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Types of Liver Cancer

Liver cancer is the sixth most common cancer worldwide.

11 Dec 2009

Breast Cancer Society and Culture

In 1982, Nancy G. Brinker formed the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. She formed it to honor her sister who was fighting the cancer. The organization was dedicated to fighting breast cancer and originated the Race for the Cure fitness walk and fundraiser in 1983.

11 Dec 2009

History of Breast Cancer

Breast cancer has been known to mankind since ancient times. It has been mentioned in almost every period of recorded history. Because of the visible symptoms especially at later stages the lumps that progress to tumors have been recorded by physicians from early times. This is more so because, unlike other internal cancers, breast lumps tend to manifest themselves as visible tumors.

11 Dec 2009

Breast Cancer Epidemiology

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide after skin cancer. It represents 16% of all cancers in women. This rate is twice that of colorectal cancer and cervical cancer and about three times that of lung cancer. Death rates are also 25% greater than that of lung cancer in women.

11 Dec 2009

Breast Cancer Prognosis

Prognosis of outlook of any cancer depends on several factors. Notable among these is how early the cancer is detected and treated. The stage of the cancer thus at the beginning of therapy determines the outlook of a breast cancer patient.

11 Dec 2009

Breast Cancer Management

Breast cancer treatment has advanced to a stage that, if detected early, most women may survive much longer than they did a few decades ago.

11 Dec 2009

Breast Cancer Screening

Screening means looking for the cancer or ailment before a person has any symptoms. This can help find cancer at an early stage. If any abnormality is detected early, it may be easier to treat. By the time symptoms appear, cancer may have begun to spread and may become more difficult to treat increasing health care costs and shortening lifespan.

11 Dec 2009

Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Breast cancer is diagnosed on routine screening procedures or after detection of symptoms. For example, women who notice nipple changes or changes in their breast or feel a lump in their breast may consult their physicians who may follow up the lesion to diagnose the tumor as cancerous or non-cancerous.

11 Dec 2009

Breast Cancer Pathophysiology

There are trillions of cells in the body. These cells have a tightly regulated cell cycle that controls their growth, maturity, division and death. During childhood normal cells divide faster to allow the person to grow.

11 Dec 2009

Breast Cancer Causes

The exact causes of breast cancer are not well understood. However, there are several risk factors that raise the possibilities of breast cancer. Of these risk factors some may be modified or changed like lifestyle factors while others are non-modifiable.

11 Dec 2009

Breast Cancer Symptoms

The most common symptom of breast cancer is the feeling the presence of a lump or an area of thickened tissue over the breast. Of the lumps nearly 90% are benign or not cancerous but all lumps and abnormalities need to be checked for cancer by using Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) and other biopsy techniques. Breast cancer still remains one of the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women and kills thousands worldwide each year.

11 Dec 2009

Breast Cancer Classification

Breast cancers can be classified on the basis of four schemes. Each of these schemes classify the cancers based on different criteria and serve a different purpose.

11 Dec 2009

What is Breast Cancer?

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the United Kingdom. Every year 48,000 new cases are diagnosed there. Of these, 80% are over 50 but younger women, and in rare cases, men, can also get breast cancer. Breast cancer is the leading cause of death for women aged 34 to 54.

11 Dec 2009

Chemotherapy Types

Cancer chemotherapy agents are classified according to their chemical nature and function. Some of the well known classes of cancer chemotherapy agents include alkylating agents, plant alkaloids, antimetabolites, anthracyclines, topoisomerase inhibitors and corticosteroids.

11 Dec 2009

Chemotherapy Treatment Schemes

Chemotherapy regimens are aimed at destroying rapidly growing cancer cells with cytotoxic substances. Such a regimen may be used to try and cure a patient or to provide palliative relief and ease symptoms in the advanced stages of cancer. While curative chemotherapy aims to increase survival outcomes, palliative chemotherapy provides symptomatic relief for terminal cancer patients.

11 Dec 2009

Chemotherapy Principles

The body is composed of many different types of cells that all grow, divide, and die in an orderly manner. This process is tightly regulated and controlled by the DNA machinery within cells.

11 Dec 2009

History of Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy was first developed at the beginning of the 20th century, although it was not originally intended as a cancer treatment.

11 Dec 2009

What is Chemotherapy?

Chemotherapy literally refers to the treatment of certain diseases using specific chemicals that are destructive to malignant cells or to the causative agent of a disease such as a bacteria or virus. Therefore, the treatment can be broadly divided into two categories - cancer chemotherapy and antimicrobial chemotherapy.

11 Dec 2009

Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis

Cardiovascular diseases are diagnosed using an array of laboratory tests and imaging studies. The primary part of diagnosis is medical and family histories of the patient, risk factors, physical examination and coordination of these findings with the results from tests and procedures.

11 Dec 2009

What is Cardiovascular Disease?

Diseases of disorders of this system are termed cardiovascular diseases. Cardiovascular diseases kill an estimated 17 million people worldwide each year. Majority of these are due to heart attacks and strokes.

11 Dec 2009