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Jill Brzezinski-Conley, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_cancer" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Breast cancer">Breast</a> <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Cancer">Cancer Patient</a>, Stars
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<b><span style="color: blue;">A beautiful woman twirls in front of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=48.8583,2.2945&spn=0.01,0.01&q=48.8583,2.2945%20(Eiffel%20Tower)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Eiffel Tower">Eiffel Tower</a>,
decked out in a pale pink gown that makes her look like she stepped out
of a fairytale. She smiles brightly and laughs as she gets her picture
taken by Australian portrait photographer of the year <a href="http://suebryce.com/" target="_hplink">Sue Bryce</a>. But this is no ordinary fashion photo shoot.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">The "model," <a href="https://www.facebook.com/JillBrzezinskiConleyBreastFriends" target="_hplink">Jill Brzezinski-Conley,</a>
was diagnosed with breast cancer a day before her 32nd birthday,
underwent a double mastectomy -- and now, at 35, has incurable stage-4
breast cancer which has metastasized to her bone. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">In late August, Brzezinski-Conley, who lives with her husband in Kentucky, went to visit her childhood friend <a href="http://www.nixyphotography.com/index.html#/about/" target="_hplink">Nikki Closser</a>,
a wedding photographer in Seattle. "[Nikki] took pictures of me, and I
was like, 'Nikki, I want you to take pictures of my breasts so that
maybe we can send in the photos to magazines for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Breast_Cancer_Awareness_Month" target="_hplink">breast cancer month</a> [in October],'" Brzezinski-Conley told The Huffington Post. "[The media] never shows what breast cancer looks like." </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">After the session, Closser emailed the pictures along with
Brzezinski-Conley's story to Bryce, whose work she had admired.
Inspired, Bryce contacted both women right away and invited
Brzezinski-Conley to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI8blV-R_eg" target="_hplink">Skype into</a> a <a href="http://www.creativelive.com/" target="_hplink">CreativeLIVE</a>
workshop where she surprised her with the offer of a photo shoot -- in
Paris. Three weeks later, Bryce, Brzezinski-Conley and Closser were off
to the City of Light for five days, with a videographer in tow. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">"It was a million times better than what I ever dreamed of," said
Brzezinski-Conley. "For the first time, in those five days, I felt like
Cinderella. I didn’t feel like a cancer patient. They made me feel like a
supermodel, and it was the nicest feeling ... I didn’t want to go back
home." </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">She hopes that her story -- and the images that accompany it -- will
inspire other women to feel good about their bodies, regardless of how
they look. She especially hopes that they reach other women in their 20s
and 30s who are battling cancer. "I wanted the photo shoot to be for
women who look like me, [to show them that] they can still feel sexy and
beautiful," Brzezinski-Conley told <a class="zem_slink" href="http://friendfeed.com/huffpost" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="HuffPost">HuffPost</a>. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">But she doesn't want the only message she gets across to be about
beauty. She's also passionate about educating young women about breast
cancer, since she put off seeing a doctor for a year after she noticed
that she had an inverted nipple. "If I would’ve known [that] an inverted
nipple was a sign of breast cancer, I would've gotten checked up right
away," she told HuffPost. "I always wonder if my cancer would have been
at a different stage [if I had]." Her advice to young women is simple:
"Be educated, learn your body, learn the signs of breast cancer." </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Brzezinski-Conley wants us to start <i>seeing</i> breast cancer instead of just talking about it -- and these personal photos are certainly more memorable than a pink ribbon. </span></b><br />
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<b><i>Hi,</i></b><br />
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<b><i>I presented with cancer symptoms in Nov-1998!</i></b><br />
<b><i>I had <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney_cancer" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Kidney cancer">Kidney Cancer</a>!</i></b><br />
<b><i>I have had a radical nephrectomy</i></b><br />
<b><i>Bladder Cancer</i></b><br />
<b><i>Tumours in the abdomen.</i></b><br />
<b><i>In April 2011 my oncology consultant said he did not believe I could expect to live much past June or July!</i></b><br />
<b><i>As it promised pain care and hands on attention - NOT a realistic chance of cure - I opted for high dosage chemo and after that high level <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_therapy" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Radiation therapy">Radio therapy</a>.</i></b><br />
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<i>I'm still here and was declared cancer free for the first time in 13 years 18 months ago.</i></b><br />
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<i>My scans last Thursday still show me cancer free.</i></b><br />
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<i>Never forget YOU may have cancer but NEVER let cancer have YOU!</i></b><br />
<b><i>Sh*t happens but that is NEVER an excuse to roll in it.</i></b><br />
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<i>Congratulations to Jill as if one has one day, one week, one month, one year or an entire lifetime left to you there is no excuse for self pity and no reason to be miserable - leave your family, your friends and the world with an image of your smile!</i></b><br />
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<i>See: http://bit.ly/KUxR5h</i></b><br />
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<i>Good luck Jill.</i></b><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">The icy blast using freezing gas that kills off kidney cancer without the need for surgery</span></h1>
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<li><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Cryoablation
freezes and destroys the cancer using argon gas passed to the tumour
tissue through fine needles in the patient's skin</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">No surgery is needed and patients can leave hospital the next day</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Suitable for patients with tumours less than 2in in diameter or for those where surgery is considered too risky</span></span></li>
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<span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A remarkable procedure that uses
freezing gas to destroy kidney cancers is offering hope to the 8,000
Britons diagnosed with the disease each year. The technique means no
stitches, just an overnight hospital stay, and faster recovery times
than traditional surgery. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Kidney
tumours are usually treated through open or keyhole surgery, with
either the kidney, or a portion containing the tumour, removed.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">With
cryoablation, however, there are no large incisions. Instead, extreme
cold temperatures are used to effectively freeze, and therefore kill,
the cancerous cells. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">How it works: Argon gas is pumped through tiny needles to freeze and destroy the tumour </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">During the procedure, a number
of fine hollow needles are placed directly through a patient’s skin into
the tumour tissue, through which argon gas is then passed. This freezes
and then destroys the cancer.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Patients
usually leave hospital the next day and are able to return to work a
week later. Other advantages include reduced risk of bleeding and
infection, and limited damage to surrounding healthy kidney tissue. </span></span>
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</span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It is suitable for patients whose tumours are less than 2in in diameter or for those where surgery is considered too risky. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Cryoablation
can also be used to treat tumours of the bone and prostate. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It is a
technique within interventional radiology, which uses image-guidance –
CT, ultrasound or MRI scans – in a similar way to X-rays, allowing
doctors to view inside the body and target treatments. ‘The idea behind
interventional radiology is to treat patients in the least invasive way
possible,’ says Dr David Breen, consultant abdominal radiologist at the
University Hospital of Southampton. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘It
offers a new area of treatments for cancer, as well as other
conditions. Scanners are identifying cancers at ever earlier stages, so,
in some cases, we’re able do less invasive procedures and avoid the
need for surgery.’</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Speedy recovery: Patients who undergo cryoablation can usually leave hospital the following day </span></div>
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</span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">According to Dr Breen, cryoablation
itself isn’t new; it has been used for some years, often in conjunction
with keyhole surgery. What is new, he says, is the fact it can now be
performed with the needles, also known as probes, being put directly
through a patient’s skin. ‘It’s part of a growing trend towards less
invasive procedures for small cancers,’ he says. ‘Results are
outstanding and data indicates ablation may be equally effective as
surgery for these small kidney tumours.’ </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr
Breen performs the cryoablation procedure with patients under general
anaesthetic. ‘Using the CT scanner to produce an image of the tumour,
four or five probes are inserted,’ he says. ‘These needles are thinner
than a pencil lead. Gas is passed through the probes, which makes the
tips of the needles extremely cold – minus 150C. This generates ice
around the probes to freeze and kill the tumour. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘The
process takes 30 minutes, during which we can see the ice growing on
the CT scan and enveloping the tumour.’ Afterwards, the dead tissue
withers away and is broken down over time. The procedure has negligible
effects on kidney function.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In
January, Danielle Norman, 33, from Southampton, underwent the
procedure, after being diagnosed with a cancerous kidney tumour. ‘The
recovery time of six weeks associated with normal surgery wasn’t
possible for me, as I have two children, Niamh, seven, and Aedan, two,’
says Danielle. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘I was referred to Dr Breen. I was a little sceptical, as the tumour isn’t actually removed, but he was very reassuring.’</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Danielle
underwent the procedure on January 24 and was back at home the next
day. ‘I was a little sore but within a week it was as if nothing had
happened.’ Danielle has a few tiny scars where the probes went in. Her
follow-up scans show a good outcome. ‘At a scan in August, the doctors
said they can see the tumour is shrinking, which is great,’ she says.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">By <a href="http://www.mskcc.org/blog/contributors/eva-kiesler" title="View contributor profile">Eva Kiesler, PhD, Science Writer/Editor</a> | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Metastasis, the process by
which some tumors spread from their site of origin to other body parts,
accounts for more than nine out of ten cancer-related deaths. But
scientists still know relatively little about the genes and biological
processes that cause metastasis to occur — information that potentially
could translate into new ways to stop cancers from reaching advanced or
terminal stages.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Now a Memorial Sloan-Kettering research team has shed light on the mechanisms by which <a href="http://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/adult/kidney">kidney cancer</a> metastasizes to distant organs, including the lungs, bone, and brain. <a class="ext" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23223005">Published in the journal <em>Nature Medicine</em> in December</a><span class="ext"></span>,
the findings point to potential therapeutic strategies to control the
spread of the disease. The study also offers scientific insights that
could advance metastasis research in other cancer types.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Focusing on Kidney Cancer</span></h3>
<span style="color: blue;">The research was led by cancer biologist <a href="http://www.mskcc.org/research/lab/joan-massague">Joan Massagué</a>, Chair of the Sloan-Kettering Institute’s <a href="http://www.mskcc.org/research/cancer-biology-genetics">Cancer Biology and Genetics Program</a> and Director of the <a href="http://www.mskcc.org/research/metastasis-research">Metastasis Research Center</a>. In recent years, his laboratory has uncovered basic causes of metastasis in a number of cancer types, including <a href="http://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/adult/breast">breast</a> and <a href="http://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/adult/lung">lung cancers</a>.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">“In this study, we focused on clear cell renal cell carcinoma, the
most common subtype of kidney cancer, for which there is an urgent need
for more-effective therapies,” says postdoctoral fellow <a href="http://www.mskcc.org/research/lab/joan-massague/member/sakari-vanharanta">Sakari Vanharanta</a>, the first author of the <em>Nature Medicine</em> report. “The metastatic form of this disease is almost always incurable.”</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">In the vast majority of patients, clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) tumors carry DNA changes in a gene called <em>VHL. </em>These
mutations have been shown to cause the formation of primary kidney
tumors, but they do not necessarily lead to metastasis. Until recently,
researchers did not know what makes some renal cell carcinoma cells
capable of forming secondary tumors in distant organs.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">In the recent study, the team addressed this question by performing
experiments in mouse models and cell lines, and by analyzing biological
and clinical data from more than 700 patients with ccRCC, whose tumors
had been analyzed in large-scale cancer genomics projects.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">They discovered that two genes called <em>CYTIP</em> and <em>CXCR4 </em>are
activated in metastatic tumor cells but inactive in non-metastatic
cells. Their experiments suggest that the activation of the two genes
might be essential for the spread of kidney cancer.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">“<em>CXCR4 </em>has been linked to metastasis before in this and
other tumor types, including breast cancer,” Dr. Vanharanta says. “Now,
our study shows that blocking <em>CXCR4 </em>function with a drug called plerixafor can reduce kidney cancer metastasis in mice.” Plerixafor (Mozobil<sup>TM</sup>) is currently used to stimulate blood stem cells in some cancer patients treated by bone marrow transplantation.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">The researchers plan to investigate further whether <em>CXCR4</em> and <em>CYTIP</em>,
and other genes identified in the study, might offer new targets for
the development of more-effective drugs for kidney cancer.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Exploring the Epigenetics of Metastasis</span></h3>
<span style="color: blue;">In addition, the investigators explored the mechanisms by which the <em>CXCR4</em> and <em>CYTIP</em>
genes are switched on in kidney cancer cells to incite metastasis.
