Pancreatic Cancer - What can you do?

Pancreatic cancer is considered one of the hardest cancers to cure.  Patrick Swayze is probably one of the most famous people to die of this disease in recent times but there are many unsung heroes and heroines who have been taken the same way.

My mother died from pancreatic cancer in 2000 so I thought I would share some quick questions and answers and some suggestions for those of you who have either been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer or a loved one has been afflicted with the disease. 

Q What is the pancreas?

A The pancreas is an organ in the body located below the stomach that produces hormones including insulin in the body to aid with digestion.  Insulin controls your body's sugar levels.

Q What is cancer?

 A Abnormal cells that grow and destroy healthy body tissue.

Q What causes pancreatic cancer?

A Scientists are unsure but believe smoking can significantly increase your chances of pancreatic cancer.

Q What are symptoms of pancreatic cancer?

A Nausea, loss of appetite, weight loss, dizzy spells and general weakness.

Q How can you diagnose pancreatic cancer?

A Blood and stool tests and xrays after drinking barium solution.

Q How do you treat pancreatic cancer?

A Surgery, radiation treatment and chemotherapy.

Q What are the side effects for treatment of pancreatic cancer?

A Surgery requires recovery time.  Radiation treatment can cause redness of the skin, nausea tiredness and weakness.  Chemotherapy can cause tiredness, weakness, nausea and often hair loss.

Q What is the prognosis for pancreatic cancer?

A Currently the prognosis is very poor unless caught in the very early stages.  Scientists are actively seeking solutions to improve the survival rate for pancreatic cancer.

All sounds pretty grim, doesn't it?  If you personally have this cancer, don’t give up.  A small percentage of people do beat this disease.  For the best chance to be one of those people, here are ten suggestions to help you become cancer free.  

1. Stay upbeat and positive and believe you can win this battle.  Watch sit-coms, go to comedy shows and share jokes with your family and friends are good ways to go.  Laugh as often as you can.  As the old adage goes, “Laughter is the best medicine.”
2. Meditate by imagining a white light is permeating your body in the area of your cancer and energising your immune system to fight it.  Doing ten minutes a day of this lying on a sun chair outside with the sun on your face will help with this meditation.  You can also imagine little white knights fighting and defeating little black knights.  It’s up to your imagination which way you go. 
3. Give up smoking if you are a smoker - this is mandatory.  Your body needs only good things right now.
4. Some schools of thought believe that by fasting and living on vegetable juice will starve the cancer.  If you can do this (and it might be easier than you think if you lose your appetite) then go for it – at least you are getting some easy to digest goodness in your body.  Regardless eat healthy and cut out processed sugars and processed food in general.
5. Constantly tell the people you care about in your life how much they mean to you and how much you love them.  Helping the people around you and loving them will help them cope with your disease as sometimes it is those people who aren’t afflicted who suffer more.
6. Make sure all your affairs are in order and the ones you love know where all the important papers are just in case they need them – we hope they don’t. 
7. Take the opportunity for a spring clean giving away or throwing out unnecessary items that are cluttering up your home. Getting organised can be a great distraction and is another form of cleansing.
8. Pamper yourself in any way you can.  Get massages, facials, spa treatments – anything that makes you feel relaxed and happy.  You can also use this time doing the meditation therapy mentioned earlier.
9. Tale up a new hobby, something you always meant to do but never got round to as a means of distraction during this trying time.  Keeping busy doing something you enjoy will keep you feeling happy and positive.
10. Get counselling for yourself and your family if you feel you or your loved ones aren’t coping.

In conclusion, the best thing you can do for yourself  is to live your life to the fullest and enjoy each day like it’s your last.  Don’t waste a precious second feeling sorry for yourself and focus on making yourself and others around you as happy as possible.

Fight the good fight and who knows – you could very possibly win.

God bless and take care.

