Cancer Articles

Health » Diseases and Conditions » Cancer | By Billy Staton @ Friday, 7th March 2008 @ 11:39 AM

Hyperthermia, look it up on the Web and it will tell you that it is a process of heating [from the outside] the infected part of the body[Tumor] with infrared and or moist heat. There are clinics in Mexico and Italy that use this method and other alternative medicines to treat AIDS and other blood related diseases with a high success rate. Both [at least two] clinics were set up based on one mans success with using heat to purify blood and enrich its ability to fight infection. This docto... more...

Health » Diseases and Conditions » Cancer | By Derek Both @ Thursday, 6th March 2008 @ 3:06 AM

Most people have probably heard of asbestos and the fact that people who have been exposed to it may go on to develop illnesses. Although the use of asbestos has now been banned in the European Union, people have still contracted diseases from when it was used in the past. Mesothelioma is just one of the diseases that people can develop after prolonged asbestos exposure. It is a type of cancer that affects the mesothelial cells which cover the outer surface of most of the body's inte... more...

Health » Diseases and Conditions » Cancer | By Art Gib @ Monday, 3rd March 2008 @ 5:07 AM

Although there are a few different ways of delivering radiation to destroy tumors or slow their growth, they have found a great deal of success and preference among neurosurgeons, oncologists and doctors with subspecialties in brain tumor growths. Radiosurgery is considered a relatively "recent" technique for treating brain tumors. Its main advantage is that it is non-invasive, which means that the flesh and skull do not need to be cut, sawed or bled in any way. This will be a br... more...

Health » Diseases and Conditions » Cancer | By Gregory Drambour @ Saturday, 1st March 2008 @ 9:03 PM

You meet a stranger and for some reason in that moment you mention you are cancer survivor and find out they're also a survivor or presently going thru treatment. Cancer survivors and patients have a way of running into each other. I would encourage you to focus on conveying hope in those moments. And also, to be careful not to judge their treatment options or push them with your ideas of post-treatment choices. If they are doing something that is different than your approach, let it be; be... more...

Health » Diseases and Conditions » Cancer | By Derek Both @ Saturday, 1st March 2008 @ 4:08 PM

Asbestos exposure can lead to a number of lung diseases including asbestosis, pleural fibrosis and lung cancer. Asbestosis results in widespread scarring of the lungs and can leave victims short of breath and more likely to develop lung cancer. Pleural fibrosis causes inflammation, hardening and thickening of the lining of the lung tissue but has a number of symptoms so can be fairly straightforward to diagnose. The other type of lung disease that can develop after asbestos exposure is as... more...

Health » Diseases and Conditions » Cancer | By Art Gib @ Saturday, 1st March 2008 @ 12:20 AM

The field of radiation therapy is, in its most basic definition, the field of treating cancers by using ionized subatomic particle radiation aimed at tumors to control and disable the growth of malignant cells. The use of radiation for cancer control can be used for curative, palliative (non-curable symptomatic relief) and in combination with other treatments (like chemo). The use of radiation in the field of oncology creates a new subset practice called radiation oncology (strangely eno... more...

Health » Diseases and Conditions » Cancer | By Art Gib @ Thursday, 28th February 2008 @ 4:08 AM

Radiation surgery is a cancer treatment designed to deliver radiation directly to the cancer within a patient while sparing the healthy tissue surrounding the cancer. It utilizes radiation to target the cancer rather than knives or scalpels to physically remove tissue during a surgery, but the precision and effectiveness of the treatment have earned it the name of "radiation surgery." Although radiation surgery does not remove tumors or lesions for the body, it does lead to tumor... more...

Health » Diseases and Conditions » Cancer | By Gregory Drambour @ Wednesday, 27th February 2008 @ 2:47 PM

My understanding and knowledge of how important the energy of your home is has deepened in the last six years since the cure. You want to get the energy flowing in your home and office environment in a way that's beneficial for your healing. These are few steps to accomplishing this: One, find someone who knows how to read the possible toxins that may be lurking in your home. I am referring to a healer that works on a subtler energy level. For example, the lead may have been ... more...

Health » Diseases and Conditions » Cancer | By Terry Fitzroy @ Tuesday, 26th February 2008 @ 6:03 PM

Prevention is the best cure. Perhaps you have heard of that before and thought to yourself "if only all those sick people would have taken better care of themselves, they would not have to suffer from cancer now." If you are puffing on a cigarette or sun bathing as you think that, know that you are doing what people have done for centuries. Humans, by nature, prefer to put off getting more education or creating healthier habits until they are already suffering the negative ef... more...

Health » Diseases and Conditions » Cancer | By Derek Both @ Monday, 25th February 2008 @ 11:12 PM

Most people have probably heard of asbestos and the fact that people who have been exposed to it may go on to develop illnesses. Although the use of asbestos has been banned now in the European Union, people have still contracted diseases from when it was used in the past. One of these illnesses is mesothelioma which is a rare form of cancer which affects the lining of the lung, lining of the abdominal cavity or lining around the heart. This is caused by the exposure to asbestos which was... more...

