Every person should be aware of cancer symptoms in other to facilitate the process to cure cancer. Based on the knowledge of these symptoms, it is also important that the person affected should undergo necessary examination so as to make sure that he/she does not die of any of the forms of cancer. It is not intended to imply that every individual will have cancer, but cancer is a possibility that everyone must face. It is necessary to be aware of the danger and to face it intelligently and courageously. It is important to know that even the most skilled surgeons cannot cure cancer if the cancer has progressed too far before it is discovered Read More...
Of course it is natural to feel guilt when your child is diagnosed with cancer. Nothing could be more natural. Why am I, an older person, healthy and my young and innocent child is suffering a potentially life-threatening disease Read More...
There is a chance for the scientists from Hamburg to receive more effective drug developed against cancer. As per the speech by Dr Ilona Schonn, Director of Cell Culture Research at Indivumed GmbH, there is the development of Pre-Clinical Trial Platform of a certain drug testing to analyze tumor tissue in patient on molecular level of the drug response Read More...
Being diagnosed with cancer is devastating, there's nothing like the impact of those three little words, "you have cancer." I know this only too well as a 10-year survivor and as someone whose Mom, Dad, Aunts and Grandpa have battled with the disease.
The correct treatment of cancer is a matter for almost endless debate, simply because no one knows how to treat cancer currently. We deplore increasingly common creature " The Triumphalistic Oncologist", so eloquently caricaturized in the editorial with this title in the journal Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics, his attitude of mind seems to be that in repudiate any advance that has gone before.
When diagnosed with something as deadly as cancer, fertility may not be the immediate concern. However, once cancer is cured and life goes on, the harmful effects of the treatment undergone may show up in the form of impaired fertility. Ironically, fertility enhancing treatments also seem to have the same effect on cancer, by increasing the risk of cancer in women who undergo fertility treatment.
These vary a bit depending on the lab, so the ranges that follow are guidelines rather than absolutes. Be sure to ask for a copy of the CBC each time it's performed, and look at the lab results sheet for the normal range for that lab. Still, there are some general rules of thumb Read More...
, here we go again. Decades ago, there was widespread panic over the possibility that overhead high tension electrical power lines could be a cause of cancer for people living in close proximity or underneath them. When that was disproved, the doomsday crowd went onto blame cell phones as a possible risk of brain cancer due to tiny amounts of radiation emitted when the phone is transferring data. Thus far, after dozens of studies, there has been NO conclusive evidence that cell phones produce a significant enough amount of radiation to create a measurable increase in the risk of cancer. But is there a cause for concern? Just who conducted those tests?f Read More...
Cancer has a huge impact on most people when it is first diagnosed. The person with the disease goes through a wide range of emotions including fear, anger, anxiety and sadness. But those emotions are not restricted to the sufferer. Members of the ill person's family can also run the gamut of emotions including depression and despair.
Recently, there have been great improvements made in how modern medicine manages certain types of cancer. People are now able to live longer with this disease than at any other time in history. Unfortunately, the disease continues to acquire new strains, and so there is a rise in the occurrences of some types of cancer each year. There are still too many cancer patients suffering needlessly through the terminal stages. Two of the most important reasons to look at the role alternative medicine for cancer can play are the aspect of prevention of the disease, and relief from some of the most distressing symptoms of cancer, including an inability to eat. Read More...
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