Melanoma. The word does not sound like a skin cancer, but yet is the most common among blue eyed blonde individuals. This cancer can leave people looking like they have been attacked. Some have areas of skin gone and they look textured, this all from a skin graft.

Many of us tan in the sun and tan in the tanning salons, we should take into consideration the damage it can do to the body. With the ozone layer thinner in areas it is wise for us to think of protecting our skin. Melanoma being the worse of skin cancers can lead to death. While we bake in the sun, we expose moles to the poison of the suns rays and it can strike cancer into an unlikely mole.

Moles that are variegated in color or black and unsymmetrical should be checked frequently for change by a dermatologist. If there are areas of your back that you cannot see, then go and get it checked by a roommate or a friend. Checking your moles and skins texture frequently can cut down your chances of a severe cancer appearing.

While in the sun, take precaution. There are many sunscreens out there to choose from. Apply to all parts that are exposed to sun. Take precaution on moles. If you have a mole that has been diagnosed with cancer, or has not been removed yet, then cover with a band aid.

The sun is not a friendly sole. It can burn you and give you cancer. Not going out is an answer too. However in this day and age, we have sports, place we go, our lives are filled with being busy. Take precaution and know that you will be safe!

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I like to read articles and books written by medical doctors. Needless to say, sometimes I am amazed, baffled and surprised to learn that some of them are rather forthright, blunt and honest when making comments about their own medical profession – especially when talking about the medical treatments for cancer. I cannot help but wonder why these people say such things. What have these people to gain if what they write is not true? Absolutely nothing. Perhaps what they say is true then. That is moral integrity. These are honorable people and they know what they are saying. It is wonderful that they dared speak up and shared their thoughts with us. Let me give you three examples of such great men.

Dr. Seymour Brenner, radiologist, Brooklyn, New York, USA. He said: “The frustration of cancer is that we really don’t know what we are doing … it is a frustrating thing to go to school for thirty years, to work for twenty, thirty years and at the age of sixty not know what you’re doing!”

After thirty years of practising radiology Dr. Seymour Brenner concluded: “We’re making very little progress … Billions of dollars and countless work hours have been expended to achieve something and nothing has been achieved.”

Dr. Bernie Siegel, neurosurgeon and teacher at Yale University (quoting from Cancer and Consciousness by Barry Bryant. pg. 31) said: “Too many doctors are depressed because they only see their failures - all you know is that everyone has cancer, everybody dies. And it just wears you out.”

Dr. Ang Peng Tiam, medical director of the Parkway Cancer Centre, is Singapore President’s Scholar and a leading senior consultant medical oncologist. He is also vice-chairman of the medical sub-committee of the Breast Cancer Foundation. In his hospital’s website, he said:

• Oncology is not like other medical specialties where doing well is the norm.

• In oncology, even prolonging a patient’s life for three months to a year is considered an achievement.

• Achieving a cure is like striking a jackpot!

• Not all cancers can be cured.

As doctors, we try our best

• to cure those who can be cured,

• to control the disease for those whose lives can be extended, and to comfort those for whom little can be done.

To the above doctors, we salute you for being honest and truthful. Thank you for your most esteemed opinions.

Points to Ponder

1. Cancer patients wish to known — Is there a cure for cancer? Is it cure that you want, when you go and see your doctors? Or are you just happy with being able to live only 3 to 12 months longer?

2. Is finding a cure like going to a casino trying to strike a jackpot? Where then is the so-called science in medicine? What is the difference between seeing a medium, who pulls out a stick / card and predicts your luck?

3. If cure is like striking a jackpot – who is the gambler? Oncologists gambling with patients lives and patients are the “gambling chips”?

4. Patients should ask their doctors this question: “Can you cure my cancer?” Before you gamble your life away or your life’s saving away – ask! Know what you are going into before you commit yourself to any invasive procedures.

5. Pateints wonder if going for holistic healing not A BETTER OPTION? Is this non-toxic, non-invasive option not an effective, cheaper and more humane way of managing cancer than the so-called scientific medicine?

I know of many patients who were given 3 or 6 months to live went on to live for many more years without any problem after taking going for alternative or complementary healing.

For more information about complementary cancer therapy visit: cacare.com cacare.com,
Source of above (APT): pgh.com.sg/news-291106-ST-healthfocus-chemotherapy.jsp pgh.com.sg/news-291106-ST-healthfocus-chemotherapy.jsp
The Straits Times, Mind Your Body Supplement, Pg. 22, 29 November 2006.

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Normally, human cells divide and increase permanently. This way our body is growing and inactive cells are replaced. That means a controlled process when the resulting cells are identically with their origin. Sometimes, from unknown reasons, the process gets out of control and the result of cells division is an abnormal growth called a tumour. When this tumour is malignant, its cells have the power to migrate nearby tissues and penetrate organs and bloodstream. This is cancer.

Chemotherapy is a treatment based on action of several agents such as: Mitoxantrone, Vinorelbine, Docetaxel, Estramustine or others. Basically, chemotherapy agents kill cancer cells that are actively multiplying.

The general disadvantage of chemotherapy, no matter of type of cancer, is the drugs cannot discriminate between fast-growing cells and kills all cells whether they are part of controlled or uncontrolled process. Acting that way, chemotherapy kills and ‘good cells’, including hair follicles, causing typical side effects such as hair loss and other.