Health » Diseases and Conditions » Cancer | By Shellaine Enfesta @ Monday, 25th February 2008 @ 4:00 PM

If the chest x-ray is suggestive of malignant mesothelioma, it is likely that further investigations will be ordered, especially if compensation may be sought. These investigations may include additional imaging studies, blood tests, bone scans, and lung-function tests, as well as more invasive procedures such as thoracentesis, thoracoscopy, pleuroscopy or a lung biopsy. This is a typical mesothelioma diagnosis Mesothelioma diagnosis can be done through chest x-ray. The typical ab... more...

Health » Diseases and Conditions » Cancer | By Art Gib @ Thursday, 31st January 2008 @ 10:28 PM

Radiation therapy takes on several forms. Beam application, which is the most common one, involves targeting and bombarding a tumor with subatomic particles. The particles will simply pass through the skin invisibly and into the tumor, disrupting and often destroying the malignant cells The trick is to be as accurate and precise with the beam as possible, not only with where it's targeted, but by regulation the strength of the beam particles sent through. Radiation beam tools used b... more...

Health » Diseases and Conditions » Cancer | By Art Gib @ Thursday, 31st January 2008 @ 10:20 PM

Generally speaking, tumors that grow in the brain are often good candidates for radiosurgery. This involves an application of radiation that goes through the skull and tissue and concentrates on the targeted mass. The whole process is bloodless, so skin and skull do not have to be opened to apply. Radiosurgery is the common term for a type of radiation therapy that is usually done on the brain. Also known as stereotactic surgery, it usually involves one application of strong radiation co... more...

Health » Diseases and Conditions » Cancer | By Art Gib @ Wednesday, 30th January 2008 @ 10:27 PM

Cancer research programs are growing each year as funding increases. New technologies make even recent discoveries obsolete and doctors and scientists contribute their ideas and methods to understanding and curing cancer. As they continue to make these important strides toward finding prevention methods and moving towards a cure, more treatments are becoming available, and fewer people are being forced to endure painful and invasive treatments. Radiotherapy usually requires non-invasive c... more...

Health » Diseases and Conditions » Cancer | By Gregory Drambour @ Tuesday, 29th January 2008 @ 2:45 AM

In my work with clients who are struggling with serious illness, I have come to see what works and what doesn't work. Another way I describe it:Do you have a strategy in place that will give you the highest probability for a successful healing? Or do you have a strategy for a possible disaster? Most of the time that disaster is slow coming; actions you are taking now in the present may mount up to an outcome you don't want. Remember prediction/prophecy is a specific outcome in ... more...

Health » Diseases and Conditions » Cancer | By Gregory Drambour @ Sunday, 20th January 2008 @ 12:50 PM

Dr. Nicholas Gonzales is an immunologist trained at Sloane Kettering; he is one is one of the few doctors having success with pancreatic cancer and other zero percent survival cases. One of the rules I got from Dr. Nicholas Gonzales was to stay with one treatment protocol and doctor for a specific amount of time and be careful of jumping from one doctor to the next. When it comes to cancer you can get panicked if you think something isn't working instead of drawing no conclusions. I... more...

Health » Diseases and Conditions » Cancer | By Linda Dipman @ Saturday, 19th January 2008 @ 11:22 PM

My fears mounted as each day passed with yet another set of tests declaring that the cancer is still present. Relatives I hadn't seen for years began parading into my hospital room. They're expressions reflected concern mixed with deathbed goodbyes. The whole time this was happening to me I just kept thinking, why me? Why did God allow cancer to hold me for ransom? What am I suppose to be learning from all of this pain I am suffering from this disease? Have you ev... more...

Health » Diseases and Conditions » Cancer | By Jason Jantzi @ Monday, 7th January 2008 @ 12:26 PM

Millions of people are affected by skin cancer. Each year the number of skin cancer cases increases, highlighting the need for an effective way to manage both the symptoms and the treatment. Fortunately, there is an easy way to keep tabs on this disease. First, understand that there are three types of skin cancer: basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and melanoma. Each one can be treated if detected early enough. Both the squamous cell carcinoma and the insidious melanoma can sp... more...

Health » Diseases and Conditions » Cancer | By Art Gib @ Thursday, 27th December 2007 @ 8:25 PM

As medical breakthroughs are discovered every day and preventions, cures and treatments become available for hundreds of diseases, cancer remains the number two cause of death for men and women in the United States behind heart disease. This does not mean that cancer research is void of major breakthroughs or that it is not coming along as fast as advancements in other fields. It simply indicates that while new treatment technologies, such as radiation therapy are being developed and rese... more...

Health » Diseases and Conditions » Cancer | By Art Gib @ Thursday, 27th December 2007 @ 8:22 PM

Cancer is nearly the leading cause of death in the U.S., and more and more people need help in treatment. Luckily in recent years there has been a good deal of technological headway that has come about. From identifying and treating the tumors in the body, new radiation technology and techniques have already come into use with a lot of promise. New technologies include IMRT, IGRT, radio surgery, and TomoTherapy. The field of radiation therapy employs several means to irradiate tu... more...