Cancer is a term for diseases in which abnormal cells divide without control. Cancer can spread through the bloodstream and invade nearby tissues. It can spread into the lymphatic system into other parts of one’s body.
There are numerous types of cancer. Cancer that begins in the skin or in tissues that line or cover internal organs is carcinoma. Leukemia is a form of cancer that begins in blood forming tissue such as bone marrow and will cause a large number of abnormal blood cells to be produced and enter the blood stream. Multiple myeloma and lymphoma cancers start in the cells of the immune system. Cancer that begins in the bone, cartilage, fat, blood vessels, or muscle is sarcoma.
Each year in America, 211,000 women learn they have breast cancer. Other than skin cancer breast cancer is the most common type of cancer found in women is this country.
Common symptoms of breast cancer include a change in how the breast or nipple feels and a change in how the breast or nipple looks.

If there are changes in how the nipple or breast feels, possibly a thickening or lump in or around the breast or underarm area, such a change can be a symptom of breast cancer. So can tenderness in the nipple.

Changes in how the nipple or breast looks may be the nipple turning inward into the breast. Another change could be a different shape or size of breast. Still other changes that might occur in the breast, nipple, or areola may be red, scaly or swollen skin. The skin may have ridges or pitting and look like the skin of an orange.

Still, another sign that there could be breast cancer is a nipple discharge. The nipple may discharge a fluid if there is breast cancer.

In early stages breast cancer usually does not cause pain. If a woman is having pain or other symptoms that do not go away she should see her health care provider. It is likely the symptoms are not due to breast cancer. Other health problems may also cause these symptoms. If a woman does have these symptoms she should tell her doctor. Any problems that might exist can be diagnosed and treated as soon as possible.

For additional information about other cancer topics, please go to womens-health-talk.com/ Women’s Health Talk.

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Ocular lymphoma, also referred to as intraocular large cell lymphoma, is a subtype of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma that primarily affects the central nervous system. The incidence of ocular lymphoma among the global population has known a pronounced decrease since 1960, although paradoxically it has slightly increased in the last few years. Although there isn’t enough evidence to support this theory, medical scientists believe that the recently increased incidence of the disease is mainly caused by prolonged treatments with immuno-suppressing drugs. However, in the absence of conclusive findings, this supposition has been disregarded by most oncologists.

Ocular lymphoma has the highest incidence among the male gender, and predominantly affects people with ages over 50. The categories considered to present the highest risk of developing this subtype of lymphoma are patients diagnosed with AIDS, patients who have suffered complicated surgeries and persons with native impairments of the immune system – especially people affected by the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome. The implication of lymphoma at ocular level generally occurs in the incipient stages of the disease at brain level. Recent studies have revealed that in the majority of cases, ocular symptoms precede the occurrence of symptoms at the central nervous system level.

Patients diagnosed with Non-Hogkin’s Lymphoma at the level of the central nervous system may either present with intracranial nodules, meningeal or periventricular lesions, retinal affections or localized spinal malignant excrescences. Ocular lymphoma generally produces symptoms such as decreased vision, and inflammation of the eye. Despite the fact that ocular lymphoma may cause serious decreases in visual acuity and pronounced inflammation, pain is a rare symptom of this variety of lymphoma. Ocular lymphoma may at first affect only one eye, affecting both eyes in later stages of disease. Although this lymphoma subtype can be overcome with the aid of existing treatments, its occurrence often announces the occurrence of serious impairments at brain level, problems that are more difficult to cure. Thus, ocular lymphoma can be considered a major indicator for Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma at brain level, allowing doctors to timely intervene in order to minimize the development of further complications.

Patients with suspected ocular lymphoma need to go through a series of neurological investigations. The presence of symptoms such as headache, reduced vision, poor concentration, confusion or memory loss, corroborated with clinical signs of ocular lymphoma clearly point to involvement of the central nervous system in the disease. In order to slow down the progression of the lymphoma and to reduce the risks of complications, doctors often prescribe a series of medication treatments and therapies. Radiation therapy is generally recommended to patients with ocular lymphoma and in more severe cases, this form of therapy is combined with chemotherapeutic drugs.