Their study revealed that the genes undergo a series of epigenetic
changes — modifications in the proteins that package a cell’s DNA and
regulate genes.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Unlike gene mutations, which alter a cell’s genetic code, epigenetic
changes leave the DNA sequence unaffected. Nevertheless, such changes
can influence a cell’s behavior by switching individual genes on or off.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Epigenetic modifications are commonly seen in many types of cancer
and have recently been associated with more-advanced disease. However,
little is known about the specific genes and mechanisms by which tumor
cells may reconfigure their epigenetic makeup, causing a person’s
disease to progress and establish itself in new organs.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">“Our study has demonstrated with clear examples how epigenetic
alterations can lead to the activation of metastasis-inducing genes,”
Dr. Vanharanta notes. “This is a conceptual advancement that is likely
to help us understand how metastasis occurs in kidney cancer as well as
in other cancer types.”</span></div>
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apologise, in view of the fact that I have been a tad busy over the last
week testing the facilities of The <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Service" rel="wikipedia" target="_parent" title="National Health Service">NHS</a>, yet again,
by having a heart attack in my sleep last Monday morning (19-Nov-2012), believed to be a
result of familial heredity, many years of smoking good cigars, years
of excellent living and 14 years of 24/7 stress combating and defeating
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- <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_seeking" rel="wikipedia" target="_parent" title="Attention seeking">attention seeking</a> again <img alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://s1.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif?m=1129645325g" /> </div>
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Despite
8/8 occlusion of the right coronary artery and an enlarged aorta I
believe the NHS is glad to see me sufficiently recovered to be
discharged in the light of the endless flow of visitors! (thanks for the
support to all my friends who were able to make it and to those who
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stupidities of UKIP leadership and their foolish willingness to preen in
faux praise like performing monkeys and small children and my web site and blog at <span style="color: blue;"><u>http://UKIP-vsEUkip.com</u> I will endeavour to catch up with the info on this blog when time permits.<u><br /></u></span></div>
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<strong>A Faster, Cheaper Way to Detect Cancer</strong>:<br /><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Never mind that Jack Andraka is 15 years-old, and likes cracking jokes
about “sneaking research papers into my high-school biology class.” <br /><br />
Using nothing but Wikipedia, Google, and spare parts he bought at a Home
Depot, the winner of Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair
created a paper test strip that can detect harmful viruses and antigens
based on changes in conductivity—a method that’s way more efficient
than current models. <br /><br />“Compared with the 60-year-old diagnostic technique
called enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (or ELISA),” <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2012/06/18/wait-did-this-15-year-old-from-maryland-just-change-cancer-treatment">Forbes reported</a>
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of thousands of pancreatic cancer victims each year.”</span><br />
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scientists have proudly announced their ability to store data on DNA and that within 10 years one gram of DNA would be capable of storing 7 Billion x 64GB of data - wow won't that be usefull, then all they need is to work out how to retrieve it!<br />
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In the meantime actual steps towards a totally new approach to medicine in the most holistic form imaginable seem to be the way forward not just holistic but 'whole-istic'!<br />
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This seems much more valuable to me than storing endless data, when it seems most data gathered confidentially is merely used by our burgeoning police state style authorities! Or put on lap tops, hard drives, CDs or the like and left in taxis or on trains!<br />
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However we could find care of our bio system internally will solve many of mankind's illnesses and diseases!</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">People are not just people. They are an awful lot of microbes, too</span></h1>
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Aug 18th 2012 | from the print edition</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><img alt="" class="imagecache imagecache-full-width" height="225" src="http://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/full-width/images/print-edition/20120818_LDP001_0.jpg" title="" width="400" />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">POLITICAL revolutionaries turn the world upside down. Scientific ones
more often turn it inside out. And that, almost literally, is happening
to the idea of what, biologically speaking, a human being is.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-weight: bold;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The traditional view is that a human body is a collection of 10
trillion cells which are themselves the products of 23,000 genes. If the
revolutionaries are correct, these numbers radically underestimate the
truth. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">For in the nooks and crannies of every human being, and
especially in his or her guts, dwells the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbiome" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Microbiome">microbiome</a>: 100 trillion
bacteria of several hundred species bearing 3m non-human genes. The
biological Robespierres believe these should count, too; that humans are
not single organisms, but <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superorganism" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Superorganism">superorganisms</a> made up of lots of smaller
organisms working together.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;"><br /></span> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">It might sound perverse to claim <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Bacteria">bacterial cells</a> and genes as part
of the body, but the revolutionary case is a good one. For the bugs are
neither parasites nor passengers. They are, rather, fully paid-up
members of a community of which the human “host” is but a single (if
dominating) member. This view is increasingly popular: the world’s
leading scientific journals, <em class="Italic">Nature</em> and <em class="Italic">Science</em>,
have both reviewed it extensively in recent months. It is also
important: it will help the science and practice of medicine (see <a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21560523" target="_self">article</a>).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br /></span></div>
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<strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">All in this together</span></strong></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The microbiome does many jobs in exchange for the raw materials and
shelter its host provides. One is to feed people more than 10% of their
daily calories. These are derived from plant carbohydrates that human
enzymes are unable to break down. And not just plant carbohydrates.
Mother’s milk contains carbohydrates called glycans which human enzymes
cannot digest, but bacterial ones can.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">This alone shows how closely host and microbiome have co-evolved over
the years. But digestion is not the only nutritional service provided.
The microbiome also makes vitamins, notably B2, B12 and folic acid. It
is, moreover, capable of adjusting its output to its host’s needs and
diet. The microbiomes of babies make more folic acid than do those of
adults. And microbiomes in vitamin-hungry places like Malawi and rural
Venezuela turn out more of these chemicals than do those in the guts of
North Americans.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The microbiome also maintains the host’s health by keeping hostile
interlopers at bay. An alien bug that causes diarrhoea, for instance, is
as much an enemy of the microbiome as of the host. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-weight: bold;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Both have an
interest in zapping it. And both contribute to the task. Host and
microbiome, then, are allies. But there is more to it than that. For the
latest research shows their physiologies are linked in ways which make
the idea of a human superorganism more than just a rhetorical flourish.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">These links are most visible when they go wrong. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">A disrupted
microbiome has been associated with a lengthening list of problems:
obesity and its opposite, malnutrition; diabetes (both type-1 and
type-2); atherosclerosis and heart disease; multiple sclerosis; asthma
and eczema; liver disease; numerous diseases of the intestines,
including bowel cancer; and autism. The details are often obscure, but
in some cases it looks as if bugs are making molecules that help
regulate the activities of human cells. If these signals go wrong,
disease is the consequence. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">This matters because it suggests doctors
have been looking in the wrong place for explanations of these diseases.
It also suggests a whole new avenue for treatment. If an upset
microbiome causes illness, settling it down might effect a cure.</span></div>
<div style="font-weight: bold;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-weight: bold;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Yogurt companies and health-food fanatics have been banging this drum
for years. And in the case of at least one malady, irritable-bowel
syndrome, they are right. So-called probiotics, a mixture of about half a
dozen bacterial species found in yogurt, do act to calm this condition.
But there is little evidence that consuming probiotics has the tonic
effect on healthy people that certain adverts suggest.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-weight: bold;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">A handful of doctors are taking a more fundamental approach to another microbiome-related disease, infection with <em class="Italic">Clostridium difficile</em>.
This bacterium, which causes life-threatening distension of the gut in
some people who have been treated with antibiotics and thus had their
microbiomes disrupted, is a bane of hospitals. It kills 14,000 people a
year in America alone. </span></div>
<div style="font-weight: bold;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-weight: bold;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">But recent experiments have shown it can be
eliminated by introducing, as an enema, the faeces of a healthy
individual. “Stool transplants” are a pretty crude approach, to be sure,
but the crucial point is that microbes are much easier to manipulate
than human cells. For all the talk of superorganisms (and despite the
yuck factor of what is being moved from one body to another),
transplanting a microbiome is far easier than transplanting a heart or a
kidney.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-weight: bold;">
<strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Disgusting but useful</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br /></span></strong></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Two other areas look promising. </span></div>
<div style="font-weight: bold;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-weight: bold;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">One is more sophisticated deployment
of the humble antibiotic, arguably the pharma industry’s most effective
invention. At the moment antibiotics are used mainly to kill infections.
In the future they might have a more subtle use—to manipulate the mix
of bugs within a human, so that good bugs spread at the expense of bad
ones.</span></div>
<div style="font-weight: bold;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-weight: bold;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The other field that may be changed is genetics. Many of the diseases
in which the microbiome is implicated seem to run in families. In some,
such as heart disease, that is partly explained by known human genes.
In a lot, though, most notably autism, the genetic link is obscure. </span></div>
<div style="font-weight: bold;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-weight: bold;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">This
may be because geneticists have been looking at the wrong set of
genes—the 23,000 rather than the 3m. For those 3m are still inherited.
They are largely picked up from your mother during the messy process of
birth. Though no clear example is yet known, it is possible that
particular disease-inducing strains are being passed down the
generations in this way.</span></div>
<div style="font-weight: bold;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-weight: bold;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">As with all such upheavals, it is unclear where the microbiome
revolution will end up. Doctors and biologists may truly come to think
of people as superorganisms. Then again, they may not. What is clear,
though, is that turning thinking inside out in this way is yielding new
insights into seemingly intractable medical problems, and there is a
good chance cures will follow. <em class="Italic">Vive la révolution</em>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>The First Sunday in June is <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cancer_Survivors_Day" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="National Cancer Survivors Day"><br />National Cancer Survivors Day</a></b></u></span><img alt="http://wjltevansville.com/files/2011/06/national-cancer-survivors-day.jpg" height="300" src="http://wjltevansville.com/files/2011/06/national-cancer-survivors-day.jpg" width="400" /></div>
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<b>Those of us who have been fortunate enough to survive cancer should honour this day with our thanks to our medical teams and those who have supported us but must never forget those wjho have been less fortunate and most of all those they have left behind to grieve and suffer their loss.</b><br />
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To Give Others HOPE</b></div>
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<b>I Have Been Fighting Cancer since 1997
& I'M <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.amazon.com/Still-Here-Joan-Schreiner/dp/1413436420%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzem-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1413436420" rel="amazon" target="_blank" title="Still Here">STILL HERE</a>!</b></div>
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<b>I Have Cancer, Cancer Does NOT Have Me</b></div>
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<b>I just want to say sorry for copping out at times and leaving Lee and friends to cope!</b></div>
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<b>Any help and support YOU can give her will be hugely welcome. </b></div>
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<b>I do make a lousy patient!</b></div>
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If YOU want to follow my fight against Cancer from when it started and I first presented with symptoms see The TAB just below the Header of this Blog.
called ><b>DIARY of Cancer</b>< just click and it will give you a long list of the main events in chronological order.<br />
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Not only does it protect against the disease, it can also trigger a “double hit” on existing <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_cell" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Cancer cell">cancer cells</a>.</div>
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ward off cancer, in the same way that it is currently prescribed to
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that influence <a class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" href="http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/323756/323756#" id="itxthook0" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" id="itxthook0w0" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">energy</span></a> use in cells. Scientists at <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=55.9494444444,-3.16027777778&spn=0.1,0.1&q=55.9494444444,-3.16027777778%20%28Edinburgh%29&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a> and Dundee universities say this “double hit” causes cancer cells to destroy themselves. </div>
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Fern Saitowitz of Los Angeles switched to an experimental treatment for her <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_cancer" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Breast cancer">breast cancer</a>, and her side effects diminished. </div>
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She switched to an experimental treatment, which also consisted of
Herceptin and a chemotherapy agent. Only this time, the two drugs were
attached to each other, keeping the toxic agent inactive until the
Herceptin carried it to the <a class="meta-classifier" href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/tumor/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Tumors.">tumor</a>. Side effects, other than temporary nausea and some <a class="meta-classifier" href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/muscle-cramps/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Muscle cramps.">muscle cramps</a>, vanished. </div>
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The experimental treatment, called T-DM1, is a harbinger of a new class of <a class="meta-classifier" href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/cancer/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Cancer.">cancer</a> drugs that may be more effective and less toxic than many existing treatments. By harnessing <a class="meta-classifier" href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/test/antibody-titer/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Antibody titer.">antibodies</a>
to deliver toxic payloads to cancer cells, while largely sparing
healthy cells, the drugs are a step toward the “magic bullets” against
cancer first envisioned by <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ehrlich" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Paul Ehrlich">Paul Ehrlich</a>, a German Nobel laureate, about
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“It’s almost like we’re masking the chemotherapy,” said Dr. Edith Perez,
a breast cancer specialist at the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.0222,-92.4666&spn=0.01,0.01&q=44.0222,-92.4666%20%28Mayo%20Clinic%29&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Mayo Clinic">Mayo Clinic</a> in Jacksonville, Fla.
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One such drug, Adcetris, developed by Seattle Genetics, was approved last August to treat <a class="meta-classifier" href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/hodgkins-lymphoma/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Hodgkin's Disease.">Hodgkin’s lymphoma</a>
and another rare cancer. TDM-1, developed by Genentech, could reach the
market next year. Data from a large clinical trial of T-DM1 is expected
to attract attention at the annual meeting of the American Society of
Clinical Oncology this weekend in Chicago. </div>
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Numerous other companies, from pharmaceutical giants to tiny start-ups,
are pursuing the treatments, which are known variously as antibody-drug
conjugates, armed antibodies or empowered antibodies. “I don’t think
there is a major pharma or a midsized pharma with interest in cancer
that doesn’t have a program or isn’t scrambling to put one together,”
said Stephen Evans-Freke, a managing general partner at Celtic
Therapeutics, an investment firm that recently committed $50 million to
create a new company, ADC Therapeutics, to develop antibody-drug
conjugates. </div>
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About 25 such drugs from a variety of companies are in clinical trials,
according to Alain Beck, a French pharmaceutical researcher who closely
tracks the field. Genentech alone has eight in clinical trials besides
T-DM1, and another 17 in earlier stages of development. </div>
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Many of the drugs use technology from either Seattle Genetics, based in
Bothell, Wash., or ImmunoGen of Waltham, Mass., which supplied the toxin
and linker used in T-DM1. </div>
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The armed antibodies do not work for all patients and they are not
totally free of side effects. T-DM1, for instance, can lower blood
platelet levels. The drugs are also likely to be expensive. Adcetris
costs more than $100,000 for a typical course of treatment. </div>
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Biotechnology drugs called monoclonal antibodies, like Herceptin, Rituxan and <a class="meta-classifier" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/erbitux_drug/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="Recent and archival health news about Erbitux.">Erbitux</a>,
are already mainstays of what is called targeted cancer therapy. These
laboratory-produced molecules mimic the antibodies made by a person’s
immune system to fight infection. But instead of attacking pathogens
these antibodies attach to specific proteins on the surface of cancer
cells. </div>
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But antibodies by themselves have a limited ability to kill <a class="meta-classifier" href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/tumor/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Tumor.">tumors</a>.
