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Cancer
Cancer is a class of diseases characterized by out-of-control and abnormal cell growth spreading to other locations in the body via lymph or blood resulting in the destruction of adjacent tissues. There are over 100 different types of cancer specific to the type of cells that are affected.
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Women do not classically get prostate cancer as cancer of the prostate is classified as a disease of the prostate gland of the male reproductive system.
However, in 2002 the female Skene's Gland was officially renamed the female prostate as it was found to be homologous in function. Both male and female prostates produce Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) and contribute to the ejaculate fluid.
Six cases of adenocarcinoma have been observed as originated from the female prostate that strongly resemble that of classical male prostate cancer. Serum tests showed elevated levels of PSA, typical in prostate cancer.
What does the pink ribbon for breast cancer mean?
The pink ribbon is now an international symbol of breast cancer awareness. It is worn to show support for those whose lives have been touched by this disease. The more it is worn, the greater the chances that the public will associate it with breast cancer. This concept works in the same way as a coporate logo or tagline.
What doctor specializes in the treatment of cancer?
A doctor who specializes in the study or treatment of cancer is called an Oncologist.
Cancer is a disease in which some cells lose ability to control their?
Their Growth Rate. It's the high school bookworm again! :D
What is the survival rate for stomach cancer?
Of all those people diagnosed with cancer of the gallbladder fewer than 1 in 20 people (5%) will be alive 5 years later. Stage 0 and 1 If you have such an early stage of cancer of the gallbladder, you are most likely to have a simple cholecystectomy. About 60 out of every 100 people (60%) diagnosed with stage 0 disease and 50 out of every 100 people (50%) diagnosed with stage 1 gallbladder cancer will live for at least 5 years after this operation. Some surgeons believe that taking out nearby lymph nodes and some liver tissue during the operation helps stop the cancer returning. They believe this will improve the long term outcome for people with stage 1 gallbladder cancer. This operation is called an extended cholecystectomy. In some countries (such as Japan, where incidence rates for gallbladder cancer are higher than the UK or USA) this operation is standard treatment for stage 1 gallbladder cancer. The 5 year survival rates for stage 1 gallbladder cancer are better in Japan. Between 70 and 80 out of every 100 people (70 - 80%) diagnosed with stage 1 gallbladder cancer in Japan will survive 5 years or longer after an extended cholecystectomy. Stage 2 Fewer than 20 out of every 100 people (20%) will survive 5 years or longer with stage 2 gallbladder cancer . If you have an extended cholecystectomy or more extensive surgery, then you may have a slightly better chance than this. Stage 3 As you might expect, the survival statistics fall as the stage of gallbladder cancer goes up. About 5 out of every 100 people (5%) diagnosed with stage 3 gallbladder cancer live for at least 5 years. For people whose cancer is too far advanced for surgery when they are diagnosed, the average survival time is about 6 months but some may live for up to 2 years. Stage 4 Unfortunately most people diagnosed have stage 4 gallbladder cancer, so their cancer has already spread. Understandably, the survival statistics are lower than for stage 3 gallbladder cancers. Doctors generally think a patient is doing very well if they are still alive 2 years after being diagnosed with gallbladder cancer that has spread. Fewer than 2 out of every 100 people (2%) diagnosed with stage 4 gallbladder cancer live for 5 years or more. How reliable are cancer statistics? No statistics can tell you what will happen to you. Your cancer is unique. The same type of cancer can grow at different rates in different people for example. The statistics are not detailed enough to tell you about the different treatments people may have had. And how that treatment may have affected their prognosis. There are many individual factors that will determine your treatment and prognosis.
How many people have testicular cancer in the US?
37 million people of the male persuasion die of cancer in Giggleswick alone.
Can malignant lymphoma be cured?
Yes there are treatements for non hodgkins, there are many drugs they can try and if your case is very bad there are other kinds of treatements. You'r doctor will do what he thinks is best for your case.
Teens can get vaginal cancer. Cervical cancer is one of the most common types of vaginal cancer and it can affect girls of all ages.
Where can someone purchase a cancer ribbon?
