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Breast Cancer Treatment In India At Affordable Cost

  • Posted on January 5, 2010 at 4:22 am

 

Breast Cancer Treatment

 

What is Breast Cancer?

The term breast cancer refers to a malignant tumor that has developed from cells in the breast. The breast is composed of two main types of tissues: glandular tissues and stromal (supporting) tissues.

There are several types of tumors that may develop within different areas of the breast. Most tumors are the result of benign (non-cancerous) changes within the breast. For example, fibrocystic change is a non-cancerous condition in which women develop cysts (accumulated packets of fluid), fibrosis (formation of scar-like connective tissue), lumpiness, areas of thickening, tenderness, or breast pain.

 

Breast Cancer Risk factors 

Other factors that may make you more susceptible to breast cancer include : -

Age : – Your chances of developing breast cancer increase with age. Close to 80 percent of breast cancers occur in women older than age 50. In your 30s, you have a one in 233 chance of developing breast cancer. By age 85, your chance is one in eight.

A personal history of breast cancer : – If you’ve had breast cancer in one breast, you have an increased risk of developing cancer in the other breast.

 

Family history : – If you have a mother, sister or daughter with breast or ovarian cancer or both, or a male relative with breast cancer, you have a greater chance of also developing breast cancer

 

Genetic predisposition : – Between 5 percent and 10 percent of breast cancers are inherited.

 

Radiation exposure : – If you received radiation treatments to your chest as a child or young adult, you’re more likely to develop breast cancer later in life. Your risk is greatest if you received radiation as an adolescent during breast development.

 

Excess weight : – The relationship between excess weight and breast cancer is complex. In general, weighing more than is healthy increases your risk, particularly if you gained the weight as an adolescent. But risk is even greater if you put the weight on after menopause. Your risk also is greater if you have more body fat in the upper part of your body.

 

Early onset of menstrual cycles : – If you got your period at a young age, especially before age 12, you may have a greater likelihood of developing breast cancer. Experts attribute this risk to the early exposure of the breast tissue to estrogen.

 

Late menopause : – If you enter menopause after age 55, you’re more likely to develop breast cancer. Experts attribute this to the prolonged exposure of the breast tissue to estrogen…

 

Symptoms of Breast Cancer

Early breast cancer usually does not cause pain. In fact, when it first develops, breast cancer may cause no symptoms at all. But as the cancer grows, it can cause these changes: 

 A lump or thickening in the breast or armpit   A change in the size or shape of the breast  Discharge from the nipple  A change in the color or texture of the skin of the breast or areola (such as dimpling, puckering, or scaliness).

 

Diagnosis of Breast Cancer

Imaging for Breast Cancer : – Imaging is an important component used to diagnose breast cancer and to evaluate the stage and extent of disease in breast cancer patients

 

Screening Mammography : – A mammogram is a low-dose X-ray of the breast. This is the best test we have to screen women for breast cancer. A Screening Mammogram consists of two “pictures” of each breast. If an area on the mammogram looks suspicious or is not clear, additional mammograms with different views may be needed. Annual screening mammography is recommended for all women over 40 years old.

 

Diagnostic Mammography : -This is a mammogram used for problem-solving, rather than for screening. For instance, if a patient has a lump in her breast, a directed investigation of that area is performed. This is also done when a particular finding in the breast is being followed over time. A diagnostic mammogram is tailored to the patient’s case and is carefully monitored by a radiologist, who interprets the images and determines whether there is any need for further tests.

 

Ultrasonography : -Using high-frequency sound waves, ultrasonography can often show whether a lump is solid or filled with fluid. This exam may be used along with Diagnostic Mammography or MRI to answer questions about a specific area of the breast. Because it uses sound waves instead of X-Rays, ultrasound provides information that is different and often complementary to the mammogram.

 

Breast MRI : -Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used to look specifically at the breast. Each exam produces hundreds of images of the breast, cross-sectional in all three directions (side-to-side, top-to-bottom, front-to-back), which are then read by a radiologist. It is non-invasive and no radioactivity is involved. The technique is believed to have no health hazards in general.

 

Biopsy for Breast Cancer

One way to find out if a breast lump or abnormal tissue is cancer is by having a biopsy. During a biopsy, a surgeon, a pathologist or a radiologist removes a portion or all of the suspicious tissue. The suspicious tissue is examined under a microscope by a pathologist who checks for cancer cells and makes the diagnosis. The following are different types of biopsies as well as how you can best prepare yourself for each of them. The following are different types of biopsies.