So the antibodies are usually given with more conventional cell-killing
chemotherapy drugs, which cause side effects because they can also
attack healthy cells. </div>
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The new approach chemically attaches a toxin to the antibody, increasing
its killing power while reducing the need to give toxic drugs
separately. After the antibody binds to a cancer cell, it is taken
inside the cell like a Trojan horse, and the toxin is released. </div>
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While armed antibodies are sometimes likened to guided missiles with
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Rather, they float through the bloodstream, bumping against various
cells. But they stick only to the cells bearing the target protein.
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“These are like floating sea mines,” said K. Dane Wittrup, a professor
of chemical and biological engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. “But when they end up in a particular harbor, they blow
up.” Less than 1 percent of the drug actually makes it to the tumor, he
estimated. </div>
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The antibody used in Adcetris, which binds to a protein on malignant
cells called CD30, had little effect on cancer when tested alone, even
at doses 20 times as high as used now. But when linked to a toxin, it
shrank tumors in 75 percent of those with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. </div>
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Aimee Blaine, a petroleum engineer from Bakersfield, Calif., who has had
Hodgkin’s lymphoma since 2004, was virtually out of options after
traditional chemotherapy and a <a class="meta-classifier" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/stemcells/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="Recent and archival health news about stem cells.">stem cell</a> transplant failed to cure her disease. </div>
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But four days after taking Adcetris in a clinical trial, the unbearable <a class="meta-classifier" href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/itching/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Itching.">itching</a> that accompanied her disease vanished, she said. </div>
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Eventually, so did the cancer. Ms. Blaine, 40, has been in remission
since her last dose in January 2011 and recently returned to work for
the first time in seven years. </div>
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Like Herceptin, T-DM1 binds to what is known as the HER2 protein and is
meant to treat only the roughly 20 percent of breast cancer cases
characterized by an abundance of that protein. </div>
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n one trial involving 137 women, including Ms.
Saitowitz, T-DM1 proved both more effective and less toxic than a
combination of Herceptin and the chemotherapy drug docetaxel as an
initial treatment for metastatic breast cancer.
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Those who received T-DM1 went a median of 14.2 months before their
disease worsened, compared with 9.2 months for those getting the
two-drug combination. Yet only 46 percent of the T-DM1 patients suffered
a severe side effect, half the rate of the other group. </div>
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At the cancer conference, researchers will present results of a pivotal
trial involving nearly 1,000 women. Though armed antibodies are easy to
envision, it has taken more than three decades to make them practical,
with many failures along the way. </div>
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With the first armed antibody to reach the market, Mylotarg, the toxin
sometimes fell off the antibody prematurely, causing side effects.
Approved in 2000 to treat acute myeloid leukemia, Mylotarg was removed
from the market by its manufacturer, Pfizer, in 2010 after new studies
showed it did not prolong lives and had safety problems. </div>
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Since then, two antibodies linked to radioactive isotopes have been
approved to treat non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma — Bexxar from GlaxoSmithKline
and Zevalin from Spectrum Pharmaceuticals. These drugs, while effective,
are more cumbersome to use than antibodies linked to chemical toxins.
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Researchers first tried to use existing chemotherapy drugs as the
payloads, but they were simply not toxic enough. That is because less of
a drug gets to the tumor when carried on an antibody than when the drug
floods the body by itself. </div>
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Seattle Genetics and ImmunoGen use toxins that are hundreds of times as
potent as typical chemotherapy agents. They are too toxic to be given by
themselves. </div>
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The linkers have proved even tricker to develop since they must keep the
toxin attached to the antibody while in the bloodstream, but then
release the toxin inside the cancer cell. </div>
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Dr. John Lambert, executive vice president for research and development
at ImmunoGen, will be in the audience at the cancer conference as the
fruits of 30 years of work are presented. </div>
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<cite class="byline vcard">By <span class="fn"><a href="http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/author/chris-willman/">Chris Willman</a></span> | <span class="provider org"><a href="http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/stop-the-presses/">Stop The Presses!</a></span> – <abbr title="2012-05-30T18:36:16Z">Wed, May 30, 2012 2:36 PM EDT</abbr></cite></div>
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In the end, it wasn't the Big C that felled Robin Gibb, according to his son.</div>
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<span class="yom-figure yom-fig-right" style="width: 190px;"><a href="http://mit.zenfs.com/817/2012/05/rj-robin2.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3449" height="127" src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/FoSJaWAqFuW_LKykUfcHRg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTE5MA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/stop-the-presses/rj-robin2.jpg" title="Robin Gibb with son Robin-John" width="190" /></a><span class="legend">Robin Gibb with son Robin-John</span></span>Robin-John
Gibb, 29, has emerged from mourning to correct reports that blamed
liver or colon cancer for the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.beegees.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Bee Gees">Bee Gee</a>'s death on May 20. Gibb's long
battle with cancer was referenced in the <a href="http://www.rollingstone.co.za/musicrev/item/895-robin-gibb-bee-gees-co-founder-dead-at-62" target="_blank">statement</a>
his publicist released to press following his passing. "It wasn't the
cancer that killed my father; those reports are wrong," the son told
England's Daily Express. "Dad had actually gone into remission and the
cancer was completely unrecognizable; it was too small to detect. No
scan could see it. He actually died of kidney failure."</div>
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This may help explain the disparity between the late singer's
extremely optimistic public statements about his cancer in February and
the ill health that beset him in March... a dichotomy that might have
made other patients worry that if Gibb's cancer could take such a
dramatic turn, then maybe theirs could too.</div>
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In early February, Robin Gibb told the BBC that he'd had a growth
removed from his colon, which "is almost gone and I feel fantastic.
Really from now on, it's just what they could describe as a 'mopping-up'
operation. I am very active and my sense of well-being is good." How he
went from that sense of well-being to a coma in April and death in May
confounded fans. Had he been in denial about the extent of his cancer,
or was its progression really that reversible and deadly?</div>
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Neither, according to Robin-John. The kidney failure was a separate
condition -- although one no doubt exacerbated by the toll the cancer
and its aggressive treatment had taken on Gibbs' body.</div>
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<span class="yom-figure yom-fig-right" style="width: 190px;"><a href="http://mit.zenfs.com/817/2012/05/Gibbs.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3452" height="143" src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/9RuI8JOusDgQT_U6NKoLig--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTE5MA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/stop-the-presses/Gibbs.jpg" title="The Gibbses" width="190" /></a><span class="legend">The Gibbses</span></span>The
Daily Express described Robin-John as "frustrated" about differences
between doctors about how to treat his father in his final weeks, and he
expressed unhappiness with the decisions taken by the hospital staff. "<span>At
the end there was a divergence of opinion... They had totally different
approaches. The (hospital's) CCU staff started treating him
palliatively, while his main doctors wanted to reduce all the sedative
medications so he could fight... In the end the decisions were made by
CCU. I wanted dialysis and CPR. They said it was futile because he was a
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.cancercenter.com/oral-cancer/oral-cancer-staging.cfm" rel="cancercenter" target="_blank" title="oral cancer stages">Stage 4 cancer</a> patient."</span></div>
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The son told the newspaper that his father had appeared to be doing
well until three days before his death, when he suffered a seizure. "He
was then dosed with sedatives to deal with the side effects of his
chemotherapy and his liver just couldn't process them. He deteriorated
to the point where it started to affect his kidneys as well. Basically,
my father died of kidney and liver failure. It was a really sudden
downturn."</div>
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<span><span class="yom-figure yom-fig-right" style="width: 150px;"><a href="http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/stop-the-presses/RobinJohnGibb.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3450" height="181" src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/dlc_fO_tosGh2KXxxj6Xpw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTE1MA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/stop-the-presses/RobinJohnGibb.jpg" title="Robin-John Gibb" width="150" /></a><span class="legend">Robin-John Gibb</span></span>Robin-John
described the moment of his father's death as "peaceful and dignified,"
with "no theatrics. It was only later that I cried and cried." At
Gibb's deathbed, "I was cradling his head and holding his right hand,
and my mother was holding his left. I gave him a kiss and made way for
(brother) Spencer and we both held his right hand. We watched him go and
told him we loved him." A half-hour later, after medical staff had
left, the family returned to visit the body one more time. "One of my
favourite Bee Gee songs, 'I Started A Joke,' has the line: 'I finally
died, which started the whole world living,' and I played it on my
phone, put it on Dad's chest and we sat together," he told the
paper. "I'd tried to hold it all in until then but that's when I bawled
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that Gibb had given the mother of his "love child" a lump sum payment of
4 million pounds (or about $6.4 million) a few months before he died to
provide for the care of their 3-year-old. Claire Yang, the former
housekeeper for Gibb and his wife, gave birth to Snow Robin in 2008, and
the singer is said to not only have acknowledged the paternity but even
provided Yang a house, which was reportedly transferred into her name
shortly before Gibbs' death. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Although best known for their disco-driven songs of the 1970s, powered by
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.barrygibb.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Barry Gibb">Barry Gibb</a>’s falsetto, the Bee Gees (it stands for “Brothers Gibb”) first
achieved success in the 1960s on the back of Robin’s lower registered, if
still adenoidal, vocal performances.
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It was he who sang the theme of their first British No 1 hit, Massachusetts
(1967), and the follow-up success I’ve Just Got to Get a Message to You
(1968), which also reached the top spot. Neither plaintive tune was a dance
floor filler, plucking instead on listeners’ heart strings at plodding pace.
But they were winners on both sides of the Atlantic, and seemed to confirm
the band as a major prospect.
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Then the trio went off the rails. Fuelled by drugs and alcohol, the brothers
fought during the production of the 1969 album Odessa. Rivalry between Barry
and Robin over who was the true star of the band (Robin’s twin brother,
Maurice, confined himself to the bass, keyboard and backing vocals) forced a
split, which saw Robin depart for a solo career that he would intermittently
reignite in the years to come.
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His first solo product, the album Robin’s Reign (1970), was underwhelming.
Demoralised, he was reconciled with his brothers, who themselves had flopped
with their album as a duo, Cucumber Castle. United once more, their fortunes
were briefly revived, only to dip again as they struggled to find a formula
for consistent success.
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Then Barry began experimenting with falsetto, which the band set to funky,
higher-tempo melodies. Their renaissance started with Jive Talkin’, which in
1975 reached No 1 in America and No 5 in Britain. That performance was
repeated the following year by You Should Be Dancing before, in 1977, the
Bee Gees contributed to the album that would secure their place in the
history of popular music.
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The brothers wrote eight songs for the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever
(1977), the celebrated film starring John Travolta. Driven by incessantly
catchy bass lines, synthesised backing tracks and by now ubiquitous falsetto
vocals, the album remained at the top of the charts for almost half a year.
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Suddenly the Bee Gees, who had been preparing themselves for a return to
musical obscurity before the album, were among the hottest tickets in
popular music. But just as Travolta found it hard to shake off his role as
the star of much-imitated, often parodied dance routines, so the Bee Gees’
image seemed to be forever fixed by their disco success. Whatever the
reality, the brothers Gibb were thereafter thought of as perma-tanned,
hugely-coiffed performers in platform heels; blinding white teeth, a flash
of chest hair and skintight gold or white romper suits completed the look.
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Robin Hugh Gibb was born at Douglas, on the Isle of Man, on December 22 1949,
an hour before his twin, Maurice. Barry was three years older. Their father
was a jobbing drummer and the boys grew up in relative poverty in
Manchester. “I can remember my dad sitting under a 40-watt bulb counting
pennies, trying to make them last until Friday,” recalled Robin. “The
evening meal was a sixpenny bag of chips divided among us all. But kids
don’t question that. We didn’t think we were poor then. We only knew we were
poor later.”
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In 1958 the family, complete with a fourth brother, the newly-born Andrew,
moved to Brisbane in Australia. Robin and Maurice left school at 13, and
with Barry they began performing in local clubs and theatres. Robin Gibb
remembered in 2003: “We were writing music even as young kids, we created a
world into which a lot of our friends couldn’t enter. We wanted to make
music all our lives and it evolved to a point where the only people who
could understand that were the three of us. We didn’t feel comfortable with
anyone but ourselves. The three of us were like one person.”
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From the outset they concentrated on the close harmony vocals and detailed
arrangements that would become their calling-card for decades to come; and
soon they recorded an album which broke into the local charts.
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Barry Gibb sent the album to record companies in Britain, and in 1967 the
brothers returned to England, where they were signed up by the promoter
Robert Stigwood, a business partner of the Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein.
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Their first release, for Polydor, New York Mining Disaster, was a small hit.
But it was followed by a series of successes which began to cement the
trio’s fame — To Love Somebody, Words, and then the No 1 hits Massachusetts
and I’ve Gotta Get A Message to You. By the time the Sixties drew to a
close, the Bee Gees were stars on both sides of the Atlantic, and noted for
their willingness to experiment with unusual musical styles.