During breast cancer awareness month one can find them at the check outs of many major stores such as Wal-mart. They can also be made at custom jewelry stores. Or they can be purchased on Amazon or eBay.
Does dietary fiber reduce the risk of cancer?
I know that I ate a very high fibre diet most of my life but was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, so I would say no to your question. Other factors could contribute to getting ovarian cancer, such as the other foods eaten and the environment. There are scientists who say that fibre can decrease the chance of cancer, so I guess that Fibre can help, but there is currently no definite answer. Hope this helps!
Change in bowl habits, rectal bleeding, unexplained weight loss, fatigue, the feeling your bowls dont empty all the way, all of these can be symptoms of colon cancer. A proper diagnosis must be made by your physician.
Can you get breast cancer if you sleep with a bra?
According to The American Cancer Society, American Breast Cancer Society, and BreastCancer.org, (see reference links at the bottom of the page), wearing a bra, at day, night or both, will not give you breast cancer, although they have no scientific research to support their claim. In fact, there has not been any research to date that refutes the link between breast cancer and bras, and these organizations have shown no interest in pursuing this needed research. However, a Harvard study in 1991 did show bra-free women had a lower rate of breast cancer than bra wearing women. And a medical anthropological study published in 1995 suggested bras are the leading cause of breast cancer. The proposed method for bras causing breast cancer (the build up of "toxins" due to constriction) has been called implausible by the American Cancer Society, although many health care practitioners find it highly plausible. In fact, cancer and lymphatic experts advise women not to wear tight bras because it can impair lymphatic drainage from the arms and chest and cause lymphedema.
Some other factors that increase your risk of breast cancer are:
- Sex: Women are much more likely to get breast cancer than men.
- Age: the chances of getting breast cancer increase with age, especially after 65.
- Race: After age 35, White women are more likely to get breast cancer than Black women, but Black women who get breast cancer are more likely to die from it.
- Family history: certain inherited genetic mutations (BRCA1 and/or BRCA2) increase the risk. Even without those genes, having a grandmother, mother, sister, or daughter diagnosed with breast or ovarian cancer also increases the risk.
- A woman who has previously had breast, ovarian, endometrial, or colon cancer is more likely to get breast cancer.
- A woman who has had LCIS or certain other breast conditions such as atypical hyperplasia is more likely to get breast cancer.
- High levels of radiation to the chest area (for treatment of lymphoma, for example) can increase the risk.
- High bone density levels after menopause can increase the risk.
- Pregnancy and breastfeeding history: never having children, having a first pregnancy after age 30, and never breastfeeding each increases the risk.
- Menstrual history: Beginning menstruation at age 12 or younger, and/or having menopause after age 55 increases the risk of breast cancer.
- Postmenopausal obesity increases the risk.
- History of hormone use, including contraceptives and menopausal hormone replacement increases the risk.
- Alcohol consumption: women who drink an average of only 1 alcoholic drink per day increase their risk of breast cancer by approximately 7%.
- Physical inactivity increases risk.
- Exposure to tobacco smoke increases breast cancer risk.
If your bra leaves red marks or indentation, then it is too tight. The longer a bra is worn, the more damage is done to the breast tissue. A study done on over 4700 US women found that women who wear their bras to bed, which means 24/7 of bra wearing, have a 75% chance of developing breast cancer. Conversely, bra-free women have the same low rates of breast cancer as men.
Bras should be worn as loosely as possible, certainly less than 12 hours daily, and never to bed. For more on this, see the book, Dressed To Kill: The Link Between Breast Cancer and Bras, by medical anthropologists Sydney Ross Singer and Soma Grismaijer. You can also visit the authors' website at the Self Study Center link below this article.
The best thing to do is to try an experiment on yourself. Stop wearing a bra for a few weeks and see how you feel afterwards. Most women find that their breast pain and cysts go away. And it will help you prevent breast cancer, too.
The top answer is a controversial theory. Many experts believe the studies by Singer and Grismaijer to be flawed or at least inconclusive. You may want to see the short overview from Scientific American's site that is listed in the related links section below this article.