Written by Writer From Oz

Suggested resources to fight the good fight: -
Cancer Free 
Meditation and Cancer

 

Article Spinning How to Spin Articles Effectively in 8 Easy Steps

Article marketing means submitting articles to article directories and is one of the best ways to drive traffic to your web site or blog. An article spinner is an excellent tool to turn one article into hundreds of different articles by replacing words with synonyms (appropriate words with the same meaning), changing the sentences to say the same thing in a different way and even replacing paragraphs with those same sentences repeated in a different order. Those paragraphs can also be placed in a different order, providing the content continues to flow and is easily understood.

That said, it does take a little effort on your part to ensure all words chosen make sense. Please read my 8 steps on how to spin articles effectively below.   This gives an overview of what you need to be careful about when you spin articles. It is an art but an easy one to master. You just need to care about the enjoyment of your readers.

1. Make sure you get an article spinning program for your article marketing that you can own outright and have on your computer so you have the ability to mould it to your writing style and add your own personal synonyms. This also avoids yearly fees and any problems associated with internet downtime that is possible with online spinners. I recommend Magic Article Rewriter as it is the only one I have found so far that fits this criteria.
2. The article you want to spin must be interesting, original and written in your own style. The only way of being completely sure of that is to write it yourself. If you must pay someone to do it, make sure you own all the copyright. This article needs to be created in a document that is saved outside the program. You will always want to have the original somewhere in case things go haywire with your spinner and you want to start again. Do not under any circumstances create your original article in the spinner program.
3. So now you are ready to start spinning. Before you start replacing every word or phrase you can, I suggest you select headings, sentences and even paragraphs if you like and rewrite several versions of each. This will give you a better spin later on. You can spin your article at any time to see how these different headings, sentences and paragraphs flow together.
4. Once you have completed step 3 and are happy with your spins, you are now ready to utilise the program’s synonyms and carefully select all that are perfect replacement for the words and phrases in your article. A good spinner will allow you to create your own to add to the synonym database. I suggest doing this whenever possible. You want the program to adopt your personal writing style which will help increase your article spinning speed as time goes on.
5. Some article spinners come with a feature which will automatically replace some of the words and phrases in your entire document with a variety of synonyms at the click of a mouse. If you choose to use this tool, you need to be wary as not all synonyms will be appropriate. Although applying this process can seem to save you a lot of time, personally I think it is more trouble than it’s worth. It tends to cause an unnatural, stilted spin and by the time you try to fix all the incorrectly applied synonyms (and you always seem to miss one), the time it is supposed to save you is lost. I believe this lazy feature is the number one reason for badly spun articles.
6. Once you are happy with your spinning efforts, it’s time to spin, spin and spin again and carefully read all versions (I recommend at least ten). Remember if you find any that are stilted and strange, you can be assured others will as well so adjust your synonyms where necessary. You need to ensure each and every version you spin flows along nicely for a comfortable read. Remember to always care about the enjoyment of your readers.
7. Never ever send two versions of your spun article to the same article directory. Each directory with the appropriate category gets ONE version of your spun article and that’s it. Again, think of your readers. Reading a similar article in another directory if you happen to come across it is one thing but finding one in the same directory is completely unacceptable. If you get lazy and try this on, your second version of this article will probably be rejected anyway and it may even cause your first one to be removed. Even worse, you may get blacklisted. You never know. Don’t mess with the article directories!
8. Submit either manually your best spun versions of your article one by one to your favourite article directories or to multiple with an article submitter program - I suggest Magic Article Submitter that has built in spin features compatible with your spinner program.

If you purchase Magic Article Rewriter or Submitter via one of my links then CONTACT me to receive a FREE Ebook entitled: - Article Writing Super Secrets .   And while you are visiting my site, don't forget to subscribe to receive the BEST FREE EBOOK EVER!

What is the Best Article Rewriter and Submitter Software?

