Cancer
Exercise to prevent cancer
Doing regular exercise can reduce up to 35 percent the chances of developing colon cancer and breast by 25 percent. So found a study that confirms the relationship between physical inactivity and cancer and provides new data in order to reduce the risk of this disease with healthier lifestyles. If your favorite pastime is to sit comfortably on a couch watching TV for hours, you’re passing an unnecessary invitation to cancer. The door close it by putting your body in motion, even during work hours.
Monday to Friday and sometimes Saturday, Raul gets up early, leave home and take the bus that takes him to his job sitting where he spends eight to nine hours sitting at a desk. When done, take the bus again and when he comes home he loves to watch a movie lying down while dining. Then he lies down and the next day everything starts again. Do you find it known this routine?
If your habits are similar, you have to start considering the possibility of adding more movement to your life. Doing regular exercise allows you to improve your quality of life and stay healthier longer. Read the rest of this entry »
Nutrition After Bowel Resection Anal Cancer
Just a few years ago, the people who had bowel resection surgery where told not to eat until their intestines back to normal, because the doctors thought that this increases the changes of vomiting or bowel leakage. However, now feeding after bowel resection surgery is different.
Doctors have realized that a good diet after bowel resection is important for a person to recover faster and maintaining good health after surgery. That is why diet after bowel resection surgery contains proteins, carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins, fats and liquids. All these nutrients play a crucial role after the surgery.
Proteins are important after bowel resection surgery to facilitate tissue repair and promote the growth of new tissue. Usually after anal cancer and subsequent surgery for the cancer, a person feel weak and listless. Carbohydrate energy and helps the person to help the person to get through all the days until he returns to normal. Of course, fibers also play an important role because most people may have constipation after surgery. Eating fiber daily will help to overcome without effort. Minerals, vitamins, fats and fluids play an important role in helping the person recover faster.
While some doctors fear that after a bowel resection surgery, a person may not be able to absorb nutrients effectively, it is proven wrong by research and scientific studies. People who do not have a colon and bowel resection have undergone as a result of anal cancer can lead a healthy life as the gastrointestinal tract is efficient enough for most of the nutrients a person consumes after surgery.
The stages or phases of cancer
If you or a close relative you have been diagnosed with cancer, it is likely that the doctor will talk about the stage or phase or stage of disease. What do you mean? It is very important information because it speaks about how advanced the cancer. In Life and Health, we explain what it means.
Cancer is not a static disease. On the contrary, is a disease that can progress over time, sometimes faster than others, but without treatment, there remains the same.
Why? The onset of cancer is that some cells of the body are altered and begin to divide and grow uncontrollably. Depending on the body part that happens, the cancer cells can grow and join to form tumors and other tumors can invade nearby organs. Or the cells can spread throughout the body traveling through the blood or lymphatic system and form new tumors in other organs (a process called metastasis). Read the rest of this entry »
Vaccine for cervical cancer
The Human Papillomavirus-HPV-is the main cause of cervical cancer. Thanks to science, there is now a vaccine that helps prevent the incidence of HPV in women.
It is so important the vaccine, which has even been included in the official list of vaccines to apply to women starting at 9 or 11. Here’s what it is we the vaccine against cervical cancer and who is recommended.
It is called Gardasil (Merck) and Cervarix (GlaxoSmithKline) and is the first cancer vaccine approved by the Federal Drug Administration Food and US-FDA.
Their mission? Preventing cervical cancer annually affects about 10,000 women in the U.S. and kills about 4,000. Therefore, there is no denying that the existence of this vaccine has a major impact on health, not only women in the United States but the world at large.
Data provided by the World Health Organization put the figure nothing encouraging: 510.000 reported new cases of cervical cancer each year. Read the rest of this entry »
What is Kidney Tumor
Kidney tumors or Wilms tumor or nefroblastoma. Also a common cancer found in children at 3.5 years age range. Namely the growth of cells of the proximal tubule complex of malignant nephron in the kidneys. Another method is the tumor spreads through the lymph nodes, either as a retroperitoneal kidney hilum chains that surround large blood vessels. However, the most typical of this tumor spread is through the blood vessels with thrombi formation of tumors often developed through the renal vein. So the tumor from renal vein, can reach the entire venous circulation to organs like the lungs, liver and bone. This cancer can be diagnosed only when it was enlarged and palpable. These tumors do not spread, but enough to cause interference if it is too big. Among other things, causing the child does not feel comfortable because of the more hardened stomach causing bloody urine. Cause of these tumors are genetic factors. The only action taken was raised this tumor through the surgical procedure.
Brain Cancer
Various kinds of cancer we know, and yet there is no cure. It is identical to the most fatal risk of an illness that is passed away. Moreover, cancer is not only sustained but also adult children. One of them is cancer that attacks not only adults but now the kids are kind of benign brain tumors.
But in general, when the boy was found nearly mature. Initiated cell abnormality occurs, causing abnormal tissue growth in the brain.
This network gradually raises intracranial pressure or pressure in the shell of excess brain. Thus, causing clinical symptoms such as headache, vomiting (vomiting typically spray), disturbance ability to walk, convulsions, paralysis decreased consciousness, to personality disorders.
Ideally, these tumors must be removed. However, because of its location in the cranium and associated with many nerve and brain functions that risk experts say the healing effort will be as great as the risk of death by cancer itself
Cancer: Leukemia
Keep in mind, from various types of cancer that are often found spread the children is leukemia. Especially acute lymphocytic leukemia types. According to experts, leukemia could have known the child since the age of 6 years served until 5.
Leukemia or blood cancer is a condition of the occurrence of abnormalities in cells of blood formation in the bone marrow.
Which resulted in blood cells of young white continuously increased, without growing old. In addition, cancer cells in the bone replaces normal cells, destroy and damage the cells producing red blood cells in the bone. Thus, affect the formation of red blood and body immunity.
Malignancy in the blood cells that can be known, among others child looks pale, like the symptoms of anemia. Often occurs mainly in the skin bleeding gums, and nose (nosebleeds). Children also often complain of pain in the legs and feet. No deep sleep and have trouble sleeping at night because the pain was.
Treatment can be done is to chemotherapy. If found and treated since the early stages, cure rates can reach 75 percent. Moreover, if a bone marrow donor found the right rear and do a transplant, chances of recovery can be obtained on this percentage.