Showing posts with label Breast Cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Breast Cancer. Show all posts

Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Treatment For Cancer

Many people think of cancer as a single problem but in fact, it is a number of problems spread throughout the body. Generally speaking, if cancer is caught in the early stages of development, it can be treated and cured.

One study, conducted on human prostate cancer cells in lab dishes, at the University of Wisconsin, found that there were dose dependant improvements. Another study at the same facility injected mice with human prostate cancer cells. These mice developed malignancies.

The “zapper” might be relatively simple but much of her current success revolves around a more complex device that she calls a “Synchrometer.” This is used to discover the precise cause of the cancer or any other illness for that matter! Read More

Does Breast Cancer Awareness Keep Safe

No longer is breast cancer a death sentence for women.  No longer do women have to necessarily lose a breast to the disease.  New treatments and improved methods of detection have made survival rates for the disease nearly 90 percent.

Another explanation for the increased survival rates has to do with breast cancer awareness.  As more women became educated about the symptoms, detection, treatments and possible prevention of the disease, breast cancer awareness grew.  Education efforts to get women to undergo yearly mammograms also helped the survival rate by catching the disease early. Read More

How To Beat Breast Cancer

 If you are a breast cancer survivor: The concern is that HRT may stimulate the growth of small or hidden tumors, it is nearly impossible to determine how many women harbor these hidden cells known as micrometastases.

Your best option for fighting breast cancer is to get early detection and early diagnosis. When breast cancer is detected early, your chances of being able to cope with it, to fight it, and via treatments like chemo, there are many documented cases of people who have beat it. But if it had not been detected and diagnosed early, those would almost certainly be different stories with radically different outcomes. Read More

Breast Cancer Treatment

Cancer accounts to a death of 6 million human lives per year. Modern medicine is aging with breath taking advances in cancer care with increasing awareness, preventing, detection, therapy, research and symptom management. Last 15 years has been a revolution.

It is likely to fight Cancer out by getting an early detection especially at a pre cancer stage thus yielding best cure with much shorter treatment time, lesser cost, lesser body insult.Breast cancer risk is higher among those who have a mother, aunt, sister, or grandmother who had breast cancer before age 50. If only a mother or sister had breast cancer, your risk doubles. Having two first-degree relatives who were diagnosed increases your risk up to five times the average. Read More

Monday, 29 August 2011

What Are The Different Stages Of Breast Cancer?

On confirmation of the breast cancer from biopsy report, the doctors go through an extensive study about the extent or the stage of the cancer that will help to adopt the right type of treatment best suitable for the patient. Whether the cancer is localized or has spread to other parts of the body can be determined by staging that involves different types of screening including the blood test.

Bone scan is done by entering a small amount of radioactive substance into the blood vessel which gets collected in the bones, and the pictures taken confirm the spread of cancer to the bones.

CT scan of the breast cancer is done by taking pictures of the affected area through the X-rays to study whether the cancer has affected the lungs and liver. Read More