Submitting articles to article directories is one of the best ways to drive traffic to your web site or blog. You could send your one original article to hundreds of article directories but the search engines aren’t a great fan of duplicate content and you may be seen by them as a spammer and therefore may not be indexed. Article directories also value unique content so are unlikely to be thrilled if they come across an exact version of the article you have just submitted to them on a bunch of other article directories. 

This is where an article spinner can be a brilliant tool which can turn your original article into hundreds of unique versions thus appeasing the little search engine robots, boosting your web rankings with different keywords on your subject and giving each article directory a uniquely worded article. 

Deciding the best article spinner software isn’t an easy task. I experimented with some freebies but they just didn’t do the job. 

One I came across in my Googling efforts offered a seven day trial for $7. It sounded good but there was a catch – there was a $77 a year annual fee. Who wants to cough up $77 every year? I know I didn’t. It also seemed you didn’t own the software as it appeared to be done online. There was no mention of an article submitter tool to go with it which meant to me manual and individual submissions of your spun articles to all the directories. That seemed a lot of hard work. It wasn’t the answer.

After much painstaking research, I found the article spinner and submitter package for me. It is called Magic Article Rewriter. The beauty of this product is you get to own this software for a once off cost. None of this rent a program so we own you forever stuff. It is easy to use giving full control of how you spin your articles and it offers countless synonyms to all the words in your articles. You can also add your own and train the program to your own personal writing style. Check out the demo video on the information page showing you how easy it is to spin your articles. You just need to scroll down the info page a bit until you find the video.

What’s great about this software is that it comes paired with a Magical Article Submitter program. Once you set up a profile, this amazing program subscribes you to hundreds of article directories at the click of a mouse button. It then does the activation process for you. I watched it do it for me and I was in awe of the thing. Hundreds of emails came into the inbox of the email account I set up for it. The next thing I know, one by one they go from unread to read emails as the program opens each and every one and clicks the activation link for me. It is so clever and what a timesaver! Imagine doing that manually. 

Next this software allows you to put the spun text into the submitter, choose the categories to which you would like to submit your article and then with a few clicks, your individually spun articles are on their way to the appropriate directories. Again there is a demo video of this process. Just scroll down the info page.

Sounds like it would be expensive, right? Wrong! Both these fabulous tools are available for the once off bargain price of only $80. That’s right, currently you can get both of them in a package deal for $80! That's it - no extra hidden fees and it's backed by a 100% money back guarantee. Courtesy upgrades are included and the creator is throwing in a bunch of free ebooks as well. 

The creator of this software is very helpful if you have any problems. I had a couple of questions and they were answered promptly. I find it fun and easy to use. 

You are also given the option to buy an extra tool for the program called Magic Tokens. This software automatically applies synonyms to your whole document in one click which is supposed to save you time. Personally (and the creator will hate me for saying this - "Sorry Alexandr") I recommend you save your money as I think it is more trouble than it was worth as I found a lot of the synonyms automatically applied were not appropriate. By the time you fix all the inappropriate synonyms, the time it is supposed to save you is lost. You are welcome to try it if you must as it is backed by a 90 day money back guarantee. It's up to you.

Personally I prefer to spin the articles myself applying each and every synonym. This may take a little longer but the end result makes it worth the effort. Remember, if you are using your articles to lead people back to your web sites, your reputation is on the line so providing quality articles is mandatory if you want the article directories to take you seriously and publish what you have written. A badly spun article stands out as stilted and an uncomfortable read. It just has that "not quite right" feel about it. If you find it uncomfortable to read then you can be assured your readers will feel the same and will therefore be unlikely to visit your web site from the link you provide if they even bother to finish reading your article in the first place.

Remember to read my own article “How to Spin Articles Effectively in 8 Easy Steps.” 

So what are you waiting for? Click Magical Article Submitter to check out this wonderful software.

If you purchase Magic Article Rewriter or Submitter via one of my links then CONTACT me to receive a FREE Ebook entitled: - Article Writing Super Secrets .   And while you are visiting my site, don't forget to subscribe to receive the BEST FREE EBOOK EVER!