Cancer

Breast cancer radiotherapy is at best an ordeal and at worst a living nightmare for many women The worst moment after being told you really do have cancer is being told you will need chemotherapy and radiotherapy as treatment to fight the disease

Herceptin Treatment is a fairly new treatment for breast cancer It was originally licensed for women who had some form of meteastatic breast cancer spread but a little over two years ago it was licensed to be used on any woman with early stage breast cancer

Diagnosed with cancer as a teenager, Zoё Szypillo 23, didn’t thin she’d get to her 17th birthday

Mesothelioma is a form of lung cancer, predominantly caused by exposure to asbestos fibers In fact, mesothelioma is a cancer of the mesothelium, the sheath that covers major organs such as the lungs (pleurum), the heart (pericardium) and the abdominal cavity (peritoneum)

My younger brother, Junaid, passed away recently after a two year battle with cancer He died as I was holding his hands at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto on March 19, 2008 at 11:10am

It has been well established that a diet high in fruits and vegetables is helpful in preventing many diseases including cancer What has also been feverishly investigated is the effects of berries on the body

If you had skin cancer, would you know it For many people, the answer to this question is no

Despite significant advances in cancer research and treatment, one form of cancer - brain tumors - remain particularly feared, and for good reason Because of their location, brain tumors can severely impact an individual’s personality, memories and basic motor skills, robbing the patient of their very being

It used to be thought that cancer was an unpredictable disease - if your "number cam up" it was unavoidable But we are now learning that, in a majority of vases, cancer may be a "man-made" disease

The learning curve in a production setting is a concept which was first introduced in the aeronautical industry during the 1920s It was developed to analyze the time taken to move from the initial phase of production, where work is slower and less efficient, to a more effective phase, once production is well established

Cancer is now the leading cause of death globally It is estimated that cancer will kill 84 million people in the next ten years

When a child is first diagnosed with a medical condition, especially a life-threatening one, the first question many parents understandably ask is, “How long does my child have to live” Medical professionals respond by quoting the statistics

Mesothelioma cancer is considered to be the rarest and deadliest types of cancer, and usually affects the mesothelial tissues of the body organs, normally abdomen and lungs It develops malignant and cancerous cells in mesothelium, which is the protective cell covering many internal organs of the body

Over the years many books have been completed and disciplines created discussing the emotional messages behind our physical symptoms What if your symptoms really are telling you something

Melanoma skin cancer is a condition that affects millions upon millions of American people every day It is the result of abnormal cells in the skin that often result from prolonged exposure to the sun, one of the reasons why direct tanning is discouraged and strong sunblock is so strongly encouraged these days

A colonoscopy is an examination of the large intestine using a flexible tube which can be inserted the whole length of you large intestine This examination will reveal danger signs of cancer and other things you would like to know about your health

So under the advice and concern of my girlfriend I went to the local medical centre straight after work one evening and saw a general practitioner whom I’d met once before This particular practitioner was different to other doctors I had encountered in the past

Would you believe that your life style could cause you to get cancer Eighteen years ago, before I got cancer, I believed what modern medicine said about how you get cancer

There are various types of mesothelioma but asbestos lung mesothelioma is an asbestos-induced cancer of the mesothelium of the lung, more familiarly known as the pleura, which is the external lining of the lung Many of the major organs of the body have a mesothelium, that of the heart being called the pericardium and of the heart the peritoneum

How can something that makes you look and feel so healthy