A healthy diet can do more than help you maintain your weight; it can also promote your overall health by reducing your risk of developing several diseases, including some cancers. While eating healthy foods is not a guarantee you will not develop...
Any woman under the age of 40 who develops breast cancer is considered a young victim of the disease, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Breast cancer in younger women is not only more difficult to diagnose, but is also more aggressive. Younger...
Breast cancer is the most common cancer affecting American women, with over 200,000 new cases per year and 40,000 deaths. According to the American Cancer Society, one in eight women in the U.S. will suffer from breast cancer in her lifetime--a 12...
If you've finished a successful round of chemotherapy, you've gotten through one of the biggest fights of your life, and you deserve to feel strong and resilient. However, according to Breast Cancer.org, it's fairly common for chemotherapy...
Breast cancer is a disease in which cancer cells begin to form in the tissues of the breast and develop into cancerous tumors, especially in the milk-producing ducts and lobules--glands that produce milk. Though far more common in women, it is...
Chemotherapy destroys cancer cells via drugs administered orally or by injection. Chemotherapy drugs affect the entire body as they move from bloodstream. Risks associated with chemotherapy include nausea, anemia, hair loss, fatigue, infection and...
You can potentially reverse the effects of lung cancer by consuming certain herbs. Lung cancer takes more lives than any other cancer and causes more deaths than colon, prostate, ovarian, lymph and breast cancers combined. It is mostly derived...
Several cancer treatment strategies include chemotherapy drugs--toxic medications that interfere with cancer cell growth and promote cancer remission. However, chemotherapy drugs also lead to a number of negative side effects, such as low blood...
Radiation therapy for breast cancer is a treatment that uses radiation energy to kill rapidly-dividing cancer cells in the breast. The treatment is potentially curative and it can be a substitute for invasive surgery. It can also be combined with...
Tamoxifen is a synthetic hormone that is an "adjuvant" or helper medication in chemoprevention therapy to prevent breast cancer. Tamoxifen works by blocking estrogen, which is a hormone that tends to increase breast cancer cell growth. According...
Turmeric is an herb from the ginger family. It is widely used in India, Asia and Africa as a popular spice for curries, cheese and mustard. The golden color derived from the spice is also used in fabric dyes. As a supplement, turmeric is used to...
Radiotherapy is the use of radiation to target and kill cancer cells. It is used for the treatment of several types of solid cancers, and may be used in combination with other cancer therapies such as surgery or chemotherapy. Radiation therapy...
Cancer chemotherapy refers to a treatment of cancer through the use of various drugs. These drugs are used to kill, prevent and control cancer cells. According to the 2004 publication of Clinical Oncology, chemotherapy has a five-year survival...
Chemotherapy is used to treat several forms of cancer. Chemotherapy drugs are cytotoxic drugs that halt tumor cell growth and induce tumor cell death to help treat and shrink the tumor. There are a number of classes of chemotherapy drugs with...
Cancer tumors are cells in the body that change and grow out of control. The American Cancer Society reports that breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, and that it can also occur in men. The organization's figures from 2009 predict an...
You may be inspired to educate yourself about a healthy diet after surviving a bout with melanoma. While no diet can guarantee freedom from a recurrence of melanoma, a balanced diet that maintains your weight, combats treatment toxicity and fights...
Kidney cancers affect 51,000 adults in the United States every year, according to the National Kidney Foundation. Forms of kidney cancer include renal cell cancer, which is the most common, and transitional cell cancer. According to Moffitt Cancer...
Different types of cancer can occur in the region of the chest, or thoracic cavity, according to the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center. Cancer can occur in the chest wall, causing pain due to tumors. Lung cancer is also a very...
Lobular cancer is a form of breast cancer that develops within the lobules of the breast. Each breast contains a number of milk-producing lobules, and each lobule contains a number of cells that form spherical structures called acini. Lobular...
Glucose is one of the most abundant sugars in your body. It serves as a source of energy, helping to fuel the cells in your brain and muscles and throughout your body. However, glucose can also play an important role in disease -- chronically high...
Eating nutritious food between and during cancer treatments helps support a patient's recovery and physical strength, and keeps up body weight. It can also reverse or prevent nutrient deficiencies and decrease cancer treatment side effects....
Aspirin, long used as an analgesic and fever reducer, has more recently come into favor for its influence on vascular health. Now, accumulating evidence is pointing to aspirin's benefit in the prevention and treatment of some forms of cancer....
Bone contains specialized cells that deposit new bone tissue or resorb old tissue. Bone cancer develops as a result of acquired genetic mutations to bone cells, leading to rapid and constant cell proliferation and the growth of tumors. Bone cancer...
The disease process begins when something foreign enters the body, such as a bacterial or viral substance, or when a body system, such as the circulatory, respiratory or digestive system, do not function correctly. Causes of disease include...
Selenium is a trace mineral found in varying degrees in the soil. Some areas are high in selenium and some low. Food crops absorb selenium from the soil they're grown in, and the selenium content of the harvest is in proportion to the amount in...
More than 100,000 cases of colon cancer occur in the United States each year. About 5 percent of these are linked to hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer syndrome, or HNPCC, also called Lynch syndrome. The term "nonpolyposis" simply differentiates...
Radiation therapy (also known as radiotherapy) is a standard type of cancer treatment. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) says the most common form of radiation therapy is called external beam radiation. It points high-powered x-rays straight...
Broccoli and spinach are packed with essential vitamins and minerals. Low in fat and calories and high in fiber, these vegetables fit well into any healthy eating plan. They are available fresh or frozen. Try substituting spinach for lettuce in...
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