Cancer
Fish Oil and Prostate Cancer
A recent study suggests that a low fat diet with fish oil supplements may slow the progression of prostate cancer.
Fish oil containing docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, for its acronym in English) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA for its acronym in English). Favorable evidence from several studies suggest that intake of recommended amounts of DHA and EPA – by eating fish or taking fish oil supplements – lowers triglycerides, the risk of death, myocardial infarction, abnormal rhythms dangerous heart and stroke in people with known cardiovascular disease. It also reduces the buildup of atherosclerotic plaques (“hardening of the arteries”), and lowers blood pressure slightly. Read the rest of this entry »
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Breast Implants for Breast Cancer Patients
We live in a very vain society where cosmetic plastic surgery is encouraged to fix flaws that have been deemed unacceptable. That is sometimes unnecessary, but those who have been afflicted by the devastating illness of cancer, it may be necessary. Cancer is an illness that can not only damage one’s health, but also his or her physical appearance.
While some people would help the cancer patient with his recovery giving moral support all throughout the treatment process the person recovering from cancer especially with breast cancer would feel incomplete. To a woman who recently went through mastectomy there will come a point in her life that she would fee incomplete. This would later lead to depression and deteriorating health if the person feels incomplete due to the loss of her breasts. Some forms of cancer that might do serious damage on a person’s appearance are skin cancer, breast cancer, and mouth cancer. Fortunately, physicians and plastic surgeons are able to work with the patient, and find out what type of surgery is best to fix his or her appearance.
A cancer patient that is seeking plastic surgery first needs to find a good, qualified plastic surgeon you can check your local plastic surgeon directory and ask professional opinion about it. The patient’s primary care physician may be able to refer him or her to a plastic surgeon. The patient might also look online to find surgeons in his or her area. It is always wise to make sure that the plastic surgeon is board certified, but it would also be helpful if he or she has had experience in doing plastic surgery on cancer patients. After finding a surgeon, the patient will see him or her for a consultation. During the consultation, the surgery is explained and the date of it is set. You may also need to consider the breast implant recovery and the activities that you can and may not be able to do. If the person is working she might need to file for leave to properly recuperate.
Reconstructive surgery is very expensive, but some health insurance companies may pay for it because it’s needed for more than just cosmetic reasons. If the insurance company declines, there are many other payment options available.
However, a person that has had his or her self esteem lost due to the overwhelming effects of cancer, he or she needs to weigh the cost against the benefits. Part of the long journey to adjusting to life after cancer is regaining one’s confidence. Cosmetic plastic surgery makes it easier for a person to do that.
Treatment of Hairy Cell Leukemia
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General aspects on the treatment
Some people with hairy cell leukemia have few symptoms and require no immediate treatment. There are treatments for all patients with hairy cell leukemia with symptoms. Uses three kinds of treatment:
- Surgery
- Chemotherapy (using drugs to kill cancer cells)
- Biological therapy (using the body’s immune system to fight cancer).
Some clinical trials are evaluating the use of bone marrow transplants. If the spleen is swollen, the doctor may remove a surgical operation called a splenectomy.
Chemotherapy uses drugs to kill cancer cells. These can be taken orally or injected into a vein, muscle or under the skin. Chemotherapy is a systemic treatment because the drug enters the bloodstream, travels through the body and can kill cancer cells throughout the body.
The purpose of biologic therapy is to try to get the body to fight cancer. It uses materials made by the body or made in a laboratory to boost, direct or restore the body’s natural defenses against disease.
Biological therapy is known as biological response modifier (BRM) therapy or immunotherapy. Interferon, a substance produced by the body to fight the organisms that are not normally found in the body, often used to treat hairy cell leukemia.
Bone marrow transplantation is used to replace bone marrow with a healthy one. First, it destroys all the body’s bone marrow with high dose chemotherapy with or without radiation therapy. Then he takes healthy bone marrow from another person (a donor) whose tissue is equal or nearly equal to his. The donor may be a twin (the ideal), a brother or sister or other person with whom you have no kinship.
Finally, the donor’s healthy marrow is injected into a vein you and replace the destroyed bone marrow. A bone marrow transplant that used bone marrow from a relative or a person who has no relationship to you is called allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.
Hairy cell leukemia
Hairy cell leukemia is a disease in which cells are cancerous (malignant) in the blood and bone marrow. The disease is called hairy cell leukemia because the cancer cells look “hair” when examined under the microscope.
