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UNDERSTANDING THE CHAOS OF CANCER
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recently had the pleasure of meeting with Sharon Kim CEO and creator of the CanPlan. Sharon, a quiet spoken, petite young lady with a big heart. Someone who is very passionate about helping others through their journey, shared with me her story. Sharon is no stranger to the chaos that cancer can create. Sharon was her mother’s caretaker when she was diagnosed with Uterine Sarcoma Cancer. Unfortunately, Sharon’s mother lost her battle with Uterine Sarcoma Cancer in 2014. Through this experience, Sharon realized that she could help others take back control that the chaos of a Cancer Diagnosis can create. This sparked a new journey in Sharon’s life. From the desire to understand the illness, keep track of appointments and develop a treatment plan that was customized to meet her mother’s needs, was born the development and distribution of the CanPlan.
Sharon Kim CEO/Founder of CanPlan
The CanPlan is a uniquely designed planner created solely for cancer patients as well as their caregivers. Features include methods for monitoring and tracking every detail of a patient’s journey as well as sections for journaling and reflecting. This comprehensive tool keeps the reins in the hands of the patient or caregiver.
“Within a cancer plan are three distinct segments – a treatment plan, a payment plan and a recovery plan. A treatment plan considers all the patient’s therapy options, including conventional care and alternative methods, to make the best-informed decision per condition. A payment plan accounts for the finances and how to outsource funds to pay the inevitably heft medical bills. And lastly, a recovery plan includes the supplementary actions that need to be taken, such as changing your diet and lifestyle goals.” (Kim) The CanPlan – Version 3 is now available online at www.MyCanPlan.com
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f you have ever thought about exploring your family history, now can be the perfect time as October is National Family History Month. To get started, these four simple tips can help you unlock new understanding and make meaningful connections. You can also consider sharing these tips with loved ones so they can join in on the fun, too.
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Call Your Family In almost every family there is someone who knows all about the familial tree and history. You might be unsure of the exact date your grandparents were married, but someone else may know. Building knowledge of your family history can be an excuse to call your mom, your grandma or even your great aunt. They likely have stories and photos you don’t have and would likely be willing to share them. Start a Family Tree Starting a family tree can be the next step to learning about your family history. Building out your tree online can be simple with a service like Ancestry, which has been turning history into your story by transforming names into family and distant places into home for more than three decades. With more than 20 billion records and 3 million family history subscribers, the service provides all the information and tools you need in one place to make discovery fun and easy. Enter what you know about yourself, your parents, your brothers and sisters then add your grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. If you aren’t sure about dates and places, make an educated guess then upload photos and stories. Message Cousins As you continue to explore your family tree, you may find other relatives have already researched pieces and parts of your family tree. Maybe a fourth cousin has your common great-grandparents in their tree with photos and stories about their lives. Find out what other information they might know or share what you know about your branch of the family tree. Take a DNA Test DNA testing has revolutionized the way people discover family history. With a service like AncestryDNA, you become part of a genetic network that includes more than 10 million people. In addition to providing ethnicity estimates, the service also compares your DNA to the people in the network and matches you to anyone sharing enough DNA with you to point to a recent common ancestor within the last 8-10 generations. To make those connections even easier to find, attach that family tree you built to your DNA results, and find more information at Ancestry.com. 6 RENEW
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5 TIPS CARING FOR YOUR VINTAGE WARDROBE
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s environmentally aware Americans join the movement to reduce, reuse and recycle, many are turning to the past to find unique, wellmade vintage pieces to complement their wardrobes. The hunt for great vintage wear has become so popular that we’re spending some $4 billion annually on such fun finds, reports the Huffington Post. (BPT)
“For many it offers individuality, affordability, and that feel-good moment of rescuing an item from the landfill and reducing the environmental footprint,” writes Kate Black in that article. “This also makes it the retail unicorn, that rare occasion when a single store can appeal to stylish fashionistas, value-conscious consumers and passionate environmentalists.” Building a distinctive, one-of-a-kind vintage wardrobe can be fun and easy once you learn a few guidelines for finding and caring for your collection. LG Electronics and luxury vintage clothing purveyor What Goes Around Comes Around recently partnered to bring the LG LaundROO Lounge and Vintage Clothing Swap to Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Tennessee. Festivalgoers were invited to peruse 3,000 pieces of vintage gear and exchanged their own clothes for a new look. The swapped pieces were then washed in LG washers and dryers onsite and put back into the closet for another attendee to choose. If LG and What Goes Around Comes Around can handle the danced-in duds of 60,000 festival-goers, they can definitely help you take care of your vintage finds! Co-founder and chief creative officer at What Goes Around Comes Around, Gerard Maione, shares these tips to best maintain your vintage and hard-to-care-for pieces so you can keep festival style season going all year round: 1. Aim for versatility with fabrics such as cashmere and silk that can be easily layered to work well through every season. Look for well-cut pieces that can transition from day to night with simple shifts in accessories. 2. Choose quality over quantity. Whether you’re opting for vintage or new clothing, pieces featuring high-quality fabrics and construction will stand the test of time - as long as they’re well treated. 3. Read and carefully follow cleaning recommendations, ensuring that you’re using appropriately gentle wash cycle or steam options. Making that process easier than ever is the LG TWINWash washing machine with SideKick pedestal washer, dryer and LG Styler offered by LG Electronics, a package Maione calls “the ultimate laundry room.” Its ultra-convenient design features a front loader stacked onto a pull-out wash compartment, allowing you to simultaneously run one cycle for your heavier items and one for your specialty items such as delicate vintage pieces. 