Cancer Prevention

What to know before buying a sunscreen

Tom Ferries, Co-owner and Marketing Manager for Beyond Coastal Sun Care, providing you with top quality sunscreens and lip balms joins eHealth Radio and the Skin Care Channel.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Tom Ferries discuss the following:What should I look for when buying a sunscreen?What sets Beyond Coastal apart from other Sunscreens in the market? Why does Beyond Coastal have a Natural and Active line and what is the difference?Why does Beyond Coastal not make an SPF 50 or 100 sunscreen?Can sunscreen help prevent skin cancer?I understand that the environmental working just released it’s 2016 Skin Deep sun screen guide.  Tell our audience how Beyond Coastal faired this year.
Duration: 12:26
What are you putting on your skin? Beyond Coastal provides the ultimate sun care for the outdoor athlete. We only use premium, antioxidant-rich inactive ingredients that protect, nourish, repair and hydrate your skin. Our line of Natural and Active sunscreen lotions and balms have broad-spectrum UVA/UVB protection and are 80 minutes water resistant.

Born in the surf raised in the mountains Beyond Coastal was developed by an avid skier/surfer.  Although he and his friends wore sunscreen daily, some were still being diagnosed with skin cancer.  After some initial research they found the sunscreen market was filled with greasy, chemical laden formulas that claimed to give broad-spectrum protection but did not actually have these ingredients in their formulas.
Today Beyond Coastal continues to produce the healthiest sun screens in both our Natural and Active lines as shown by the Environmental Working Group (EWG.org) Beyond Coastal is one of only two brands tested out of 500 plus brands that got top rating by the EWG for both it’s Natural and their Active sunscreen formulas.

Website: www.beyondcoastal.com

May is Melanoma Awareness Month – Everything you need to know about Melanoma

Dr. Susana Ortiz-Urda, Board Certified Dermatologist who also specializes in Melanoma Cancer joins eHealth Radio and the Cancer Prevention and Health News Channels.  Dr. Ortiz is Co-Director of the UCSF Melanoma Center and a lead spokesperson for the Melanoma Coalition (MelanomaCoalition.org).
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Dr. Susana Ortiz-Urda discuss the following:What is melanoma skin cancer?Who gets melanoma skin cancer?What can children, teens, women and men do to decrease their risks to getting melanoma cancer?What are the symptoms of melanoma cancer?What is your best advice to our listeners on melanoma cancer – when should they begin skin checks and who should perform them?
Duration: 7:02
Dr. Susana Ortiz-Urda, co-director of the UCSF Melanoma Center, treats patients with early and advanced melanoma. Her lab has a broad expertise in human models of epithelial neoplasia and melanoma. She studies in depth cancer signaling to identify novel transcripts, their functions and the factors that promote resistance to drugs and/or cancer progression via transcriptome (RNA-Seq) to capture the implicated coding and non-coding elements in this process. These findings might serve as key biomarkers and/or new targets for therapeutics in melanoma.
Ortiz-Urda earned a medical degree and doctorate at the University of Vienna in Austria. She completed a residency in dermatology and a postdoctoral fellowship in epithelial biology, both at Stanford University, followed by a cutaneous oncology fellowship in dermatology at UCSF and an MBA at NYU. She is a member of the American Academy of Dermatology, Austrian Society of Dermatology and Venereology, and Dermatology Foundation. Ortiz-Urda has received several awards, including the Kardinal-Innitzer Award for Outstanding Science in Dermatology and the Unilever Award from the Austrian Society for Dermatology and Venereology. She is an assistant professor of dermatology at UCSF.

Websites: MelanomaCoalition.org | http://cancer.ucsf.edu/research/ortiz-lab
Social Media Links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/melanomacoalition
Twitter: @MelanomaCoal
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The Therapeutic Power of the Placenta: New Hope for Patients Affected by Radiation Damage

Dr. Karine Kleinhaus, VP, North America for Pluristem Therapeutics, a leading developer of placenta-based cell therapy products joins eHealth Radio and the Cancer Prevention and Health News Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Dr. Karine Kleinhaus discuss the following:Can you explain your company’s medical technology? How do you turn placenta cells into life-saving medicine?I understand these cells work to repair the body against a number of conditions, can you explain what areas will these cells help patients? I understand nuclear attacks are also on your list? I read that these cells called PLX-R18 cells are being looked at by the National Institute of Health? Why is the NIH interested? I understand that this work you are doing with the NIH may also lead into helping cancer patients later on, can you explain how that will work?
Duration: 8:44
Karine Kleinhaus, M.D., M.P.H., is Divisional Vice President, North America at Pluristem Therapeutics. She has worked with multiple public and private biotechnology companies on both public and investor relations.
Prior to that, she was an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine. At NYU, Dr. Kleinhaus conducted medical research funded under a multi-year NIH grant. She published more than 25 papers in leading peer-reviewed journals such as the Annals of the New York Academy of Science, American Journal of Medical Genetics, and the American Journal of Epidemiology. Before that Dr. Kleinhaus practiced obstetrics and then completed two fellowships at Columbia University.
Dr. Kleinhaus received her medical degree from Tel Aviv University, earned a Master of Public Health from Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, and a bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from Princeton University.

