“Given the considerable time that has passed since PSA screening began, most of this excess incidence must represent overdiagnosis,” the authors write. “All overdiagnosed patients are needlessly exposed to the hassle factors of obtaining treatment, the financial implications of the diagnosis, and the anxieties associated with becoming a cancer patient…”

The increased diagnosis has been most dramatic among younger men: more than tripling since 1986 in men aged 50-59 (from 58.4 to 212.7 per 100, 000) and more than a sevenfold increase in men under age 50 (from 1.3 to 9.4 per 100,000).

In an accompanying editorial, Otis W. Brawley, M.D., chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, writes, “We desperately need the ability to predict which patient has a localized cancer that is going to metastasize and cause suffering and death and which patient has a cancer that is destined to stay in the patient’s prostate for the remainder of his life.”

Specialists in prostate cancer have recognised for a long time that they diagnose and treat more men with prostate cancer than actually benefit and, at the same time, many men with significant prostate cancer are diagnosed too late.

Almost 10,000 men die from prostate cancer in the UK each year, having received either inadequate treatment or were beyond curative intervention at the time of diagnosis. Furthermore, a massive European study has shown that testing a man’s PSA can reduce the chance of dying from prostate cancer by around 20 per cent or more.

So what strategies should we follow? As it turns out, more specialists try to direct men with prostate cancer to active monitoring, which is intense observation, when there is enough doubt that surgery or radiotherapy is needed.

This tactic avoids “overtreatment” but hopefully keeps the window still open for successful surgery or radiotherapy if the need becomes obvious. Furthermore, the treatments themselves have become less toxic. Big incisions have been replaced with keyhole incisions, and, computers assist surgeons in the most difficult steps – so called “robotic prostatectomy” or “da Vinci Prostatectomy.”

Small incisions and computer assistance have reduced the time in hospital and allowed men to return to work, leisure and other activities in much shorter periods. Thus, technical and strategic innovations in both diagnosis and treatment have meant that the number of men overtreated or suffering from the problems associated with treatment is probably much less than before.

Marc Laniado is a Consultant Urologist at Harley Street Urology who are UK experts is prostate cancer testing and treatments.

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Q. Why is there so much cancer now days?

A. It’s because of the way we now live compared to 40 to 50 years ago when cancer was rare and it’s these changes that has caused the problem.

Q. What is the cause of cancer?

A. Cancer doesn’t have a single cause, it has many causes, our wrong food choices being just one of them but it’s the most important cause. Other contributing factors are our sedentary lifestyle and the chemicals we encounter everyday. All these causes weaken our defence system which allows cancer cells to become established.

Q. My friend’s father had treatment for his cancer but died a year later, why didn’t it cure him?

A. The treatments now days are only removing cancer growths; they don’t look at the root cause why it first appeared so naturally it will just reappear again, usually in some other location.

Q. If my cancer has reappeared is it too late to do something about it?

A. No, it’s never too late, the human body has a natural ability to heal itself but it does need a little help by making simple lifestyle changes.

Q. What is the connection between cancer and the immune system?

A. The immune system is very important because it’s the reason why the cancer appeared in the first place; it had been weakened and allowed cancer cells to become established.

Q. How does our wrong food choices cause us to get cancer?

A. We need to maintain our health throughout life and the food we eat daily with its vitamins and phytochemicals does that for us. Today we are mostly eating processed food and any food that’s been processed has lost its nutritional value.

Q. Can cancer be passed from one person to another?

A. No, it can’t, it is not contagious.

Q. What about genetics, we are told that if our parents had cancer it is likely that we will also get cancer?

A. It’s not genetics in so much as lifestyle factors; we pick up bad habits from our parents because they were our teachers. These habits can be easily broken.

Q. How successful is radiation and chemotherapy?

A. While our orthodox medical system does have its share of success with some leukaemia’s and lymphomas, unfortunately the most common cancers are as resistance to their treatments as they were 40 to 50 year ago.

Q. What about cancer tests like mammograms for breast cancer and PSA test for prostate cancer?

A. They are important but they are not 100 percent reliable. Also for cancer to be detected it has to be of a certain size so it takes many years before symptoms become apparent.

Q. Is there other ways to treat cancer or are there only surgery, radiation and chemotherapy?

A. Yes there are other ways and that is to address the reasons why the cancer first appeared and allow the body to heal which it will do. By doing so you are strengthening the immune system and the body will remove the cancer naturally.