 

Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) Biopsy : – FNA samples a woman’s lump using a thin small needle that leaves a mark no bigger than a needle stick from a blood test. FNA often allows us to diagnose a lump within two to three days

 

Stereotactic Core Biopsy : – This procedure was developed as a less invasive way to obtain tissue samples for diagnosis. It involves removing tissue with a biopsy needle while your breast is compressed in a way similar to a mammogram. This biopsy requires less recovery time than surgery and causes no significant scarring

 

Needle (Wire) Localization Biopsy : – This type of biopsy involves the use of a needle and wire to locate the abnormal tissue and surgery to remove it. Needle localization is performed when you have an abnormality on a mammogram that cannot be felt. It is an outpatient biopsy that is done in two steps on the same day….

 

Treatment of a Breast Cancer in India

 

Mastectomy in India
Mastectomy is the surgical removal of a breast. Surgery is presently the most common treatment for breast cancer. Following mastectomy, immediate or delayed breast reconstruction is possible in many instances….

 

Types of Mastectomy

There are several different types of surgical procedures used to treat breast cancer. Depending on the location or surgeon who performs the procedure, different terms may be used….

 

 

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Common symptoms in cancer

  • Posted on January 4, 2010 at 10:21 pm

Cancers are frequently associated with specific complaints, which are respectively for the particular cancer, such as bloody cough in lung cancer. Many affected people are suffering but also to non-specific symptoms that can occur in many different cancers in the same way. These symptoms can also occur as concomitant symptoms in other diseases (such as the cardiovascular system or the lungs) or as a temporary “mood disorder” in healthy subjects. Someone suffering from such symptoms should therefore not necessarily think immediately of a cancer. Here are just a reliable diagnosis can help to correctly classify the complaints.

Anorexia:
Loss of appetite, decreased appetite or early satiety occur in many cancer patients in the short or long term. Occasionally it can also lead to an aversion to certain foods, such as for meat. As a result, may lose an interested party during such a “no appetite” phase of weight.

Weight Loss:
Also independent of appetite and the amount of daily calories fall on many subjects with a cancer that they lose weight. The reason is that a growing tumor has a high energy demand. Therefore, a part of the energy is supplied in the diet consumed by the tumor and the body is no longer available. The body must then, when food intake is not increased, rely on endogenous reserves. This is usually the body that every man in smaller or larger scale geological storage under the skin. When this fat reserve is depleted, the body attacks the proteins contained in the muscles and builds the muscles from this. The consequences of the consumption of fat and muscle protein are weight loss, a “slimmer” appearance and physical weakness.

Weakness:
A weakness is perceived by cancer patients, often independently of weight loss. Or feel faint, weak and less productive. Pressures or efforts that were easily dealt with before the illness, now appear to be very stressful and can hardly be overcome.

Pain:
In the course of many cancer pain occurs. These are usually due to the fact that the tumor displaces the surrounding tissue grows into adjacent organs or presses on nerves. The location of pain depends on the location of the tumor. It can also occur so-called propagated pain. A pain will not be seen at his place of origin, but in a different region of the body. This may be the case when a tumor presses on a nerve that for a given region of the body “responsible” for the region. For example, pain in the hand can be seen, although a tumor grows in the cervical spine. There, he presses on the spinal nerves springing from the roots, which go with their nerve fibers into the hand.

Fever:
Occasionally, an increase in body temperature to be determined for the fever. But this is a generally rather rare symptom. Somewhat more frequently, it may occur in the context of specific cancers, for example) lymphoma (lymph node cancer), leukemia (blood cancer. Even though in the context of a widening of the liver cancer by “Daughter tumors (metastases) of the original tumor is infected, it may cause a temperature increase. A temperature rise may also occur if a tumor is divided, for example because it has reached a size that an adequate blood supply is no longer allowed to die and therefore some parts of the tumor. It must not be neglected in a temperature increase occurring in a cancer patient that there are other reasons for the increased temperature to be responsible than the cancer itself can, for example, infectious diseases (influenza, cystitis, pneumonia).

Sweating:
Also independent of elevated body temperature may occur in some patients, especially night sweats as additional symptoms. This is observed in particular at a specific type of tumor, a lymphoma (lymph node cancer.

