Women Cancer Health Treatment

We know that there are couple factors which can cause cancer, but unfortunately some people are taking them exaggeratedly and later cause several myths about the causes of this disease. Some of these myths even make some people overly worried about their own health or those who live around them.

To avoid the panic caused by those myths, here are some explanations related to them as revealed in MayoClinic.com, by a cancer specialist of Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, Timothy Moynihan, MD.

Deodorants or antiperspirant products can cause breast cancer
Although such products contain harmful substances like parabens and aluminum compounds that can be absorbed through the skin or enter the body through shaving nicks, there is no clinical study yet which proves whether these products can cause breast cancer or not. So, these kinds of statements are actually myths. Read more!

Although the impact of mobile phone radiation to human health is still quite controversial, we can make some efforts to reduce its effects on us.

Here are some of them:

Use a set of handsfree or bluetooth – these wireless devices will allow you to communicate using your mobile phone without a direct contact with your head. The distance between the signal transmission and your head will reduce the effect of radiation to your brain. Although wireless devices like bluetooth has its own radiation effect, it is much more harmless compared to the one which is caused by the phone.

Use text messaging service more often than phone calls – when you receive a text message, the position of your head to Read more!

According to British scientists as told to Dailymail, a breast cancer ‘wonder drug’ that could be a weapon to fight tumors have been discovered. The scientists of Newcastle University have recently found a way of making a family of breast cancer pills to effectively fight against other cancers. Another good news about this drug, its side effects such as nausea and tiredness should be minimal.

The drug contains PARP inhibitors, which affect the way tumors cells repair themselves. It is actually contained in a family of cancer drugs as they target hereditary forms of breast cancer, as well as ovarian prostate cancers and pancreatic tumors with the same rogue gene.

The drugs become the particular interest to doctors because they kill the tumor without harming healthy cells. In other words, the patients who consume the drug will suffer fewer side effects compared with the one they would get from the treatments of chemotherapy or radiotherapy. Read more!

Among the fruits which are known to give various benefits, papaya has lately categorized as one of those super-fruits for its benefit in preventing cancer. This fruit contains lycophene, a nutrition which can effectively prevent and fight cancer cells from spreading. The substance can stimulate the cells’ immunity inside our body to fight cancer so the damage of DNA and lipid can be prevented, and the spread of cancer cells can be inhibited.

Researchers of University of Florida found that papaya can be an anti-cancer agent which could effectively fight against cervical cancer, breast, liver, lung, and pancreas cancer. The conclusion was made after performing a test using certain tea made of dry papaya leaves extract. And from the test, it was found that papaya can increase the production of chemical substance which regulates the body’s immune system. The findings of the study have been published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology.

According to Dr Nam Dang of University of Florida, the papaya extract which was tested in the laboratory doesn’t have toxic effects Read more!

As most people agree that the best way to beat cancer is to prevent it, the United States have reached some important cancer prevention milestones during the past year.

Here are some of them, as reported in Galvestondailynews:

1. Lung cancer screening is now a reality.
To make sure whether you are free from developing lung cancer or not – due to the history of smoking, The National Lung Screening Trial in the US showed that a CT scan can be performed for some smokers and former smokers to detect lung cancer at an early stage. This way, we can surely reduce the chances of death.
But since lung cancer screening is not for everyone, you need to find out if you should get screened or not.
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Women in growing period should really protect their breasts from chemical exposure in order to prevent them from risks of cancer. Chemicals found in household products today, such as detergents and plastics in bottled water can pretty much increase the risk of breast cancer as they may affect the growth and health of the breast, including its ability to breastfeed.

Experts had examined the effects of those chemical compounds on the early development of the mammary gland, and found that several risks may rise regarding the chemical exposure are including problems in lactation or breastfeeding, and an abnormal growth of breast as well Read more!

There are 4 types of exercises or sports which are believed as able to help the conditions of cancer patients. According to Josie Gardiner, a personal trainer and author of ‘The Breast Cancer Survivor’s Fitness Plan, the types of exercises needed by cancer patients are depending on their cancer condition and the treatment they had.

Patients who had taken chemotherapy and radiation treatment normally will easily get tired. Therefore, they need to listen to their body; if they think they are not able to perform exercise for they feel really exhausted, then they better stop doing it. But if they think they are just a little tired, then a light exercise will be better than none. Read more!

Cancer is known as a very difficult disease to cure yet malicious that it can cause death. But among other types of cancer, lung cancer is the closest to death.

According to Dr Asrul Harsal, SpPD-KHOM, lung cancer has the worst prognosis and is closely associated with death, as stated in a discussion forum of Indonesia Cancer Management and Financing in Gran Melia Hotel, Jakarta on Wednesday, May 11. He also said that between 174,470 people who have lung cancer, about 162,460 died of the disease. While for breast cancer the death rate is about 20 percent and for colon cancer 50 percent. Read more!

Many women are still haunted by the disease named breast cancer, but the truth is about 42 percent breast cancer can actually be prevented by doing several lifestyle changes. Regular exercise, less alcohol consumption and having healthy diet are some of the habits you need to apply into your lifestyle in order to avoid the malicious disease.

The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) also recommends performing a 30-minute physical exercise daily, consuming less alcohol, and losing excessive weight for a healthier life. Dr Rachel Thompson, the science deputy head of WCRF also encouraged all women to raise the Read more!

Breast cancer still becomes every woman’s worst nightmare today. And lately the British scientists have just discovered three key genes which related with the most common form of breast cancer.

The discovery could have saved thousands of lives per-year by providing new ways to diagnose and treat hormonal breast cancer, which commonly known as the estrogen receptor positive (ER-positive) breast cancer.

Scientists from Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre in the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in London revealed that the findings Read more!