Women Cancer Health Treatment

The American Cancer Society predicts about 174,470 new cases of lung cancer in the U.S. in 2006 and be the No. 1 cause of cancer deaths for men and women alike. Lung cancer accounts for more than a quarter of all cancer deaths, according to the American Cancer Society.

Smoking is a leading cause of lung cancer, but not all lung cancer patients are or have ever been smokers.

Just like what happened to Dana Reeve lung cancer, Jay Broks, chief of hematology and oncology at the Ochsner Clinic in Baton Rouge, said, “We don’t completely understand why they develop lung cancer,” when Reeve announced her diagnosis last summer. Brooks also chief of staff at the Ochsner Medical Center in Baton Rouge. Read more!

An African American woman is less likely to get breast cancer than a white woman, but more likely to die from it. For her, breast cancer often comes at a younger age and in more dangerous forms than for other U.S. women.

Dr. Beth A. Jones of Yale Cancer Center in New Haven, Conn., found that a breast tumor characteristic called “p53″ (gene mutation that belongs to the tumor itself, not part of the woman’s genetic inheritance) is four times more common in African American than white women and P53 tumors are harder to treat.

“Women with p53 alterations don’t have the same response to standard chemotherapy treatment,” explained Jones. “One study suggested using higher-dose chemotherapy.” Read more!

One research showed that approximately 520,000 Americans die of cancer each year and it’s been cost roughly $104 billion to United States, including medical expenses and loss of work productively. Stats reported that in the 1980s more than 4.5 million Americans died from cancer and mostly appears in people middle-aged and older and can occur at any age.

Actually cancer is not one disease, but rather many related diseases. Cancer is typed according to the part of the body where it is located and the kind of cells that comprise it. Here are some common types of cancer cells and their locations :

Sarcomas, it grow in bones and connective tissues between organs and skin, but sometimes spread into the lymphatic system or blood. Read more!

Recovery from breast cancer is not so different a program than simply exercising to avoid such a catastrophic event in a woman’s health and life. If you have followed fitness for any amount of time, visited your doctor or taken a class in school, the informative path to righteous living is well paved with getting the blood flowing and the heart pounding. In turn, you increase your chances of avoiding disease (heart-related, cancer, diabetes). Likewise, if you have successfully battled the disease and yearn for a method of attack against it recurring or simply want to lessen the unpleasant after affects, the all-knowing finger will be pointing in the same direction…the local gym.

Even as early as the 1980’s, research was proving that aerobic exercise improved fatigue levels and nausea in post cancer patients. Fast forward to present and the benefits have multiplied over the years. Subsequent studies indicate that weight training, aerobic exercise, and fitness emphasizing mind and body (i.e., yoga) all have a substantial impact of up to 25-50% improvement on pain, fatigue, overall optimism, the general fitness level of the individual and how much a person can improve their quality of daily life, complete with energy-draining tasks. Read more!

As women, especially American women, much of our femininity is centered on our breasts. No matter where you look, there are pictures, billboards, commercials, television shows, and movies with women with these beautiful breasts and ample cleavage. The thought of losing one or both breasts, to breast cancer, can be devastating for many of us. Sure, there’s reconstruction, but will it ever really look the same again? Even if you have reconstruction, you’ll never have sensation there again and, for many of us, that definitely affects our sexuality.

I went through two separate mastectomies, for my breast cancer, despite the fact that I wanted them both done at the same time. Two different surgeons told me that wasn’t necessary. They found out, later, that it was, as I had the same breast cancer in both breasts. Through these surgeries, I learned a few things about what to expect, and how to get up and running again, after a mastectomy for breast cancer. Read more!

Many different ways for breast cancer treatment as usually doctors will use two or more types of breast cancer treatment together. Here is some major options for breast cancer :

Chemotherapy
It’s often called “chemo,” by using drugs, this therapy will kill new tumor cells or shrink lymph nodes that contain cancer cells. You may have surgery to remove the rest of the cancer once the tumor is smaller. Some forms of cancer can be completely cured with drugs alone.
Many different chemotherapy medicines are available like pill as a shot, or in an IV. Some frequent blood tests might be needed to determine how the body is doing and how much hemotherapy needed. The drugs can produce many side effects, and may leave you susceptible to infection for a while. Read more!

Cancer is treated by surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or a combination of these methods. Diagnoses and treatment have become increasingly individualized in recent years. Early detection and the precise staging of therapies have contributed to higher success rates in the battle against cancer.

Many cancers that only recently had poor prognoses are now considered curable. Potentially curable cancers now include acute lymphocytic leukemia in children, Burkitt’s lymphoma, Ewing’s sarcoma (a form of bone cancer), Wilm’s tumor (a kidney cancer in children), Hodgkin’s disease, rhabdomyosarcoma (a cancer of certain muscle tissues), testicular cancer, choriocarcinoma (placental cancer), osteogenic sarcoma, and breast cancer. Read more!

Obstetric and Gynecology published issue that could have critical health implications as public health advocates work to not only educate women about reducing their risks for cervical cancer, but also lower tobacco use around the globe.
Many researches results are being seen as especially important for women living in developing countries, where smoking is on the rise and cervical cancer.

Passive smoking has been known to increase the risks for heart disease and lung cancer in both men and women, and active cigarette smoking has been long established as a major risk factor for cervical cancer. Although scientists have suspected a link between secondhand smoke and cervical cancer, they needed more data to prove it. Read more!

Breast cancer is rare during adolescence, but on the other hand, breast lumps are common for girls age. This apparent contradiction is explained by the fact that teenagers often get cysts or tumors in their breasts that are not cancerous and those results from sensitivity to estrogen.

In most of time, these lumps will disappear on their own, but please always check them to a doctor. Small nodules sometimes appear on some girls breasts, this condition used to be called fibrocystic disease but this term no longer used because actually from the current awareness that this is not a disease, but only a normal variation. And when you find a lump and before taking any action, doctors will usually wait up to three menstrual cycles, as they most likely disappear. Read more!