Breast Cancer Treatments

August 2, 2008 · Filed Under Cancer Treatment · Comment 

Generally breast cancer is treated by medications, surgery and Radiation therapy. In past few years there is a decline in deaths due to breast cancer as treatment techniques and screening methods have improved, and it can be diagnosed at an early stage. Read more

10 Things That May Happen If You Don’t Lose The Extra Fat

July 20, 2008 · Filed Under Weight Loss · 1 Comment 

Obesity is a disease prevalent in both developing and developed countries. Overweight and obesity are now so common that they are replacing the more traditional public health concerns such as under nutrition and infectious diseases as some of the most significant contributors to ill health. Read more

Stage 2 Ovarian Cancer – How Leg Pain Saved My Life

July 13, 2008 · Filed Under Cancer Treatment · Comment 

I had never given a thought to ovarian cancer, and why would I? When it comes to gynecological cancers you hear about breast cancer all the time, uterine cancer, and cervical cancer when you go for your annual Pap smear, but you never hear much at all about ovarian cancer. Read more

Why Dietary Vitamins And Supplements Are Essential

July 2, 2008 · Filed Under Alternative Medicine · Comment 

Contrary to popular opinion, vitamins and supplements have just been discovered fairly recently A Japanese man Umetaro Suzi made the discovery of vitamins as important elements in maintaining balance of the body in 1910. Read more

What Is Cancer?

June 21, 2008 · Filed Under Health Education · Comment 

What is Cancer?

There are quite a few manifestations of malignant tumors – Burkitt Lymphoma and Retinoblastoma and Thymoma and Ovarian Low Malignant Potential Tumor Read more

Avoiding Infections Helps Keep Cancer Patients Healthy

June 17, 2008 · Filed Under Cancer Treatment · Comment 

Infections are a major cause of illness and death in cancer patients, but simple steps and common sense can help keep patients healthy and improve their chances of a good recovery. An important first step is to reduce their risk of developing infections Read more

Childhood Cancer Survivors Overcome Academic Hurdles

June 9, 2008 · Filed Under Cancer Treatment · Comment 

When 13-year-old Ryan Taylor was told he had cancer, it was just the beginning of many challenges in his young life. Fortunately, Taylor, now 23, is an example of how children with cancer can beat their illness and live a normal life. Read more

Stand Up 2 Cancer Aims To Bring Treatment, Unlock Cancer

May 28, 2008 · Filed Under Cancer Treatment · Comment 

It is believed that by creating more awareness about cancer and involving more experts in the public discussion about the various types of cancers as well as raising more funds will help the researchers to fund much needed cancer treatment and help millions who suffer from cancer. Read more

Determining Genetic Signature Of Lung Tumors Can Help Guide Treatment

May 27, 2008 · Filed Under Cancer Treatment · Comment 

The first U.S. clinical trial using genetic screening to identify lung tumors likely to respond to targeted therapies supports the use of those drugs as first-line treatment rather than after standard chemotherapy has failed. Read more

Combo Treatment Releases Brake On Antitumor Immune Responses

May 27, 2008 · Filed Under General Health · Comment 

It has been a long-held dream in immunology to create a cancer vaccine – but the problem with malignant tumors is that they are notoriously good at evading the immune system. Read more

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