Posts Tagged ‘Cancer’
Bone loss often occurs as a side effect in men who receive hormone-deprivation therapy for their advanced prostate cancer.
However, according to a new study, bone-strengthening drugs Fosamax may help to avoid the damage.
Earlier it was found that the drug prevent bone loss in patients on hormone-deprivation therapy. And now the current follow-up shows that two years of the drug offers even greater protection to men.
Dr. Neil M. Resnick, who is a professor of medicine in the department of geriatrics in Pittsburg University, says that: “In aging population, the risk of age related diseases is greatly increasing and prostate cancer is one of the commonest among these risks.” Read the rest of this entry
BALTIMORE (Reuters) – Calls for Medicare government health plans to include coverage for PET scans to additional cancer types have been made. The medical imaging industry has asked an advisory panel to recommend wider payments.
Data has shown that positron emission tomography (PET) scans went a long way in giving doctors accurate information and allowed them to alter their treatment plans for nearly one-third of their enrolled patients. The way PET scans work is that radioactive sugars are injected into the body which then travel to the metabolically active parts of the body and can indicate cancer risk. What the CT or MRI scans miss, the PET scans could pick up due to the unique method of locating possible cancer cells. Read the rest of this entry
Blood cancer is common in various types of cancer. There are many types of blood cancer such as lymphoma, leukemia, and multiple myeloma. Blood cancer is common in adults than in children.
The common symptoms of blood cancers are fatigue, malaise, breathe beating, dizziness, nose bleeding, weight loss, sweating, back and bone aches, irritation, confusion, headache, fluid retention, and decreased urination, etc. These are the most frequent symptoms which are usually occurred in adults.
The major cause of blood cancer is the leukemia which is known as the malignancy of blood or bone marrow. It is characterized by an unusual propagation of blood cells, generally called as white blood cells (leukocytes). It is component of the wide group of diseases known as hematological neoplasms.
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer says
DeLellis Henderson and Colleagues’ study, published in the journal Contraception that intends to investigate the link between abortion and breast cancer (ABC), has been commented by The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer in the following manner.
“This deceitful study is another proof of the existing wayward perversion by many well-known researchers of an established link between breast cancer and abortion” stated Dr. Joel Brind who is president of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute.
It is quite tragic and devastating for the people of colon tumor that they are having more and more risk factors of developing the disease at an alarming way. This is whistling shown by the research on the yesterday’s news.
However, recent investigation regarding colon cancer has led the scientists into a decision that they would be able to say that the majority of the colon cancer people are in no more dangers of the disease, because they are in some of the survival chances without facing the depression and too much anxiety. It is mainly predicted regarding patients of having colon cancer symptoms and history.
The astonishing absurdity, published in Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association, might eventually maneuver pollsters on the way to new directions and healings as well as the better considerations of the disease.
