Cancer Resources

Asbestos is a mineral fiber. It can be definitely identified simply with a special kind of microscope. There are many types of asbestos fibers. Formerly, asbestos was added to a range of products to reinforce them and to give heat insulation and fire resistance.

Asbestos-related lung disease happened at very high rates to the middle of the 20th century, when patients who were uncovered decades earlier to asbestos finally developed disease. British asbestos workers were among the first who were detected to suffer lung cancer related to asbestos. Continue reading ‘The Victims of Lung Cancer Related to Asbestos’ »

I skipped my workout yesterday, but I had a good excuse. Seriously, I did. I skipped my workout, because I went to a Team in Training information session.

For those of you that don’t know what that is, Team in Training is one of the largest training groups in the nation. They are dedicated to helping the Lymphoma and Leukemia society find a cure for blood cancers. Something that I did not know, is that the Team in Training (TNT) has donated close to $975 million to cancer research since its inception 20 years ago. In the central Texas area alone, last year TNT raised close to $1 million dollars. They’re looking to raise more than that this year.

I went to the meeting, to find out more about the organization, and to find out how the whole thing works. I’m not entirely sure that I want to do the whole fundraising thing, but I wanted to know what the organization is all about. I don’t know anyone with cancer (knock on wood) nor do I even understand what is involved with fundraising. I know what it takes to train for and run a marathon, the training does not concern me at all. Finding time to train, does concern me.

Here it is in a nutshell: What you, as an individual do, is join a local TNT group in your city, and fundraise. In exchange for your efforts, TNT will train you to run a marathon, a half marathon, or complete a triathlon, or whatever other event is a good fit for them and you. Here in Austin, we have a choice of events between the Phoenix Rock’n Roll marathon and the AT&T Austin Marathon. Continue reading ‘Team in Training – What's it All About?’ »

Colorectal cancer early screening is recommended at more frequent intervals and starting at a younger age for those at increased risk due to hereditary syndromes. Due to the fact that germline mutations are present in every cell, it is essential to be aware of the higher risk for extra colonic tumors in these syndromes, but each has a distinct spectrum of risk in other organs.

According to the American Gastroenterological Association has published a position statement and guidelines on genetic testing for hereditary colon cancer. The integration of genetic testing into clinical practice provides multiple benefits to individuals in families with histories of colorectal cancer. These benefits include earlier detection of colorectal neoplasms and prevention of cancer, removal of patient doubt, greater choice of surgical and other intervention options, elimination of unnecessary screening, and provision of information for planning family and career decisions. In hereditary colon cancer, genetic testing has been shown to be cost-effective. Continue reading ‘Everyone Could Be Potential Suspect For Colon Cancer’ »

Today the dominant view about the experience of having breast cancer is that being diagnosed and treated constitute crises in the lives of women who experience them, but the experience spans a year by most women with the early stage of the disease (i.e., women with a favorable prognosis).

However, some women may feel the diagnosis and treatment are more traumatic and display some symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

These issues make unique contributions to predicting emotional distress, sexual disruption, and impairments in feelings of femininity in these women as well. In two separate groups of women, patients with early-stage breast cancer who expected to remain cancer free in the future reported less emotional distress.

It also appears that there are significant ethnic differences in the concerns reported and the adverse reactions expressed by patients with breast cancer. Hispanic women report more intense concerns than do other women, as well as higher levels of emotional distress and social and sexual disruptions, whereas African American women report lower levels of distress and disruption in sense of femininity than the other groups. Continue reading ‘How Women Cope With the Stress of Breast Cancer’ »

The condition referred to as Duodenal Ulcer is one that typically announces itself as a sharp, severe pain in the upper part of the abdomen (the Epigastrium), appearing when a person is hungry and the stomach is empty.

Essentially, duodenal ulcers are caused by too much acid in the stomach; when the acid proves too strong for the protective inner lining of the duodenum (the part where the stomach joins the small intestine), it starts, in effect, burning a hole in the stomach wall. It is this crater, or ulcer, which results in pain, particularly when there is no food inside the stomach to use up the acid that is being produced.

Patients who develop duodenal ulcers usually tend to get relief from their pain by taking some milk, bland food or antacid tablets (like milk of magnesia), which can neutralize the excess acid. The danger of duodenal ulcers is that they erode the stomach wall – either perforating (so that the contents of the stomach leak out into the abdominal cavity) or eroding into a blood vessel, resulting in bleeding. Small amounts of bleeding manifest as Malaena (black discoloration of the stools) while a massive bleed can cause the patient to vomit blood or even die of hemorrhage. Continue reading ‘What is Duodenal Ulcer and How to Diagnose?’ »

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