Q. How long will it be before we have a cure for cancer?

A. Unfortunately that’s not going to happen. We’ve been looking for a cure for nearly 40 years since President Nixon declared war on the disease in 19:71. Cancer is a deficiency disease and you won’t fix that with a pill. The only way to cure it is to remedy the deficiency.

We spend billions of dollars in treating cancer today yet we spend little promoting the consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables, foods that medicine well knows are helpful in preventing and reversing cancer. Unfortunately the bulk of research money goes towards looking for a cure, not preventing cancer or promoting treatments that are beneficial.

Alan Wighton is an independent health researcher, having spent many years specialising in cancer. For further information on more effective ways to overcome cancer using the powerful natural healing ability of the human body; please visit Cancer Facts & Information

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a) Once you discover some irregularity in urination, it is better to go for a check up or medical test. A sample blood test or urine test will be enough to identify the problem.

b) There are cases where diagnoses have failed to detect the prostate problems. In these situations, we need to be careful and note the urination habit and the any feeling of pain.

c) Without screening, it is quite difficult for anyone to be sure of occurrence of prostate cancer.

d) If you feel the need to urinate very often, and the frequency of going to toilet increases, you can suspect or prostate cancer.

e) Feeling or burning sensation while urinating often indicates prostate cancer. it can be one of the potential prostate problems symptoms.

f) The flow of urine through the tract is not spontaneous. There is intermittent pressure causing the urine to pass with stop and start motion.

g) Gradually urination becomes more and more difficult and there might be blood cells getting leaked with the urine.

h) Erection becomes difficult. You start feeling pain as soon as you get an erection. It gives immense pain if you try and have sex. Further ejaculation is far more painful and there are chances that you might notice blood in semen.

i) Discomfort, feeling of laziness and fatigue. This is because you don’t good sleep at night with the urgency of urinating every now and then.

j) Other symptoms like swelling of legs, pain in pelvic region and decrease in force to urinate indicates prostate cancer.

It is highly recommended to visit the doctor and get diagnosed properly once you note prostate problems symptoms and undergo treatment before it starts spreading.

Having accurate, updated information on prostate problems is also very important. If you feel that you need more information , E Prostate Problems will take you directly to a Web site that will give you tons of information on, Enlarged Prostate Problems, treatments, alternative therapy, Prostate Massage,specific conditions,Prostate Cancer and clinical trials.

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The rates of survival certainly depends on many different factors and the more advanced the cancer is, the lower the survival rates are obviously. The breast cancer stages are the best way to determine the rate of survival for breast cancer patients.

For example Stage 0 means the cancer cells can only be found on the walls of the lump inside the breast and that the cancer is non-invasive. Stage 1 of breast cancer means that the cancer has become invasive already and that the tumor is around 2 cm long. Stage 2A means that the tumor is around 2-5 cm long.

Stage 2B of breast cancer means that the tumor is 2 cm long, but some auxiliary lymph nodes have been affected and if the tumor gets above 5 cm, then the cancer is already reached stage 3A. When the cancer has already reached the skin of the breast, then it has reached stage 3B. When already other organs of the body are affected then the cancer has reached stage 4.

The survival rates from diagnosis for 10-year period is around 76% and 5-year survival rate is 86%. Cancer patients that have metastatic, have a 5-year survival rate of 21% and without metastatic it is 96%. For example Stage 0 has a survival rate of 100%, like Stage 1, Stage 2A has 92%, Stage 2B has 81%, Stage 3A has 67%, Stage 3B has 54% and Stage 4 has only 20% survival rate.

The sooner you have been diagnosed the better you chances will be, as you can see and another way how your chances can be increased is with alternative cancer treatments. There are so many treatments that can either prevent cancer or increase your chances of survival.

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For those who don’t know, leukemia is a cancer that starts in the blood forming cells. The bone marrow produces both white and red cells, when this disease takes flight a over abundance of abnormal white cells are produced. These cells can attack good tissue, for what ever reasons they see them as the enemy.

Two Alternative Treatments For Leukemia

1. Nutritional Therapy – this is just what it states, re-balancing you system based on nutritional imbalances. Natural treatment through the ages has always healed the body by giving it what it lacks in nutrition. Adhering to the belief that “give the body what it needs and it will do the rest”.
2. Naturopathic Medicine – a doctor practicing this type of medicine dips their feet in both traditional and natural treatments. The difference is this practicing doctor digs deeper, they look for the cause which can lead to the cure.

