People taking action towards cancer protection by changing their diets and going to the doctor regularly have resulted in the latest statistics released by the American Cancer Society in January 2007 reporting that cancer deaths have gone down in the United States. Medical technology also offers state-of-the-art testing and screenings for various cancers, allowing patients to detect tumors in their earliest stages.

There are several ways you can protect yourself from cancer. One way is to maintain a healthy diet. Diets including plenty of fruits and vegetables allow a person to receive the necessary vitamins linked with cancer protection. It is also important to include healthy fats found in olive, canola and sunflower oils.

These are high in Omega-3 fatty acids, which have been linked to keep the heart healthy and prevent other deadly diseases. Limiting your intake of red meats is very important when it comes to a healthy diet. Instead, you should focus on including more lean proteins, such as chicken and fish.

Other ways to improve your diet are to eat hearty whole grains found in certain breads, pastas and rice dishes. Make sure to always avoid fried foods that are high in trans-fats.

Aside from a healthy diet, you can practice cancer prevention by taking certain supplements and vitamins. Vitamin E, selenium and lycopene have been connected with lowering a man’s risk of developing prostate cancer.

Fish oils have also been linked with preventing cancer of the prostate. There has even been research suggesting calcium supplements could help a person prevent colorectal cancer.

Going to the doctor is important even if you are trying to lower your risk of cancer. Doctors can perform certain screenings to help protect you from a life-threatening disease. Women are recommended to start having yearly mammograms sometime after age forty.

Younger women should have regular clinical breast exams performed by a physician or do breast exams at home to watch for abnormalities. Men and women should have a colonoscopy, beginning in their fifties, every ten years to watch for colorectal cancers. Men can protect themselves from prostate cancer by using certain chemoprevention drugs.

These are man-made drugs or vitamins used specifically to suppress or prevent cancer. PSA tests or digital rectal exams are other methods available to men who are at high risk for prostate cancer. Discuss all the treatments and screenings available with your doctor to determine what you should do based on your personal and family medical history.

Lifestyle is a major factor in your efforts at cancer protection. Smoking has been linked with several cancers, such as lung, prostate, bladder and breast cancer. It is imperative for smokers to quit this unhealthy habit because it will greatly reduce their risks of developing cancer.

Doctors recommend women watch their alcohol consumption as part of breast and cervical cancer control. Other ways to improve your lifestyle is to work plenty of physical activity into your daily schedule. Whether you join a gym, buy a treadmill or play outside with your children, exercising is an important factor in cancer protection.

Cancer protection could mean small changes or complete overhauls to daily routines, depending on your current lifestyle. Lowering your risk of cancer may include joining a gym or buying vitamins and dietary supplements.

It could mean you have to quit smoking or using other tobacco products. Whatever change you make to your current situation will put you closer to living a healthy and cancer-free life.

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In order for you to understand kidney cancer more completely, let us first look at the description and functions of the kidneys. Kidneys are basically the organs in the body responsible for producing and then ridding the body of, liquid waste substance known as urine. The kidney is able to perform this function because of the filtration that occurs in millions of nephrons in this organ. The kidneys are also designed in such a way that it can remove the liquid waste substances but return the filtered liquid to the blood stream and thus it allows the body to retain its water balance. It should also be noted that there is a special hormone that is made in the pituitary gland that controls and regulates the water content in the body.

Kidney cancer is a very dangerous and painful disease in severe cases. However, you should also remember that everyone has two kidneys in the body and if one becomes damaged or can no longer function properly, there is still no immediate problem to be worried about because one kidney can be sufficient for the body’s needs and survival. Kidney cancer also constitutes around four percent of all cancers and it affects more males that females. So males should be on the lookout for possible signs of kidney problems.

Some symptoms for kidney cancer include having blood in your urine but it may also be invisible. Another symptom is the chronic pain in the back and side of your abdominal region. Or signs of kidney cancers may be felt in the upper abdomen when you feel lumps or fullness in this area. On the other hand, there may actually be no symptoms of kidney cancer in some cases although you already have this disease. For this reason, it is essential that you try to live a healthy lifestyle that ensures you have a disease free existence.

