SURPRISE...SURPRISE.... SURPRISE...Things about cancer that will surprise everyone

Posted by Jonathan on 9/20/2016 to News

I am entitling this blog surprise because what we think is healthy to our bodies isn't always the case, such as working out regularly. Did you know that working out regularly produces estrogen, a known cause of breast cancer? Did you also know that being over weight is also a known cause of breast cancer and stomach Cancer?

How about foods that you thought were healthy such as green bananas, rolled oats, and white beans. Or how about something simple like

TOP REASONS TO WEAR A WIG/TOUPEE/TOP PIECE EXTENTIONS:

Posted by Jonathan on 9/15/2016 to News

TOP REASONS TO WEAR A WIG/TOUPEE/TOP PIECE EXTENTIONS:

1) Tired of spending 45 minutes in the morning on your hair to get that perfect look?

How do i help my Child who is being bullied because of his/her Wig

Posted by Jonathan on 9/9/2016 to News

I've read story after story of kids bullying kids who have no hair, either due to cancer or alopecia (a condition we don't know much about but seems to be growing with each year). When I was a kid, it wasn't called bullying; it was just a part of normal life in school to be teased for being overweight, losing your hair, being a geek, having braces, or not being with the “in crowd”.

One particular story we personally experienced here at AJ's Wigs happened when

ORAL CANCER..signs, symptoms and cure?

Posted by Jonathan on 7/22/2016 to Health

ORAL CANCER: Signs, symptoms
So many of us worry about colin, breast, pancreatic, testicular, lung or lymph cancer, we forget about oral cancer. Oral cancer in its early stage development is often painless and the physical signs are

Heathers corner.. weight management during cancer treatments

Posted by Jonathan on 7/14/2016 to Health

HEATHER'S CORNER: WEIGHT MANAGEMENT ..during treatments

Heather Taylor is a licensed dietitian with over 16 years of experience in nutrition and lifestyle therapy. She has her own

ONCE IM DIAGNOSED, HOW LONG WILL IT BE BEFORE MY HAIR FALLS OUT AND WHEN SHOULD I PURCHASE A WIG?

Posted by Jonathan on 7/6/2016 to Health

This is a huge subject and Im going to try to simplify and narrow it down a bit. First of all, I'm here to say, with today's progress in treatments, there are some treatments where you will never lose your hair, and some where your hair will thin a bit, but unfortunately, still today, most treatments do attack The cells of the hair follicle .Hair loss occurs due the fact that

living with and through leukemia

Posted by Jonathan on 5/26/2016 to Health

Living through Leukemia

Definition:

Leukemia is cancer of the blood cells. Most blood cells form in the bone marrow. In leukemia, cancerous blood cells form and crowd out the healthy blood cells in the bone marrow.

The type of leukemia depends on the type of blood cell that has become cancerous. For example, acute lymphoblastic leukemia is a cancer of the lymphoblasts (white blood cells that fight infection). White blood cells are the most common type of blood cell to become cancer. But red blood cells (cells that carry oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body) and platelets (cells that clot the blood) may also become cancer.

Leukemia occurs most often in adults older than 55 years, and

What to do when "All of a Sudden" your Insurance Company Starts Denying your Claims

Posted by jonathan on 5/12/2016 to News

Imagine! You are in the middle of life saving treatments for..... say, Breast / Colon/ Brain cancer. The insurance has approved everything and, all of a sudden, they stop.

Imagine! The only way to monitor your disease progression is via PET/CT, but insurance denies the request. Has anyone else experienced this? Imagine that your oncologist fought with the insurance company's doctors and all he got was “that you no longer meet criteria”. Criteria?

Why Chemotherapy works for some but not others

Posted by Jonathan on 4/26/2016 to Health

Why chemotherapy works for some but not for all. Alternative treatments.

I have worked in the chemistry of biological molecules (biochemistry) my whole life, but not in cancer research or cell biology. So after I got 2 cancers I am educating myself (and others) about cancer by reading original research papers.
1. Do we need to strengthen our immune system to fight cancer?

Oh lord, Not again

Posted by Jonathan on 4/22/2016 to News

Oh LORD Not Again

(A personal story)

Most of us deal with things in our own way, some outwardly and some inwardly. Some of us get mad and emotional, some of us get cold and silent. And yet the results are often the same as we are human and always want to feel like there is a higher power up there that is not only listening, but loves us with all his heart. There are many things we do not understand in life, even us expert's like our staff at AJ's Wigs. As much as we deal with cancer every day, sometimes I find myself asking, Oh God, why?

As all of you know by now, the owner of Aj's Wigs has battled cancer for almost 13 years. For 6 years, Bob battled Colon and testicular cancer and when he