. I served a baked potato, but I didn&#8217;t have any butter&#8211; so I did what Martha Stewart would do&#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bottoms Up! Screening Colonoscopies Save Lives</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2006/bottoms-up-screening-colonoscopies-save-lives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2006/bottoms-up-screening-colonoscopies-save-lives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2006 21:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My office coordinator says to me, &#8220;Someone comes in for a cold, rash, or hangnail, and they leave with an order for a screening colonoscopy.&#8221; I say to her, &#8220;I also order mammograms, do PAP smears, check prostates, and do other health maintenance things&#8211; don&#8217;t those count?&#8221; 
Are colonoscopies that dreaded? Should the name be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breast Cancer: A movie to save lives</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2005/breast-cancer-a-movie-to-save-lives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2005/breast-cancer-a-movie-to-save-lives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2005 19:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Olympia Dukakis said in Steel Magnolias something like, &#8220;If you don&#8217;t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.&#8221; 
I have some distant relatives who complain about everything. &#8220;My ankles are swollen. I look
like Starr Jones.&#8221; &#8220;My back is killing me from all the years I worked in the fields to feed you ungrateful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Melanoma: not a fruit. Skin cancer</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2005/melanoma-not-a-fruit-skin-cancer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2005/melanoma-not-a-fruit-skin-cancer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2005 19:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Beatles sang a great song, &#8220;Here Comes the Sun.&#8221; I love the sun; it makes a gray day&#8230; well, sunny. &#8220;Sunny, thank you for the sunshine in my life&#8230;&#8221; 
Regardless of how much we love the sun, skin cancer is on the rise. So a rock group like No Doubt needs to come up [...]]]></description>
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