Despite all the medical research work and therapeutic advances behind the treatment of cancer, from surgery, chemical to radiation solutions, the cellular anomaly remains a deadly disease that, in 2007 alone, killed 7.6 million people worldwide. Once detected, cancer patients often have little prognosis to a remission and the cancer’s inevitable progressive malignancy is certain to cause death. But detected early, the chance for a cure increases.

Curing Cancer

Recognizing the cause of any disease is always the best place to start in treating it. But because cancer is a class of disease that can affect any part of the body, there is no single panacea any more than there is a singular cure for all infectious diseases. While cancerous cells can be traced to DNA mutations that cause abnormal cell growth, there is really no known cure in the sense of reversing the cause.

Surgery can excise the malignant body tissue or organ, chemotherapy and radiotherapy can attack and destroy anomalous malignant cells, but they all work to treat the metastatic condition in the hope of arresting the spread, not the cause. Hence, it is not unusual the patients in remission can develop cancer anew after a few years. (more…)

There are few herbs which can be used both topical as well as internal. Turmeric is one of them. This flexibility gives turmeric an edge for skin cancer treatment. We will see how to use turmeric and skin cancer can be prevented.

Our skin is the most exposed organ in our body. It is the wrapper of our internal organs. Obviously it is subjected to various conditions of climate. One of them is the exposure to sun. We all know that the nature has provided enough to safeguard our skin from sun rays, especially the UV rays. This safeguard is obtained in the form of bio availability of nutrition which our body can synthesis and also from external sources. One of the external sources is the turmeric and skin cancer should be handled by both topical application and oral intake. (more…)

Being diagnosed with colon rectal cancer is a stressful time for anyone. Colon rectal cancer occurs when there are malignant cancer cells that develop and grow in the tissues of the colon. The colon is part of human’s digestive system. Having a healthy digestive system is important to ensuring our overall sense of well-being. It is the hub where wastes are removed promptly out of our body and it is responsible for processing and absorbing all the crucial nutrients, vitamins, carbohydrates, proteins, fats, water and minerals.

Not everybody falls into the high-risk group of patients who develop colon rectal cancer. Some people are more at risk than the others. The factors include someone who is at or over the age of fifty, someone who has a family medical history of colon cancer, a personal history of suffering from ovarian cancer, rectal cancer, endometrium or breast cancer, and a history of having polyps in the colon. Polyps are small pieces of bulging tissues in your colon. (more…)

Giving cancer treatment is actually in a bit difficult for you. Most people have unsuccessfully resulted for being the cancer treatment. As a medical world, it is actually as the hard task for creating the best treatment for cancer. The New Hope Medical Center is actually as one of expert, which provides you with the best treatment for cancer patients. It will be the plus point of you for having the treatment form the New hope Medical Treatment. Surely, by having the treatment from the New Hope Medical Center, you will get some special treatment.

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YOU often cough? Every so often, so never stop, even to bleed? Also shortness of breath, fever, and weight loss? If yes, do not underestimate these things. That could be a symptom of lung  cancer, silent killer which until now still difficult to cure.

Lung cancer is a tumor that grows in the lung, which mostly comes from cells in the lung. But lung cancer can also come from cancer in other body parts that spread to the lung. According to Prof. Dr. Faisal Yunus MD, Ph.D., FCCP, expert of lung disease from MH Thamrin Hospital, lung cancer is the cancer most often occurs, both men and women. This cancer is also one major cause of cancer deaths.

“Rarely people affected by this disease can survive for years. At least one year. Lung cancer is not like cancer in common, which still can be treated,” he said.  (more…)

Being diagnosed with cancer is devastating, there’s nothing like the impact of those three little words, “you have cancer.” I know this only too well as a 10-year survivor and as someone whose Mom, Dad, Aunts and Grandpa have battled with the disease.

At the time of my diagnosis I was shell shocked, as most of us are. I was even more confused by the variety of treatment choices offered me. Decisions about a lumpectomy or mastectomy, a TRAM flap or silicone or saline implants were all part of this challenging time.