The disadvantage in treating prostate cancer is related to the fact prostate cancer cells multiply relatively slowly. This is the reason for chemotherapy is mostly used in aggressive stages of prostate cancer, or when used in common stages, cancer cells need to receive a longer exposure time to the anticancer agent. To compensate the longer exposure a lower dose is prescribed, situation that requires a permanent adjustable schedule of administration and special computerized devices.

It is really up to the patient and his doctors to decide whether on balance the advantages outweigh the risks.

D.Valerian is a freelance writer interested in items such as 4-prostate-cancer-treatment.blogspot.com/ prostate cancer treatment

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Introduction

Mesothelioma is a cancer which affects the tissue which surrounds and protects various organs in the body. This tissue is called the Mesothelium, and Mesothelioma causes it to become abnormal, divide without control, and invade and damage nearby organs. The most common form is pleural mesothelioma which affects the sac that lines the chest cavity and protects the lungs (the pleura). Other forms are peritoneum mesothelioma (which affects the abdominal cavity) and pericardium mesothelioma (affecting the lining around the heart). The tumours can be either benign (non-cancerous) or malignant (cancerous) although they are most often malignant.

Causes

Mesothelioma is caused by the inhalation of asbestos, a fibrous carcinogenic. These fibres lodge themselves in the lining of the lung affecting the mesothelial cells. Sometimes they cause scarring of the lungs (which is called asbestosis) but this is not cancerous. They can, however, trigger tumour growth between 20 to 50 years after they are inhaled (the average is 35 to 40 years). Asbestos fibres which are swallowed can reach the lining of the abdominal cavity where they play a part in causing peritoneal mesothelioma.

It is generally the case that the longer or more intense the exposure to asbestos the more likely Mesothelioma is to occur. However, there are cases of people getting Mesothelioma years after having worked with it for just a few months. The families of asbestos workers are also at risk as they would possibly have been exposed to asbestos fibres on the clothing of their loved ones.

The dangers of asbestos are now well known, but this was not always the case. Before the 1970s asbestos was a primary insulating material with little or no control in its use or handling. The resulting increase in cases of Mesothelioma is a direct cause of these past practices.

Symptoms

Mesothelioma is often advanced before symptoms occur. This means that the prognosis is not usually very good, with the average survival time for all stages of Malignant Mesothelioma being about one year. Symptoms resemble pneumonia, which coughs, breathing difficulties and abdominal pain being common.

Treatments

Mesothelioma can be treated by chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery, or a combination of the three.

Surgery

Extra pleural pneumonectomy is where the entire lung and a portion of the lining of the chest, the diaphragm, and some or the entire sac which surrounds the heart is removed.

Wide local excision targets and removes the cancer and a limited amount of the healthy tissue surrounding the cancerous region.

Pleurectomy and decortication removes part of the covering of the lungs, as well as the lining of the chest and portions of the outside covering of the lungs.

Pleurodesis uses a blend of chemicals and/or drugs to create an intentional scar between the layers of the pleura. Post surgery, the space created by the scar must be drained, using either a catheter or chest tube, and is then filled with a chemical which inhibits the accumulation of fluid in the pleura cavity.

Radiation Therapy

Radiation Therapy uses high energy x-rays to kill cancer cells.

In External radiation therapy a machine emits radiation in a targeted stream at a certain portion of the body

Internal radiation therapy uses needles, seeds and catheters to place radioactive substance directly on or near the cancer.

Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy uses cancer targeting drugs to stop the cells them from dividing and thus prevent their growth.

Andy Bowen runs mesothelioma-articlepages.info Mesothelioma ArticlePages. A site deicated to providing articles and information about the disease mesothelioma.

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Breast cancer is now the most common cancer women get, putting lung cancer second to this growing female epidemic. Although the exact causes of breast cancer still are not known, studies and statistics show that a woman’s risk of getting breast cancer increases as she ages.

A new intriguing study suggests - no, concludes - that not only is a vegetable-rich diet good for preventing breast cancer, but it also significantly improves a breast cancer patient’s odds of the disease returning after remission.

You may have been going all these years, thinking that eating your veggies was just a good health measure that was only the skinny minnies and health nuts. Well, new studies are showing that the consumption of vegetables is not only preventative maintenance against many kinds of cancers, but it also dramatically improves a woman’s odds of breast cancer returning
once she has gone into remission.

Not only is it the mere consumption of your leafy greens and brightly colored veggies, it’s also got a lot to do with the variety of veggies that are consumed. The wider the variety, the better the women’s chances were in the study of continuing on in full remission and recovery from their cancer.

The Carotenoid Connection

So, what exactly is the responsible factor for this improvement of odds against the return of cancer? It’s a tiny little micronutrient, found commonly in many vegetables, called carotenoids which is believed to be responsible. The reason this conclusion was reached is that women who did not see their breast cancer return tested with very high carotenoid blood levels, while the women who did see their breast cancer return did not.

The same women who had high levels of this potent antioxidant compound said that they not only consumed a veggie-rich diet, but that they also consumed a wider variety of vegetables in their diet, which lends itself to higher levels of this antioxidant in the blood stream. This translates into a powerful anti-cancer message : Eat your veggies, just like your grandma said.

Visit natural-breast-guide.com Natural Breasts: Enhancement and Health for information on how to naturally manage breast health, as well as beautify your breasts and keep them healthy and “young”. Danna Schneider is the founder of natural-breast-enhancement.blogspot.com Breast Enhancement.

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