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But Robin Gibb’s personal life was proving turbulent. On arriving back in
England he had met and married Molly Hullis, a secretary from Brian
Epstein’s office. The pair were together in 1967 when they were caught up in
the Hither Green rail disaster, in which 49 people were killed. “I remember
it very vividly,” he later recalled. “Children were trapped, passengers were
being given anaesthetics to have their limbs removed. It was horrendous,
like Dante’s Inferno. I just wanted to escape.”
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By his own admission, he neglected his marriage. He also took refuge in
amphetamines: “I took the pills to stay up all night and make records. You
had to work through the night because studio time was expensive. I never
took serious drugs like LSD or cocaine — I was scared stiff of them.”
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The divorce was acrimonious. Molly was granted custody of their two children
(when they were six and four) and refused to allow their father to see them.
Gibb went to court, but was unsuccessful; he did not see his children for
six years.
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“It was akin to bereavement,” he said later. “I felt as though I was on the
verge of madness. There was no response to my calls, no acknowledgement of
my gifts, no letters. Nobody would tell me anything. All the professional
achievements, they mean nothing if your kids are taken away.” Subsequently
he was allowed to re-establish contact with the children: “Then it got to
the stage where they would just arrive unannounced, that was the best
moment.”
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After Saturday Night Fever the Bee Gees had a further success with the title
track for the film Grease (1978), performed by Frankie Valli; but as the
popularity of disco waned so did that of the group which had come to be
defined by it. The Bee Gees fell out with Stigwood, and in 1988 their
younger brother Andy (a successful singer in his own right) died from
myocarditis aged 30.
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The group came back in 1987 with You Win Again (their fifth British No 1) and
wrote Islands in the Stream and Chain Reaction, respectively hits for Kenny
Rogers/Dolly Parton and Diana Ross. They continued to record, releasing
albums such as Still Waters (1997) and This is Where I Came In (2001), and
continued to attract large audiences at live performances.
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Increasingly, however, the Bee Gees became noted for their wider influence on
the music industry. Throughout their careers, the brothers were known for
their talent in composition, arrangement and production, and their songs
have been covered by countless artists, from Elvis Presley and Janis Joplin
to Boyzone and Destiny’s Child.
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Robin Gibb actively pursued his solo career, with albums including How Old Are
You? (1983), Secret Agent (1984), Walls Have Eyes (1985), Magnet (2002) and
My Favourite Christmas Carols (2006). In 2004 he toured Germany, Russia and
Asia and Europe, and recorded with both Barbra Streisand and Cliff Richard.
In 2006 he performed with Barry at a charity concert in Miami, and later
that year the two brothers teamed up again for the Prince’s Trust Concert in
Britain.
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Gibb returned to the top of the UK charts in 2009 when he collaborated with
Ruth Jones, Rob Brydon, and Tom Jones on a new version of Islands in the
Stream for Comic Relief.
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In 2002 all three Gibb brothers were appointed CBE.
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Gibb had recently been campaigning for the building of a national memorial to
the members of RAF Bomber Command who gave their lives during the last war:
“It’s just something I feel strongly about. I wasn’t even alive when these
guys did what they did, but I know they deserve a monument to their
sacrifice.”
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Robin Gibb lived in a rambling 12th-century former monastery, set in 100 acres
of gardens, in Oxfordshire. The tennis court was transformed into a
Druidical stone circle — a gesture to his second wife, Dwina, a bisexual
former Druid priestess whom he married in 1985.
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A staunch friend and defender of Tony Blair (“a wonderful man”), Gibb wore
small, blue-tinted spectacles and claimed to follow a macrobiotic diet — his
only vice in the dietary department being vanilla ice cream.
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He had, however, suffered for years from crippling stomach pains, and in 2010
underwent surgery for a blocked intestine — the same condition which led to
the death of his twin brother Maurice in 2003, a blow which Robin felt
deeply. “I think about Maurice at unpredictable times,” he said in 2008. “I
wake up in the middle of the night thinking about him. One is a twin for
life. I can be sitting here talking normally about how he is dead and then I
can be sitting in the bath and it hits me. And I find it incredible that
he’s no longer alive.”
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In April 2011 Gibb was forced to cancel a series of concerts in Brazil after
suffering severe abdominal pains. He was again taken ill in October . He had
recently been undergoing treatment for liver cancer, but on February 13
returned to the stage to perform at a charity concert at the London
Palladium, receiving a standing ovation.
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He is survived by his wife Dwina, with whom he had a son. He had a son and a
daughter by his first wife, Molly; and in 2008 his housekeeper, Claire Yang,
gave birth to his daughter.
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The only surviving Bee Gee is Barry, now 65.</span></blockquote>
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<b>Make of this what you will, it is approximately what I wrote to the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_executive_officer" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Chief executive officer">Chief
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<b style="color: blue;">Many thanks, </b><br />(<b style="color: red;">REDACTED by G.L-W.</b>)</div>
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<i>I am an old age pensioner in my early 70s, a long term <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.everydayhealth.com/cancer/index.aspx" rel="everydayhealth" target="_blank" title="cancer">cancer patient</a> having had life threatening recurrences and surgery over 20 years, a patient of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.507,-3.19&spn=0.005,0.005&q=51.507,-3.19%20%28University%20Hospital%20of%20Wales%29&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="University Hospital of Wales">University Hospital of Wales</a>.<br /><br />In April 20011 I
underwent further surgery for the removal of a malignant tumour attached to the bowel.
<br />In June 2011 I began to notice a significant swelling in the area of the operation scar, and was told
that some internal stitches from this operation had failed resulting in a
hernia. <br />I was scheduled for <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgery" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Surgery">corrective surgery</a> and was given a date for
admission on 13th February 2012. <br />In the letter I received I was told to phone
the ward and they would tell me what time they wanted me to come in, with no warning that they might fail to honour the appointment!</i></div>
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<i>On February 13th. 2012, the day of admission, I phoned as instructed but was told the ward did
not know if there was a bed available and they would phone me back. <br />They phoned
back at approximately 4.15pm to say there was no bed for me and a new
appointment would be made <b>in due course</b>.<br />The new appointment was made for 5th
March.</i></div>
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<i>The 2nd. March arrived only to see that again the appointment was cancelled, this time three days before, by
the <span id="misspell-2"><span>consultant</span></span> who had an <span id="misspell-3"><span>emergency</span></span>. </i></div>
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<i>The third appointment was made for
the 23rd April which was six weeks ahead and in spite of all this time to
organise things this appointment too was cancelled late on the day of admission
- no bed available.<br /><br />It is increasingly difficult to have confidence in the ability of a surgical team whose management have a clearly total inability to manage something as simple as a diary! Entering into contract after contract to carry out procedures yet reneging at the last minute time and again!<br /><br />At this point the Complaints Concern Team were contacted and within hours I
received a phone call making a forth appointment for the 30th April.<br />The appointed 30th. April eventually arrived, be minded this is a year after the failure of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.business.com/healthcare/healthcare/" rel="businesscom" target="_blank" title="Healthcare">Health Service</a> to perform a successful operation leading to a hernia, a risk one appreciates but surely no one should be expected to tollerate let alone appreciate increasing dissability and pain due to the incompetence of the administrative management to manage a diary!<br />Unbelievably at 5.35pm on the 30th. due to incompetence to schedule a diary the <span id="misspell-6"><span>unavailability</span></span> of a bed was the excuse again, the operation was
again postponed.</i></div>
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<i>As you can well appreciate , these delays have not been beneficial to my
health, neither mental nor physical, as the hernia, which has now grown to a
good six inches in diameter, is affecting my mobility and my ability to
sleep and besides the discomfort there is the ever present anxiety with constant discomfort as an omnipresent reminder!.</i></div>
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<i>There is also the additional problem of personal arrangements to be made
prior to going into hospital, not easy on a limited budget whilst stressed by the anxiety of physical dissability. <br />My daughter-in-law has to take time off work to
take me to hosp[ital and appointments, how does she explain to her seniors again and again the same excuse
for time off? <br />I also have booked my two small companion dogs into a kennel and because of
the late time of three of the cancellations I have had to pay each time for one
day kennel <span id="misspell-7"><span>accommodation</span></span>. <br />Currently my car
is due for a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOT_test" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="MOT test">MOT test</a> which I cancelled, as I was sure the last hospital
appointment would not be cancelled, surely not again, so I have been without a car for the last
<span id="misspell-8"><span>few</span></span> days.</i></div>
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<i>I have contacted my local MP, David T.C. Davies (Tory, Monmouthshire), who has been most supportive
and has written to the hospital on my behalf, I have myself written to the Chief
Executive, but have not even received the simple courtesy of an acknowledgement, so far I have heard nothing from the hospita.<br /><br />As a last resort
I have contacted the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="South Wales Argus">South Wales Argus</a>, who have made an appointment to come to see me on Wednesday
9th May, I assume they will have the competence to manage a diary and will honour their contracted appointment, we will see what results we get from that.<br /><br />Yours sincerely,</i></div>
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CHICAGO (AP) -- Men rarely get breast cancer, but those who do
often don't survive as long as women, largely because they don't even
realize they can get it and are slow to recognize the warning signs,
researchers say.</div>
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On average, women with breast cancer lived two years longer than men in the biggest <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observational_study" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Observational study">study</a> yet of the disease in males.</div>
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The
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advanced and more likely to have spread to other parts of the body. Men
were also diagnosed later in life; in the study, they were 63 on
average, versus 59 for women.</div>
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Many men have no
idea that they can get breast cancer, and some doctors are in the dark,
too, dismissing symptoms that would be an automatic red flag in women,
said study leader Dr. Jon Greif, a breast cancer surgeon in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.8044444444,-122.270833333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=37.8044444444,-122.270833333%20%28Oakland%2C%20California%29&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Oakland, California">Oakland,
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The <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.cancer.org/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="American Cancer Society">American Cancer Society</a> estimates 1
in 1,000 men will get breast cancer, versus 1 in 8 women. By
comparison, 1 in 6 men will get prostate cancer, the most common cancer
in men.</div>
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"It's not really been on the radar
screen to think about breast cancer in men," said Dr. David Winchester, a
breast cancer surgeon in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NorthShore_University_HealthSystem" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="NorthShore University HealthSystem">NorthShore University HealthSystem</a> in suburban
Chicago who was not involved in the study. Winchester treats only a few
men with breast cancer each year, compared with at least 100 women.</div>
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The
researchers analyzed 10 years of national data on breast cancer cases,
from 1998 to 2007. A total of 13,457 male patients diagnosed during
those years were included, versus 1.4 <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Women_Study" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="The Million Women Study">million women</a>. The database
contains about 75 percent of all U.S. breast cancer cases.</div>
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The
men who were studied lived an average of about eight years after being
diagnosed, compared with more than 10 years for women. The study doesn't
indicate whether patients died of breast cancer or something else.</div>
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Greif prepared a summary of his study for presentation Friday at a meeting of American Society of Breast Surgeons in Phoenix.</div>
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Dr.
Akkamma Ravi, a breast cancer specialist at Weill Cornell Medical
College in New York, said the research bolsters results in smaller
studies and may help raise awareness. Because the disease is so rare in
men, research is pretty scant, and doctors are left to treat it the same
way they manage the disease in women, she said.</div>
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Some
doctors said one finding in the study suggests men's breast tumors
might be biologically different from women's: Men with early-stage
disease had worse survival rates than women with early-stage cancer. But
men's older age at diagnosis also might explain that result, Greif
said.</div>
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The causes of breast cancer in men are
not well-studied, but some of the same things that increase women's
chances for developing it also affect men, including older age,
cancer-linked gene mutations, a family history of the disease, and heavy
drinking.</div>
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There are no formal guidelines for
detecting breast cancer in men. The American Cancer Society says
routine, across-the-board screening of men is unlikely to be beneficial
because the disease is so rare.</div>
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For men at
high risk because of a strong family history or genetic mutations,
mammograms and breast exams may be helpful, but men should discuss this
with their doctors, the group says.</div>
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Men's
breast cancer usually shows up as a lump under or near a nipple. Nipple
discharge and breasts that are misshapen or don't match are also
possible signs that should be checked out.</div>
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Tom
More, 67, of Custer, Wash., was showering when he felt a pea-size lump
last year near his right nipple. Because a golfing buddy had breast
cancer, More didn't put off seeing his doctor. The doctor told More that
he was his first male breast cancer patient.</div>
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Robert
Kaitz, a computer business owner in Severna Park, Md., thought the
small growth under his left nipple was just a harmless cyst, like ones
that had been removed from his back. By the time he had it checked out
in 2006, almost two years later, the lump had started to hurt.</div>
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The diagnosis was a shock.</div>
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"I
had no idea in the world that men could even get breast cancer," Kaitz
said. He had a mastectomy, and 25 nearby lymph nodes were removed, some
with cancer. Chemotherapy and radiation followed.</div>
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Tests
showed Kaitz, 52, had a BRCA genetic mutation that has been linked to
breast and ovarian cancer in women. He may have gotten the mutation from
his mother, who is also a breast cancer survivor. It has also been
linked to prostate cancer, which Kaitz was treated for in 2009.</div>
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A
powerboater and motorcycle buff, Kaitz jokes about being a man with a
woman's disease but said he is not embarrassed and doesn't mind showing
his breast surgery scar.</div>
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The one thing he
couldn't tolerate was tamoxifen, a hormone treatment commonly used to
help prevent breast cancer from returning in women. It can cause
menopausal symptoms, so he stopped taking it.</div>
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"It
killed me. I tell you what - night sweats, hot flashes, mood swings,
depression. I'd be sitting in front of the TV watching a drama and the
tears wouldn't stop pouring," he said.</div>
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Doctors sometimes prescribe antidepressants or other medication to control those symptoms.</div>
<div class="ap-story-p">
Now Kaitz gets mammograms every year. Men need to know that "we're not immune," he said. "We have the same plumbing."</div>
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Beastie Boys founder member Adam Yauch dies aged 47</h1>
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<span style="color: blue;">Adam Yauch, a founder member of the hip hop group the Beastie Boys, has died
just a year after it was said he had recovered from cancer, it has been
reported.<br /></span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/"><img alt="Richard Alleyne" border="0" height="60" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01757/Alleyne_60_1757330j.jpg" width="60" /></a></h2>
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Yauch, also known as <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.mcamusic.com.ph/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="MCA Records">MCA</a>, had been in treatment for cancer since 2009 after
discovering a tumour in his salivary gland.