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The goal of screening is to discover early cancers that have a greater than 90 percent chance of cure. Most often, the first thing physicians do when a person comes to their office is to take a history. They ask about symptoms that could be related to stomach cancer. A comprehensive family history is also taken asking the patient if anyone in their family has ever had stomach cancer. Ultimately, a complete physical examination is performed.

Although screening of the general population for Helicobacter pylori infection and treating those who are infected would be expected to reduce the incidence of stomach cancer, it is not felt to be cost effective in the United States at this time. Furthermore, no one has yet proven that eradicating Helicobacter pylori after twenty to forty years of infection would prevent the development of stomach cancer.

Avoidance of stomach cancer may also be possible by proper diet and vitamin supplementation. Smoked foods, pickled vegetables, salted fish, excessive dietary salt, foods with nitrates such as lunch meat and hotdogs as well as charcoal broiled foods, produce nitrosamines that cause cancer. Vitamin C can prevent nitrosamine formation and therefore fresh fruits should be substituted in the diet for foods that produce nitrosamine. Recent studies in animals show high dose folic acid may play an important role in prevention of stomach cancer. Helicobacter pylori may increase the formation of nitrosamine by preventing the secretion of vitamin C in the stomach. Taking supplemental vitamin C (250 to 500 mg per day) is advised for those with a family history of stomach cancer and those who have been infection with Helicobacter pylori.

Once the diagnosis of stomach cancer is made, surgery is the treatment of choice. If it has spread to the lymph nodes or to the liver, you may also need chemotherapy. When stomach cancer is diagnosed early and thought to be cured by surgery, a careful search for Helicobacter pylori should also be made. When the bacteria is not found in the stomach by biopsy, a serological blood test should also be obtained. If evidence of Helicobacter pylori infection is found, intensive antibiotic therapy should be given and treatment success proved by endoscopy or breath test. A Japanese study of stomach cancer patients surgically treated and cured demonstrated that getting rid of Helicobacter pylori prevented another stomach cancer from forming. In individuals who did not receive treatment for Helicobacter pylori, a substantial percentage developed a second stomach cancer within a few years.

Helicobacter pylori cancer can also cause other forms of stomach cancer. Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma of the stomach is probably related to Helicobacter pylori most of the time and MALT lymphoma of the stomach (a low grade lymphoma) is always associated with Helicobacter pylori. Patients with severe gastritis should have biopsies taken looking for MALT lymphoma. In cases of early MALT lymphoma, treatment of Helicobacter pylori may completely cure the patient. In more advanced cases surgery, radiation therapy, or chemotherapy may be necessary. Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma of the stomach can often be treated with radiation therapy alone. Occasionally chemotherapy with or without surgery is also necessary.

Michael Russell

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A friend sent me a newspaper cutting from Indonesia written by Bondan Winarno in memory of his dear friend Ken Sudarto, entitled “Mimpi Tak-Mungkin” (A Crashed Dream). The author related the story of Ken’s battle against cancer. Ken was the founder of an all-Indonesian advertising company after having been inspired by Joe Darion’s “The Impossible Dream.” In short, he was a successful businessman who built this empire from scratch after having dreamt a dream.

“To dream the impossible dream,

To fight the unbeatable foe,

To bear with the unbearable sorrow,

To run where the brave dare not go.”

Ken’s battle against the “unbeatable foe” started shortly after Chinese New Year 2004, when he suddenly fell ill. The doctors in his country did not know what had gone wrong with him. Ken and his wife went to Singapore and after two weeks of intensive investigations, Ken was diagnosed with Stage 4 lymphoma. It was said that this cancer was rather unique, since it only attacked his backbone leaving other organs intact. Ken underwent chemotherapy in Singapore and within six months he was said to have conquered his cancer. “Cancer-free”, Ken returned to his country feeling satisfied and grateful.