Itching:
Occasionally, patients complain of itching. This symptom occurs particularly in Hodgkin’s disease (a specific lymphatic cancer) and in leukemia (blood cancer). But even where there has been “daughter tumors located in the liver is observed that symptoms of disease. The reason is that in the liver did not produce more bile flow into the duodenum may be because the “daughter of tumors,” so to speak, of the bile “block the way.” Since the bile is continuously produced in the liver, however, it must find other ways. They usually first enters the bloodstream and in the further course of the disease process deposited in the skin. This ensures on the one hand (for a yellowish skin color “jaundice”), on the other hand itching occurs.

All of these “non-specific symptoms” such as decreasing appetite, general physical weakness, declining performance, pain, increased body temperature or fever, sweating and itching, can be very stressful and that restrict everyday activities may be substantial. Important part of any cancer therapy is, therefore, in addition to the actual tumor treatment. This can be done by drugs (eg, to relieve pain and to reduce fever), by means of “physical measures (eg, cooling with cold compresses), fever or through physical therapy (eg, circulation and muscle strengthening exercises for general weakness.

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Breast Cancer Treatment in India at Jaslok Health Group under Professional Physicians

  • Posted on January 4, 2010 at 7:20 am

Breast Cancer Treatment in India is taken under Jaslok Health Group under experienced and certified medical team of physicians. The term “breast cancer” refers to a malignant tumour that has developed from cells in the breast. Usually breast cancer either begins in the cells of the lobules, which are the milk-producing glands, or the ducts, the passages that drain milk from the lobules to the nipple. Less commonly, breast cancer can begin in the stomal tissues, which include the fatty and fibrous connective tissues of the breast. Breast Cancer is the most common cause of cancer in women and the second most common cause of cancer death in women. While the majority of new breast cancers are diagnosed as a result of an abnormality seen on a mammogram, a lump or change in consistency of the breast tissue can also be a warning sign of the disease. Jaslok Health Group introduces recreational packages with the help of Medical Tourism to provide better benefits and recovery from the disease. Physicians providing Breast Cancer Treatment in India at Jaslok Health Group are professionally trained and certified from renowned institutions across the globe.

Breast Cancer is an uncontrolled growth of breast cells. To better understand breast cancer, it helps to understand how any cancer can develop. Cancer occurs as a result of mutations, or abnormal changes, in the genes responsible for regulating the growth of cells and keeping them healthy. The genes are in each cell’s nucleus, which acts as the “control room” of each cell. Normally, the cells in our bodies replace themselves through an orderly process of cell growth: healthy new cells take over as old ones die out. But over time, mutations can “turn on” certain genes and “turn off” others in a cell. That changed cell gains the ability to keep dividing without control or order, producing more cells just like it and forming a tumour.

Some Breast Cancer require the hormones estrogen and progesterone to grow, and have receptors for those hormones. Those cancers are treated with drugs that interfere with those hormones, usually tamoxifen, and with drugs that shut off the production of estrogen in the ovaries or elsewhere; this may damage the ovaries and end fertility. Low-risk, hormone-sensitive breast cancers may be treated with hormone therapy and radiation alone. Breast cancers without hormone receptors, or which have spread to the lymph nodes in the armpits, or which express certain genetic characteristics, are higher-risk, and are treated more aggressively.

Abnormal development of cells leads to the growth of tumour, when tumour is malignant in nature they are termed as cancer. Breast Cancer is the most common type of cancer diagnosed in women today. Around the world breast cancer statistics shows that after lung cancer breast cancer is the second most death-causing factor in people who develops cancer. The risk factor of developing breast cancer increases with the age, it does not only relate to women, figures show that out of every 100 women there is one male who is diagnosed of breast cancer. Breast cancer does not mean a specific category of disease rather it is the different types of cancer generally found in breast is collectively termed as breast cancer. Though the most common understanding suggests that, abnormal growth of cells in the breast causes breast cancer.

