That killer Named Breast Cancer

For many women, there is no disease that is more sinister than breast cancer. Breast cancer raises fears associated with loss of body image and sexuality, surgery, and death. As is the case with most cancers, the exact cause of breast cancer is not known clearly. Furthermore, at present there is no cure for the disease has advanced, and there is no sure way to prevent it.

Our knowledge about how breast cancer develops has been expanding rapidly. As a result, new drugs are being developed to reduce the risk of breast cancer among women who are at high risk of contracting this disease. For most women, these changes

Pancreatic cancer claimed the lives of Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs left Apple and died of pancreatic cancer. Indeed, although the rich and famous such as Jobs, his body could not fight against pancreatic cancer.

56-year-old man survived only seven years after saying it recovered from neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer, after surgery in 2004. Understandably, the type of neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer relatively easy to handle than other types of pancreatic cancer, actor Patrick Swayze is undermined until he died two years ago.

Death of Buddhist Dalai Lama makes people want to know much about these pancreatic cancer. Jobs at the time of surgery which had been considered pessimistic by some medical experts.

Experts suspect that when done Whipple procedure or removal of part of the pancreas - a portion of the small intestine and some other parts of the digestive organs - in fact the cancer cells have spread to lymph nodes.

Not Triggered Breast Cancer Bra Use

Keeping your body healthy as possible and increase endurance is the best way to keep the risk of breast cancer can be suppressed. Do not easily believe the myth that says that tight bras will cause cancer.

Until now only one study that examines the link between breast cancer and use a bra when sleeping. The results also mentions the risk of breast cancer in women who slept with who did not use the bra was the same.

Maintain a healthy weight may help reduce the risk of breast cancer. due to overweight and obesity become one of the factors triggering breast cancer.

Women who are overweight usually have a large breast size and use a

Can Lung Cancer sniffing dogs

According to German researchers, can be used sniffer dogs to detect lung cancer. They have written about it in the European Respiratory Journal, as quoted by the BBC on Thursday (08/18/2011). Their findings show that trained dogs can detect tumors in 71 percent of patients.

However, scientists did not know what chemical elements detected the dogs and that's what they say need to know to develop a screening program. Accuracy and utilization of the findings in the medical life is still very much to say.

The dog was first thought to be "sniffing" of cancer in 1989 and further studies have shown that dogs can detect some cancers, such as skin cancer, bladder, colon, and breast. Tumors are thought to produce "volatile chemicals" that can detect a dog.

Manage Cost of Cancer Drugs

Cancer is a disease that requires a huge cost for treatment. The amount of costs that should not be burdensome if managed well with the social insurance mechanisms, such as those mandated by the National Social Security System.

This was revealed in a discussion forum about the cost of cancer treatment, held the Faculty of Public Health University of Indonesia (FKM UI), Wednesday (11 / 5) in Jakarta. According to the World Health Statistics 2008, cancer deaths in Indonesia 132 per 100,000 population.

Professor of FKM UI Hasbullah Thabrany said, Indonesia is in a phase where the incidence of cancer continues to increase. On the other hand, only about 50 percent of people have health insurance in its various forms. For treatment of lung cancer, for example, it takes $ 25 million per month with the drug erlotinib. To think about how to arrange financing that is not burdensome.

Ecstasy Drugs for Cancer?

Ecstasy is widely recognized as one of the types of drugs could potentially be a cure for cancer after experts succeeded in modifying the chemical.

Researchers in Birmingham, England, claimed the drug, also known as methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) that can be used to treat various diseases, such as leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma. In fact, the drug is believed to suppress the growth of cancer 100 times greater.

Ecstasy is known to be effective in treating more than half of white blood cell cancers. However, the use of large doses of it can be deadly.

In a study published in the journal Investigational New Drugs, the scientists say, drug discovery can certainly be used by medical personnel (doctors) to treat cancer if it can be produced in a safe.

Beware! Cervical Cancer Women's Lurking.

Women are sometimes less or even do not understand about cervical cancer. And in Indonesia cervical cancer became the number one killer.

2002 data showed, from 13 pathology centers in Indonesia cervical cancer became the number one killing machine. Cervical cancer, occupying 25 percent of the 10 types of cancer that strikes men and women. While the percentage of women cancer has 26.4 percent of the 10 types of cancer that attacks.