Website: www.pluristem.com
Social Media Links:
Twitter: @pluristem
Youtube: http://bit.ly/27JnvQL
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Introducing Soltrackr: The Wireless Health Companion

David Nam, Founder and CEO of Soltrackr, a smart health tracking company providing a wireless health companion that delivers in-depth vital and environmental information on the go joins eHealth Radio and the Cancer Prevention, Skin Care & Technology Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest David Nam discuss the following:What is Soltrackr?What are the benefits of Soltrackr?How does Soltrackr work?Who will benefit from Soltrackr?What does the product replace?

David Nam is CEO of Soltrackr. A leader in the technology industry for nearly two decades, David has established a successful track record building businesses and organically growing new product lines. He previously served as General Manager at Maxim Integrated for the Mobile Power and Battery Management Business, where his team played an integral role in developing and enabling technology for Samsung flagship phones.
David’s real-life experiences of tragedy, including the loss of his nine-year old niece to Leukemia, inspired him to create Soltrackr. He combined his knowledge and passion to build a simple, yet powerful, solution to give people deeper awareness of their health and the environment around them.
David is a graduate from University of California, Berkeley.

Website: www.soltrackr.com
soltrackr on Social Media:
Twitter: @soltrackr
Facebook: facebook.com/soltrackr
LinkedIn: http://ow.ly/10jSwX
YouTube: https://youtu.be/qmqvM7P2PRI
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The Cancer Survival Guide: Award Winning Health Journalist Sheds Lights on Inspiring Survival Story

Charlotte Libov, a pioneer in the field of patient advocacy and the author of "Cancer Survival Guide: How To Conquer It and Live A Good Life", which includes a wide range of tips on living with cancer joins eHealth Radio and the Cancer Prevention & Health News Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Charlotte Libov discuss the following:Tell us about your inspiring story as a heart disease survivor and how that brought you to the career you have today.In addition to being an top medical journalist and author of five award winning books- you also are a nationally recognized motivational speaker. What brought you into speaking and where do you typically present?You specialize in providing life-saving heart advice especially for women- what would you say are some of the key things women can do for heart disease and heart attack prevention?Let's talk about your latest book "The Cancer Survival Guide" tell us about the book and what the transition was like from writing about heart health to now discussing a completely new topic.How should one go about risk factor reduction for both cancer and heart disease?
Duration: 13:20
A heart disease survivor, Charlotte Libov is an inspirational speaker, the author of five award-winning books, and a frequent TV and radio guest. She also is a top medical writer who contributes to Internet sites such as WebMD.
Her columns also appear nationally and she also blogs on preventing heart attacks in women. Her first book, “The Women’s Heart Book,” was among the first to sound the alarm about heart attacks in women, and was made into the ground-breaking PBS show, “Women’s Hearts at Risk,” and she has been honored for her volunteer efforts by the American Heart Association.
She has spoken nationally to US Army War College, Bio International, The Toyota Women’s Conference, and more. She has appeared at Duke University Medical School, Kaiser Permanente, University of Connecticut Allied Science Health Sciences, and more than 50 more hospitals and organizations throughout the country.
Through her dynamic keynotes and workshops, she inspires audiences to take charge of their health and lifestyle, so they can live healthier, energetic and passionate lives.

Website: www.libov.com

Operation: #BanTheTan

Cassandra Heikkila the COO and Film Producer at Dermetel, a non profit determined to advance awareness about dermatologic diseases amongst students and to increase access to high-quality dermatologic care for underserved patients worldwide joins eHealth Radio and the Cancer Prevention, Health and Skin Care Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Cassandra Heikkila discuss the following:What can you tell me about Dermetel's film division, DermFilms?What is Operation #BanTheTan about?Will the film be nonpartisan?How much money do you guys need in fundraising to see it through?Where can people learn more about Dermetel and Operation #BanTheTan?
Duration: 5:14
Cassandra Heikkila graduated from American University with a degree in film and cinema studies and has always had a passion for using her background in film and media to help build and grow non-profits. sShe believes film can be used as a common language to reach people all over the world. Soon after graduating she began working for Dermetel. Dermetel is a non-profit organization determined to advance awareness about dermatologic diseases amongst students and to increase access to high-quality dermatologic care for underserved patients worldwide.  They stand by their beliefs that every person, no matter their income level or geographic location, deserves access to skin cancer prevention information, free sunscreen, and a top-notch dermatologist.  Dermetel, formerly Dangerous Rays, was founded in 2011 by Misha Kaura, a then-undergraduate student.  The Dermetel Board of Directors features students, entrepreneurs, activists, and full-time staff members.  The Board of Advisors includes several Junior League-trained activists and board-certified dermatologists who provide guidance to our work.

