All Type Of Diseases, Cancer Diseases

what is Blood Cancer : Speaking broadly, blood cancer is a cancer that affects the largest connective tissue of the human body. Leukemia is the most common form of blood cancer. This form cancer or Leukemia affects the bone marrow of the body. The bone marrow is the body’s factory where production of red blood cells and white blood cells take place. Leukemia, once it affects the bone marrow, it tends to increase the production rate of white blood cells. There are mainly two forms of leukemia, namely, acute and chronic leukemia. Acute leukemia increases the density of the bone marrow. This prevents the bone marrow from producing healthy blood cells. This type of leukemia is common in children and in young adults. In pediatric cases, this type of cancer is mostly fatal, and should be treated immediately. If left untreated, the malignancy will spread to the other parts of the body and will surely prove to be fatal at a later stage of the disease. Chronic leukemia takes ...

Cancer Causes : Cancer is caused due to damage to the structure of DNA that governs the process of cell division. This may have happened as a result of different activities like smoking, working in unhealthy circumstances etc, so that cancer causing agents or Carcinogens have entered into the bloodstream. These carcinogens in turn cause damage or mutation in the DNA of the cell, this damage in turn activates a set of genes called “Oncogenes”. These are responsible for the rapid increase in the process of division, causing cancer.

Small Cell Carcinoma – Bladder Cancer:  The US cancer society states that less than about 1% of cancer cases in the united states are small cell carcinomas. This class of cancer generally starts in the neuro-endocrine cells and they need to be typically treated with chemotherapy. This type of carcinoma has much similarity with the small-cell carcinoma of the lungs. Other types: Apart from the four main types of cancer as stated above, there is another type of cancer of the bladder called sarcoma bladder cancer. It is named so because it starts from the muscle layer of the the bladder.

Bladder Cancer : The bladder cancer is the cancer that occurs in the urinary bladder of the humans. The bladder in the humans is a hollow muscular organ that holds urine inside the body. The kidneys which produce urine deposit it in the bladder through special ducts called ureters. A normal bladder can hold upto two 2 cups of urine. This urine is then throws out through urethra during the time of urination. This bladder is made up of different layers of cell. A layer of cells called the urothelial cells, or transitional cells. Below that is a thin layer of cells called the lamina propria, proceeded by a layer of muscles called muscularis propria. The cancer in any of these layers of the bladder is called bladder cancer.

Cancer Care – Communication Compass – Perspectives “You’re lucky,” the oncologist tells his patient with breast cancer. “Your tumor seems to respond well to the hormone therapy. And we still have a lot more possibilities in the future.” “Does that mean that I am going to be cured after all?” the woman asks. After the consultation the doctor sighs: “How is it possible after all the explanations I have given, that the patient still has not understood that this therapy does not have a curative intent?” The first axis in the compass is the axis of perspectives. Who is lucky in the above-mentioned example? It is the doctor who is lucky, because his therapy is working. From the perspective of the patient, being lucky has a completely different meaning. She does not know the doctor’s other patients. For her, being lucky means to be free of cancer. That is how she understands her doctor’s statement. Doctor and patient look at the same situation from a completely different perspective. O...

Communication in Cancer Care: In this chapter the “communication compass” is introduced. It defines the key elements of communication and provides a language with which to communicate about communication in cancer care. The communication compass consists of two axes. One axis defines the associated perspectives of the clinician and the patient, the other axis the content of information and emotional experience. “Two lovers sat on a park bench with their bodies touching each other, holding hands in the moonlight. There was silence between them. So profound was their love for each other, they needed no words to express it.” Sometimes communication just flows. There are these special moments, as fleeting as they are intense. Often communication is stuck. It is as if we speak another language and never manage to understand one another. The lovers on the park bench need no words to express what they feel, neither do they need words to speak about communication. Where communication ...

Cancer Awareness : It has been brought forward by a recently conducted research that drinking coffee may reduce the chances of getting inflicted by Oral cancer. It has been found that drinking about 5 or more cups of coffee per day helps reducing the chances of catching oral caner. This fact was brought forward by a cancer research team who carried on their study with 5,139 people who have had head or neck area cancer during some time in their life against 9,028 people who have remained cancer free for their entire life. The research showed that people who drank more than about 4 cups of coffee per day had lowered their risk of getting mouth cancer by about 39%. The risk was lowered for oral and pharangeal cancers but not for larynx cancer. Although coffee was seen to be useful for people in general, but the cancer risk reducing effects of coffee were not diminished for people who had the habit of alcohol and tobacco. Peolple who had coffee but less than 5 cups per day had low...

Cancer Awareness Jewelry: In the recent years, while more and more people are being diagnosed with the deadly disease of cancer and only a small percentage of them are treated successfully. Even after successful treatment, the fear of recurrence keeps on lurking. Under such circumstances there is need for some motivational icon which can provide hope and strength of mind to the patients in their fight against this deadly disease. For example, the pink ribbon campaign made the fight against breast cancer popular amongst the masses. These types of icons help to provide emotional and practical support to the cancer patients. A recent addition to this trend is the cancer awareness jewelry. Cancer awareness jewelry is available in form of treasured bracelets, earrings, anklets or rings that allow the friends and families of the cancer survivors and those undergoing treatment – to celebrate the beauty and strength of positive hope. Cancer awareness jewelry is available in different...

Cancer Stages: A cancer can be classified into different Stages based on how abnormal the cells look under the microscope. If the cells look more like normal cells then the cancer is said to be 1st Stages cancer, while the more abnormal the cancerous cells look under the microscope the 2nd Stages is the cancer. Lower Stages cancers progress slowly and tend to end up well at the end. While the 2nd Stages ones progress faster and are life threatning.

Reason Of The Cancer : DR. Warburg thought that the people are looking for the causes of cancer from decades and I will explain the basic or primary cause of cancer so that people will identify and understand the secondary causes of cancer. Lack of oxygen or de-oxygenation is the primary cause of cancer. Some people become cancerous in twenties of cigarette smoking while other smoke for eighties and remain healthy. This is because smoking lower down the oxygen level and body cells try to mutate to live in the abnormal state and as a consequence the cells may die or they adapt to survive. “Most of North Americans and Europeans sustain in this type of abnormal state”. Cells mutate to become cancerous or deadly in the low oxygen environment ”. As a result Cells mutate to become cancerous and of course deadly if these cells reproduce and spread through out the body and the process is called metastasis. Discovery of doctor Warburg was not accepted at once but he has discovered some...

1. Smoking 2. Working in hazardous environments without proper safety measure e-g an a plant that treats nuclear watses, or a plant that produces chemical based artificial dyes. 3. Age, Sex and Ethinicity of the person 4. History of cancer in the family.

What is Cancer : The body is made up of millions of units. These individual units called cells, have a finite lifetime which are created by cell division in the body. These units or cells grow and divide in a normal fashion. After completing their life-cycle, the cells die. During the childhood years of a persons’s life the cells of the body grow faster and divide faster to create similar cells. As the person grows into adulthood, the process of division slows down and finally gets limited only to replace wear and tear at a later stage in the person’s life. This whole process of cell division is guided by a pattern called DNA. The DNA is like a blueprint that is present in each and every cell of the body. This blueprint decides when the cell has to divide and when it needs to stop functioning. Under normal circumstances, this process goes on very smoothly in an organized manner. But, due to certain conditions, that cause damage to the DNA sequence of a cell, may accelarate the ...