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| Anekant (which means non-absolutist thought) Community Center (ACC) has its roots in Southern California and works hard for the improvement of the health of its members and residents of Southern California and also perform various humanitarian tasks. ACC has been established as a non-profit, non-religious organization in January, 2005 to pursue these goals. ACC received an official status as a non-profit organization on July 14, 2005, exempt under section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Service code.
The goal of ACC is to provide charitable education, culture, training, economic development activities ( employment and job linkages ) health education and, prevention services to not only adults and children but also to senior citizens of Southern California. ACC's activities will be handled by the Board Of Directors (Volunteers) until funds are raised to pay qualified staff. We plan to evolve into a multi service, multi-ethnic community resource center for Southern California. ACC is a community public benefit organization. The proposed activities will further our efforts by bridging the gap in health access, education and training to the minority and disadvantaged in Southern California. We are committed in dedicating our time and resource to these proposed activities. Currently, our activities are funded by donations from individuals in the community and volunteer board members. We hope to build enough of an infrastructure to support these activities of the organization.
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Posted by Narendra Jain on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 - 10:45 PM (15 Reads)
 
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Posted by Narendra Jain on Friday, November 06, 2009 - 12:47 PM (268 Reads)
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On Sunday, November 8, 2009, Nalini Shah Cancer Awareness Talks series will be given by Dr. Malini Shah on the important topic of Uterus Cancer.
These talks will be held in the Aradhana Hall on Ground level in the temple building. The times are between 11:15 AM to 11:30 AM.
Please make a special note of the change in times. The new times are 11:15 AM to 11:30 AM (and not 12:30 - 12:45 PM). The doctors will be available for consultation from 12:30PM onwards, as the 2nd part of the swadhyay will continue from 11:30PM onwards.
Please observe these times very strictly so that we can cater to and respect everybody's needs.
Here is the schedule of the future Cancer Awareness talks to be held in the upcoming weeks.
1. Dr. Manilal Mehta, November 22, Kidney Cancer Awareness.
2. Dr. Jasvant Modi, December 6, Lung Cancer Awareness
3. Dr. Jayshree Vyas, December 20, Ovarian Cancer Awareness.
Please attend these very informative talk series.
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Posted by Jayna Shah on Saturday, October 03, 2009 - 08:29 PM (277 Reads)
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In the past 1 week we have heard about 2 big natural disasters.
1. 7.6 magnitude earthquake damaged scores of properties in Indonesia's Sumatra province and caused panic when it hit Wednesday, September 30. Indonesia is still recovering from a 7.3 magnitude earthquake that struck West Java province killing some 100 people on September 2.
2. Rescue and recovery efforts are under way in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga following the tsunami caused by an 8.0-magnitude earthquake that hit about 7:48 a.m. local time.
Tender Care Community Outreach (TCCO) has taken up the mission to donate Sleeping Bags with Hygeine Kit. We are hoping to have support from all of you.
Please donate as many bags you prefer for $10.00 each. We would like to send them by next week. We will be collecting your donations at the Jain Center tomorrow - Sunday, October 4, 2009 from 9:30AM to 1:00PM. Please bring your checks tomorrow. You can also send us an email at wecare@tccop.com with your commitment and then send your check in.
Please send your check payable to ACC (Anekant Community Center) and write 'Earthquake Relief-2009' in the memo field and mail it to:
TCCO
13774 Comanche
Tustin, CA 92782
Feel free to forward this email to all your friends and families. For further questions please contact TCCO team
TCCO 714-927-3696
Prafulla Shah 562-691-6623
Darshana Shah 562-547-0645
Jayana Shah 714-730-5425
Smita Doshi 714-847-3593
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Posted by ankit1711 on Sunday, June 21, 2009 - 01:07 AM (324 Reads)
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Cancer Screening and Prevention:
Highlights of Cancer Awareness Talk given by Dr. Nilesh Vora on May 3, 2009
Cancer does not occur only to people who have family history of cancer, it can occur to anyone. Cancer does not necessarily strike to people who smoke, drink alcohol or do drugs. Cancer may occur to people who feel well and have never gone to doctor. Therefore screening/tests should be done regularly as prescribed by American Cancer Society, even if there are no symptoms like weight loss or any other sickness. There are multiple causes for cancer and usually 4th mutation of cells generates cancerous cells. Health Life Style may lessen the chances of cancer.