This indicates Indonesian girl dies every hour due to cervical cancer. In the world every two minutes a woman dies due to this cancer. It is estimated that cervical cancer kills 270,000 women every year.

Tumor-fighting Universal Vaccine Ready by 2013

VACCINES universal generation, which is part of new drugs by using the body's own immune system to fight diseases such as tumors will be available within two years.

A vaccine called TeloVac is sometimes a revolutionary cancer treatment. Hopefully, this vaccine will be effective against various types of tumors, including lung, skin, liver, breast, and prostate cancer.

Instead of attacking cancer cells, such as regular drugs, vaccines harness the power of the immune system to fight tumors.

This vaccine works by stimulating the immune system to seek out and destroy an enzyme called telomerase. This enzyme is often found in cases of cancer cell tingggi level and could make the cancer cells survive, even when healthy cells to die. This resulted in the spread of tumors.

If a recent study funded by Cancer Research UK is proven feasible, this vaccine could be available to treat advanced pancreatic cancer in late 2013. In time, it can be used at the beginning of the disease - and even to prevent it.

Pills to Prevent Development of Tumor

FOR the second time this month, researchers reported success in using new anticancer pill to control the growth of tumor-derived. These tumors often can not be treated with standard treatment. The pill is called olaparib experimental results, a member of drugs known as PARP inhibitors. This medicine is used to prevent cancer cells repair themselves unstable.

According to researcher Johann de Bono, MD, PhD, from the Institute of Cancer Research in Sutton, England, 2 / 3 of the 19 patients with cancer due to mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes respond to treatment with olaparib. And, more than half, tumors shrank or stopped growing.

Defects in BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes make women at greater risk of developing breast cancer and malignant ovarian cancer at a young age. In addition, the light Bono, BRCA2 gene mutations also increase the risk of men developing prostate cancer.

UK Launches Children's Brain Tumor Drug

DRUG who can shrink up to 50 percent of brain tumors in children with the disease has been launched in the UK. Later, the doctor will be able to apply for funding from the health trust to get Votubia (everolimus).

The drug was intended for children with brain tumor growth nonganas associated with a condition called tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC).

Pills are taken once daily offers an alternative to surgery and is expected to save up to 1600 young people with tumors in the UK.

Drugs that have been granted the status of drugs for rare diseases have been shown to shrink the tumor giant cell subependymal astrocytoma (SEGA) associated with TSC.

As quoted from the Press Association on Tuesday (27 / 9), TSC is a genetic disorder that leads to malignant not tumor formed in organs, especially in the brain and kidneys. Brain tumors occur in about 20 percent of patients with TSC is causing physical and mental disabilities.

3 eggs a week Increase Prostate Cancer

HEART  of men, especially for those who regularly eat eggs. Because, according to researchers, eating more than 3 eggs a week to significantly increase the risk and endanger the men who developed prostate cancer.

The conclusion was obtained through a trial which found that men who consumed more than 2.5 eggs per week has a 81 percent risk of prostate cancer, reports the Daily Mail.

Humor can be Against Cancer - (Movie Review)

The film, starring Seth Rogen new 50/50 and Joseph Gordon-Levitt tells the story of a man about 20 years (Gordon-Levitt), who treats cancer with humor and support from friends. Jen Chaney interviewed contributions and screenwriter Seth Rogen, Will Reiser, who spoke so 50/50 on personal experience is based.
Reiser, 31, wrote the screenplay for the film, opening on Friday on the country, survived the horrors of his own cancer in 2005. After a solid tumor cancer and was in the back when he was 25 found, the clerk, the plaintiff then turned to his close friends, such as roe writer and actor best known for burnout sarcastic-but-nice that in the upstream and The Pineapple Express hits Knocked known for their support.

Celebrating Breast Cancer Awareness Month

The White House has donated a rosy glow in Washington, DC got the men their pumpkins in Calvert, Maryland, and bras for women's art in Orange City, Florida in Pennsylvania, painting made the first lady was Susan Corbett Rosa the fountain in Harrisburg. And they did in the last 25 years Anniversary of National Breast Cancer Awareness months.

This event promises even more opportunities in October and reflected color to bring.

It is clear that anyone who is the great attention to the cause, said Terry Music, the head of the delivery of mission for the American Cancer Society.

There are hundreds of breast cancer awareness walks and runs around the country, as well as marathons and a lot of movement in connection with events. Then there's tea parties, lunches, golf tournaments, masked balls, art exhibitions and concerts, and motocross bike.