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He had surgery and radiation therapy and some reports said he was clear of the
disease last year.
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But the star said that the "reports of my being totally cancer free are
exaggerated".
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<img alt="Some reports said Adam Yauch was clear of cancer last year (AP)" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02211/ad_2211631c.jpg" title="Some reports said Adam Yauch was clear of cancer last year (AP)" width="460" /></div>
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It is not known whether he died from the disease, the report in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.rollingstone.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone
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Under the alias MCA, he joined the group co-founded by Mike D, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.mixmastermike.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Mix Master Mike">Mix Master
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They went on to sell more than 40m albums worldwide and win a number of
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The band started out as a hardcore punk outfit called <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Aborigines" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="The Young Aborigines">The Young Aborigines</a> in
1979 but switched to hip hop in 1984.
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Two years later they launched their critically-acclaimed debut album <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.amazon.com/Licensed-Ill-Beastie-Boys/dp/B0000024JN%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzem-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB0000024JN" rel="amazon" target="_blank" title="Licensed to Ill">Licensed
To Ill</a>, which spawned the hit singles <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%28You_Gotta%29_Fight_for_Your_Right_%28To_Party%21%29" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)">(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To
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In addition to his career with the Beastie Boys, Yauch was heavily involved in
the movement to free Tibet and co-organised the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_Freedom_Concert" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Tibetan Freedom Concert">Tibetan Freedom Concerts</a> of
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He is survived by his wife, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/adam_yauch_as_nathaniel_hornblower" rel="rottentomatoes" target="_blank" title="Adam Yauch">Dechen Wangdu</a> and daughter Tenzin Losel Yauch.</span>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">clearly yet unsurprisingly <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="European Union">the EU</a> concept of Regional assemblies, which downgraded wales from being a proud Principality with meaningfull input to National politics at Westminster has left them struggling with largely incompetent, unskilled, ill prepared and utterly incompetent super annuated County Councillors managing multi Million £ budgets way beyond their levels of competence.<br /><br />Here is yet another example:</span></h1>
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<b>The £12m cash injection by the Welsh government to three of
Wales's struggling <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_Scotland" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="NHS Scotland">NHS boards</a> is not a bailout, according to the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_minister" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Health minister">health
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<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Griffiths" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Lesley Griffiths">Lesley Griffiths</a> AM came under attack during an urgent question tabled by the Conservatives. </div>
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A question was asked on NHS finances following the health minister's claim that all health boards have 'met financial targets'. <br /></div>
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all have been congratulated in a ministerial statement for a
'remarkable achievement', three have received money totalling over £12
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Leader of the Conservatives Andrew
RT Davies argued that "this is effectively a loan, it is definitely a
bailout, this kind of 'Enron economics' is absolutely unforgiveable".<br /><br /> </div>
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<a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.plaidcymru.org/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Plaid Cymru">Plaid
Cymru's</a> Finance Spokesperson <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.ieuanwynjones.plaidcymru.org/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Ieuan Wyn Jones">Ieuan Wyn Jones</a> described it as "an
astounding attempt by the Labour Welsh government to mislead us into
thinking that our LHBs have stayed within budget". </div>
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According to
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsty_Williams" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Kirsty Williams">Kirsty Williams</a>, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_leaders_of_the_Liberal_Democrats" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="List of leaders of the Liberal Democrats">Leader of the Liberal Democrats</a> "the health minister
should be embarrassed and ashamed for issuing a statement like this". </div>
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<b><br />To view the original article <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/wales/newsid_9718000/9718145.stm" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> <br /></b>The level of utter incompetence and Government hubris that consigns the health of 13 Counties to such low grade and self interested muppets beggars belief - all be it nothing more than yet another EU scam to sabotage our democracy.<br /><br />£Billions are squandered of OUR money at the cost of OUR health and let us not forget the catastrophic influence of the economically illiterate 13 years of misrule by Labour on a National basis also, which led to the sell off of so very many NHS assetts to fund their incompetence!<br /><br />Regards,<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>09-Mar-2012 - 13:10 Velindre - appt.: <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_computed_tomography" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="X-ray computed tomography">CT Scan</a></b></span><br />
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One always has an element of trepidation (Scanziety!) when faced with a scan of any type, as although one NEEDS to know the answers it could be an answer that is a potential death sentence!<br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Robin Gibb is in remission after being told by doctors he is beating both liver and colon cancer, it has been reported.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The 62-year-old singer had been taken back into hospital last month amid fears he was losing his battle against the deadly disease.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But now Robin is said to have told his delighted friends and family that he is on the road to recovery, paying tribute to his devoted wife Dwina for helping him through the difficult times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He is quoted in the Sunday Mirror as telling a friend: 'I could not have done it without Dwina. She has never left my side and is a wonderful person.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'I am beating cancer and can't wait to carry on with my work.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Robin was first diagnosed with liver and colon cancer five months ago, causing him<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">to cancel a string of gigs and appearances.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But he last month the singer returned to the spotlight as he</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>joined military trio The Soldiers for the Coming Home charity concert at the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.514944,-0.140806&spn=0.01,0.01&q=51.514944,-0.140806%20%28London%20Palladium%29&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="London Palladium">London Palladium</a>, in support of injured servicemen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He closed the event with Bee Gees classic How Deep Is Your Love and I've Gotta Get A Message To You - which he recorded with The Soldiers last year in support of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="The Royal British Legion">Royal British Legion</a>'s Poppy Appeal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Speaking before taking the stage, he told fans he felt 'fantastic' and thanked them for their support.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He happily posed for photos before walking out to massive applause at the iconic London venue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The star recently spoke out about his cancer battle, saying he had impressed doctors with his progress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He told BBC Radio 2: 'I've been treated by a brilliant doctor, and in their own words, the results have been spectacular.</span></div>
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Dressed up: The 62-year-old wore a brown jacket with a black turtleneck and black trousers, as well as his trademark purple-tinted glasses</div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'And they said "What are you doing that we don't know about?"'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He joked that medics had said he must be from 'another planet', before adding: 'The prognosis is that it’s almost gone and I feel fantastic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Really from now on it's just what they could describe as a "mopping-up" operation.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Robin is also due to appear with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in April, for the premiere of his first classical composition The Titanic Requiem, to mark the centenary of the disaster.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Details of his condition first emerged in October when he was forced to cancel several concerts and charity appearances.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He also sparked alarm when he joined chat host Alan Titchmarsh the same month appearing gaunt and unwell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The singer has had repeated health problems due to a twisted bowel, a condition that led to the death of his twin brother Maurice nine years ago, at the age of 53.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But he revealed he had been diagnosed with colon cancer which spread to the liver, but vowed to beat the disease and continued to write music.</span></div>
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<b>I was reading The Economist earlier and came across this interesting article which clearly is only, as yet, a theory. It does seem to have some grounding in a level of common sense I can equate to.</b><br />
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<b>My choice would I think be, should I have the need for chemo. again, to drink a high level of vitamin C juices take vitamin C tablets disolved IN the juice and sweeten with pure honey.</b><br />
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<b>That would provide nutrient, stave off hunger and could do you little harm if it failed to help =- Though I am ambivalent on the issue as sound high nutrient food does seem to feed and support the imune system and provides reserves you may find you need if you have a period where you are unable to eat, as with sickness or ulcerated mouth and gullet!</b><br />
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<b>The first time around, which seems to have worked so far I made sure I drank at least 2 pints of freshly squeezed fruit juice ate half a pint of Greek yoghurt with honey AND used 'Difflam' oral rinse to deaden the pain of ulcers to make eating a possibility.</b><br />
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<b>Through my Chemo. & Radiation Treatment my weight did not seem to vary and I made efforts to NOT miss my main meal a day which includes lightly cooked green veggies and salads WITH good quality meat or fish in moderation.</b><br />
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DENIAL, famously, is good for the soul. It is also good for the
body. Scientists have known for decades that animals fed near-starvation
diet in laboratories see dramatic boosts in their lifespans. A lack of
nutrients seems to spur the activity of cellular repair mechanisms,
which help to slow the gradual accumulation of cellular damage that is
one cause of aging.<br /><br />
Some humans, too, try to cheat aging by
starving themselves. No one yet knows if such forbearance has the
desired effect on members of <em><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Human">Homo sapiens</a></em>. In the meantime,
though, boosting a body's repair mechanisms may have other uses. One
could be in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_of_cancer" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Management of cancer">cancer treatment</a>, where fasting seems both to protect
healthy tissue and to make tumours easier to treat.<br /><br />
In 2008 a group led by Lizzia Raffaghello, a biologist at the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Southern_California" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="University of Southern California">University of Southern California (USC)</a>, published a <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18378900" target="_blank">paper</a> suggesting
that a short, sharp course of fasting—not eating at all for a few
days, as opposed to months of eating much less than normal—could make
ordinary, non-cancerous cells more resistant to the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemotherapy" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Chemotherapy">side-effects of
chemotherapy</a>, at least in yeast and mice. If the same results were found
in humans, it could mean less suffering for <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.cancercenter.com/cancer-statistics.cfm" rel="cancercenter" target="_blank" title="cancer statistics">cancer patients</a>; or it
could free doctors to use higher doses of chemotherapy in an attempt to
tackle cancers more aggressively.<br /><br />
But fasting may bring other
benefits, too. On February 8th Valter Longo, one of Dr Raffaghellos'
colleagues at USC (and a contributing author to her paper from 2008)
published a <a href="http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/early/2012/02/06/scitranslmed.3003293" target="_blank">paper</a>
of his own showing that—again in yeast and in mice—fasting can actually
make cancerous cells more susceptible to chemotherapy than they
otherwise might be. Cancerous mice treated with a combination of
chemotherapy and fasting had better survival chances and smaller
tumours, for several different types of cancer, than those treated with
either fasting or chemotherapy alone. In some cases, the combination
treatment eradicated even metastasised cancers completely.<br /><br />
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researchers suggest that the explanation for this double bill of fewer
side effects and more vulnerable tumours is that <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_cell" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Cancer cell">cancer cells</a> do not do
what the rest of the body would like them to. In thin times, normal
cells switch their attention away from reproduction and towards
preservation, beefing up their repair mechanisms, and hunker down to
wait for better days.<br /><br />
Not so cancer cells which, after all, are
distinguished by their reckless proliferation. So while ordinary cells
become resistant to chemotherapy drugs following a fast, cancer cells do
not. In fact, in Dr Vango's study, tumour cells seemed to boost their
activity levels during times of famine. That, in turn, boosted the
quantity of free radicals, highly oxidising and damaging chemicals
produced as a side-effect of metabolism, inside them. Thus stressed, the
tumour cells found it much harder to cope with the added battering from
chemotherapy drugs.<br /><br />
The usual caveats apply, as they do to all
studies of lab animals; mice and yeast cells are not human. But if
fasting shows similar effects in humans with cancer—and early-stage
clinical trials are already under way—then the attractions are obvious.