Symptoms and Screening Recommendations:
Breast Cancer: Mammograms yearly for Age 40. Upper age not clearly specified. For families having cancer history, thus at high risk, should have mammogram done at 10 years younger age than youngest age case diagnosed in the family. Early Stage Breast Cancer and locally advanced breast cancer is curative. Early cancer may not have any symptoms. Correctly done self breast exam may help women notice tumors but professional examination is highly recommended. Ultrasound screening may be better option for younger women at high risk for breast cancer.
Colon Cancer: There may not be any symptoms or there could be bleeding from rectum, blood in stool, change in shape (pencil thin) or consistency of stool , abdominal pain, weight loss. Digital Rectal Exam, Fecal Occult Test, Double contrast Enema, flexible Sigmoidoscopy and Colonoscopy are recommended for screening. Begin at 50 or 10 years younger than a first degree relative when he/she was diagnosed with colon cancer.
Prostate Cancer: Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) test and Digital Rectal Exam are recommended as tests. Early stage cancer is curative, late stage is not curative.
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Posted by ankit1711 on Sunday, June 21, 2009 - 01:06 AM (297 Reads)
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Dr. Archna Shah and Dr. Nayna Vora conducted self Breast Exam Workshop on April 5, 2009. Eleven women were trained in this Workshop.
SELF BREAST EXAMINATION
In the shower:-
Raise one arm, with fingers flat, touch every part of each breast, gently feeling for a lump or thickening. Use your right hand to examine your left breast, your left hand for your right breast.
Before the mirror:-
With arms at your sides, then raised above your head, look carefully for changes in the size, shape, and contour of each breast. Look for puckering, dimpling or changes in skin texture. Gently squeeze both nipples and look for discharge.
Lying down:-
Place a towel or pillow under your shoulder and you right hand behind your head. Examine your right breast with your left hand.
Finger flat, press gently in small circles, starting at the outermost top edge of your breast and spiraling in towards the nipple. Examine every part of the breast. Repeat with left breast.
With your arm resting on a firm surface, use the same circular motion to examine the underarm area, this is breast tissue, too.
Note : This self-examination is not a substitute for periodic examination by qualified physician.
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Posted by ankit1711 on Sunday, June 21, 2009 - 01:03 AM (398 Reads)
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04/19/2009 - Highlights of the talk on Esophageal & Stomach Cancer by Dr. Jasvant Modi
Gastric Cancer:
Two main causes of Gastric Cancer are:
1. Bacterial infection from H Pylori: The incidence of this infection is high in people who are born in India. It causes ulcer in stomach which leads to gastric cancer in the future. You can find out if you have high count of these bacteria by a simple H Pylori Bacterial Test. Dr Modi recommended to get tested for H Pylori Bacterial Infection – this test can be included in your routine annual blood test. High count of bacteria for this test does not mean that there is Gastric Cancer but all Gastric Cancer Patients have a history of H Pylori Infection. H Pylori infection may lead to ulcers and then stomach cancer. H Pylori Infection can be treated very easily with a course of two weeks of antibiotics. This is the most early stage detection and treatment to prevent Gastric cancer. Notoriously there is no chemotherapy for stomach cancer. It is the end of the game. Why does not US Government make H Pylori test mandatory? The cost of this test may not be liked by the insurance companies. Dr. Modi recommended that this test should be done at our annual health fairs.
2. Gastric Adenoma: If there is a growth or polyp in the stomach and if it is detected early it can be removed and you can prevent stomach cancer. Endoscopy can be done to see if there are polyps or small growths and can be removed at the same time if found. This is another way you can prevent getting Stomach Cancer. You can also ask the doctor to look inside your stomach when you are getting your Colonoscopy done. Whenever you go for Colonoscopy to safeguard against Colon Cancer ask doctor to test look inside your stomach also. This does not take much time. Golden Standard for Colonoscopy for age 50 and then every 10 years if there are no polyps found by GI doctor. It is highly recommended to have the endoscopy done simultaneously with Colonoscopy even if the insurance company does not pay for it.
Burping-Acid Reflux:
Burping-Acid Reflux: Frequent Burping (odkars, lot of gas) should not be taken lightly. It indicates acid reflux/heartburn which if not treated, in long turn may cause esophageal cancer.