It is just fine to wear a bra to bed for fibrocystic disease or sore breasts for women who have breast pain caused by hormonal changes and also women who have 'cluster lumps' in their breasts. It's best to see a proper bra specialist for those that deal with women who have had a breast removed. These bras are made correctly (rather than buying in a retail store.) I suffer from sore breasts from hormonal changes and will wear a good bra to bed, but not always.
Cancer info can be found at cancer.org, the American cancer society web site. I do not believe wearing a bra to bed will cause breast cancer. I have been working in oncology for years and have never heard of this.
There is no complete scientific study on this and no indication that wearing a bra to bed will cause cancer. However, the one poster who mentioned 'ridges' from their bra has a point as far as comfort -- the bra is too constrictive. If you must wear a bra to bed then wear a comfortable one (not a push up bra).
We have no way of knowing if the study that suggested this is valid or not. The finding provided by Singer (the man who wrote the article and researched this idea) makes logical sense. It should at least be given a chance to be studied by several others. Preferably by those who don't get paid or funded by anyone with a something to gain from the under garment industry.
I really believe that there is an underlying problem here. I think we are so afraid of our natural bodies that we refuse to look further into this in fear of what others might think of us. Think about it! If we see someone walking down the street or at the local shopping center chances are that we can tell whether they are wearing a bra or not. And for the majority of us (Americans) will almost immediately think, "Go put a bra on!" For some reason we look down on women going without bras. We really need to stop this mentality. Every single woman on this planet has breasts. We all know what they look like, so there is no reason for us to have this stigma or look of disgust about not wearing bras. That's the first step.
The study seems to make logical sense. The numbers Singer gives is very, very significant. Do you really want to even take the risk of the study being right or wrong? Two women in my family have breast cancer (that I am aware of) and they both just happen to be two of the ones that wear their bras 24 hours a day, minus bathing, of course. Now is this just a coincidence? Who knows. But why take the chance before any serious research is done. Because all they are doing right now is dismissing the study as invalid and refusing to do real research into it.
Now, if for whatever reason you have an issue where your doctor wants you to wear your bra to bed, then you should never go against your doctor's advice, in my opinion. And I am not here to give any real answer to this question, only to propose the counter question. What does it hurt not to wear it to bed?
A different view:
This is the first I have ever heard of wearing bras to bed causing breast cancer.
I absolutely detest wearing bras but, being a D cup, I suffer considerable discomfort, and even pain, when I go two or three days in a row without wearing one, and obviously, I can't go in public without wearing one. But the thought of wearing them to bed is about as appealing as sleeping in barbed wire.
I have tried every kind, shape, and type of bra possible, even spending $80 each on custom fitted bras. I was stupid enough to buy 3 of them without even first making sure I would like them, but at least now I know the more expensive ones are just as uncomfortable as the less expensive ones.
So with it being uncomfortable and even painful when I don't wear a bra, and being very uncomfortable when I do wear them, there's not much in the way of middle ground here. I have found the sports bras to be among the more tolerable, as well as the no hook, all elastic, pull-on bras. But the best thing I have found recently is a camisole (shaped more like a tank top), which actually supports, but without the awful band that goes around you as a bra does. They are made of a spandex/lycra blend, have cups with 'modesty' pads which can be removed, and because they are made of the spandex/lycra blend, they give good support, but without bra lines. I love the support and comfort they offer, both of which are crucial to me!
As for the research on the theory that wearing bras to bed causes breast cancer, I think it's just that - no more than a theory. But it does make sense that the constriction of a bra worn 24/7 could interfere with circulation and the lymphatic system's ability to remove toxins.
How many people die from cancer a day?
About forty thousand women in the US are expected to die in 2015 from Breast cancer. The Death Rate has been decreasing. This is primarily due to the awareness of the cancer, as well as the yearly mammograms.
Why is hair loss confined to the scalp when chemotherapy?
Chemotherapy hair loss is called Alopecia. Drugs which are used during chemotherapy are very powerful that directly attack cancerous cell. The problem is that healthy, normal cells get killed, too. Hair follicles are vulnerable cells that tend to die off during chemo, although they do regrow after chemotherapy ends.