Meanwhile, around fifteen to twenty percent of people who have present tumors removed confirm that the symptoms of having blood in the urine, pain in the abdominal region and the sensation of fullness and having lumps in the upper abdomen all disappear upon the surgical removal of the tumors. Still other symptoms of kidney cancer you should watch out for include having constipation, fever and the loss of appetite. You may also experience feeling nauseous and vomit in some cases. Anemia or low red blood cell count and polycythemia, which are high blood cell count, may also be experienced when you have kidney cancer.

Because the symptoms present in kidney cancer are not as extreme as other cancers and some of the conditions you may experience are quite common, it is rarely that people can detect kidney cancer at its early stages. But you should be particularly careful when you are in the age of 30 to 70 because most cases of kidney cancer occur at this stage.

Overall, you should remember that preventing cancer is always the best possible option because cancer whether it is kidney, lung, or breast cancer, is difficult to cure once it is already present in your body.

Michael Russell

Your Independent guide to kidney-cancer-guided.com/ Kidney Cancer

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Case 1

Jean (not real name) is a 56-year-old female. Sometime in 2004, she felt a hard, flat lump in her right breast. A mastectomy was done in October 2004. The pathology report indicated infiltrating ductal carcinoma, Grade 3.

Jean underwent six cycles of chemotherapy with FEC (5-FU Epirubicin cyclophosphamide). In addition, she had twenty sessions of radiation treatment. All treatments were completed in June 2006.

Barely three months later Jean was told that the cancer had spread to her liver. On 4 September 2006, she underwent another cycle of chemotherapy. This time the treatment caused severe side effects. Jean decided to forgo the remaining five cycles of chemotherapy.

Case 2

Li is a forty-one-year-old lady. She was my student some years ago. After graduation from the university she became a science teacher. Sometime in 2004, Li felt three lumps in her left breast after being taught how to self-breast examination (SBE) by a nurse. She went to consult a doctor who then proceeded to do a lumpectomy to remove the lumps. The subsequent histopathological report confirmed malignant tumors. A few days later, Li had her entire left breast removed at a government hospital. After this mastectomy Li received eight cycles of chemotherapy and twenty sessions of radiation treatment. After the completion of these treatments, Li took tamoxifen for two years, until January 2007. At the same time as she was started on tamoxifen, Li was also asked to take Zoladex (goserelin acetate) — a chemical way of destroying her ovaries to stop the production of females hormones. She was given Zoladex once a month, every month for a period of two years.

In mid-January 2007, Li started to have stomach discomforts and her abdomen became bloated and was hard. A CT scan showed a 4 mm nodule in the peripheral upper lobe of her right lung. There were multiple nodules in both lobes of her liver. There was also a local lytic lesion in her L2 vertebra. There was slight central disc protrusion at C5/6. These findings indicated that the caner had spread to her liver and bone. According to the radiologist, the lesion in her lung was probably a granuloma.

Li underwent another six cycles of chemotherapy. After the fourth chemo-cycle, a CT scan indicated that there was reduction of the size and number of liver lesions. However, at completion of the sixth chemo, this initial “success” proved shor-lived. The liver tumours had grown in size.

A CT san in May 2007 showed lytic lesion in the body of T12 and L2 in keeping with bony metastasis. The oncologist wrote: “In view of the increasing size of the liver metastases and the increasing bone metastasis, features are suggestive of progression of the disease.” The oncologist told Li that he had to change to new drugs. Li dared not go for more chemotherapy and was in a limbo. She came to seek my help. She presented with distended abdomen, swelling of her left arm and both legs.

Comments

The above episodes are real tragic — again calling in question the effectiveness of the so-called “proven” therapies for breast cancer. Li received all the treatments available but within three years she ended up worse off that she started with. I would like to pose on question: If Li were to do nothing, would she suffer these metastases to the liver and bones? Over a decade of helping cancer patients, I have this to say: “No, Li might not have suffered such unfortunate fate. I know of many patients from Indonesia who relied on their “jamu” or traditional herbal medication, and they do generally do not suffer such severe metastasis within three years.”

Professor Hardin Jones, University of California, Berkeley was quoted to have said this: “My studies have proved conclusively that untreated cancer victims live up to four times longer than treated individuals. If one has cancer and opts to do nothing at all, he will live longer and feel better than if he undergoes radiation, chemotherapy or surgery.”

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