4. Narrow wire hangers can create wrinkles, bumps and bulges in aged, delicate fabrics. Instead, choose wider and/or padded hanger styles that better distribute the weight of each garment. Vintage fashionistas often prefer heavy-duty wooden hangers, while others swear by the velvet-covered varieties that keep silky fabrics from slipping off. For pants and skirts, seek out specially designed hangers that ward off unnecessary creases. 5. Care for your treasured vintage items between wearings by folding sweaters onto shelves or in drawers, storing handbags and shoes in dust bags, then freshening items up between cleanings. The LG Styler steam clothing care system makes it effortless, using chemical-free steam-based cycles that can handle anything from sanitizing and removing allergens to eliminating odors and reducing wrinkles. Vintage clothing can be a unique, environmentally friendly and cost-efficient means to add flair to your wardrobe. Know how to care for your vintage pieces so you will continue to enjoy the past far into the future. FALL 2018 RENEW 7
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ore questions from our neighbors and friends around Hampton Roads about things that we are all thinking and talking about. Remember, that you can get in the conversation too; so, if you have anything you would like to share or ask, please email me at mailto: janicebellunderwood@gmail.com. I assure you that you will receive the JANICE UNDERWOOD highest level of professionalism, courtesy, and compassion to which many of you have grown accustomed. In turn, I fully expect that we all maintain the highest levels of respect for each other in our discourse. I would also like to note, when you send a question or comment, your real name will not be used to ensure your privacy. Hope to chat with you soon.
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Carey: I am going to just get right to the point…What are your thoughts about charter schools or homeschooling? I am growing increasingly frustrated with the public schools my children attend, but I don’t really understand what charter schools are all about. Dr. J: Thank you for your question Carey. I want to be as straightforward as you were…so here goes! I want to preface my comments with the overarching idea that every parent needs to make the best decisions for his or her children and family. That said, I am a firm believer and advocate of public education. I suggest the growing frustration many people have in public education is as a result of the chronic and historical lack of funding of public schools with the recent propensity toward its privatization. I also think to compare charter schools, which are ironically funded with public funds with public schools is like comparing apples to onions! It is a false choice because charter schools are not held to the same accountability measures to which public schools are held. With regard to the benefits and challenges of home schooling, this is another very personal choice, which many families make around Hampton Roads and all over our nation. While I personally choose for my children to attend public schools, I am so glad that we all have the right to choose what’s best for our own children. I think the most germane question we should all be talking about with each other and our elected officials is how funding equations can be increased around the entire Commonwealth of Virginia to make public schooling more equitable for all students and the educators who serve our children.
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Thank you to everyone who submitted a question or comment. If you would like to submit a question, you can email me directly and confidentially at janicebellunderwood@gmail.com and your question could be featured in an upcoming issue of RENEW Magazine. I can’t wait to hear from you! Dr. Janice Underwood teaches at Old Dominion University, where she trains preservice teachers to engage diverse learners in K-12 science classrooms. 8 RENEW
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DEMYSTIFYING THE MAMMOGRAM DISCUSSION
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omen have been told to get a mammogram every year starting at age 40. Why? What are the downsides to getting checked - or not - each year for breast cancer?
The American College of Radiology (ACR) and the Society of Breast Imaging recommend that women get a mammogram each year starting at 40. This will save the most lives. The ACR says women should have a risk assessment by age 30 to see if screening earlier than age 40 is needed. According to National Cancer Institute records, since mammography became widespread in the 1980s, breast cancer deaths in women are down more than 40 percent. Some say that’s due to improved treatment. Yet the breast cancer death rate in men - who are not screened but receive the same treatments as women - has not improved. So better treatment alone is not enough. Some organizations say to wait until age 45 or 50 to start mammograms and then do them every other year. One reason given is “false positives.” When doctors see something on a mammogram that doesn’t look right, they ask the woman to have another mammogram or ultrasound exam to take a closer look. If that test finds nothing wrong, some call the result of the first test a “false positive.” This happens in about 10 percent of women who get a mammogram. For about two percent of women tested, the second scan can’t rule out a problem, and they may get a needle biopsy. Less than half of the women who get a biopsy will have cancer (see graphic). Others say that mammograms find cancers that won’t ultimately kill you. They call this “overdiagnosis.” Studies based on actual women who get tested show that this is rare - perhaps a tiny percentage of cancer are found. Doctors can’t tell which cancers will quickly kill and which won’t. The only way to know is to not treat your cancer and see what happens - a serious risk. Starting mammograms later, or doing them less often, won’t reduce “overdiagnosis.” A truly overdiagnosed cancer would just be found on the next test. Doctors and women would still have to decide how to treat it. And because nearly all cancers can kill, a delay will give invasive cancer time to get worse. Most experts agree that more women would die from breast cancer by moving away from routine annual screening starting at age 40. One published study says that that number could be as high as 13,000 more breast cancer deaths each year. Ultimately, women 40 and older should discuss with their doctors the benefits and risks of getting - and not getting - a yearly mammogram. These websites can help: MammographySavesLives.org and RadiologyInfo.org.
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