Fasting is cheap, safe and, in theory, should work against a wide
variety of cancer types. Not quite a magic bullet, then, but not far
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recently I was asked by a reader of this blog, with views and opinions on the main thrust of the blog, if I would host a posting by them which I agreed to on condition that it was 'selling' nothing and was broadly rational!<br />
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I now offer Liz Davies' posting - un-edited and am happy to say I endorse much of the sound common sense she offers.<br />
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Recently October) Lee and I took on a new home which promptly gave rise to an irational amount of work - both in terms of just moving but also the large garden required a lot of attention and remodelling - we found the kitchen roof leaked like a sieve and we had to take that off and rebuild it with new timbers, a more viable angle and more besides - The house had zero roof insulation so that had to be done and the attics floored - then we realised the heating system was not only dated but far from effective!<br />
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And so it goes on!<br />
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The work has in itself provided its fair share of 'pain' as without ANY stomach muscles or much of an imune system it was all uphill! However I was determined to break the back of the work and ensure it was warm and homely for Lee if anything DID happen to me since after all I was expected to die by around the end of June.<br /><br />The challenges, the work and the goals have contributed hugely to my survival to date - I am sure! Whether that has been the excercise, the determination to ensure Lee will be OK, her support or just the excercise I can not tell - BUT I'm still here!<br />
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So far so good!<br />
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Liz Davies is a great advocate of excercise - I see no reason to disagree with her!<br />
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That said I do tend to subscribe to the concept that if you need excercise it could be dangerous for you and if you don't need it why do it! Ever the cynic ;-)<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Along
with its numerous physical benefits, exercise can provide positive
psychological effects. We now know through research that exercise increases the
levels of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Dopamine">dopamine</a> and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Serotonin">serotonin</a>- <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotransmitter" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Neurotransmitter">neurotransmitters</a> in the brain. The boosted
levels of these neurotransmitters can, in turn, help with conditions like
cancer, increasing <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_level" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Energy level">energy levels</a> and mood.<br />
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Our brains produce the neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin to allow
communication between brain cells. The brain uses dopamine to activate motor
skills and modulate concentration and mood. Serotonin is used to regulate mood,
appetite, body temperature, and more. Low serotonin levels are associated with
depression- a not uncommon condition among <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.cancercenter.com/cancer-statistics.cfm" rel="cancercenter" target="_blank" title="cancer statistics">cancer patients</a>.<br />
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Starting an exercise regimen can </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.livestrong.com/article/317012-how-to-raise-serotonin-levels-without-medications-or-supplements/"><span>increase the levels of serotonin</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> in your brain, helping you
maintain a more positive mood and relieving anxiety. Serotonin boosts mood,
helps lift depression, and increases feelings of satiety. If you've ever
physically exerted yourself and felt an elevation of mood afterwards, you were
likely experiencing the effects of increased neurotransmitters, including
serotonin. Many prescription drugs work to alleviate <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.webmd.com/depression/guide/major-depression" rel="webmd" target="_blank" title="Major Depression">depression symptoms</a> by
increasing those same serotonin levels, but you can accomplish the same thing
through exercise and without the negative side effects of drugs.<br />
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Dopamine is a neurotransmitter associated with your </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.americanacupuncture.com/your%20ticking%20clock.html"><span>bioclock</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US">- your cycles of sleeping and
waking. An imbalance in our dopamine levels typically causes the feeling you
get when you have "jet lag". Our stores can become depleted from
chronic anxiety, stress, or low <a class="zem_slink" href="http://diabetes.webmd.com/how-sugar-affects-diabetes" rel="webmd" target="_blank" title="How Sugar Affects Diabetes">blood sugar levels</a>. There is also a
relationship between dopamine and serotonin. Raising levels of one helps raises
the level of the other.<br />
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If you start an exercise regimen, you will also notice a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analgesic" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Analgesic">pain-killing</a> effect.
This is brought about by the effect exercise has on bodily substances that
function as neurotransmitters, namely endorphins. Endorphins are the body's own
pain killers. The well known "runners high" is created by the release
of endorphins, providing soothing feelings of pain relief and mood elevation.
Some patients suffering from forms of cancer such as </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.mesotheliomasymptoms.com/mesothelioma-causes"><span>mesothelioma</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> have even been able to lower
their dosage of pain relievers due to the endorphin effect.<br />
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Although you may be ill, there are still some exercises you can do that will
provide all the benefits outlined here. Your present condition and any
treatments you are undergoing will, of course, have an impact on what type of
exercise you should get. As always, consult with your doctor before attempting
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<i><span lang="EN-US">Liz Davies is a recent college graduate
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this world. Liz also likes running, playing lacrosse, reading and playing with
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">So 26-Jan has come around again!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This year sees me weigh in at 66!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">After first presenting with the symptoms in November 1998 and then having a radical nephrectomy (kidney removal) due to cancer in September 2001 I guess I didn't expect to get this far!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">After <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methicillin-resistant_Staphylococcus_aureus" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus">MRSA</a>, numerous minor ops for bladder cancer <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="New Year">New Years</a> eve 2010 saw me on an operating table again - A 'students dream <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year%27s_Eve" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="New Year's Eve">New Year's Eve</a>' - Flat on my back surrounded by nurses and high on drugs!</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">It was fairly obvious the disease had moved on and eventually after the shambolic incompetence of The NHS under Welsh management, more interested in vanity projects and political showboating, at the end of March I finally received the diagnosis of tumours in the abdomen and lymph system!!</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Yes due to the utter incompetence of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_Wales" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="NHS Wales">NHS in Wales</a> it had taken 3 months to organise an urgent scan in a known case of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metastasis" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Metastasis">metastatic cancer</a> and provide a result!!</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Prognosis was about 3 months!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">So I opted for high dosage <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemotherapy" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Chemotherapy">Chemotherapy</a> followed by about a month of daily dosage <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_therapy" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Radiation therapy">Radio Therapy</a> (Radiation Treatment!).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Well a marriage, a home move and much more I would ESPECIALLY like to thank Dr. Lester and his team - without whom I would NOT be here. Gerald and Carol for their incredible support and of course Lee who after 26 years together I have finally married!</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">When you consider that when I was born in 1946 Britain and her allies had just won a World War and there were just under 2 Billion people on the planet.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">2012 has arrived and we seem to have lost a war and we are now governed with absolutely no meaningful pretence of democracy by our Continental enemies and have all but abandoned our allies, we have still found ourselves heavily in debt but this time for rather less honourable reasons as a result of economic illiteracy of our own utterly incompetent and seeminly malign Labour Government and with very little light at the end of the tunnel - not least of all due to a rise in world population just before Christmas to over 7 Billion.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">That is not all that has changed as you will note from when I was 9, 2 years before I flew to Singapore alone and found myself embroilled in The Suez crisis and stranded in Ankara!:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Comments made in the year 1955!</b></span> <br />
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<b>I'll tell you one thing</b>, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $10.00. <br />
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<b>Have you seen the new cars </b><br />
coming out next year? It won't be long before $2,000.00 will only buy a used one. <br />
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<b>Did you hear the post office is</b> <br />
thinking about charging 4 cents just to mail a letter. <br />
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<b>If they raise the minimum wage </b><br />
to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store. <br />
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<b>When I first started driving, who</b> <br />
would have thought gas would someday cost 25 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving <br />
the car in the garage. <br />
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<b>I'm afraid to send my kids to the </b><br />
movies any more. Ever since they let <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/clark_gable" rel="rottentomatoes" target="_blank" title="Clark Gable">Clark Gable</a> get by with saying DAMN in GONE WITH THE WIND, it seems every new movie has either HELL or DAMN in it. <br />
<br />
<b><br />
</b><br />
<b>I read the other day where some </b><br />
scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas . <br />
<b><br />
</b><br />
<b>Did you see where some baseball </b><br />
player just signed a contract for $50,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the President. <br />
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<b>I never thought I'd see the day</b> <br />
all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They're even making electric typewriters now. <br />
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<b>It's too bad things are so tough </b><br />
nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet. <br />
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<b>It won't be long before young</b> <br />
couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work. <br />
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<b>I'm afraid the Volkswagen car </b><br />
is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business. <br />
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<b>Thank goodness I won't live to see the day </b><br />
when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are <br />
electing the best people to government. <br />
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<b>The fast food restaurant is</b> <br />
convenient for a quick meal, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on. <br />
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<b>There is no sense going on short </b><br />
trips anymore for a weekend. It costs nearly $2.00 a night to stay in a hotel. <br />
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<b>No one can afford to be sick</b> <br />
anymore. At $15.00 a day in the hospital, it's too rich for my blood. <br />
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<b>If they think I'll pay 30 cents</b> for a haircut, forget it. <br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 130%;">"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap." </span></b><br />
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<b>British Politicians with pens and treachery, in pursuit of their own agenda and greed, have done more damage to the liberty, freedoms, rights and democracy of the British peoples than any army in over 1,000 years.</b><br />
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The disastrous effects of British politicians selling Britain into the thrall of foreign rule by the EU for their own personal rewards has damaged the well-being of Britain more than the armies of Hitler and the Franco - German - Italian axis of 1939 - 1945.<br />
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<div class="text">By <a href="http://www.cancer.org/cancer/News/ExpertVoices/page/Durado-Brooks-MD-MPH.aspx" target="_blank">Durado Brooks, MD, MPH</a><br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="color: blue;">Imagine being told by your doctor, "You have cancer." Then imagine that their next words are "... but we probably don't need to do anything about it." Many people would immediately start looking for another doctor. But hold on just a moment.</div><div style="color: blue;"><br />
Last month the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.000443,-77.102394&spn=1.0,1.0&q=39.000443,-77.102394%20%28National%20Institutes%20of%20Health%29&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="National Institutes of Health">National Institutes of Health (NIH)</a> brought together experts from around the world for a summit to examine the state of our scientific knowledge on "<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchful_waiting" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Watchful waiting">active surveillance</a>" as a management strategy for <a href="http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/ProstateCancer/index" target="_blank">prostate cancer</a>. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, active surveillance essentially means monitoring the cancer closely and delaying active treatment (surgery or radiation, for instance) until there are signs it is needed; the delay may be months, years, or forever. This summit pointed out that while there is still much we need to learn about this once-controversial approach, there is a wealth of data supporting the potential value of active surveillance for a large number of the 240,000 men in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.history.com/topics/states" rel="historycom" target="_blank" title="The States">United States</a> who are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year. </div><div style="color: blue;"><br />
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To most individuals, the idea of having cancer and choosing not to treat it smacks of fatalism, or just giving up. In order to understand why this is not the case, it is important to appreciate that all prostate cancers are not created equal. </div><div style="color: blue;"><br />
There are many prostate cancers that can be singled out as likely to be slow growing and posing a low risk to the affected man; these can be identified by looking at a man's PSA level (prostate specific antigen; a protein made by the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Prostate">prostate gland</a> and measured in the blood), <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleason_Grading_System" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Gleason Grading System">Gleason score</a> (a numerical representation of how a man's tumor looks under the microscope), and other factors (size of the tumor, how much of the prostate gland is invaded by cancer, etc.). The vast majority of men with these low-risk tumors will end up dying of something other than prostate cancer, and few of these men would ever experience any harm from their cancer if it went untreated (or if it was never found in the first place). </div><div style="color: blue;"><br />
It's estimated that as many as half of the prostate cancers diagnosed each year in the US fit into this low-risk category. However, to most people the term "low-risk cancer" sounds like an oxymoron. This quandary prompted a number of summit speakers to question whether this type of tumor should even be called "cancer," or if the scientific community should come up with a new, less frightening term to describe these slow growing prostate lesions. </div><div style="color: blue;"><br />
For most men who are told that they have prostate cancer the first question is, "How soon can we get rid of it?" In the US, 90% of these men move very rapidly to what is viewed as definitive therapy, usually <a href="http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/ProstateCancer/DetailedGuide/prostate-cancer-treating-surgery" target="_blank">prostatectomy </a>(surgical removal of the prostate gland) or killing the cancer cells with <a href="http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/ProstateCancer/DetailedGuide/prostate-cancer-treating-radiation-therapy" target="_blank">radiation treatment</a>. These treatments come with the risk of <a href="http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/ProstateCancer/DetailedGuide/prostate-cancer-treating-surgery" target="_blank">side effects and complications</a>, most commonly damage to bladder or bowel function, and sexual difficulties. A recent report from the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Preventive_Services_Task_Force" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="United States Preventive Services Task Force">US Preventive Services Task Force</a> estimates that 1 or more of these complications occur in up to 30 of every 100 men treated for prostate cancer; the same report indicates that 1 of every 200 men who undergo surgical removal of their prostate dies within 30 days of their surgery. These numbers point to why it's so important to explore alternative approaches to managing this disease.</div><div style="color: blue;"><b><br />
Watchful waiting and active surveillance</b><br />
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Prostate cancer is primarily a disease of older men, and many men diagnosed with the disease already have multiple health problems (and in some cases a limited life expectancy). Given these circumstances it has long been the practice of doctors who treat prostate cancer to weigh these factors and to recommend to some men that, as opposed to beginning treatment shortly after diagnosis, they be observed by their doctors and begin treatment only if they develop symptoms that suggest that their cancer is getting worse. This approach is known as "watchful waiting."</div><div style="color: blue;"><br />
Over time, evidence emerged that most men who were observed in this fashion did well for a number of years. This information, combined with the growing number of low-risk tumors being diagnosed as a result of having widespread <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate_cancer_screening" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Prostate cancer screening">PSA screening</a> for prostate cancer, raised the question as to whether younger, healthy men might also benefit from a delayed treatment approach. <br />
