What is Testicular Cancer?

What Is Testicular Cancer?

What is Cancer?

Cancer occurs when cells in a part of the body begin to grow out of control. Normal cells divide and grow in an orderly fashion, but cancer cells do not. They continue to grow and crowd out normal cells. Although there are many kinds of cancer, they all have in common this out-of-control growth of cells.

Different kinds of cancer can behave very differently. For example, lung cancer and breast cancer are very different diseases. They grow at different rates and respond to different treatments. That’s why people with cancer need treatment that is aimed at their kind of cancer.

Sometimes cancer cells break away from a tumor and spread to other parts of the body through the blood or lymph system. They can settle in new places and form new tumors. When this happens, it is called metastasis (meh-tas-tuh-sis). Cancer that has spread in this way is called metastatic cancer.

Even when cancer has spread to a new place in the body, it is still named after the part of the body where it started. For example, if prostate cancer spreads to the bones, it is still called prostate cancer. If breast cancer spreads to the lungs, it is still breast cancer. When cancer comes back in a person who appeared to be free of the disease after treatment, it is called a recurrence.

Here are the lyrics (sing along if you feel so compelled)...

Conjunction Junction, what's your function?   
Hookin' up words and phrases and clauses.
Conjunction Junction, how's that function?
I got three favorite cars that get most of my job done.
Conjunction Junction, what's their function?
I got And, But, and Or.
They'll get you pretty far.

And! That's an additive, like this and that
But! That's sort of the opposite, not this but that
And then there's Or, O-R,
When you have a choice like this or that.
And, But, and Or get you pretty far!

Conjunction Junction, what's your function?
Hookin' up two boxcars and makin' 'em run right.
Milk and honey, bread and butter, peas and rice,
(Hey, that's nice)
Dirty but happy, diggin' and scratchin',
Losing your shoe and a button on two,
He was poor but honest, sad but true,
Boo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo.

Conjunction Junction, what's your function?
Hookin' up phrases and clauses that balance like:
Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
He cut loose the sandbags, but the balloon wouldn't go
any higher.
Let's go up to the mountains or down to the seas.
You should always say thank you, or at least say please!

Conjunction Junction, what's your function?
Hookin' up two cars to one when you say
Somethin' like this choice"
Either now or later,
Or no choice:
Neither now nor ever.
(Hey, that's clever)
Eat this or that, grow thin or fat.
Never mind, I wouldn't do that, I'm fat enough now!

Conjunction Junction, what's your function?
Hookin' up words and phrases and clauses
In complex sentences like:
"In the mornings, when I'm usually wide awake,
I love to take a walk through the gardens and down by
the lake,
Where I often see a duck and a drake,
And I wonder as I walk by, just what they'd say
If they could speak
Although I know that's an absurd thought."

Conjunction Junction, what's your function?
Hookin'-up cars and makin' 'em function.
Conjunction Junction, how's that function?
I like tyin' up words and phrases and clauses.

Conjunction Junction, watch that function!
I'm gonna get you there, if you're very careful.
Conjunction Junction, what's your function?
I'm gonna get you there if you're very careful.

I'd been grilling a lot of salmon and always ended up with a little bit left over, so I started making salmon cakes with it. At one point I used regular potatoes, then tried sweet potatoes which added a nice sweetness with the salmon, and a nice color combination as well. You can decide which you prefer.

-Chef Oliver

Grilled Salmon & Sweet Potato Cakes

Grilled salmon fillet*
1 sweet potato, peeled and cut into cubes**
1 scallion, thinly sliced, white and light green parts
1 egg
fresh lemon juice
capers and caper juice
breadcrumbs
salt and pepper

* I usually have about 1 1/2 cups or so, it's not the whole fillet but just a few inches left after dinner.

** You can of course use a regular potato

1. Flake salmon by breaking apart with your fingers.
2. Boil sweet potato until soft and mushable, but not falling apart. Rinse with cold water.
3. When potato is cool, add to salmon and mix together until incorporated.
4. Add a squeeze of fresh lemon juice, approx. a teaspoon of caper juice, and a teaspoon of capers, salt and fresh ground pepper to taste.
5. Add one egg and mix everything together.
6. Form mixture into cakes, it will be a little loose so handle carefully.
7. Heat skillet with some butter.
8. When pan is hot, coat both sides of cakes with breadcrumbs and place in pan. Cook until browned and firm.