13 Annual Report  Living with Breast Cancer  Symposium:  Facing the Street , 1 October from 8:30 until noon at the S-clock Hospital (8600 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda). Free and open to all survivors of breast cancer, family and friends. Registration is required. To register or for more information, call 301-896-3939.

Elderly Prostate Cancer Main Danger Men

The prevalence of prostate cancer in this country more than tripled last ten years. The disease is the leading cause of cancer death for elderly men.

"If handled from an early stage, life expectancy 70 percent. If the advanced stage, in many cases the life expectancy of 50 percent, in 5 years the patient died. Five years later the remaining 20 percent, "said Chairman of the Association of urologists, oncologists Indonesia (ISUO) Prof. dr Rainy Umbas in educating the media entitled" Know and Be aware of Prostate Cancer "held Sanofi Group and ISUO in Jakarta, Saturday (9 / 7).

In the RSCM and Hospital Gatot Subroto Jakarta, he added, on average up 80 cases (patients) a new treatment. Each year the number increased 10-40 percent. As for the period 10-15 years ago cases of prostate cancer an average of 30 cases handled in the two main hospital's urology-oncology.

Cancer More Deadly in Men

Although both suffering from cancer, turned out to women's chances for survival against the disease is greater than the men. A study says men are at higher risk to die from cancer.

The report, published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention that analyzed the survival rate for 5 years from 36 types of cancer.

Differences in life expectancy more apparent than in cases where oral cancer than 100,000 people died than 5:51 man 1 woman, followed by 5.37 larynx cancer, hypopharynx cancer and esophageal cancer 4.08 4.47 compared to 1 woman.

Tall Women More at Risk of Cancer?

Women who have a height above the average is greater cancer risk than people whose short stature (less than 155 centimeters). Those above 175 cm high cancer risk 37 percent higher.

The study was conducted on more than one million women in Britain in a study that examines the link between height and incidence of 17 types of cancer. In general, for every increase in height of 10 cm, the risk increased 16 percent.

Clostridium to Defeat Cancer

Management of cancer therapy continues to grow more and give hope that these malignant cells can be defeated. Over the past 30 years, cancer treatment has undergone a revolution that was so extraordinary.

If at first cancer therapy based on surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy side effect bad and uncomfortable, the next treatment will become more specific and less interference on quality of life they are forced to live it.

Conservative therapy is still like that make the atomic bomb devastated the entire body to feel the consequences. Patient radiation and chemotherapy, for example, often experience nausea, hair loss, until charred skin. In contrast, more advanced therapies called monoclonal antibodies only shoot targets cancer cells so that, in addition to more effective, side effects also much reduced.

Fish Oil Can Reduce Effectiveness of Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy often lose their effectiveness over time, but it is unclear how or why this happened. Now known that the ineffectiveness of chemotherapy caused by two types of fatty acids produced stem cells in the blood.

Researchers at the University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands, have discovered a substance that has adverse effects on almost all types of chemotherapy. This substance makes cancer cells resistant to treatment.

By researchers, the substance is called "PIFA", an abbreviation of platinum-induced fatty acids. Cisplatin is a type of chemotherapy that is widely used for the treatment of cancers, including lung cancer and ovarian. Under the influence of cisplatin chemotherapy, stem cells that secrete PIFA was able to withstand the effects of chemotherapy.

Nasopharyngeal Cancer

Nasofarings carcinoma is a malignant tumor that attacks the epithelium (outer layer of the mucosa) nasofarings area, is a unique tumor in both the symptoms, easily spread and recurrence. Nasofarings is narrow and very hidden area located between the nose with the back of the throat, with an area of ​​approximately 2-4 cm2. Nasofarings the top of the room adjacent to the so-called sinus sfenoidalis, the front is limited choana (the hole on the back of the nose), the side of the estuary there are ears (tuba auditiva), adjacent to the bottom of the soft palate (soft palate), while the back is bordered with the spine.

Cancer / Brain Tumors

The brain is the center of life. All activities of life, until every detail, can only occur through a mechanism regulated by the brain. At the same time the brain must perform thousands of activities at once. When suddenly heard a horn from the back of the brain tells the foot lightning bolt to the edge, send the neck to look back, telling wide-eyed, telling the muscles strained to cope with an emergency situation, telling the heart to pump blood faster, sending the nose to keep breathing , and many more that should be regulated.