However, the victory was short-lived! Two months later Ken suffered a relapse and he needed his oncologist again. The next option for Ken was to undergo bone marrow transplant (BMT). He was made to understand that BMT is the state-of-the-art procedure – the most modern of medical technology against cancer! Elated, Ken agreed and underwent a high-dose chemotherapy in preparation of his BMT. Unfortunately, the BMT did not cure him. Ken suffered a second relapse. The author said that Ken had to sell his first house to pay for his medical treatment in Singapore. A second BMT was recommended and Ken again agreed to it.

In early September 2004, the author had an opportunity to visit Ken in Singapore where he was still undergoing medical treatment. Ken invited the author to the “Top of the M”, a revolving restaurant in a famous hotel. At that time Ken was fitted with a state-of-the art “chemo-pump” which he carried around with him, Ken proudly told his friend: “This is the mother of chemotherapy” that he was wearing! While dining, Ken expressed his vision that one day, in the years to come, he would like to publish a bulletin giving information about how patients can fight this cancer war. Now that he had himself gone through this “fight” and had learnt a lot. Ken figured out that it would be of great help to others if he shared his experience. In this way, others too could follow his “path.”

Two days after this “great and wonderful” dinner at the posh restaurant, Ken had to be admitted to the CCU (critical care unit). Ken died soon afterwards.

Comments: The song above was only half sung. There are many more meaning lines to the lyrics.

“To right the unrightable wrong

This is my quest, No matter how hopeless, no matter how far

To fight for the right without question or pause

To be willing to pass into hell for a heavenly cause

And the world will be better for this.”

Ken went into battle against cancer seemingly “to right the unrightable wrong, to fight the unbeatable foe.” I dare suggest that he had been misled. To me, the metaphor used in this adventure was and is wrong. Take a pause and ask these questions: In any war, be it Vietnam or Iraq, who or where is the winner? Who died? What are being destroyed? What is the net result? Cancer that dwelled in Ken’s body is not a foe. Cancer is a process that tells us that something had gone wrong in our body over the years, possibly due to a constant, long-term abuse – again, I say, it is never a foe. “To right that unrightable wrong” is not to fight with highly poisonous drugs or to use the killing technology of war. These are too destructive. At the end of it all, patients die because of the treatment rather than the cancer. This is not only true in the case of Ken, but also many numerous other cases which I know or have come across.

Randall Fitzegerald (in: The hundred-year lie) wrote: “Effective natural-health solutions DO exist. But unfortunately for many people who grew up by and dependent on technology and the laboratory drugs of Western medicine, breaking free of that paradigm, … requires a leap of faith.” This is especially true with the many so called educated or rich. To them only science and technology have the answers to all human ills. In the book, Hope or Hype – the obsession with medical advances and the high cost of false promises, Professors Richard Devo and Donald Patrick, of the University of Washington, USA, wrote: We develop “our own blind trust in a medical establishment that preys on our deepest fear, all the while purporting to ride to our rescue with miracle cure. The combination of industry greed, media hype, political expediency and our own techno-consumption mindset is leading more and more often to a reliance on costly treatments that are marginally effective at best – and sometimes downright dangerous.”

Guy B. Faguet, medical doctor and researcher of 28 years and author of more than 140 peer-reviewed articles, wrote (in: The War on Cancer: An Anatomy of Failure – A Blueprint for the Future): “ The objective analysis of cancer chemotherapy outcomes over the last three decades reveals that, despite vast human and financial expenditure, the cell-killing paradigm has failed to achieve its objective … and the conquest of cancer remains a distant and elusive goal.” The bullet of this war is inefficacious and highly toxic and its model is “ based on flawed premises with an unattainable goal. Cytotoxic chemotherapy in its present form will neither eradicate cancer nor alleviate suffering. Recurrent announcements of breakthrough in the War on Cancer is designed to impress the public but little progress has been made in the treatment of cancer since 1971.”

