All Entries in the "Cancers" Category
Novel Way of Preventing Metastasis in Cancer Patients
A new pathway for inhibition of metastasis has been discovered by the scientists at the Georgia State University. The discovery has been published in latest edition of the journal Nature Communications. This has lead to new hope in finding drugs that can help cure cancer. Cell Migration Proteins The students of professors Zhi Ren Liu [...]
Targeting Radiotherapy Following Breast Cancer Surgery
Clinical trials of breast conserving surgery have shown that most local recurrence following Breast Cancer Surgery occurs in the region where the tumour was removed from the breast, the “tumour-bed”. Currently, standard breast radiotherapy requires treatment to the entire breast followed by an additional boost treatment to the tumour bed region in woman at higher [...]
Expensive Post Recovery Care – A Bane for Cancer Survivors
A recent study on cancer survivors has revealed that the younger survivors are avoiding medical care owing to costs. In addition to the trauma associated with cancer, its survivors face a lifelong financial crisis due to the follow up medications and diagnostic visits at regular intervals. They are affected by the associated expenses even with [...]
Multiple Myeloma – Symptoms of the Cancer
This is a type of cancer which affects the blood and the bone marrow. It is the second most widespread type of blood cancer. The first position of that dubious distinction goes to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The American Cancer Society estimates that 20,180 new cases of multiple myeloma were diagnosed in 2010. Multiple myeloma symptoms are [...]
What Is It: Cancer Fatigue or Cancer Related Fatigue?
Fatigue is more than just tiredness. Everyone feels tired and can be reasonably sure to feel fine after a good night’s sleep. Fatigue is the kind of tiredness that is bone deep, which has no seeming reason and which is present even after rest and which can disrupt normal functioning and quality of life. Cancer [...]
Fact Sheet on the Side Effects of Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is one of the most common types of treatment given to cancer patients. It involves the utilization of drugs or medications in treating different types of cancer. There are mainly two reasons why a cancer patient gets chemotherapy. First, it relieves symptoms like pain by controlling or eliminating tumor growths; second, it reduces the [...]
Lung Cancer – Different For Smokers And Non Smokers
Here is something that every smoker who argues against giving up smoking because even non smokers get lung cancer, should know about – smokers and non smokers get different kinds of lung cancer, according to a new study. According to Kelsie Thu, Ph.D. candidates at the BC Cancer Research Center in Canada, there are twice [...]
The Top 9 Antioxidant Foods For Preventing Cancer
Antioxidant foods are the magic bullet we’ve all been looking for in preventing cancer. Here are some antioxidant foods that help in preventing cancer.
Is H-Mole A Cancer Disease?
You thought you were pregnant and was very excited to have a baby, but you found out it was not a fetus inside you but an abnormal growth referred to as H-Mole. H-Mole or Hydatidiform mole is a rare condition where the union of the sperm cell and egg cell results to an abnormal growth. [...]
The ‘Epidemic’ Of Skin Cancer And Tips To Avoid Skin Cancer
Among the cancers, skin cancers are the most common; surpassing breast cancer, prostate cancer and even lung cancer in terms of numbers. However, they tend to be brushed aside because relatively low proportions of skin cancer sufferers actually die from this disease. Recent statistics show that incidence of skin cancer has doubled from the year [...]