While I’m a big proponent of having choice, after all, it is our body, it was one of the few times in my life where I would have loved to have passed off the decisions to someone else. But that wasn’t an option and so I made my own decision, after lots of reading and interviewing.

While no one had an issue with my choices, this isn’t always the case. I had a friend who chose alternative cancer treatments, to many of her friends dismay. My own Mom, after two brutual rounds of chemotherapy announced that she was done regardless of what her oncologist said. Her decision was incredibly upsetting to me, but as someone who had just gone through her own cancer journey, I felt strongly that the decision around her cancer treatment was hers to make.

In situations like these, what are the steps you should take to help the cancer patient through their treatment journey? The following nine tips will help you navigate this challenging time. (more…)

Ok, so which is it kemo therapy or chemotherapy? Actually the correct spelling is chemotherapy but when you are searching online Google gives as much credibility to kemo therapy as chemotherapy. What really matters is what are the side effects of this particular treatment for cancer. How long will these effects last and is it worth it?

What is usually associated with chemotherapy is tiredness and lack of stamina in the long run. Fertility can be affected in the long term with certain types of kemo therapy. You really need to do some research on these side effects with the particular kind of treatment to be received.

It has been known that millions of women over 40 have experienced hair loss when undergoing chemotherapy. However there have been some ways found that will prevent this in some cases. That too can and should be researched. (more…)

Cancer is a deadly disease that kills millions of people each year. Through surgery and therapy, it is treatable, especially during the early stages, since cancer tissue has not completely tainted the affected area. However, during the late stages, recovery is slim, much less survival. Hope comes in the form of therapies and alternative cancer treatment. Your doctor can use chemotherapy and radiotherapy to overcome cancer cells. On your part, you can take alternative medicine to counter the effects of cancer.

Natural medicine has an alternative for every type of medical treatment, including the ones for cancer. Quite a number of herbs and common items have enzymes and components that harm cancer cells through constant exposure. Many of them will surprise you, since they are often used in our day to day activities. To give you a clear view, here are some of the products you need to consume, to beat cancer:

· Green Tea – Green tea cleans the digestive system, flushing toxins out of the body. Not only that, some researchers claim that its effects against cancer are significant. It can harm cancer cells and eventually flush them out, if you consume the morning beverage daily. (more…)

At this point in time there are so many options available, that people can take advantage of. The internet has provided us with so much useful information about various topics that did not exist, before the internet. Of course you got to know where to look. One of those is alternative medicine for cancer treatment. A lot of them are clearly proven to work, but should you really put more trust in alternative medicine, then on conventional treatment for cancer.

When a person is diagnosed of cancer or any other diseases, then the person would rightful expect, to be given the best and most effective treatment. If a doctor says that chemotherapy, surgery or any other type of treatment is the best option, then naturally we would think this is the case.

Unfortunately this is not always the case and the treatments that are used by conventional medicine, are not always the most effective. Another aspect, that is even more important than the health and well-being of the patient, is money. Without a doubt big pharmaceutical companies make a huge amount of money selling drugs to the people, including cancer drugs, which are not cheap. (more…)

Breaf History of Hyperthermia
The healing effect of heat treatment was already mentioned in the advanced cultures of the old Egypt (2400 B.C.), but only the medical professionals of the Greek Antique used this therapeutic approach consistently, acknowledged it and called it over-warming (in Greek: Hyperthermia). “Give me the power to produce fever and I heal every illness”, said Parmenides, Greek physician, 540-480 B.C.

Hyperthermia in cancer treatment
Hyperthermia (also called thermal therapy or thermotherapy) is an acute condition which occurs when the body produces or absorbs more heat than it can dissipate. It is usually caused by prolonged exposure to high temperatures. The heat-regulating mechanisms of the body eventually become overwhelmed and unable to effectively deal with the heat, causing the body temperature to climb uncontrollably.

Hyperthermia can also be created artificially by drugs or medical devices. In these instances it may be used to treat cancer and other conditions. Cancer cells are more heat-sensitive than healthy cells and their structure reacts differently to overheating. (more…)