When you hear the word Alternative you will most likely find practitioners that work on a natural and/or spiritual level of healing. Some of it based on hundreds of years of passed on knowledge, some of it based on scientific fact and some of it based on the belief that your mind holds enormous power for healing.

Treatments have two goals, making you better and making life better for you. If any of the alternative treatments for leukemia can do this, why not consider them.

You can start by going to Luekemia Options for more information and alternatives on this subject. It’s time to take back your Health. It’s time to enjoy life again and it’s your time to find out about all the choices you have for Good Health.

Check out the category on Holistic Treatments, you may find other helpful information there too.

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No doubt, there are still a lot of disputes going on around alternative cancer treatments. Some people automatically associate the term with snake oil doctors. On the other side, there are more and more cancer survivors contributing their success to alternative or complimentary cancer treatment methods.
Historical traces of asbestos use go back to the Roman Empire. However, evidence of the use of asbestos in pottery and chinking of log homes dating back 3000 BC has been found archeological digs in Scandinavia. The third school of thought believes that the substance was actually used for the first time in an island off of Greece.

It was already a few centuries back ago, when the Greek actually discovered the outstanding characteristics of asbestos. The history books mention asbestos being used as an insulator. However, there is also mentions that even back then there were speculations about as to whether or not the material could cause damage to someone’s health.
Electrical workers, including electrical linemen, general electricians and even telephone linemen came in daily contact with asbestos containing insulation used around their products. Coast Guard staff, shipyard workers, merchant mariners, longshoremen and U.S. Navy personnel worked and oftentimes even lived in areas with asbestos exposure. Other professions, such as wrecking crews or demolition contractors, were at a constant risk of breathing in the toxic fibers while they were destroying old constructions that had used asbestos insulation products.

For example, workers in asbestos textile mills, protective clothing and glove makers came in contact with asbestos while they wove it into cloth. The material was also used by automobile manufactures, assembly workers, brake repairers and mechanics. Workers in cement plants, manufacturers of building supply products, building engineers and construction workers, all worked with or on asbestos products.
Asbestos products do not pose a risk, unless they get damaged – that’s when the fibers may contaminate the air on site. Only under a special microscope you would be able to see those very small dust-particles. If they get ingested or inhaled, they can start the development of this health condition.

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Prostate cancer is a form of cancer that develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. Most of prostate cancers are slow developing. However, there are cases of aggressive prostate cancers. The cancer cells may spread from the prostate to other parts of the body, mainly the bones & lymph nodes. Prostate cancer may cause difficulty in urinating, pain, problems during sexual intercourse, or erectile dysfunction. There are many options available for prostate cancer treatment. Prostate cancer treatments include surgery, radiation therapy, proton therapy, hormonal therapy, chemotherapy, cryosurgery, and high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU)

Skin cancer, known as skin neoplasia, is the most common form of human cancer. It is expected that over 1 million new cases take place yearly. The yearly rates of all forms of skin cancer are rising every year, representing a growing public concern. The warning of skin cancer is a change in the appearance of the skin, like a new growth or a sore that will not heal. Skin cancer can catch to any person of any age. Prevention is the key for escaping from skin cancer. You must use preventive techniques. Skin cancer treatment may include curettage and desiccation, surgical excision, cryosurgery, Mohs micrographic surgery, radiation therapy, medical therapy using creams etc.

Heart disease is the medical term used for a variety of different diseases affecting the human heart. There are several causes of heart diseases. The most common cause of heart disease is the blood vessels that supply blood to the heart itself, narrowing or blockage of the coronary arteries. Smoking, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, family history, peripheral artery disease, insufficient exercises, stress, obesity are the causes of heart diseases. The heart diseases are usually treated in a multi-step approach depending upon a patient’s symptoms of heart diseases. The patient & healthcare service provider need to work together to return the patient to a normal lifestyle. Medication and advices are applied to treat the heart patients. Surgery & heart transplant are also done in severe condition for heart diseases treatment.

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I have just met up with a long time friend of mine, only to find he had spent time in hospital undergoing surgery after a diagnosis of bowel cancer. My friend Tom, whose knowledge about cancer of the colon was limited, naturally accepted all the treatments recommended by his health professional.

Tom had surgery in which they removed a section of his colon and his surgeon informed him afterwards that he had got it all. What Tom wasn’t told was they had got all the cancer they could see but because individual cancer cells are only visible through a microscope there were possibly thousands of rogue cells left behind. He also wasn’t told the surgical removal of cancer doesn’t address the reasons why the cancer first grew so it won’t stop it growing again in the future or shifting to another location.