The exact cause of Breast Cancer is unknown and there are no fixed causes for breast cancer. Myths in identifying the causes of breast cancer are more prevalent than the real cause. Some of the causes that have been collectively associated with breast cancer are:

The chances of breast cancer depends on age, as the person gets older the chances of it are more Family history of close relative like mother, sister and daughter who has been diagnosed with breast cancer increases the risk factor Early start onset of menses and early menopause are also associated with breast cancer Exposure to radioactive rays are carcinogenic and increases the chances of breast cancer Using hormone replacement therapy might also cause it Exposure to harmful chemicals (working in a chemical factory that uses harmful chemicals like Organo chlorine) Late childbearing

The first symptom, or subjective sign, of breast cancer is typically a lump that feels different from the rest of the breast tissue. More than 80% of Breast Cancer cases are discovered when the woman feels a lump. According to the American Cancer Society, the first medical sign, or objective indication of breast cancer as detected by a physician, is discovered by mammogram. Lumps found in lymph nodes located in the armpits can also indicate breast cancer. When breast cancer cells invade the dermal lymphatics small lymph vessels in the skin of the breast’s presentation can resemble skin inflammation and thus is known as inflammatory breast cancer . Symptoms of inflammatory breast cancer include pain, swelling, warmth and redness throughout the breast.

Another reported symptom complex of Breast Cancer is Paget’s disease of the breast. This syndrome presents as eczematoid skin changes such as redness and mild flaking of the nipple skin. Symptoms may include tingling, itching, increased sensitivity, burning, and pain. Occasionally, breast cancer presents as metastatic disease, that is, cancer that has spread beyond the original organ. Metastatic breast cancer will cause symptoms that depend on the location of metastasis. Common sites of metastasis include bone, liver, lung and brain. Unexplained weight loss can occasionally herald an occult breast cancer, as can symptoms of fevers or chills. Bone or joint pains can sometimes be manifestations of metastatic breast cancer, as can jaundice or neurological symptoms.

The most important factor behind any disease is the way you cope with it and find a safe treatment. Breast Cancer is a serious disease but with time and proper breast cancer treatment you will recovery from the initial trauma of the disease. Eating healthy and maintaining a balanced lifestyle along with family and friends cope to a great extent in coping with the disease. Ask all your queries and share your anxieties, going through clinical trials also helps to a great extent. Breast Cancer Treatment or diagnosis done at the proper time can prevent the disease before its too late. Breast Cancer is common in women as compared to the men. Jaslok Health Group provides one of the best medication treatments for Breast Cancer in India for the benefit for curing the disease as soon as possible. Currently Breast Cancer in India is taken under the medical team from the Jaslok Health Group.

Jaslok Health Group providing Breast Cancer Treatment in India consists of skilled physicians at par with the international standards. Which is why a lot of people from the UK, USA and Canada are preferring to visit India for their Breast Cancer Treatment as they save enormously on cost, get the same quality of treatment and can enjoy a holiday with their families or accompanying person. Jaslok health group is an innovative health care delivery system that responds to the needs of the community. Jaslok health group assure continuous quality improvement in all aspects of mission.

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Ovarian Cancer – Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

  • Posted on January 4, 2010 at 12:20 am

Ovarian cancer is cancer that begins in the ovaries. Ovaries are reproductive glands found only in women. The ovaries produce eggs (ova) for reproduction. The eggs travel through the fallopian tubes into the uterus where the fertilized egg implants and develops into a fetus. The ovaries are also the main source of the female hormones estrogen and progesterone. One ovary is located on each side of the uterus in the pelvis.

Causes of Ovarian Cancer

Women who have not had children are slightly more likely to develop ovarian cancer than women who have, although the risk is still very low. Having two or more children may provide more protection than just one.

Breast feeding your children may slightly decrease your risk.

Starting your periods early or having a late menopause slightly increases your risk of ovarian cancer.

If a woman has ovarian cancer and her daughter develops ovarian cancer, the daughter will probably develop the cancer at a relatively young age (younger than 60 years).

Family history: A woman’s risk for developing ovarian cancer increases if she has a first degree relative (like sister, mother, grandmother) that suffered from ovarian cancer. The risks do not necessarily increase because of a family history ovarian cancer – but when the inherited genetic mutations are present. However, a woman’s risk for ovarian cancer can be tied to a family history of breast or colon cancer. Also the risk for ovarian cancer is indirectly proportional with the age of the relative that suffered from ovarian cancer.

Symptoms of Ovarian Cancer

Early stage ovarian cancer may not cause many symptoms, or they may be vague and overlooked. In addition, vague abdominal or pelvic symptoms are most often NOT caused by cancer. If they go away within a few days to a week, they may simply be intestinal disturbances due to something you ate or a viral infection.