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Managing the cancer in these men evolved from simple observation to more intensive follow up, including repeated PSA tests and regular biopsies of the prostate gland, treating the cancer only if it begins to grow or spread. This approach has become known as "active surveillance" (differentiating it from the more passive watchful waiting). Research studies were undertaken to find out about the impact of both of these approaches on the long-term outcomes of men with prostate cancer, and speakers at the NIH summit described findings from a number of such studies.</div><div style="color: blue;"><b><br />
'A viable option' for low-risk patients</b></div><div style="color: blue;"><br />
In one of these studies, the Prostate Cancer Intervention vs. Observation Trial (PIVOT), men diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer were given the option of prostatectomy or observation; these men were then tracked over time. PIVOT used a traditional watchful waiting approach: men were simply observed and treatment was begun only if symptoms developed or if the man requested it. <b>After approximately 10 years of follow up the risk of dying from prostate cancer was small (less than 10%), and was essentially the same whether a man chose surgery or observation.</b> The risk of death from any cause, including both prostate cancer and other diseases (referred to as "all cause mortality") was also about the same between these groups. </div><div style="color: blue;"><br />
A number of other studies have been carried out to look at outcomes of active surveillance, using observation combined with repeat PSA tests and prostate biopsies to look for whether the cancer was spreading or getting worse. These studies, some of which have been underway for 15 years or more, have found that only a small proportion of men diagnosed with low-risk disease will show signs of significant cancer progression. </div><div style="color: blue;"><br />
Like PIVOT, most active surveillance studies have found low rates of death from prostate cancer among men with low-risk disease. They have also found similar rates of all cause mortality in men who choose active surveillance when compared to men who got immediate treatment. In addition, men who choose an observational approach (active surveillance or watchful waiting) avoid or delay the side effects associated with surgery or radiation. Based on the strength of the accumulated evidence the NIH expert panel concluded that "active surveillance has emerged as a viable option that should be offered to all low-risk patients."</div><div style="color: blue;"><b><br />
Bottom line</b></div><div style="color: blue;"><br />
So why do 9 out of 10 men with prostate cancer in the US end up being treated shortly after they're diagnosed? It turns out that many prostate cancer patients have never heard of active surveillance or watchful waiting, and are never told that observation is an option they could consider for their cancer. In other cases active surveillance is discussed as a potential management option but is presented in an unfavorable manner (i.e., "we can treat your cancer or we can just do nothing"). </div><div style="color: blue;"><br />
Even in circumstances where active surveillance is discussed in a fair, objective manner there are a number of other factors that may influence the likelihood of men choosing and sticking with this option. These include whether or not their physician supports their choice, support from family and friends, and the patients' personal perceptions of and experience with cancer (whether they themselves have had other types of cancer in the past, or observed friends or family go through cancer treatment).</div><div style="color: blue;"><br />
So if you or someone close to you has been diagnosed with prostate cancer - slow down! After getting past the shock, start asking some questions. Find out all that you can about the tumor, and determine whether the cancer fits into the low-risk category. Be sure to explore all treatment options, including active surveillance. In some cases of prostate cancer "no treatment" may turn out to be the best treatment.</div></blockquote>Ti view the original article <a href="http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/News/ExpertVoices/post/2012/01/18/To-Treat-or-Not-to-Treat-Prostate-Cancer-That-Is-the-Question.aspx?awid=6654589153528161298-571">CLICK HERE</a><br />
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The NIH expert panel draft report can be accessed at <a href="http://www.cancer.org/aboutus/redirect?n=National%20Institutes%20of%20Health&h=http://consensus.nih.gov/2011/prostate.htm" target="_blank">http://consensus.nih.gov/2011/prostate.htm</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Amy Francis, 77,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">underwent keyhole surgery to remove a cancerous right kidney last July.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But during the operation at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, her</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>liver ruptured as it was mistakenly pulled out and, despite desperate efforts to save her, she<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">died of internal bleeding.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Consultant urologist Dr Adam Carter, admitted to the error and highlighted that as a result of the death, a modified<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">operating procedure had been communicated 'worldwide'.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Her son Alan, 52, praised Dr Carter</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for his honesty and the hospital for 'owning up' early.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Following the hearing he said: 'We appreciated Mr Carter’s honesty and him coming along here today and hope that we can put it all behind us now.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'I think that it was the honesty that saved the hospital. If we thought that they had not answered our questions it would have been different.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'This was an honest mistake.'</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But during the operation Dr Carter allowed a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">trainee, who had never performed the procedure before, to locate and remove the organ.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">As the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">trainee wasn't confident enough to remove the organ Dr Carter was forced to take over, and during the changeover confusion occurred.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">When he attempted to remove the kidney<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">he was immediately told by the anesthetist that the patient’s blood pressure was dropping and he realised his mistake.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Consultant urologist Dr Adam Carter, admitted to the fatal error during an operation performed at the Royal Gwent Hospital</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Two senior surgeons were called to the scene and every effort was made to save Mrs Francis, but they were unsuccessful.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">David Bowen, the coroner for Gwent, said:</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>'Whilst undergoing keyhole surgery for the necessary removal of the cancerous kidney, Mrs Francis’s liver was ruptured when it was mistakenly and unintentionally identified as the kidney and was catastrophically torn and damaged, resulting in death.'</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr Carter said he had carried out the procedure 20 times since the death without a problem.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Son Alan said before the inquest finished: 'We accept the decision and we also accept that Mr Carter and his team acted in good faith to prolong my mother’s life.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We also appreciated his honesty and wish him well for the future and hope he goes on to do other successful operations.'</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Over the last 40 years, the number of cases of kidney cancer has doubled in men and risen by 130 per cent in women, a trend which is believed to be linked to rising obesity figures.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span><br /><b>To view the original of this article <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2085779/Widow-dies-operating-table-surgeon-tries-remove-liver-instead-kidney.html" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a></b></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br />I received this same operation 05-Sep-2001, in the same theater, but then laparascopic surgery for a nephrectomy due to cancer was NOT often practiced and my operation was a full open operation sadly this increases the risks of infection and prolongues recovery but despite serious infection and a fully herniated wound the operation saved my life.<br /><br />YES accidents happen in surgery as it is not an exact science - Obviously there was no intention to cause an infection nor intent to create a massive inoperable hernia - It is called an accident and I totally endorse the attitude of Mrs. Francis's family, I also endorse the decision to protect the tranee surgeon from identification and clearly the responsibility, if not the action, was Adam Carter's.<br /><br />I have known Adam Carter since before he took over leading the team when Windsor Bowsher sadly died 11-May-2011. His actions in this issue have been entirely honourable as I would expect and I would be happy to have him operate on me, if I ever need further complex surgery.</span></span></span></span><br />
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Greg_L-W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702733467535493491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8956689924721556774.post-50346449543676072942012-01-05T01:38:00.001+00:002012-01-05T01:46:32.827+00:00SUPPLEMENTS - A bit of Background for YOU!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>SUPPLEMENTS - A bit of Background for YOU!</b><br />
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<tr> <td colspan="2" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><div style="padding-bottom: 10px;"><b>Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, December 28, 2011</b></div><h2>No <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Death">Deaths</a> from Vitamins<br />
<span style="font-size: 90%;">America's Largest Database Confirms Supplement Safety</span></h2><div style="padding-bottom: 10px;">(OMNS, Dec 28, 2011) There was not even one death caused by a vitamin<br />
supplement in 2010, according to the most recent information collected by<br />
the U.S. National Poison Data System.</div><div style="padding-bottom: 10px;">The new 203-page annual report of the<br />
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Association_of_Poison_Control_Centers" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="American Association of Poison Control Centers">American Association of Poison Control Centers</a>,<br />
published online at<br />
<a href="http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2010%20NPDS%20Annual%20Report.pdf" target="_blank" title="http://www.cihfimediaservices.org/12all/lt.php?c=166&m=243&nl=3&s=8055c58c1bc02ffe1e64d8e5ce2f0ac6&lid=1591&l=-http--www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2010 NPDS Annual Report.pdf">http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2010%20NPDS%20Annual%20Report.pdf</a>,<br />
shows zero deaths from multiple vitamins; zero deaths from any of<br />
the B vitamins; zero deaths from vitamins A, C, D, or E; and zero deaths<br />
from any other vitamin.</div><div style="padding-bottom: 10px;">Additionally, there were no deaths whatsoever from any amino acid<br />
or <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_mineral" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Dietary mineral">dietary mineral</a> supplement.</div><div style="padding-bottom: 10px;">Three people died from non-supplement mineral poisoning: two from medical<br />
use of sodium and one from non-supplemental iron. On page 131, the AAPCC<br />
report specifically indicates that the iron fatality was not from a<br />
nutritional supplement.</div><div style="padding-bottom: 10px;">Fifty-seven poison centers provide coast-to-coast data for the<br />
National Poison Data System, "one of the few real-time national surveillance<br />
systems in existence, providing a model public health surveillance system<br />
for all types of exposures, public health event identification, resilience<br />
response and situational awareness tracking."</div><div style="padding-bottom: 10px;">Well over half of the U.S. population takes daily nutritional supplements.<br />
<br />
Even if each of those people took only one single tablet daily, that makes<br />
165,000,000 individual doses per day, for a total of over 60 billion doses<br />
annually.<br />
Since many persons take far more than just one single vitamin or mineral<br />
tablet, actual consumption is considerably higher, and the safety of<br />
nutritional supplements is all the more remarkable.</div><div style="padding-bottom: 10px;"><b>Over 60 billion doses of vitamin and </b><br />
<b>mineral supplements per year in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.history.com/topics/states" rel="historycom" target="_blank" title="The States">USA</a>, </b><br />
<b>and not a single fatality. Not one. </b></div><div style="padding-bottom: 10px;">If vitamin and mineral supplements are allegedly so "dangerous,"<br />
as the FDA and news media so often claim, then <i><b>where are the bodies?</b></i></div><h3>Reference:</h3><div style="padding-bottom: 10px;">Bronstein AC, Spyker DA, Cantilena LR Jr, Green JL, Rumack BH,<br />
Dart RC. 2010 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison<br />
Control Centers' National Poison Data System (NPDS): 28th Annual<br />
Report.<br />
The full text article is available for free download at <br />
<a href="http://www.cihfimediaservices.org/12all/lt.php?c=166&m=243&nl=3&s=8055c58c1bc02ffe1e64d8e5ce2f0ac6&lid=1591&l=-http--www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2010%20NPDS%20Annual%20Report.pdf" target="_blank" title="http://www.cihfimediaservices.org/12all/lt.php?c=166&m=243&nl=3&s=8055c58c1bc02ffe1e64d8e5ce2f0ac6&lid=1591&l=-http--www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2010 NPDS Annual Report.pdf">http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2010%20NPDS%20Annual%20Report.pdf</a></div><div style="padding-bottom: 10px;">The data mentioned above are found in Table 22B.<br />
Mineral data on page 131; vitamin data on pages 137-139 .</div><br />
<h3>Nutritional Medicine is Orthomolecular Medicine</h3><div style="padding-bottom: 10px;"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthomolecular_medicine" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Orthomolecular medicine">Orthomolecular medicine</a> uses safe, effective nutritional therapy<br />
to fight illness. For more information: <a href="http://www.cihfimediaservices.org/12all/lt.php?c=166&m=243&nl=3&s=8055c58c1bc02ffe1e64d8e5ce2f0ac6&lid=1592&l=-http--www.orthomolecular.org" target="_blank" title="http://www.cihfimediaservices.org/12all/lt.php?c=166&m=243&nl=3&s=8055c58c1bc02ffe1e64d8e5ce2f0ac6&lid=1592&l=-http--www.orthomolecular.org">http://www.orthomolecular.org</a></div><br />
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<h3>Editorial Review Board:</h3><div style="padding-bottom: 10px;">Ian Brighthope, M.D. (Australia) <br />
Ralph K. Campbell, M.D. (USA) <br />
Carolyn Dean, M.D., N.D. (Canada) <br />
Damien Downing, M.D. (United Kingdom) <br />
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William B. Grant, Ph.D. (USA) <br />
Steve Hickey, Ph.D. (United Kingdom) <br />
James A. Jackson, Ph.D. (USA) <br />
Michael Janson, M.D. (USA) <br />
Robert E. Jenkins, D.C. (USA) <br />
Bo H. Jonsson, M.D., Ph.D. (Sweden) <br />
Thomas Levy, M.D., J.D. (USA) <br />
Jorge R. Miranda-Massari, Pharm.D. (Puerto Rico) <br />
Erik Paterson, M.D. (Canada) <br />
W. Todd Penberthy, Ph.D. (USA) <br />
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Jagan Nathan Vamanan, M.D. (India) </div><div style="padding-bottom: 10px;"><b>Andrew W. Saul, Ph.D. (USA), Editor and contact person. Email: <a href="mailto:omns@orthomolecular.org" title="mailto:omns@orthomolecular.org">omns@orthomolecular.org</a> </b></div><div style="padding-bottom: 10px;">Readers may write in with their comments and questions for<br />
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of the report showed another recorded death from a single<br />
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Compared to the hundreds of thousands of deaths from prescription drugs,<br />
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<tr style="height: 25.5pt;"> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: black black black rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: solid solid solid none; border-width: 1.5pt 1pt 1pt medium; height: 25.5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 29.4%;" valign="top" width="29%"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">YEAR</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Vitamins</span></div></td> <td rowspan="3" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: black rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: solid none; border-width: 1.5pt medium; height: 25.5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 70.6%;" valign="top" width="70%"><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: medium;"><tbody>