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Posted by ankit1711 on Sunday, June 21, 2009 - 12:59 AM (276 Reads)
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Oral Cancer: Status Report: 01/11/2009
Incidence:
Each year in the United States about 34,000 people learn that they have the cancer of mouth and lips or the part of the throat at the back of the mouth. When found early, oral cancers have survival rate of 80% to 90%. Unfortunately the majority are found as late stage cancers and this accounts for high death rate of about 45% at 5 years from diagnosis.
Risk Factors:
There are two distinct pathways by which most people come to oral cancer:
1. Use of Alcohol and Tobacco are major risk factors. 90% of the people with oral cancer use tobacco in some form. About 80% of people with oral cancers are heavy alcohol drinkers. The combination of tobacco and alcohol is particularly dangerous.
2. Exposure to HPV-16 (human papilloma virus), the same one which is responsible for the vast majority of cervical cancers in women. Exposure of lips to sun without a sunscreen like lotion or lip balm or not wearing a hat leading to sun exposure is also a risk factor. Some studies suggest that not eating enough fruits and vegetables may increase the chance of getting oral cancer.
Early Detection:
Most oral cancers begin in tongue and floor of the mouth. When oral cancer spreads it can spread to other parts of neck, the lungs and other parts of the body. Red (brightly colored) and white patches inside mouth or lips and non-healing sores, bleeding in mouth, loose teeth, difficulty or pain in when swallowing, difficulty wearing dentures, lump in neck and earache. Regular check with a dentist or a doctor to check entire mouth can diagnose if any of these symptoms are related to cancer.
Treatment:
Usually a biopsy and other lab tests confirm the cancer. The treatment may include Surgery, Radiation Therapy or Chemotherapy as recommended by the specialist doctors.
Resources:
1. Oral Cancer Foundation: www.oralcancerfoundation.org, 949-496-3331
2. Mouth Cancer Foundation: www.mouthcancerfoundation.org 020-8940-2222 (UK)
3. National Cancer Institute: www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/wyntk/oral (1-800-4-CANCER)
Information Specialists at NCI's Cancer Information Service can answer questions about cancer and can send materials published by NCI.
4. American Dental Association. www.ada.org, 312-440-2500
For Cancer Awareness/Detection camp in India, the fund will provide a grant of $500/camp. Please contact mgshah@yahoo.com 949-509-6716
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Posted by ankit1711 on Sunday, June 21, 2009 - 12:57 AM (284 Reads)
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Nalini Shah Cancer Fund
Cancer Awareness Talks
Oral Cancer: Status Report: 01/11/2009
1. National Cancer Institute: www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/wyntk/oral (1-800-4-CANCER)
Information Specialists at NCI's Cancer Information Service can answer questions about cancer and can send materials published by NCI.
2. American Dental Association. www.ada.org, 312-440-2500
For Cancer Awareness/Detection camp in India, the fund will provide a grant of $500/camp. Please contact mgshah@yahoo.com 949-509-6716
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Posted by ankit1711 on Sunday, June 21, 2009 - 12:55 AM (246 Reads)
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Cancer to be world's top killer by 2010, WHO says
By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer - Tue Dec 9, 4:55 PM PST
Provided by: http://www.ap.org
Vasiliki Kostoula, a Greek breast cancer patient, listens to her doctor after a radiological medical examination in an Athens hospital October 29, 2008. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)
ATLANTA - Cancer will overtake heart disease as the world's top killer by 2010, part of a trend that should more than double global cancer cases and deaths by 2030, international health experts said in a report released Tuesday. Rising tobacco use in developing countries is believed to be a huge reason for the shift, particularly in China and India, where 40 percent of the world's smokers now live.
So is better diagnosing of cancer, along with the downward trend in infectious diseases that used to be the world's leading killers.
Cancer diagnoses around the world have steadily been rising and are expected to hit 12 million this year. Global cancer deaths are expected to reach 7 million, according to the new report by the World Health Organization.
An annual rise of 1 percent in cases and deaths is expected — with even larger increases in China, Russia and India. That means new cancer cases will likely mushroom to 27 million annually by 2030, with deaths hitting 17 million.
Underlying all this is an expected expansion of the world's population — there will be more people around to get cancer.
By 2030, there could be 75 million people living with cancer around the world, a number that many health care systems are not equipped to handle.
"This is going to present an amazing problem at every level in every society worldwide," said Peter Boyle, director of the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer.