Abdominal/pelvic discomfort or pressure

Back or leg pain

Bloating

Changes in bowel function or urinary frequency

Germ Cell Tumors — Ovarian germ cell tumors develop from cells that produce the ova or eggs. Most germ cell tumors are benign, although some are cancerous and may be life-threatening. The most common germ cell malignancies are maturing teratomas, dysgerminomas and endodermal sinus tumors. Teenagers and women in their 20s are most often diagnosed with germ cell malignancies. Before combination chemotherapy was available as a treatment, the most aggressive of these tumors — the GNP abnormal sinus tumor — was associated with a one-year disease-free survival rate of only 10 percent to 19 percent, even though 70 percent of these tumors were diagnosed very early. Today, however, 90 percent of women with ovarian germ cell malignancies can be cured and their fertility preserved.

Treatments for Ovarian Cancer

Surgery is the preferred treatment and is often needed to diagnose ovarian cancer.

Studies have shown that surgery performed by a specialist in gynecologic oncology results in a higher cure rate.

Chemotherapy is used as after surgery to treat any remaining disease. Chemotherapy can also be used if the cancer comes back.

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Breast Cancer – Symptoms & Treatments

  • Posted on January 2, 2010 at 4:20 pm

Breast Cancer is a sickness where in the cancer cells became abnormal. Cancer cells immediately grow and divide speedily than the healthy cells. Tumors are little cancer cells that form growths. Some tumors immediately grow and sizes of tumors are all increasing. Breast cancer develops as a result of abnormal growth in the cells in the inner breast or due to some abnormal changes produced in the tissues connecting the breast.

The best way to deal with breast cancer before being diagnosed and after is to be completely knowledgeable about it. Educating yourself about its symptoms, signs and causes can help you detect it early and also avoid it. With every woman being at the risk of getting this cancer.

There are many thousands of women suffering from breast cancer and who face the associated medical treatment that follows diagnosis. But there are many more women who suffer from the fear of contracting the disease. To avoid unnecessary anxiety is an important consideration in establishing a positive mental attitude and maintaining health with confidence. We also have to avoid any of the factors that are likely to lead to cancer starting with all the recognized carcinogens and learn more about potential dangers.

Although there is no known cure for breast cancer but if it is caught early, it can be treated. Although this is not common in men, the signs that this disease may be present in a male or a female are the same. However, it must be pointed out that these signs can also be an indication of something else.

There are common signs or symptoms of breast cancer :

1. The most obvious sign of this ailment is a lump in the breast or armpit. A self-examination test, once a month, or a visit to the doctor can expose any lump in this area.

2. Change in the size of the breast & shape. If you notice any unusual changes in its shape or size, do not ignore it.

3. There is nipple inversion & spontaneous single nipple discharge. If you observe that your nipples are turning inwards, this may be an indication that everything is not working as well.

4. Pain in the breast is not a reliable symptom but can also be indicative of other breast problems.

One way that helps patients to get rid of pains and side effects is that going for alternative cancer treatments. Alternative cancer treatment helps one to cope with symptoms caused by cancer. They may lessen the pain an individual undergoes from cancer treatments. The breasts are made up of fat, glands and soft tissues. In addition to them lobes are present, which are further divided into lobules and they extend up to the milk glands.

The best treatment therapies for the breast cancer are :

1. Surgery is usually the first step in fighting cancer. The cancer is removed and the breast is reconstructed.

2. Chemotherapy is a systematic treatment. This treatment disturbs the whole system of the body. The advantage about this therapy is the drugs used in this method.

3. Radiation therapy sends targeted radiation to the area affected by the cancer. The radiations are passed on the breast and the cancer cells are destroyed.

4. Hormonal therapy is used for hormone positive forms of breast cancer. This form of treatment is rarer than the others because hormone positive breast cancer is not as common.

5. Complementary and holistic medicine is often used in conjunction with other treatments. Usually these kinds of medicines help ease side effects, improve the quality of life of the patient, and help soothe symptoms.

Research has shown that women with certain risk factors are more likely than others to develop breast cancer. A risk factor is something that may increase the chance of developing a disease. Below is the following risk factors for breast cancer :

1. The chance of getting breast cancer goes up as a woman gets older. Most cases of breast cancer occur in women over 60.