Serve with a side of mayonnaise mixed with a little lemon juice, capers, and caper juice.

I use this dough all the time to make really thin pizzas on the grill. When ready, simply roll out the dough, brush with a little olive oil, and toss on the grill. Flip after a couple minutes, add toppings, and cook until done. Easy, delicious pizza plus the fun of grilling!

-Chef Oliver

Pizza Dough for Grilling

Ingredients

1 (1/4 oz.) package active dry yeast
1 3/4 to 2 cups flour
3/4 cup warm water (105° to 115°F)
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/2 tablespoon olive oil

Instructions

1. Stir yeast, 1 tablespoon flour, 1/4 cup warm water. Let stand 5 minutes until creamy.

2. Stir together 1 1/4 cups flour and salt. Add yeast mixture, oil, and remaining 1/2 cup water and stir until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour (1/4 to 1/2 cup) for dough to come away from the side of the bowl.

3. Knead dough approzimately 8 minutes. Divide dough in half, dust with flour, and place in bowls. Cover dough and let rise until doubled in size, approximately 1 1/4 hours.

Since Tuesdays are inherently booooring...here are some interesting tidbits about TUESDAY...

Tuesday is considered either the second or the third day of the week, between Monday and Wednesday. The English and Scandinavian names are derived from the Nordic god Tyr (in Old English, Tiw, Tew or Tiu. In Swedish, Tisdag, Danish: Tirsdag, Finnish: Tiistai).

Quakers traditionally refer to Tuesday as "Third Day" eschewing the "pagan" origin of the English name "Tuesday".

Shrove Tuesday (also called Mardi Gras - fat Tuesday) precedes the first day of Lent in the Western Christian calendar.

Tuesday is the usual day for elections in the United States. Federal elections take place on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November; this date was established by a law of 1845 for presidential elections (specifically for the selection of the Electoral College), and was extended to elections for the House of Representatives in 1875 and for the Senate in 1914. Tuesday was the earliest day of the week which was practical for polling in the early 19th century: citizens might have to travel for a whole day to cast their vote, and would not wish to leave on Sunday which was a day of worship for the great majority of them. Many American states hold their presidential primary elections on "Super Tuesday".

Black Tuesday, in the United States, refers to October 29, 1929, the start of the great stock market panic of 1929. This was the Tuesday after Black Thursday, which marked the start of the Great Depression.

In the Greek world, Tuesday (the day of the week of the Fall of Constantinople) is considered an unlucky day. The same is true in the Spanish-speaking world, where a proverb runs En martes, ni te cases ni te embarques (On Tuesday, neither get married nor begin a journey).

In the popular rhyme, "Tuesday's child is full of grace".

*Information courtesy of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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Phone call...MAGIC MUR

Just spoke to my favorite person in the world, my Uncle Mur. He is the one person, other than my best friend Ed, who I can fully relate to and visa versa. It doesn't matter what shit life has in store for me for the rest of the day, I got to chat with Magic Mur.

October 10, 2005  10:10 am EST

Here I am, at work on yet another Monday morning.  As I drove to work today, in my usual morning haze, listening to the untalented, unwitty, unbridled crap they call morning talk radio, I actually noticed a beautiful sunrise out of my rear-view mirror.  From what I could see, it looked spectacular.  Of course, the moment was immediately destroyed by idiot drivers in front & back & on all sides of me.

Now I'm at work, performing mundane tasks, contantly realizing how under-utilized I am, but with really no one to discuss it with.  The company is one of those that is just beginning to get really big, so like all of these types, they've lost a handle of the employees as names...we are all now officially just cogs, pieces of the puzzle, numbers. 

I hate what I do, it's boring, unchallenging, and utilizes none of my main strengths as a creative, logical, right-brained human.  I do it because I have to, need the paycheck...that's that.

I will again spend all day watching the clock, waiting for 5pm when I can finally go back home and do absolutely nothing with my 'free-time.'

This is the latest photo of what experts have claimed to be the leader of an Extraterrestrial latino gang...