Hairy cell leukemia affects white blood cells known as lymphocytes, produced in the bone marrow and other organs. Bone marrow is the spongy tissue inside large bones of the body.
It produces red blood cells (which carry oxygen and other materials to all tissues of the body), white blood cells (which fight infection) and platelets (which cause blood to clot).
Lymphocytes are also produced in the spleen (an organ located in the upper abdomen that produces lymphocytes and filters old blood cells from the blood), lymph nodes (small bean-shaped structures found throughout the body ) and other organs.
When developing hairy cell leukemia, there may be an accumulation of leukemic cells in the spleen, causing it to swell. Can also occur if there are too few normal white blood cells in the blood because the leukemia cells invade the bone marrow, and bone marrow is unable to produce enough normal white blood cells. This can cause an infection.
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Indoor tanning: risk of cancer a few years later
The Canadian Dermatology Association (CDA) launched on 1 February a new campaign “Indoor Tanning is not cool” to inform young women that tanning salons are not as safe as they think.
Research shows that 70% of users of artificial tanning are women of 16-29 years. As well as causing premature aging of the skin, artificial tanning before the age of 30 years is associated with marked increase in the risk of melanoma.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization (WHO) recently classified the UVR tanning beds in the highest category of carcinogenic risks to humans. Artificial tanning is particularly dangerous because the UV rays from sunbeds can be 10-15 times stronger than natural sunlight.
The campaign posters are real cases of young women in their twenties for the most part, having fought against melanoma, “a few years” after the artificial tanning. The DCO is posted on its website a model petition asking the government to enact legislation to prohibit the use of sunbeds for children under 18 years, as recommended by WHO in 2005.
A tan, says CDA does not protect from the sun during the holidays. It is at best equivalent of an SPF 2 to 4, which is not sufficient to protect from the sun.
Melanoma is now the third most common cancer among younger women and is easy to prevent.
Coffee Prevents Brain Cancer
When we speak of tea to prevent cancer usually referred to tea varieties (especially in relation to green tea). This is due to the antioxidant potential of tea, which protects our cells thereby reducing the risk of cancer in many varieties.
But the world of tea does not begin and end in the tea. Coffee, as popular as tea (or more in some countries) also has things to say about cancer prevention. We do not say only from this because it had been commissioned in the Imperial College London.
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Leukemia
When immature blood cells (blasts) are proliferating, ie, they reproduce uncontrollably in the bone marrow and accumulate both there and in blood, achieved replacing normal cells. This uncontrolled proliferation is called leukemia.
Cause of Leukemia
The cause of leukemia is unknown in most cases. However, it is shown that a condition is not hereditary or contagious. Most often occurs in previously healthy children. Being a proliferation of immature and abnormal cells in the blood, leukemia is considered a “blood cancer”.
Symptom of Leukemia
Early symptoms include fatigue, poor appetite and intermittent fever. As the condition progresses there is pain in the bones as a result of the multiplication of leukemic cells in the bone marrow. It also appears anemia, whose features include pallor, fatigue and poor exercise tolerance, the result of reduced red blood cells.
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Vaccine for Cervical Cancer
Who may apply?
Cervical cancer is caused by some of the human papillomavirus (HPV), and is the second leading cause of cancer deaths among women. Until some years ago there were no medicines to prevent it, but recently it has developed a vaccine for this purpose.
The vaccine against HPV and cervical cancer, protects against four types of HPV, the main agents of disease, existing between forty-two that are the cause of cervical cancer and two that cause genital warts . That is, the vaccine is very effective but does not provide total protection.
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Cervical Cancer
Gynecological cancer preventable
Most cases of cervical cancer is easily prevented with the implementation of routine screening and monitoring. It also has a very high probability of cure when diagnosed early. Currently, there are vaccines that protect against the most common cause of cervical cancer.
All women are at risk for cervical cancer. It occurs more often in women over 30 years. Cervical cancer is highly preventable due to the availability of screening tests and vaccines to prevent HPV infections. When cervical cancer is detected in its early stages, the treatment options are very high and is associated with long survival and good quality of life.
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Soursop killer cancer cells
As medical science progresses, people begin to forget about traditional medicine. Traditional medicine is cheaper and can be in the potion himself because the material easy to obtain. As the research of several experts said that the soursop fruit can kill cancer cells.
So from now on you can help a friend in need, letting him know that you should drink soursop juice to prevent the disease.
Sense of fun, and certainly not a terrible effect of chemotherapy. And yes you can, plant a guava tree in their backyard. All parts are useful.
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