Simple Things You Need to Know about Cancer

January 11, 2010

“At least one-third of all the known cancers are preventable. And the prevention includes a major change in lifestyle.“
Tobacco smoking – Tobacco is the single and largest preventable cause of cancers. 80% to 90% of patients who died due to lung cancers are tobacco users. Moreover, 30% of deaths from cancers of the oral cavity, [...]

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Facts about Breast Cancer

January 11, 2010

A Cancer that starts in the breast is known as breast cancer. Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in the world.  It affects women more than men. Each year 200,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in United States alone. 1 in every 8 women either has or will develop breast cancer in [...]

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Liver Cancer: Symptoms and Treatment

January 4, 2010

Liver cancer or hepatoma is the 5th most common cancer in the world. It arises from liver cells and can either be a primary cancer or metastatic cancer. It is a deadly cancer which kills most of its patients. The World Health Organization reported that there are about 430,000 new cases of liver cancer each [...]

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Lung Cancer—Causes

January 4, 2010

Lung cancer is a disease caused by abnormal growth of lung cells. It may be a primary lung cancer which means that the cancer cells originally developed in the lung tissues. It may also be due to metastasis or expansion of the cancer from one organ to another through blood and lymph systems. The lung [...]

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Cancer and Treatment

December 28, 2009

Brain cancer is a disease wherein the tissues of the brain are being affected. Unlike other types of cancer, brain cancer doesn’t often spread to different parts of your body.
A person usually experiences headache and tends to ignore it. As tumor grows in the brain, the headache worsens.  Patient may also have focal neurologic symptoms [...]

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Cancer and What You Need to Know About it

December 28, 2009

Cancer is a word used for diseases wherein abnormal cells split up with no control and are capable of invading other tissues. These cancer cells can multiply to the different body parts all the way through the lymph systems and blood.
This is not just a single disease, but one amongst many. Further studies show that [...]

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Treatment of Cancer Through Therapy

December 21, 2009

Even though there is a widespread of different kinds of cancer, most of them when diagnosed at the early stage can still be treated.
One of the most common forms of treatment is chemotherapy. This method of treatment uses medicine to destroy and weaken the cells that have cancer in the body, which includes cells that [...]

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Cancer Prevention Tips in Exchange to your Lifestyle

December 21, 2009

It is very easy to prevent cancer. Although, there would be some changes in your lifestyle that you have to do to eventually lessen the risk of getting it.
Here below are some of the things you need to change or do to prevent having some of the types of cancer.
1. Smoking and Smoke Inhalation
Smoking is [...]

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Most Common Types of Cancer

December 13, 2009

It is considered that the most common type of cancer is nonmelanoma skin cancer. It has been estimated that almost one million suffer from this annually. Although it is very common, it is also the most curable form of cancer. Skin cancers are the cause of too much contact to ultraviolet light, which is in [...]

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Knowledge about Cancer

December 13, 2009

Cancer is a kind of disease wherein a group of cells grow uncontrollably inside your body and invade your tissues, which spread out at times in different parts of your body called metastasis. These are three of the malignant kinds of cancers that distinguish themselves from benign tumors. Benign tumors are self-limited and they don’t [...]

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