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<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 0</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 2</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 4</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 3</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 1 </span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 1 </span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">7</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">5</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">8</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">9</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">13</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">3</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 3</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 2</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 3</span></div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 4</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 2</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 3</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">3</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">1</span></div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 3</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 7</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 4</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 5</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 2</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 2</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 2</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 2</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 2</span></div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">0</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">0</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">0</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">0</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">0</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 0</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">0</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">0</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">0</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 0</span></div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">7</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">3</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">13</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">10</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">4</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 3</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 3</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 3</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 3</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 2</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 2</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 2</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 2</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 2</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 3</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 2</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 1</span></div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">4</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 4</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">2</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">2</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">2</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">1</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">3</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<tr> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">19</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">11</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">25</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">22</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">27</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> 5</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">3</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">3</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 34.8pt;" valign="top" width="46"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">3</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 11.8pt;" valign="top" width="16"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">4</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr style="height: 15pt;"> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) black rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: none solid none none; border-width: medium 1pt medium medium; height: 15pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 29.4%;" valign="top" width="29%"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Multi/Fe</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 605.25pt;"> <td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: black black black rgb(240, 240, 240); border-style: solid solid solid none; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1.5pt medium; height: 605.25pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 29.4%;" valign="top" width="29%"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Vit E</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Vit B6</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">VitC</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Vit D</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Unknown</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">ElectrolyteMinerals</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Iron/iron salts</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Potassium</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Magnesium</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Zinc</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Calcium</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Sodium/Na salt</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Chromium</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Amino acid</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Herb-Botanical</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Ephedra</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Ephedra Combined</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">MultiBotanical </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">w/o Ephedra</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Kava Kava</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Yohimbe</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">St.JohnWort</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Valerian</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Citrus Aurintheum</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">MultiBotan w Citrus Aurinth</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Other Multi Botanical </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Other Botanic</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Hormonal </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> Melatonin</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Homeopathic</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Unknown Supp</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Other Supp</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Glucosamine</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Blue-Green Algae</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Other Non Botanic</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Asian Medicine</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<b>I just want to say sorry for copping out at times and leaving Lee and friends to cope!</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Any help and support YOU can give her will be hugely welcome. </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>I do make a lousy patient!</b></div>.<br />
If YOU want to follow my fight against Cancer from when it started and I first presented with symptoms see The TAB just below the Header of this Blog. called ><b>DIARY of Cancer</b>< just click and it will give you a long list of the main events in chronological order.<br />
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Thoughts and comments will be in chronological order in the main blog and can be tracked in the ><b>ARCHIVE</b>< in the Right Sidebar.<br />
<br />
You may find the TABS ><b>MEDICAL LINKS</b>< and also ><b>CANCER LINKS</b>< of help.<br />
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YOU are welcome to call me if you believe I can help in ANY way. . <br />
<div><div style="text-align: center;"><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Posted by: Greg Lance-Watkins</span></b></div><div align="left"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">tel: 01594 - 528 337 </span></b></div><div align="left"><div><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">of: </span><a href="mailto:Greg_L-W@BTconnect.com"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Greg_L-W@BTconnect.com</span></a></b></div></div><div align="left"><div><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">on: </span><a href="http://greglancewatkins.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">http://GregLanceWatkins.Blogspot.com</span></a></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">TWITTER: Greg_LW</span></b> <b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> Health/Cancer Blog: <a href="http://greglw.blogspot.com/">http://GregLW.blogspot.com</a></span></b> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span></div></div></div></div><div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_a.png?x-id=b8a0b557-c630-4ad0-b160-e05bc2befa8a" style="border: medium none; float: right;" /></a></div></div>Greg_L-W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702733467535493491noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8956689924721556774.post-66465704058124131302011-12-09T21:16:00.009+00:002011-12-12T22:33:02.254+00:00Dr. LESTER & MY FIRST full CONSULTATION WITH results!<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>09-Dec-2011 - Dr. LESTER & MY FIRST full CONSULTATION WITH results!</b><br />
<b>. </b></div><b> <span style="background-color: yellow;">Please Be Sure To</span></b></div><div style="background-color: yellow; text-align: center;"><b><a class="twitter-share-button" data-count="vertical" data-related="spoilertvmovies" data-via="SpoilerTV" href="http://twitter.com/share">Tweet</a></b> <b>My Blogs</b></div><div style="background-color: yellow; text-align: center;"><b>To Spread The Facts World Wide</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: yellow;">To Give Hope & Information<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union" rel="wikipedia" title="European Union"></a></b> <br />
<div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><b> .</b></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Hi,<br />
<br />
well it was <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_computed_tomography" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="X-ray computed tomography">CT Scan</a> on Wednesday and true to form <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.70818,-3.97694&spn=1.0,1.0&q=51.70818,-3.97694%20%28Felindre%29&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Felindre">Velindre</a> does us proud by avoiding a long period of 'Super Scanziety' and it is straight in to see Jason Lester my oncology consultant who has planned and orchestrated my treatment since my <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.cancercenter.com/cancer-statistics.cfm" rel="cancercenter" target="_blank" title="cancer statistics">cancer</a> moved up a grade from the care of 'urology' specialists at The Royal Gwent in Newport.<br />
<br />
It became obvious a year ago that I was moving up a pay grade!<br />
<br />
My op on <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year%27s_Eve" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="New Year's Eve">New Years Eve</a> showed that I was in trouble! Then eventually the NHS managed to get their act together and organise a CT Scan - due to the utter incompetence of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_Wales" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="NHS Wales">NHS Wales</a> the scan I should have had in January eventually delivered a result in April! This delay due to NHS Wales mismanagement see <a href="http://greglw.blogspot.com/2009/10/nhs-wales-budget-evidence-in-committee.html">CLICK HERE</a> - the outright theft of NHS money to fund NHS Wales vanity projects is a disgrace! How many people have died so that Welsh politicians could rebrand to suit their politics!!!!!!!!!!<br />
<br />
I met Jason Lester in April and from his comments it was clear that my prognosis was NOT good and my life expectancy ran to just a couple of months!<br />
<br />
My thanks to Dr. Lester and all those caring people on his team and lets not forget the front line staff at the Gwent who have provided the treatment and care that has kept me alive for the last 13 years of cancer!<br />
<br />
Dr. Lester's clinic was running spot on and at 14:00hrs. my 'Super Scanziety' ended with an early <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Gift">Christmas present</a>!<br />
<br />
My Flexi at the Gwent had been really good with no signs of tumour and even scar tissue was hard to find but surprisingly the CT Scan was also excellent - No sign of any additional <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumor" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Tumor">tumours</a> with at least a 50% shrinkage of the original tumours in the abdomen and lymph system - thatn is not to say the cancer is gone but it is probably clear with the original tumours either dormant or just scar tissue.<br />
<br />
So now with the cancer seemingly gone it is now a watching brief for the future.<br />
<br />
I can but hope that after 13 years under cancer's sword of Damaclese with both short and long term scares!<br />
there will at last be a period of respite!<br />
<br />
My thanks to all who have done so much to help and encourage me, support and help during these 13 rather difficult years - Thank you but let us not forget the many who have not been so fortunate and on that note please spend a moment thinking of those you have known, cared for or loved who lost their private war with cancer during those 13 years - not least in my life have been John, my Father, Jean, my Father's younger brother Alan, Peter, Dave and so very many more!</div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><b> .</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> <span style="background-color: yellow;">Please Be Sure To</span></b></div><div style="background-color: yellow; text-align: center;"><b><a class="twitter-share-button" data-count="vertical" data-related="spoilertvmovies" data-via="SpoilerTV" href="http://twitter.com/share">Tweet</a></b> <b>My Blogs</b><b> </b></div><div style="background-color: yellow; text-align: center;"><b>To Spread The Facts World Wide To Give Others HOPE</b></div><div style="background-color: yellow; text-align: center;"><b>I Have Been Fighting Cancer since 1997 & I'M STILL HERE!</b></div><div style="background-color: yellow; text-align: center;"><b>I Have Cancer, Cancer Does NOT Have Me</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>I just want to say sorry for copping out at times and leaving Lee and friends to cope!</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Any help and support YOU can give her will be hugely welcome. </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>I do make a lousy patient!</b></div>.<br />
If YOU want to follow my fight against Cancer from when it started and I first presented with symptoms see The TAB just below the Header of this Blog. called ><b>DIARY of Cancer</b>< just click and it will give you a long list of the main events in chronological order.<br />
.<br />
Thoughts and comments will be in chronological order in the main blog and can be tracked in the ><b>ARCHIVE</b>< in the Right Sidebar.<br />
<br />
You may find the TABS ><b>MEDICAL LINKS</b>< and also ><b>CANCER LINKS</b>< of help.<br />
.<br />
YOU are welcome to call me if you believe I can help in ANY way.<br />
. <br />
<div><div style="text-align: center;"><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Posted by: Greg Lance-Watkins</span></b></div><div align="left"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">tel: 01594 - 528 337 </span></b></div><div align="left"><div><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">of: </span><a href="mailto:Greg_L-W@BTconnect.com"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Greg_L-W@BTconnect.com</span></a></b></div></div><div align="left"><div><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">on: </span><a href="http://greglancewatkins.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">http://GregLanceWatkins.Blogspot.com</span></a></b> <b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Health/Cancer Blog: <a href="http://greglw.blogspot.com/">http://GregLW.blogspot.com</a></span></b> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span></div></div></div></div><div class="zemanta-related"><h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0pt 0pt;">Related articles</h6><ul class="zemanta-article-ul"><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://greglw.blogspot.com/2011/10/14-oct-2011-appt-dr-lester-re-treatment.html" target="_blank">14-Oct-2011 - appt.: Dr. Lester re.: Treatment Outcomes</a> (greglw.blogspot.com)</li>
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<li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://greglw.blogspot.com/2011/10/my-flexi-result.html" target="_blank">& My Flexi Result!</a> (greglw.blogspot.com)</li>
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<div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><b> .</b></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">Hi,</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: black;">This was my first full CT Scan since the joys of Chemo & Radio Therapy earlier in the year!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: black;">Scans come with their own mix of anticipation and dread! I dubbed it 'Scanziety' some 12 or 13 years ago when I first started down this <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.cancercenter.com/cancer-statistics.cfm" rel="cancercenter" target="_blank" title="cancer statistics">cancer</a> route!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: black;">Of course you want the scan but naturally one fears bad news and there is a constant feeling that perhaps ignorance is bliss - though to be honest I find underastanding EXACTLY where I stand and the depth of the ordure gives me an understanding of just how grim is the battle ahead at this stage and thus I 'feel' I have a greater ability to deal with it!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: black;">Although I was due at 14:30hrs. at <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.70818,-3.97694&spn=1.0,1.0&q=51.70818,-3.97694%20%28Felindre%29&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Felindre">Velindre</a> for my appointment I arrived at 13:35hrs. as I thought I might be down for 'bloods' as well and hoped to do that first as there is quite a bit going on at home. Seems they don't want my blood this time! So I sauntered around to <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiology" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Radiology">Radiology</a> to check in before going for a coffee in the canteen.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: black;">Good news 'can I do you now sir?' and I was in and changed into one of those idiotic gowns in minutes - drink another pint of water quick stab to put a cannella in and then a top up of iodine to improve disclosure on the scan.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: black;">10 minutes later and I'm free to go and it isn't quite 14:00hrs!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: black;">Now for 'Super Scanziety as we wait for the results on Friday!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: black;">Fingers crossed! </span><b> </b></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><b> .</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> <span style="background-color: yellow;">Please Be Sure To</span></b></div><div style="background-color: yellow; text-align: center;"><b><a class="twitter-share-button" data-count="vertical" data-related="spoilertvmovies" data-via="SpoilerTV" href="http://twitter.com/share">Tweet</a></b> <b>My Blogs</b><b> </b></div><div style="background-color: yellow; text-align: center;"><b>To Spread The Facts World Wide To Give Others HOPE</b></div><div style="background-color: yellow; text-align: center;"><b>I Have Been Fighting Cancer since 1997 & I'M STILL HERE!</b></div><div style="background-color: yellow; text-align: center;"><b>I Have Cancer, Cancer Does NOT Have Me</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>I just want to say sorry for copping out at times and leaving Lee and friends to cope!</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Any help and support YOU can give her will be hugely welcome. </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>I do make a lousy patient!</b></div>. If YOU want to follow my fight against Cancer from when it started and I first presented with symptoms see The TAB just below the Header of this Blog. called ><b>DIARY of Cancer</b>< just click and it will give you a long list of the main events in chronological order.<br />
.<br />
Thoughts and comments will be in chronological order in the main blog and can be tracked in the ><b>ARCHIVE</b>< in the Right Sidebar.<br />
<br />
You may find the TABS ><b>MEDICAL LINKS</b>< and also ><b>CANCER LINKS</b>< of help.<br />
.<br />
YOU are welcome to call me if you believe I can help in ANY way. . <br />
<div><div style="text-align: center;"><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Posted by: Greg Lance-Watkins</span></b></div><div align="left"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">tel: 01594 - 528 337</span></b></div><div align="left"><div><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">of: </span><a href="mailto:Greg_L-W@BTconnect.com"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Greg_L-W@BTconnect.com</span></a></b></div></div><div align="left"><div><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">on: </span><a href="http://greglancewatkins.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">http://GregLanceWatkins.Blogspot.com</span></a></b> <b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://twitter.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Twitter">TWITTER</a>: Greg_LW</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Health/Cancer Blog: <a href="http://greglw.blogspot.com/">http://GregLW.blogspot.com</a></span></b> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span></div></div></div></div><div class="zemanta-related"><h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0pt 0pt;">Related articles</h6><ul class="zemanta-article-ul"><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://r.zemanta.com/?u=http%3A//www.canada.com/health/Radiation%2Btherapy%2Balso%2Bpotentially%2Bbehind%2Bchemo%2Bbrain%2Bstudy/5846846/story.html&a=66102599&rid=60c0e670-eedc-4185-a267-596c761a99a4&e=6e9b222011bb5be78a341ba723241516" target="_blank">Radiation therapy also potentially behind 'chemo brain': study</a> (canada.com)</li>
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<li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://greglw.blogspot.com/2011/10/my-blood-results-are.html" target="_blank">& My Blood Results Are ;-)</a> (greglw.blogspot.com)</li>
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