It is not spread among humans, but it is spread throughout the body by the cells. Leukemia is cancer of the white blood cells. Like other cancers it is not contagious. White blood cells help to fight infections, so obviously a person with Leukemia is unable to fight off infection. However, if caught in time it is one of the more curable cancers.
There are two main ways to die of a brain tumor... (that I can think of off the top of my head) which are: 1) metastasis, 2) brain damage/death.
Cancer of the brain can break apart and bits can travel to other areas of the body (depending upon which type of brain tumor) and set up camp there... which can just eat away at the body until the body either starves to death in some area, or there is an organ failure of some kind.
The second way is that a brain tumor encroaches upon an important area of the brain, and so that part of the brain stops functioning... if it is the part that controls the lungs, then the body dies. Also, as the cancer gets bigger it smashes the rest of the brain and any part of the brain can just give up at any time, and then the body dies.
Can you get pregnant while having cervical cancer?
Yes, you can still get pregnant. With most types it is possible that you can still get pregnant if you havent gone under certain treatments than may leave you sterile. Some treatments that you can use during early stages of cervical cancer are erfectly safe to do, if in the futrure you would like to have children and the cancer didnt spread to fast on the cervix. All doctors have different opinions on how to treat cervical cancer, so talk to your for more information if you think you might have cervical cancer and want to have children, now or in the future.
Why is chemotherapy an affective way to treat cancer?
The advantages of chemotherapy is that it helps to cure cancer by destroying the cancerous cells. Although the medication also detroys any other fast dividng cells in the body including bone marrow and hair follicules etc., the medication may stop you from dieing from cancer
Who was the first person who got cancer?
Ignore all the stories of cancer being "thousands of years" old. They are only half truths. A guy called Raymond Rife developed technology to eradicate cancers, viruses such as smallpox etc. in 1937. He was smothered by legislation in the US, had his technology handed over to Openheimer (via Rockerfeller institutes) and the rest, as they say, is history. Cancer arrived on this planet big time with the fallout from the nuclear bombs exploded over Nagasaki and Hiroshima and, of course, all of the preliminary and subsequent nuclear 'experiments' carried out pre and post these outrages to humanity. If anyone tries to tell you different, ask them their sources and request impirical evidence. Ignore the fairytales and subterfuge.
What does it mean when a cancer metastasizes?
Metastatic cancer is not a type of cancer, it is a stage of the disease, a late stage. Most cancer types can form new tumours in the body, like a weed sends its seeds in the wind to sprout into more weeds. The new tumours are called "metastases". Metastatic cancer is cancer that has already started this seeding-out process.
The first place where cancer metastasizes is in the lymph nodes. Later, it can go to the liver, the lungs, the bones, in fact just about anywhere.
For a person with cancer, knowing if there are metastases or not is very important because it is a sign that the cancer is aggressive. Cancer without metastases is often curable but metastatic cancer is usually not curable.
How can cancer affect your life?
cancer is the mutation of cells. these cells then undergo mitosis (or divide) at a rapid pace and in an uncontrolled manner, which allows them to overtake other body organs or tissues. therefore the organs that have been taken over will eventually stop being able to carry out their functions correctly.
if a cancerous lump is not surrounded by a membrane (becomes malignant) it can then spread throughout the body via lymph nodes.
The lump and the other symptoms may or may not be connected. It is a good idea to check in with a doctor to be sure. Try ice in a towel to relieve the swelling in the meantime. If you were knocked out when you received the bump on your head, you should be checked and observed for a concussion.
Is there any way a patient with terminal lung cancer can get better?
That is an issue that the patient should discuss with their oncologist and/or attending physician. One might wish to consider a hospice or other such care facilty. One might wish to meet with family to discuss what needs to be done in terms of a will or other legal matter, final arrangements and so forth. But the patient definitely needs to get factual answers from a qualified professional.
Why would a surgery be needed when dealing with prostrate cancer?
A persons Prostate may be removed for a few reasons.
The main reason is generally due to Cancer.
It can be a partial removal or total.