Boyle spoke at a news conference with officials from the American Cancer Society, the Lance Armstrong Foundation, Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the National Cancer Institute of Mexico.
The "unprecedented" gathering of organizations is an attempt to draw attention to the global threat of cancer, which isn't recognized as a major, growing health problem in some developing countries.
"Where you live shouldn't determine whether you live," said Hala Moddelmog, Komen's chief executive.
The organizations are calling on governments to act, asking the U.S. to help fund cervical cancer vaccinations and to ratify an international tobacco control treaty.
Concerned about smoking's impact on cancer rates in developing countries in the decades to come, the American Cancer Society also announced it will provide a smoking cessation counseling service in India.
"If we take action, we can keep the numbers from going where they would otherwise go," said John Seffrin, the cancer society's chief executive officer.
Other groups are also voicing support for more action.
"Cancer is one of the greatest untold health crises of the developing world," said Dr. Douglas Blayney, president-elect of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
"Few are aware that cancer already kills more people in poor countries than HIV, malaria and tuberculosis combined. And if current smoking trends continue, the problem will get significantly worse," he said in a written statement.
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On the Net:
The WHO's IARC: http://www.iarc.fr
The American Cancer Society: http://www.cancer.org
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Posted by ankit1711 on Sunday, June 21, 2009 - 12:51 AM (270 Reads)
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Summary of Cancer Experience Sharing – Survivors and Family Members
In an unique program to share the cancer experience, the survivors and family members came forward to talk about it and encouraged others to share similar experiences and seek support from our community.
Dineshbhai Shah, whose wife Gitaben passed away due to stomach cancer narrated how family had to cope with stark reality of cancer and fight it in the best possible manner with the cooperation of the patient. He mentioned that early symptoms included loss of hunger and weight, nausea, fatigue and pain on the face. GI endoscopy helped detect the malignant tumor in the stomach. Prognosis was devastating - death in 6 months or so. Gitaben took it with courage and positivity and decided to use the remaining period of life in withdrawing from the worldly things and take the support and inspiration from inner self and went on to mental journey of peace with karmas till the end came. Dineshbhai whole heartedly appreciated the moral support from Shree Girishbhai Shah and others from the Jain Center. Dineshbhai said that patient should be encouraged to share the disease news with all the people without any hesitation which will allow others to help.
Hemantbhai Nagda, a cancer (leukemia – a disease of an abnormal number of white cells) survivor for 10 years or so said that he was lucky to get into City of Hope hospital clinical trial using stem cells by donation of bone marrow for transplant from his sister Jayaben. He was in all praise for the moral support and extensive research for the cure by his wife Hansaben and other family members and doctors. He said that good food and regular yoga helped him a lot.
Pritiben Siddharth Shah also a cancer (Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma-stage 4 – a disease of swollen lymph nodes) survivor said that she was lucky to escape the vagaries of cancer because she took great care in recording various unusual symptoms meticulously and report them to doctor right away and did not panic by the cancer diagnosis. The detailed record of symptoms helped doctor to pinpoint the issue and diagnose the problem and start appropriate treatment immediately. She said that she was helped by very positive attitude and full faith in Bhagwan Mahavir and whole hearted support from her family members. Pritiben advocated sharing the cancer diagnosis news with all the friends and relatives to create a support system.
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Other Stories |
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· Anaheim Health Fair - 2010
(Jul 20, 2010)
· Cancer Awareness Talks-Uterus Cancer-Dr. Malini Shah-Sun Nov 8, 2009‏
(Nov 06, 2009)
· Sleeping bags with Hygine kit donation for Earthquake victims
(Oct 03, 2009)
· Cancer Awareness Talk-Non-Hodkin' Lymphoma-Dr Kirit Gala-Sun, Sep 20, 2009
(Sep 17, 2009)
· Summary of Cancer Awareness Talk given by Dr Nilesh Vora
(Jun 21, 2009)
· Self Breast Examination Workshop
(Jun 21, 2009)
· Nalini Shah Cancer Fund - Summary of Esophageal Cancer Talk
(Jun 21, 2009)
· Oral Cancer Status Report
(Jun 21, 2009)
· Prostate Cancer Status Report
(Jun 21, 2009)
· Cancer - Leading Cause of Death in India by 2010
(Jun 21, 2009)
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