Three doctors in Australia – Graeme Morgan, associate Professor and radiotherapist at the Royal North Shore Hospital; Robyn Ward, senior specialist in Medical Oncology and Associate Professor of Medicine at St Vincent’s Hospital; and Michael Barton, Research Director Associate Collaboration for Cancer Outcomes Research and Evaluation, wrote this in the Journal of Clinical Oncology: The “overall contribution of curative and adjuvant cytotoxic chemotherapy to 5-year survival in adults was estimated to be 2.3% in Australia and 2.1% in the USA. Chemotherapy has been OVER SOLD and the responses of the treatment have been EXAGGERATED.”

Clifton Leaf, CEO of Fortune Magazine, suffered from Hodgkin’s Disease but fortunately survived the ordeal. In an article, The War on Cancer: changing the way we think about cancer (March 2004), he pointed out that the mass media all too often come out with reports of “medical breakthroughs” – Avastin, Erbitux, Gleevec… these are touted as “wonder” drugs that fight cancer. The question is: “are we truly winning the cancer war?” Leaf said: “We’re not. We are far from winning the war against cancer.”

A respected magazine in Germany, Der Spiegel of 4 October 2004, had this article: Giftkur ohne Nutzen (The Useless Poisonous Cures). This article said: “Increasingly sophisticated and expensive cellular poisons are being given to seriously ill patients … patients do not actually live a day longer.”

Let not the death of Ken be yet another meaningless death. Let this message lives on and let us hope that many others who are in a similar situation can learn a lesson from the above episode, if at all they have eyes to see, ears to hear and brain to think. Cancer is better handled by a natural, holistic way of healing, not through waging a war! Is this not what righting “the unrightable” wrong is all about? The whole world needs to know this lesson.

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Cancer is the type of common disorder that is characterized by the unrestrained partition of the cells. Millions of people all over the world are affected by these dreaded diseases and majority of people are ignorant about the cure and its treatment and thus leads to most of the death in many countries. These cells have the aptitude to invade additional normal tissues. This disease occurs either by the insertion into the isolated sites by the metastasis or by the direct growth into the contiguous tissue throughout the invasion. The unregulated growths of all the cells are much caused by the damage of the “DNA”, which consequences in the mutations to the genes that instruct proteins scheming cell division. These mutations are much caused by the chemical and corporeal agents called as the carcinogens; it is also caused by the close contact to radioactive resources and by certain viruses which can put in their “DNA” into the human genome.

There are numerous types of cancer such as the adrenalin cancer, anal cancer, aids related lymphoma, bladder cancer, brain metastasis, brain tumors, breast cancer, cervical cancer colorectal cancer, endometrial cancer, esophageal cancer, gall bladder cancer, gastric cancer, kidney cancer, laryngeal cancer, liver cancer, lung cancer, melanoma, maesothelomia, ovarian cancer, penile cancer, pituitary cancer, thyroid cancer, prostate cancer, small intestine cancer, small cell lung cancer, bone cancer and the pancreatic cancer.

All these types of cancer are serious in its kinds and are needs proper care and treatment, otherwise it would worsen up. If untreated, any type of cancers can ultimately cause poor health and ultimately death, Cancer is a serious disease which afflicts people at all ages but mostly during the later years of human where the body becomes to weak for fighting against the various bacterial influence.. Cancer is one of the most important causes of death in many urbanized countries. The majority of cancers have appropriate treatment and some are cured and treated by depending on the exact type, phase and location.

Some of the common forms of treatment that we have in the fast and developed medical techniques are biological therapy, bone marrow transplant, chemotherapy, clinical trials, some of the complementary medicines, gene therapy, general treatment concerns, hormone therapy, proton therapy, radiation oncology, surgical oncology, targeted therapies, vaccines therapies and in most of the cases surgeries are done. In every thousand of people all over the world today, we can see two of them are effected by cancer but due to modern technology and proper treatment it can be cured to an extent cut are not able to get rid of the root of cancer.

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