Chronic myelogenous leukemia, also called CML, is a blood and bone marrow disease that develops slowly and usually appears in people after middle age. It is characterized by the proliferation of a type of white blood cell called granulocytes,...
Metastatic rectal cancer is cancer arising from the rectum that has spread beyond the rectum, usually to the liver, lungs, ovaries and elsewhere in the abdominal cavity. According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), treatment options at this...
Breast cancer, the development of tumors originating from lobules, ducts or nipples of the breast, is a prevalent disease that can be fatal. The National Cancer Institute indicates that breast cancer caused more than 40,000 deaths in the United...
Chemotherapy drugs destroy cancer cells by focusing on halting the rapid cell division that characterizes these cells. However, scientists have also developed other drug treatments that attempt to destroy cancer cells or control the spread of...
Inflammatory breast cancer, or IBC, is a type of breast cancer that is very different than what is typically thought of with the disease. There may not be a lump with IBC. Instead, there may be a warmness to the breast when you touch it, breast...
Immunotherapy is used to boost the immune system in the treatment of disease like cancer. According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), it includes monoclonal antibodies used in targeted therapy, vaccines and other treatments that boost...
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...
Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that originates from the pigmented cells in the skin. It is more aggressive than other types of skin cancer, and typically starts from a pigmented mole located somewhere on the skin. Once melanoma is diagnosed, a...
Although breast cancer occurs more commonly in women, men do get it. The lifetime risk of developing breast cancer in men is 1 in 1,000, according to the American Cancer Society. Survival rates are similar for women and men and depend on the...
Pharyngeal cancer is cancer developing in the pharynx or throat. The pharynx runs from the back of the nose and mouth to the voice box or larynx. According to the American Cancer Society, tobacco use is the single most important risk factor in the...
The American Cancer Society estimates that in 2010 in the United States, over 24,000 individuals will be diagnosed with liver cancer, and over 18,000 people will die from the disease. By the time most symptoms of liver cancer appear, the disease...
Stage four breast cancer describes cancer that has spread outside the breast tissue. Common areas for breast cancer to spread include lymph nodes, lungs, bone, liver and brain. According to the National Cancer Institute, stage four breast cancer...
Breast cancer is the result of cells within the breast tissue developing genetic mutations that cause the cells to divide and grow uncontrollably. There are two main types of breast cancer: ductal carcinoma and lobular carcinoma. Ductal carcinoma...
Metastatic renal cell carcinoma, or stage IV renal cell carcinoma, is diagnosed when the cancer has spread outside the kidney to lymph nodes or distant organs, according to the National Cancer Institute. Although this stage of cancer cannot be...
Stage 4 (or stage IV) breast cancer is breast cancer presented with identifiable metastases beyond the breast and regional lymph nodes. This means that cancer cells have moved beyond the breast and attack other organs in the body. Although stage...
According to Professor Jonathan Rhodes of Netdoctor, bowel cancer--known better as colon cancer--is a cancer of either the colon or rectum that affects the cells lining the bowel. While it is the second most common cause of cancer related deaths,...
Lymph cancer, which is commonly called lymphoma, is cancer affecting the lymph nodes, small organs of the immune system that are spread throughout the body. Two different types of lymphoma exist, Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which differ...
Most mouth or oral cancers are squamous cell carcinomas, according to the National Institutes of Health, NIH. The treatment of mouth cancers should be a well coordinated team endeavor, says the National Cancer Society, NCI, because of the many...
Breast cancer is a disease in which malignant cancer cells begin to grow and spread within the tissue of the breast. Although there is no definitive cause of breast cancer, there is a direct link between family history, age, and genetic...
Colon cancer is the abnormal growth of cells that line the large intestine, also known as the colon. There are approximately 106,100 new cases of colon cancer in the United States each year, according to the American Cancer Society. New screening...
Kidney cancer is a common form of cancer that originates in one or both kidneys. Renal cell carcinoma is the most common type of kidney cancer in adults. Symptoms of advanced kidney cancer include blood in the urine, fever, unexplained weight...
Chemotherapy involves the use of various drugs to destroy cancer cells before and after surgery to remove cancer. Breast cancer is the most common reason why American women are prescribed chemotherapy treatment. However, Dr. Michael Hassett of...
Until recently, surgery was the number one treatment for renal cell carcinoma, and it often involved removing the entire kidney. More recently, studies have shown that removing just the tumor leads to the same survival rates as more radical...
Non-small cell lung cancer in stage IIIB involves cancer of any size that has spread to lymph nodes above the collar bone or the opposite side of the chest and/or to any of the other structures in the chest cavity like the heart, major blood...
Sunitinib (brand name Sutent) is an anti-cancer targeted therapy drug that is used to treat gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) and advanced renal cell cancer (chemocare.com). It interferes with a growth factor that aids in tumor growth and...
Brain cancer and spinal cord tumors are typically grouped together into a group known as central nervous system, or CNS, tumors. There are many different kinds of brain tumors, and treatment depends on the kind of brain cancer, the tumor's...
Leukemia causes blood cells, usually white blood cells, to grow uncontrollably. These abnormal cells not only fail to function properly, but also decrease the production and growth of healthy blood cells. Leukemia can affect adults and children,...
Glioma describes a type of brain tumor that originates in the glial cells in the brain --- those cells that do not carry nerve signals. Glial cells make up the supportive tissues in the brain, including the portion of the brain known as the...
Leukemia is either chronic or acute. Chronic leukemia slowly gets worse over time and symptoms occur as the number of leukemia cells increase. Often chronic leukemia is discovered during a routine checkup. The two types of chronic leukemia are...
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