To Cancer : Complementary and Integrative Therapies of Cancer.

Archive for June, 2011

Bone cancers are rare forms of cancer that can affect any bone in the body. Two types of bone cancer are multiple myeloma and bone sarcomas. Bone cancers can also happen when tumors that start in other organs, such as breasts, lung, and prostate, metastasize (spread) to the bone. Multiple myeloma is the most common type of bone cancer. Basic information about Bone cancer symptoms and treatment. Read the rest of this entry »

There is great interest in alternative treatments, and studies are ongoing. For now, however, relieve the side effects of traditional therapies for breast cancer may be its best use.

Women around the world are increasingly familiar with alternative treatment for breast cancer.

“In my practice of integrative oncology, which is the fourth patient I see is a woman to live, or more than breast cancer,” says Donald Abrams, MD, clinical professor of medicine and director of Clinical Programs, Osher Center of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. “Many patients are interested in such activities.”

Despite this growing interest, the largely unregulated field of alternative medicine has left many women confused about what these treatments really work and if you are at work. This presentation will help you or your loved one started. Read the rest of this entry »

Olive oil can prevent and also to combat breast cancer, according to a study conducted by researchers at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, ​​Spain, and published in the Journal of carcinogenesis.

The researchers found that olive oil appeared to protect rat DNA damage that can lead to cancer. It also seemed to disable the key proteins necessary for the survival of breast cancer cells.

Because the benefits were only observed in rats that consumed the olive oil in the long run, Eduard Escrich researcher recommends that everyone eat 50 milliliters (10 teaspoons) of high quality extra virgin olive oil every day. Read the rest of this entry »

Vitamin D has been news recently that more studies on the metabolic effects of vitamin and why we need it. A new study has added evidence of the need for vitamin D. In a study recently published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, scientists report that breast cancer patients with low vitamin D levels have more aggressive tumors and a higher risk of recurrence.

This is not a surprising result for many doctors working with cancer patients as a link between vitamin D and cancer in general is a fact. There is also a growing understanding that the current intake recommendations are too low. Read the rest of this entry »

There are four types of treatments for bladder cancer are:

Surgery involves removing, from surgery, cancer of the bladder. You can use several methods:

- Transurethral resection: uses a cystoscope inserted into the bladder through the urethra. In the end will be built a system to cut the tumor and remove it. You can also bring a system with high-energy electricity to burn cancer. Can be applied to tumors that are not too large or deep and are not scattered in several pockets on the inside of the bladder. Its great advantage is that it keeps the bladder and urine may follow naturally.

- Segmental cystectomy: is extracted from the bladder where the cancer. It is used when the cancer is confined to one area of ​​the bladder, although not a very common type of surgery. Read the rest of this entry »

Causes

Among the risk factors involved in the development of bladder cancer include the following:

- The consumption of snuff is the risk factor and the strongest single underlying cause of at least half of all cases. The snuff smoke carcinogens are absorbed from the lungs into the blood. The kidneys filter out many of these substances, incorporating them into the urine to excrete. Carcinogens, concentrated in the urine, remain long in contact with the mucous membrane lining the bladder. Between a cigarette and another, a smoker makes many puffs of clean air that washes your tubes, so the interior of snuff affects the lung only during the consumption of cigarettes. Instead, between visits to the bathroom to urinate, you may have consumed the same smoker smokes two or three at least. When empty the bladder cancer urine filled, not filled with clean urine, but also contaminated. It is estimated that the bladder of a smoking half a pack of cigarettes is in contact with urine contaminated with carcinogens one hundred percent of the time. Read the rest of this entry »

Bladder cancer occurs when malignant cells develop in the lining of this organ.

The urine passes from the kidneys to the bladder through the ureters with a tube.

The bladder is a muscular ring structure is opened to make way for the urine. Adapts its size as it increases the volume of urine and when full, it sends nerve signals to the brain that transmits the need to urinate.

Bladder cancer is more common in men than in women, as three more times. Reflecting its close relationship with smoking. Read the rest of this entry »

Treatment for these patients consist of a combination of several techniques that are surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Each of them will be more effective than the other depending on the type of cancer and the stage where you are. In fact, treatment depends on four factors: the type and extent of spread of the tumor, the patient’s health status and functional status of the various organ systems (heart, liver, kidney, neurological, etc.)..

Surgery is the treatment modality most likely to be curative, therefore, is resorted to if the entire tumor can be removed and the respiratory status of the patient to tolerate the removal of the portion of the lung must be removed. Read the rest of this entry »

Only 15% of this type of cancer diagnosed in early stages, this is because the symptoms do not appear until the disease is advanced. If no lymph node involvement at the time of surgery, the survival rate at five years is 50%. Considering all cases globally, the survival rate drops to 14%.

There are several diagnostic tests that visualize the lung tumors at different stages.

The doctor will use one or more methods to detect cancer if there is prior suspicion. The patient’s medical history is the first to be held to assess personal and family history. The doctor will ask about the existence of cancer and other diseases in the family, snuff consumption, environmental exposure to substances or professional producing lung cancer and possible respiratory or other suffering the ill.

The physical examination will take into account the symptoms reported by the patient and, with it, can obtain data that can help diagnose any disease.

The blood test will show if there is any alteration cellular level of other organs such as liver. Read the rest of this entry »

The symptoms of lung cancer does not usually appear in the early stages but arise when it has already spread too much to increase the chance of cure. In fact, since that occurs the first malignant cell until a person first consulted a physician with symptoms of the disease can take many years.
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