Cancer

Cervical cancer screening is recommended from the age of 25 onward. The reason for this is that early detection can prevent 75 percent of cancers from developing.

The length of the stay depends first and foremost on whether the surgery was performed via laparotomy or laparoscopy. The former usually requires a stay of a week or more, while patients receiving the latter surgery generally need only about a day or two of hospital recovery.

This can be calculated using the "MELD" score. (Model for end stage liver disease). It is an algebraic formula used to calculate life expectancy for an individual cirrhosis sufferer, based on blood test results etc... See related link for the MELD calculator.

There are many charities for breast cancer including Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the National Breast Cancer foundation.

Many of these charities are seeking donations as well as volunteers. If breast cancer is an issue that hits close to home or is something that you care about, you may want to become a part of these charities. There are many ways to raise money and awareness for breast cancer.

Cancer research in the UK is meant to make gains in the discovery of a cure for the various cancers and to find various means of containing their symptoms. The research helps us discover new cancers and new characteristics of the existing types.

The smoke came from burning the weed like stuff in the cigarret which is called tobacco. Tobacco contain something called nicotine. So the smoke contain nicotine.

It is this nicotine that is bad for your health capable in causing heart attack down to lung cancer.

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Yes, a headache anywhere can be a sign of a brain tumor, however that is extremely rare. Most often headaches at the back of the head are either tension headaches, Migraine, or occipital neuralgia. There are many more types of headache though, and many of them include pain at the back of the head. If you have a new type of headache or a severe headache, this is reason to seek the help of a qualified physician, especially a Headache Specialist.

Up to 90% of all human cancers are circinomas, which are growths that originate in epithelium. Most carcinomas begin on surfaces that contact the external enviroment, such as skin, linings of the airways in the respiratory tract, or linings of the stomach or intestines in the digestive tract. This observation suggests that the more cancer causing agentsmay not penetrate tissues very deeply.

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Cancer research raises money by having people use the internet wich gives them money, also when people research they start feeling sorry for them so they wanna give them money or help them to get money

As with cancer, leukemia is considered 'permanent' - something that can go into remission, but will generally stay with you forever. There are ways to get leukemia under control (after 5 years of remission, medical staff usually consider leukemia 'cured'), depending on the severity and type of leukemia. The most common methods consist of regularly taking prescribed medicine for it and going through chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Afterwards, you'll have to see whether or not the treatment(s) successfully forced the leukemia into remission. If not, then the patient will have to go for another round, either until the leukemia goes into remission or until the medical staff decide that it is a hopeless case.

Leukemia may, despite being in remission for a while, still resurface no matter the state your body is in.

Burgundy & white (or ivory) is the color ribbon for throat cancer.

Women who perform the act of fellatio and swallow semen on a regular basis, one to two times a week, may reduce their risk of breast cancer by up to 40 percent, a North Carolina State University study found.

Chemo is short for chemotherapy. While it once referred to a variety of chemical therapies, the term chemo is mostly used in the context of treating cancer these days.

A common chemotherapy agent blocks folic acid. That causes rapidly dividing tissue to stop growing. Aggressive tumors tend to grow rapidly, and thus depriving them of what they need to grow will cause them to start to die. However, hair and the intestines need folic acid too, and that is why people stay nauseous and go bald while taking chemotherapy.

No. The damage types that trigger cancers are far too small to be caused by physical damage such as pinching.

This is probably due a life-time buildup of chemicals in the body, combined with the natural decadence of the cells.

In older people the immune system becomes less effective and so cancer cells can spread and are not kept in check.

A lump on the skin could mean a variety of things. It could be a spot, a wart, a cyst or a variety of other things. If you have a lump in your skin, the best person to see in your GP, who will then refer you on to a dermatologist if need be.

The bone centrally located on the front of the body just above the penis is the pubic bone. The prostate is behind that, inside the body, just forward of the rectum.

Depending on the type, lymphoma can be NON life threatening. The above poster is correct. If you or someone you love has this, then search the web and go onto: www.google.com and ask your question. Print out any good information then sit and study it, making notes that you can shorten into questions later so you can ask your doctor to fill you in. Doctors are very busy in the U.S. and Canada and don't always have the time to sit down with a patient and go over every little thing and this is where the Internet is a complete God-send. My doctor's office actually has a notice encouraging his patients to write down any questions they may have. Also many pharmacists are quite qualified to answer some questions other than filling prescriptions.

Yes it is highly contagious:
Noroviruses (the kind that cause stomach flu) are very contagious and can spread easily from person to person. Both stool and vomit are infectious. Particular care should be taken with young children in diapers who may have diarrhea.


How long are people contagious?
People infected with norovirus are contagious from the moment they begin feeling ill to at least 3 days after recovery. Some people may be contagious for as long as 2 weeks after recovery. Therefore, it is particularly important for people to use good hand washing and other hygienic practices after they have recently recovered from a norovirus illness.

Additional note:
The "stomach flu" is also called viral gastroenteritis.