Tom asked about a change in diet, could it help but was told he needn’t make any as they didn’t think what he had eaten had anything to do with his cancer. Nobody knew to tell him, the most powerful weapon to overcome any cancer is the food you choose to eat everyday. He also should have been told the connection between refined sugar and cancer. It had been discovered back in 19:31 that cancer cells survive by a process of fermentation and the food item that fuels this process is sugar. Eating refined sugar when you have cancer is like pouring gasoline onto a smouldering fire, it accelerates its growth.

He asked about exercise and once again got a negative response. We need exercise everyday to keep our immune system healthy. All cancers are a disease of a weak immune system which has been weakened by the way we live, especially with our sedentary lifestyle. Our immune system needs muscular activity to keep it working efficiently because it doesn’t have a pump like the heart. So with a sluggish immune system it’s not going to remove any cancer cells as they reappear again in the future.

There are many other important pieces of information my friend needed to know to aid his recovery and it’s a sad fact that our medical professionals who are in charge of our health and healing don’t know these facts. That’s why doctors get cancer as well and we have had a few examples here where I live. Their treatments of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy only attack the cancer growths and do nothing for the long term survival of any cancer patient.

All cancers were a rare occurrence 40 to 50 years ago where as today 1 in 3 people living in an industrialised country are being diagnosed with the problem. Cancer has many causes and it’s not hard to find these causes when you carry out research into the cancer industry. Also our 3 orthodox treatments all damage the immune system, the very mechanism that keeps us health, disease free and cancer free.

The problem of getting information about cancer lies with the training of our health professionals. They are solely taught drug based medicine which is only a money orientated system of treatments. Also we don’t have cancer prevention today and that is why it is growing at an alarming rate.

Alan Wighton is an independent health researcher having spent many years specialising in cancer. For further information about all cancers that no one will tell you, to help you overcome the disease; please visit Cancer Facts & Information.

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Breast Cancer Awareness Month is a time when women and young girls are alerted to the importance of early detection. This doesn’t mean that women are not made aware of what’s involved with breast cancer treatments, self breast examination and recovery issues all year round; it is just strongly more focused upon in October through Breast Awareness Campaigns. These types of campaigns have great pulling power where we see more and more women coming forward to get themselves checked out, and their questions answered.

As it is with most organizations and support groups they need financial help to keep up the good work. Breast cancer groups will include people who care, and are compassionate towards your feelings. It is also most likely that them who run the groups are, or, have been patients themselves. Cancer care workers will help you the best they can to come to terms with having breast cancer, be there for you when undergoing treatment for breast cancer

If you would like to help these people who work tirelessly tending to the sick, then you can. Some people will run a marathon to raise funds for breast cancer while others may put on a show and sell tickets to make money for their breast cancer charity. Why not take advantage of Halloween night and get a few friends together and dress up, and instead of holding a lighted pumpkin, hold up a placard with a message saying all monetary donations will be donated to the breast cancer campaign.

It is likely that a great deal of women reading this will know how to do a self breast examination regular, but for those oblivious more details on this below.

Let’s direct our attention to women who are recovering and survived the disease and want their life back to normal. In most cases of breast cancer it is not only the patient affected and included with all the heartache, your partner, close relatives and friends, and more heart rendering if there’s children. The numbers are high for women suffering from breast cancer who get to see their kids grow up, all because they detected a lump early in their breast before it could further reach a dangerous stage (life threatening.)

Some helpful advice

No matter how much some tells you not to be scared and everything is going to be fine, you’ll always debate this in thought due the fear of knowing you have the Big C. Getting over the initial shock of having you’re your GP tell you – you have breast cancer, you may benefit and feel more content reading up on the disease. This will help you understand more clearly about breast cancer, of which in the past you might never had given much thought too, until receiving the news you had it. As long as the advice is got from a reputable source like “breastcancer.org” then take heed because the information they provide is right and safe.

Having chemotherapy treatment can drain you of much energy so get someone in to help you with household chores. Don’t try and overdo things around the home, remember you are recovering and your body needs time to heal.

Join a support group for mental strength. You might find talking about your cancer, your family, your fears, your hopes and much more to other patients who are willing to reciprocate in this manner will help greatly, and you can also learn a lot from others ailing, and how they overcame them.

