Archive for the ‘Cancer’ Category

Indoor tanning: risk of cancer a few years later

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

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.

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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.

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Coffee Prevents Brain Cancer

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

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

Friday, February 19th, 2010

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

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

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

Monday, February 1st, 2010

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

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

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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Hairy Cell Leukemia: Treatment by stage

Friday, January 8th, 2010

hairy cell leukimia treatments

You might consider using a treatment considered standard based on its effectiveness in patients in past studies, or may choose to take part in a clinical trial. Not all patients are cured with standard therapy and some standard treatments may have more side effects than are desired.

For these reasons, clinical trials are designed to find better ways to treat cancer patients and are based on the latest information. They are conducting clinical trials in many countries for patients with hairy cell leukemia.

Hairy cell leukemia untreated
Treatment may be one of the following:

If you do not have symptoms, you may not need treatment. The doctor will monitor carefully in order to treat leukemia case worse.
- Biological therapy.
- Chemotherapy.
- Surgery to remove the spleen (splenectomy).

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Treatment of Hairy Cell Leukemia

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

chemotherapyGeneral 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.

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Stages of Hairy Cell Leukemia

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

hairy cell leukimia stages

There is no classification system for hairy cell leukemia. Patients were grouped depending on whether or not they have received treatment for leukemia.

Hairy cell leukemia without treatment
There is no treatment administered to treat leukemia, but may have been given some treatment for infections or other side effects of leukemia.

Progressive hairy cell leukemia
It has carried out an operation to remove the spleen (splenectomy) or has administered a systemic therapy (treatment which uses substances that travel through the bloodstream to reach certain cells in the body and change) but the leukemia is worse.

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Hairy cell leukemia

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

hairy cell leukimia

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.

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