Website: www.dermetel.org
Social Media Links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Dermetel
Twitter: @dermetel

An easy, accurate and affordable blood test that is going to transform the way colon cancer screening is done

Don Weber, CEO of Beacon Biomedical, that is developing an very easy, highly accurate and extremely affordable test for doctors to use in their offices to screen their patients for the presence of undiagnosed colon cancer using a single finger-prick of blood that will provide results in less than 10-minutes joins eHealth Radio and the Cancer Prevention and Health Care Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Don Weber discuss the following:What is the biggest concern surrounding colon cancer?Why is cancer screening so important? What are some of the obstacles that doctors and patients have with screening? How does Beacon’s colon cancer screening test, ColoRT™, actually work? What would be the number one thing patients could do to reduce their rick to colon cancer?
Duration: 6:26
Donald F. Weber is the CEO & President of Beacon Biomedical Inc.. As graduate of Northern Illinois University and a 27-year Arizona resident, Don has over 38-years of operational management and business development experience in the biotechnology, diagnostics and management consulting industries. His expertise lies in the technical, operational and businesses development needs of both start-up and high growth companies to improve their bottom line performance, expand revenue growth and increase market share.
Don has served in numerous leadership and corporate management roles over his career involving corporate business development, marketing and sales, technology licensing, quality assurance oversight, regulatory compliance, strategic partnering and finance, and product scientific evaluation, development and commercialization.
As the CEO and President of Beacon Biomedical, Don is leading the charge in the company’s mission and vision to save more lives by developing easier, more accurate and affordable tests for earlier cancer detection to help increase patient compliance with life saving cancer screeningprocedures.

Website: www.beaconbiomedcial.com
Social Media:
Facebook: facebook.com/beaconbiomedical
Twitter: @BeaconBiomed

Dr. Kathleen Ruddy shares the untold story of her breast cancer virus research

Dr. Kathleen Ruddy, an internationally recognized breast cancer surgeon, who has dedicated the last eight years to writing a book that reveals the untold story of her breast cancer virus research joins eHealth Radio and the Cancer Prevention and Health News Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Dr. Kathleen Ruddy discuss the following:
What the basic premise of the new book?What compelled you to write this book?How do you hope this research will work towards a cure?    What do you want the medical community to know?What are 5 breast cancer myths you want to share?
Duration: 12:20
Internationally acclaimed as a global healthcare leader for the “Pure Cure” – breast cancer prevention – Dr. Ruddy works tirelessly to promote primary prevention of breast cancer. She is especially committed to supporting research on the human breast cancer virus and the development of preventive breast cancer vaccines.  Dr. Ruddy’s mission: To understand the specific causes of breast cancer and to use that knowledge to prevent the disease. Her vision: Persuade the world that Prevention Is The New Cure.
Dr. Ruddy has twice been recognized by the largest private insurer in New Jersey (Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey) as an outstanding surgeon whose outcomes and cost-effectiveness are exemplary. Dr. Ruddy has twice received awards for her blog on the breasthealthandhealing.org website.
Breast Cancer kills one woman every minute. That’s a statistic internationally recognized breast cancer surgeon Dr. Kathleen Ruddy is intent on changing. That challenge starts with a question: Can a mouse virus cause breast cancer in women?
Answering that question has become Dr. Ruddy’s life’s work. With 100 years of research establishing that most breast cancer may well be virus-based, the answer is vital to the future of millions of women and men. As Dr. Ruddy, the first and only breast cancer specialist to compile this encyclopedic research in one volume, remarks, “If there’s a virus that causes breast cancer, and a safe and effective vaccine that can prevent this disease, we need to know about it now, not in another 100 years.”
Although we can trace the origins of breast cancer back 5,000 years to the Egyptians, it was the research of Dr. John Bittner in the 1930s who discovered a breast cancer virus in mice that marked a turning point, Dr. Ruddy explains. From that moment on there has been a long tangled path for research on the breast cancer virus to be taken seriously, despite the mounting evidence supporting this idea.
After eight years of compiling and analyzing all available data, what has emerged, Dr. Ruddy believes, is compelling evidence that a virus found in a certain species of mice (Mouse Mammary Tumor Virus - MMTV) is responsible for up to 75% of human breast cancer.
In Of Mice and Women, (Breast Health and Healing Foundation) by Kathleen T. Ruddy, tells the story of this research, and why few of us have heard about it.

