Health & Fitness
'Healthy Body, Healthy Mind'
Theme Of Kadima Fundraiser
It's not just about getting you back on your feet.
It's about getting you back to your life.
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adima, a nonprofit mental
health agency in Southfield,
will host its annual Healthy
Body, Healthy Mind fundraiser lun-
cheon on Thursday, April 28, at Temple
Beth El in Bloomfield Township.
Proceeds from the event will benefit
Kadima's hild and Adolescent Program
and its Miya Jo Must Home.
The keynote speaker will be Clark
Flatt, president and founder of the
Jason Foundation. Flatt's son Jason, an
active, average 16-year-old, took his
own life in 1997.
Flatt has dedicated the Jason
Foundation to providing education
and awareness programs to equip
young people, educators and parents
with resources to help identify and
assist at-risk youth.
There are critical and unmet needs
for children with serious emotional
and behavioral disorders, and their
family members to receive out-patient
mental health services.
New statistics on increases in seri-
ous bullying and adolescent young
adult suicide reinforce the services
provided in Kadima's Child and
Adolescent Program. Suicide is the
third leading cause of death of youth
aged 15-24 years and the sixth lead-
ing cause of death for 5-14-year-
olds.
In Michigan, children receive 3
percent of mental health funding,
making long-term intensive treatment
non-existent and creating solutions
that do not meet the long-term needs
of children and adolescents diagnosed
with serious emotional and behavioral
disorders.
Kadima offers wrap-around servic-
es that include parent support groups,
children's treatment groups, respite
and home-visit services, individual
and family counseling, social and rec-
reational activities, crisis intervention
and education to the community.
Tickets for the April 28 Healthy
Body, healthy mind event are $50. For
more information, contact www.
kadimacenter.org or Paula Schonberg,
(248) 559-8235, ext. 118.
If you have a child diagnosed with
an emotional or behavioral disorder
or if you know a family that needs
help, call Kadima, (2480 559-8235.
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is the third hospital in the
world to use a new microwave
ablation system to treat cancer.
Michael Savin, M.D., interventional
radiologist, performed Beaumont's
first two minimally invasive pro-
cedures using the MicroThermX
Microwave Ablation System.
"This is a promis-
ing, new technology
to treat liver cancer,"
said Dr. Savin. "It's
good to have one
more tool in our
treatment toolbox.
MicroThermX has
many advantages —
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quick set up, ease of
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use and possibly less
side effects. It may prove to be the best
option for treating large, inoperable
liver and lung tumors more predict-
ably."
The new system kills cancer cells
with microwaves. Other ablation
treatments use lasers, radiofrequency
energy, freezing gas or electricity to
burn, freeze or otherwise kill the can-
cer tissue.
These image-guided therapies usu-
ally require little time in the hospital.
According to Dr. Savin, patients under-
going microwave ablation can usually
go home the following day and, in
some cases, the same day.
The procedure is done under gen-
eral anesthesia or sedation. Guided by
ultrasound or CT images, the physi-
cian places a needle applicator into the
tumor. Depending on the size of the
tumor, the microwave energy usually
destroys the cancer in 10 to 15 min-
utes. Patients may experience less pain
afterwards.
The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration has cleared the
MicroTherm X, made by BSD
Medical Corporation, for ablation of
soft tissue.