Mitchell McKenna - tagged with cancer http://mitchmckenna.com/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress mitchellmckenna@gmail.com Movember Founder Adam Garone at TEDx 2011 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/12089/adam-garone-healthier-men-one-moustache-at-a-time

Adam Garone gives a talk on how the charity Movember, in support of raising awareness and donations for research to fight prostate cancer, came to be.

Adam Garone has an impressive moustache, and it's for a good cause. A co-founder of Movember, Garone's initiative to raise awareness for men's health -- by having men grow out their moustaches every November -- began as a dare in a bar in 2003. Now, it's a worldwide movement that raised $126 million for prostate cancer research last year.

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A Mo Bro's Journey - Ron Telpner http://mitchmckenna.com/post/12028/a-mo-bros-journey-ron-telpner

An inspirational story of surviving prostate cancer filmed to raise awareness for Movember. Check out my Movember page: http://mobro.co/mitchellmckenna.

Five year Mo Bro Ron Telpner shares his inspirational story of living with prostate cancer, conducting two years of active surveillance and ultimately making the decision for a radical prostatectomy. He generously allowed Movember cameras to capture the days leading up to and immediately following his surgery. Knowledge is power, health is for life.

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Dave deBronkart: Meet e-Patient Dave http://mitchmckenna.com/post/9787/dave-debronkart-meet-e-patient-dave

http://www.ted.com When Dave deBronkart learned he had a rare and terminal cancer, he turned to a group of fellow patients online -- and found a medical treatment that even his own doctors didn't know. It saved his life. Now he calls on all patients to talk with one another, know their own health data, and make health care better one e-Patient at a time.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.

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