Robotic Surgery

Hi all,

Hurray robotic surgery is now available in Kuala Lumpur. With this system, your surgeon may not necessarily be in the OT room. He may be doing the surgery from abroad.
View video below



Take care

Allen Lai

CyberKnife

Hi all,

CyberKnife is now available in Beacon Hospital Petaling Jaya. Cancer patients are now spoilt for choice for radiotherapy/surgery treatments. Perhaps now is the time to buy medical coverage as cost may not come down in the near future.
See video below




Take care

Allen Lai

TomoTherapy

Hi all,

During our last Support Group meeting in NCSM, we discussed TomoTherapy Treatment.  We were informed that there are two medical centers that have this equipment already. Namely Prince Court in KL and Sime Darby Medical Centre in Subang Jaya. TomoTherapy treatment is the latest generation in Radiotherapy treatment. It is very dynamic, precise, accurate and versatile. It has the most uptodate imaging software’s. Its only downside is cost. We hope TomoTherapywill be made more affordable in the years to come. Below is a video to demonstrate TomoTherapy.

Take care

Allen Lai

Links to websites on cancer information

I have being browsing the internet for information and remedies for all types of cancers for the past year. There are really many ready websites popping up as cancer is the rage disease today. Professional, industrialists, entrepreneurs, and good souls all had put up these websites. Some are really good and informative, whilst others promote their remedies. For what it is worth, it is a good read but we must be totally aware of the complexity of cancer and that each patient respond differently to each type of remedy. Hence read each information with absolute caution and always consult with your Oncologist its effects and implications. Be very sure whatever remedies you take it is consistent with your current treatments.

I wish to append some of the sites that I use with confidence and hope that you will be able to rely on them too.

Read the links in the tab Useful Links above.

Take care and get well soon.

Allen Lai

http://www.cancer.net/

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/DiseasesIndex/DiseasesIndex

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

http://nutritiondata.self.com/

http://www.webmd.com/

http://www.cochrane.org/

http://www.merckmanuals.com/

http://www.oncologychannel.com/

A New day in the New year in the New me

Peggy and me

Where do I start? It is all brand new. A new me, I feel good and feeling good. A refreshed me with my PSA level at 0.03. I am fixed and I am doing well enough to begin taking long walks. My QiGong practices are coming along as well; with smoother movements and fuller breathings. Chinese New Year 2011 is over leaving me heavier by 3kg. My waistline is now a proud round belly and an inch wider. My trousers has become a wee bit too tight.

This is where I start for my new year.

I suppose what my new day starts with depends on what I did the previous day. What time did I go to sleep to be precise. If I sleep late like 4 am or so, I will wake up late and miss the morning altogether. If I sleep early, usually not earlier that 2 am in the morning, I will be up and about by 8 am latest. But who cares If I sleep early or late. I have time the next day unless I have scheduled for plan A in my mind and my wife has plan B in her mind. But she won’t tell me what is in her mind any earlier; until when she wants to do it. Not much of a plan isn’t it.

I start my new day by doing my business and cleaning up. I will have 2 cups of just plain water followed by an orange/papaya/kiwi fruit. I will then offer my daily morning prayers at my family altar in the house. After prayers I will then take my daily morning medications followed by breakfast of cereals.

After breakfast I will alternate between my morning long walks in the neighbourhood and QiGong practice in my garden which is usually 1.5 to 2 hours. I will then have a light lunch at home. A quick nap follows, sometimes not so quick. Nap is followed by an afternoon/ evening TV session of Korean dramas.

After evening prayers at home, my wife and I will go to my mother in law’s place in PJ for dinner throughout the weekdays. We will spend the whole evening there until 9 pm when we come home to sleep. Our night TV session starts from 10 pm each night until we finish all the cliff hangers in the Korean TV dramas. Hence we do not sleep until 4 am each day.

Unless we have plan A or plan B for the day, my day is quite routine as described. Am I having a good day? Am I living well? I am not too sure for now, but I am surely enjoying my new year of life doing what I like doing.

Allen Lai