Talking about your breast cancer or any other type of cancer is known to help, but only when you want to. Some days you may feel that talking is what you need, while at other times you don’t. There’s always going to be them awkward moments when friends and family will try to avoid having to talk to you, or sadly come face to face with you if you’re out and about. This usually happens because they don’t know what to say. If you’re up to it then break the barrier that’s making it difficult for them to communicate. Let them know you’re not upset if they bring up the subject, and for them not to tread on eggshells when around you. This is when normality comes back into your life. The longer you keep quiet so will the others.

If you can speak openly about your condition you get to evade those dreaded silent moments. Only talk about your condition when you’re good and ready, and don’t be bullied into it.

You have to be positive about your condition if you can, and avoid being around folks with a somber look. They may well be saddened for you, but explain to them that their feeling down is not helping.

No matter how strong of a person you are, and positive about the whole thing, there will be bad days and weakness, that’s fine and perfectly natural. There will be crying days of which is expected, so bawl your eyes out if it makes you feel any better. Undergoing chemotherapy and radiation is hard, and crying promotes healing.

Comforting Quotes

Live in the present the best you can – the past can’t be undone and the future is unknown; many of our fears might not happen.

Live your life as fully as possible and carry out the activities that give you the most joy and meaning.”

Recognise that you have control over how you react to situations, even if you can’t control what happens to you.”

Learn to accept your negative feelings such as anger, sadness and hatred – this may help them to pass.”

Concentrate on relaxing with a relaxation tape.”

Keep a diary about what you go through to help you understand and express your feelings.”

Take part in breast cancer networks – this may help you feel that, through your experiences, you’re helping other women in a similar situation.”

Try to keep your sense of humour – even though it can be difficult at times!”

The positive thing to do starting now is to do regular self breast examinations to help prevent having to go through any of the above mentioned ups and downs, pains and treatments for Breast Cancer.

How to Perform a Self Breast Examination

The ideal time to examine the breasts is right after menstruation because they are not as sensitive tender or swollen.

Lie down and put a cushion under your right shoulder.

Place your right arm behind your head.

Using the tip pads of your 3 middle fingers on your left hand press gently and feel for lumps or thickening in your right breast.

Get a feel of how your breast feels first. If you’re uncertain of how much pressure to use ask your GP.

Learn what your breast feels like most of the time. A firm ridge in the lower curve of each breast is normal.

Move around the breast in a circular motion or the up and down movement. Do it the same way regular at an allotted like (1 month or sooner.)

Now examine your left breast doing exactly the same.

Repeat the examination of both breasts while standing, with one arm behind your head. The upright position makes it easier to check the upper and outer parts of the breasts.

Other signs and symptoms of abnormality are dimpling of the skin, changes in the nipple, redness, or swelling and nipple discharge being another.

Come on girls get cracking on making those Halloween costumes and go make money for Breast Cancer. You will be saving lives by doing this, and who knows may be your own, or someone close to you.

Halloween Costume Tip: Go dressed up as nurses and doctors with fully painted up zombie style faces. Without early detection of breast cancer then in the future there may be no need for face paint, it’s your call.

…right through the recovery period and after care.

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Cervical cancer can affect women of any age, though it is more common in women at the age range of 50-55. The cervical cancer grows in the lower, narrower part of the uterus, which connects the uterus with the vagina. Though the exact cause of the cancer is unknown, researches on this disease have suggested that a sexually transmitted virus can cause the cells in the cervix to change in such a way that it eventually leads to cancer.

If you are not yet certain that you have cervical cancer, it will be a good idea to locate some reputed Pittsburgh cervical cancer treatment centers where they will diagnose your condition. If unfortunately you happen to have cancer, you will have to find some Pittsburgh cervical cancer chemotherapy centers that offer the best treatments.

How will you be diagnosed?

Before any kind of treatment can be started, the hospital will need to diagnose your condition. The tests may include a pap test, colposcopy and biopsy, where a sample of the vagina is removed to be tested. In solposopy, a lighted, magnifying instrument is used to examine the vagina and the cervix in detail. The pap test is extremely important and must be carried out by all sexually active women, once every year. This test is performed by scraping and testing a tissue from the inside of the cervix and the upper vagina.

If cancer is detected, a few additional tests need to be carried out by the Pittsburgh cervical cancer treatment centers so that they can determine if the cancer has spread to other parts of the pelvis or any other part of the body.

Treatment of Cervical cancer

The Pittsburgh cervical cancer treatment centers will offer you numerous approaches that can help you treat your cancer, including surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. If you have been diagnosed with cancer, you can rest a little easier knowing that you have skilled qualified professionals on your side.

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