Millions of people are affected by skin cancer. Each year the number of skin cancer cases increases, highlighting the need for an effective way to manage both the symptoms and the treatment. Fortunately, there is an easy way to keep tabs on this disease.
First, understand that there are three types of skin cancer: basal cell […]
As medical breakthroughs are discovered every day and preventions, cures and treatments become available for hundreds of diseases, cancer remains the number two cause of death for men and women in the United States behind heart disease.
This does not mean that cancer research is void of major breakthroughs or that it is not coming along […]
Each year cancer research programs continue to grow: funding increases, new technologies make year-old discoveries obsolete, and more doctors and scientists contribute their ideas and methods to understanding and eradicating cancer. As these strides are made, more treatment options become available and fewer people are forced to endure painful and invasive treatments.
Radiosurgery is a non-invasive, […]
Cancer is nearly the leading cause of death in the U.S., and more and more people need help in treatment. Luckily in recent years there has been a good deal of technological headway that has come about. From identifying and treating the tumors in the body, new radiation technology and techniques have already come into […]
Recent data from the National Cancer Institute shows amazing progress in several vital cancer-related areas. As cancer-related mortality is falling, so are actual diagnoses of the disease.
What this means is that the United States has now successfully identified some causes of cancer and we are making progress towards cancer prevention.
Radiation therapy’s goal is to hit a tumor with enough radiation to kill it while minimizing exposure to surrounding healthy tissue. However, radiation tends to kill virtually everything that it touches. The problem then with radiation therapy is killing the tumor without harming the patient or any healthy tissue that surrounds a tumor. Doing so […]
Oncology is the study of cancerous tumors, while an oncologist is a doctor that treats cancer. Though different countries and schools of medicine might divide oncologists into several different categories and specialties, in America, there are two main types of oncologists. A radiation oncologist is a doctor that specializes in radiation treatment of cancer, known […]
Cancer treatment is mainly administered by two methods, chemotherapy and radiation. Unlike chemotherapy that uses a chemical to circulate the body and kill cancer cells, radiation uses concentrated beams on specific areas of the body to destroy these types of cells.
A radiation oncologist is a doctor specializing in radiation therapy who prescribes the application of […]
The discoveries of x-rays and radiation by scientists Becquerel and Rontgen in the late 1800s got the ball rolling in radiation application. Marie Curie’s Nobel Prize winning work with radioactive elements also helped set the stage at the turn of the century.
Scientists and doctors, out of happenstance, discovered that radiation regressed or slowed some […]
The causes of breast cancer are not completely understood, although it is clear that a woman’s age, gender and lifetime exposure to estrogen and her age at the time of her first childbirth can play an important role. Because no one knows exactly what causes breast cancer, there is absolutely no way to prevent it. […]
It’s a fact that every day, cells in your body divide, grow and die. Most of the time they do it in an orderly manner. But sometimes they grow out of control. This type of cell growth forms a mass or lump called a tumor. Tumors can either benign or malignant.
Benign tumors are not cancerous. […]
Brain cancer risks increase with heavy exposure to pesticides, recent reports say. That’s troubling news for states with large agricultural industries, like Texas, which not only employs millions of legal and illegal workers every year, but also has over 25% of its population going without health insurance.
French researcher, Dr. Isabelle Baldi, and colleagues from the […]
Men have always been less likely to get medical attention than women, especially for minor problems which often serve as warning signs for a more serious underlying illness. You may have prostate symptoms right now that mimic prostate cancer symptoms. If you do get diagnosed with prostate cancer it’s important to know that many […]
Apparently, one’s schedule of death is more of the court’s business than most would believe. On August 7th, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against terminally ill patients’ right to try experimental drugs in an effort to save their own lives.
Judge Thomas B. Griffith said the freedom to use medications […]
Cancer slowly seems to be eating away at our population. It is if everyone either knows someone who has passed from cancer or know someone who currently has cancer.
The worst part about it is that cancer is very debilitating and those that do die from it pass slowly and often painfully. However, some others […]
Deciphering a blessing from a curse isn’t always as clear-cut as it may seem. At least that’s true for women who have been told that they carry one of the most potentially deadly genetic mutations — one of the BRCA, or breast cancer genes, associated with an unusually high risk of the disease. While […]
You may have heard some alarming health news recently, about how working the ‘graveyard shift’ may increase your odds for developing breast or prostate cancer. This story is based on recent research, over the last 20 years, that does, indeed, find an increased rate of breast cancer among women who work at night. But, please […]
Today prostate cancer is the third most common cause of death from cancer in men of all ages and is the most common cause of death from cancer in men over 75 years old. Men who are younger than 40 are rarely ever diagnosed with prostate cancer but they should still aware it’s possible. It’s […]
Diets low in fat and high in fruits and vegetables apparently have no effect on the return of breast cancer, according to a seven-year government study released earlier this month. The study is of particular importance to the 2.4 million breast cancer survivors, and to states like Texas, where over 12,000 women are expected to […]
Asian-Americans may be seven times as likely to be diagnosed with certain cancers, according to the American Cancer Society and Melissa McCracken, first author of a study focusing on cancer rates in the U.S.’s Asian population, released earlier this week in CA, a Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
While Asian-Americans have a lower overall incidence rate of […]