Website: breasthealthandhealing.orgFacebook: facebook.com/Breast-Health-and-Healing-Foundation
Twitter: @Breasthealing

Visica Breast Therapy with Dr. April Speed

Dr. April Speed, the CEO/President of Just Breast, a Global Breast Health & Wellness Center located in metro Atlanta, Georgia joins eHealth Radio and the Breast Health, Cancer Prevention & Female Health Channels to discuss Visica Breast Therapy.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Dr. April Speed discuss the following: Dr. Speed, tell us about your Physician background.What should women do when they find a lump?What is Visica Therapy?What is its success rate? Do you see this replacing a traditional lumpectomy one day?What exactly makes this better than ones that doctors have been using for years? What type of patient will benefit from this most?Does the procedure have any side effects?What are the long-term benefits of removing a benign breast tumor?
Duration: 10:26
Dr. April L. Speed is a Chicago native who was raised in Atlanta. After obtaining her Bachelor's of Science degree in Biology from Norfolk State University she returned to Atlanta to attend Morehouse School of Medicine where she obtained her Doctor of Medicine degree. After her matriculation, she remained at Morehouse to complete a general surgery residency.
Doctor Speed is Board Certified by the American College of Surgeons. She completed both her Internship and General surgery residency at Grady Memorial Hospital, one of the busiest Level I trauma centers in the Southeast. Upon completion of an intensive General Surgery residency she went on to receive the prestigious Susan G. Komen-sponsored Breast Fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. This cancer center is top-ranked by US News and World Report. During this fellowship Dr. Speed was exposed to numerous advanced breast surgical oncology techniques such as oncoplastics (nipple and skin-sparing mastectomies) cutting-edge cancer research and publication opportunities. This Fellowship promoted comprehensive breast cancer treatment plans using a multidisciplinary model. This model is a patient-centered approach to breast cancer management involving integrating primary care, medical oncology, radiation oncology, plastic surgery and pathology expertise to formulate the best possible plan for each unique patient. One patient, One place, One plan! While at MD Anderson, Dr. Speed further developed proficiency in promoting breast cancer awareness through community outreach, advocacy, prevention and education through the Susan G. Komen component of her Fellowship. Dr. Speed believes in providing breast care with Dignity and Detail.
As a breast expert, she provides 100% breast services to women, men and adolescents. Dr. Speed is a member of the American Society of Breast Surgeons, the Society of Surgical Oncology and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). She was recognized by her peers and was awarded the ASCO National Diversity In Oncology Award in 2009. Dr. Speed serves on several Boards, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Greater Atlanta Affiliate, and the Georgia Perimeter College. She's a highly sought-after speaker, author, consultant and lecturer on breast cancer and breast health.
Dr. Speed has recently embarked upon an exciting venture of private practice and welcome all of her previous patients and new patients alike to continue to be a part of this amazing journey of transformation from your Breast Health to your Best HealthSM. Let's treat it, beat it, move on!

Website: www.draprilspeed.com

UBSAFE, a special wearable electronic skin monitor for your skin care in the sun

Healthtronics Sunsafe Pty Ltd., an Australian company that has researched, and now manufactures and markets, a special wearable electronic skin monitor that helps prevent skin cancer, peeling, and early wrinkling, and also helps with obtaining vitamin D from the sun. It calls this device UBSAFE. Mr. Tony Pearson the Managing Director and inventor joins eHealth Radio and the Cancer Prevention and Skin Care Channels to tell us about their UBSAFE product.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Mr. Tony Pearson discuss the following: Give us a little refresher to the preventable problem of SKIN CANCER.What is a UBSAFE?Why did you invent the UBSAFE?How did you calibrate UBSAFE?Is there only one type of UBSAFE?How do we know this device is not just another gimmick?Talk about some of the dangers of some sun screens.
Duration: 15:56
We are an Australian Company that markets new, innovative health products to help the general public to live a better and healthier life. We belong to a 32 Year old group of three Companies covering Medical Electronics and Personal Health Products. We try to continuously keep up to date with new products that will help the sick and bring comfort to the elderly. We are actively involved in our own research and manufacture, that fills a need in the Healthcare field.
We are presently looking for distributors. If you are interested in becoming a distributor please contact us by email at Tony@diagInst.com.au.
By phone: +12 hours ahead of (New York) and two hours behind Sydney time. Our country code is (61) area code is (8) and our number is 9470-5677.
Or write to us at:
Healthtronics Sunsafe Pty LtdSuite 26/443 Albany Hwy
Victoria ParkPERTH 6100Western Australia

Website: www.UBsafe.com.au