Prostate is a gland which has a shape like a walnut responsible in the production of semen. The gland is located beneath the bladder surrounding the lower portion of urethra, the tube which drains the urine coming from the urinary bladder. As the Signs of Prostate Cancer develops, the prostate expands and compresses the urethra which results into various troubles with urination.Majority of men undergo a second stage of prostate...more
THROAT CANCER- SOME RELATED QUESTIONSWhat is this disease? How is it treated?Two experts gave explanations regarding this type of cancer.Gady Har-El, MD, chairman of the department of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at New York's Lenox Hill Hospital.Ted Teknos, MD, co-director of the head and neck disease committee and professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-James...more
Greed is Good? Cigars and Throat Cancer Michael Douglas has revealed that he has been diagnosed with stage 4 throat cancer. He confesses that for most of his adult life he has been a smoker and drinker, two behaviors that have been linked to increased oral cancer risk. This is a very serious diagnosis and not surprisingly his physicians are treating him aggressively with radiation and chemotherapy.According to the American Cancer Society close to 38,000 Americans will be diagnosed with oral or pharyngeal cancer this year. It causes over 8,000 deaths annually in the US. The death rate for oropharyngeal cancer is so high partly due to the difficulty in early detection. It can be painless and go unnoticed with few physical changes until the disease is quite advanced.Cigar smoking has a long history of being associated with wealth and achievement (think of Mr. Douglas' character of Gordon Gekko in his movie Wall Street). But cigars might also be known for being more toxic than cigarette smoke. The larger size of most cigars, implies more tobacco and longer smoking time which results in higher exposures to many toxic compounds (including carbon monoxide,...more
PDT is photodynamic therapy, a treatment that uses the medicine of photosensitizing and the red laser light for killing the cells and generally the cancer cells. This treatment will be given in two parts. Firstly, the medicine will be administered intravenously. The medicine will be fascinated particularly by the quick growing cells. After 2 days,...more
The esophagus is the elongated and narrow tube that joins the throat to the stomach and it is the place where the food goes immediately after being swallowed. In United States, esophagus cancer is very infrequent. As with various forms of the cancer, the reasons are not apparent. The stage III esophageal cancer happens when the cancer spreads to...more
It is very unfortunate that the prognosis of stage IV esophageal cancer is originated to be very poor as the same cannot be cured but the stage where the treatment can be given. Generally, the patients of Stage IV esophageal cancer will be treated by utilizing the palliative chemotherapy as the life of the patient is stretched to some level. Many factors may affect the chances of recovery of the stage IV esophageal cancer and lot of treatment options. The prognosis or the chances of recovery depends if esophagus is involved as a whole or a specific division of the esophagus alone, the size of the tumor and the complete general fitness of the patient. When the same is detected at the earlier level, the treatment can be given easily but the signs are only noticeable at the future stages. It is very remote to treat them very effectively but curing the same is very uncommon. The esophageal cancer spreads in the body of a person in many ways. It spreads through the tissues invading the usual tissues through out the esophagus and through the bodys lymph system and occupying the system of bodys lymph and then traveling through the lymph vessels into the different parts of the body and...more
In the beginning stages, when it will be very easy for treatment, the symptoms are very little in the case of esophageal cancer. Hence, it is very unfortunate that the same will be caught very rarely in the early stages. An esophageal cancer starts...more
After the overwhelming diagnosis, chemotherapy, radiation therapy and surgery at the back, the question is whether one can come to the conclusion that the esophageal cancer is completely removed. Once the treatment for the esophageal cancer is...more
It's the word that no one ever wants to hear: cancer. Although our parents or grandparents might have heard that word and considered it an automatic death sentence, today's focus on prevention, early detection, and treatment means that...more
Cancer is serious business. It is a deadly illness that has claimed many lives, and will continue to take lives despite the variety of treatment options available for it. Cancer is considered in some circles as the best place to...more
According to the leading cancer charity in the United Kingdom, there are around 298,000 new cases of cancer which are diagnosed every year and current figures suggest that one in three people in the UK will develop a form of cancer...more
There are numerous toxins around us that do much harm to our health, & many that can contribute to cancer. Degenerative diseases (Cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, osteoporosis, diabetes, etc.) are caused most often by...more