2. A woman who had breast cancer in one breast has an increased risk of getting cancer in her other breast.

3. A woman’s risk of breast cancer is higher if her mother, sister or daughter had breast cancer.

4. The chance of getting breast cancer after menopause is higher in women who are overweight or obese.

5. Women who are physically inactive throughout life may have an increased risk of breast cancer. Being active may help reduce risk.

All the health practices such as exercise, sport, deep breathing, relaxation and freedom from anxiety are important and leading a life which is productive in terms of our personal life satisfaction and happiness. We must seek further than general fitness exercises for specific ones that help circulation in the lymph and breasts and to learn of the special exercises in respiration that help to oxygenate the tissues.

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Brain Cancer Survival Stories

  • Posted on January 1, 2010 at 7:20 pm

The new prescription is, Assisted Suicide as medical care. Brain Cancer Survival Stories Currently Oregon and Washington state are the only two states to legalize doctor-assisted suicide. I’m not going to debate the merits of doctor-assisted suicide. I’ll leave that for your conscience to decide. I am however referencing this for what I am about to tell you next.

Imagine your doctor checks you over and says “You have cancer.” Now imagine your government run health care plan won’t pay for the treatment because in their opinion the treatment is too expensive and not cost effective. Your doctor pulls out his or her prescription pad and says, “they will offer a quick, cheap and painless death.” “This prescription of barbiturates to end your life will cost you less than $100.00.”

You don’t believe that this can happen? It already has. Meet Randy Stroup from Dexter, Oregon. At 53 years of age Randy has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Randy received a letter from the “Lane Individual Practice Association” which administers the Oregon health plan in Lane County, Oregon. The letter stated his cancer is too advanced to warrant a pricey treatment. The state was willing to cover his prescription for doctor-assisted suicide. They wouldn’t pay for the treatment and medication to possibly save his life but they would pay to end his life.

Barbara Wagner, another Oregonian, also has cancer. She too received a letter from the Oregon health plan in Lane County, notifying her that her treatment was too expensive. The letter stated, “treatment of advanced cancer that is meant to prolong life or change the course of the disease, is not a covered benefit of the Oregon health plan.” However, “the plan does pay for comfort care or physician aid in dying.” This same letter has gone out to other terminally ill patients throughout Oregon.

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Oregon doesn’t cover life prolonging treatment unless there is a “better than 5% chance” it will help patients “live longer than 5 years.” Imagine this is your son or daughter or your spouse. I’ll take the 5% chance of survival. You’ll find people all over this country who have defied these odds.

Managed care plans aside, private health insurance plans pay for your treatment. This is what insurance is supposed to be about. Who are the legislatures to decide who lives and who dies. They all have great private health insurance that pays these expenses. The plan is paid mostly by us with our tax dollars. They have a choice of the finest doctors.

Senator Ted Kennedy is battling brain cancer. On the Oregon run health plan he would already be dead. He would have been given his prescription for doctor-assisted suicide. But Senator Kennedy is privileged to have the finest doctors and the finest health insurance coverage.

Health provisions have already slipped into the stimulus package. The government will monitor your treatment and make sure your doctor is doing what they determine is appropriate and cost effective. As we get closer to government run health care could the Oregon plan become the model in other states?

Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.

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Ovarian Cancer Treatment In India At Affordable Cost

  • Posted on January 1, 2010 at 7:19 pm

 

Ovarian Cancer

Ovarian cancer is a disease produced by the rapid growth and division of cells within one or both ovaries—reproductive glands in which the ova, or eggs, and the female sex hormones are made. The ovaries contain cells that, under normal circumstances, reproduce to maintain tissue health. When growth control is lost and cells divide too much and too fast, a cellular mass or tumor is formed. If the tumor is confined to a few cell layers, for example, surface cells, and it does not invade surrounding tissues or organs, it is considered benign. If the tumor spreads to surrounding tissues or organs, it is considered malignant, or cancerous. When cancerous cells break away from the original tumor, travel through the blood or lymphatic vessels, and grow within other parts of the body, the process is known as metastasis…

 

Causes of Ovarian cancer

The exact cause of ovarian cancer isn’t known. It’s more common in women who live in developed countries. Other factors that are thought to make ovarian cancer more likely include:

A family history of ovarian cancer – women who have two or more close relatives (mother, sister or daughter) with ovarian cancer are more at risk. Having a non-cancerous condition called endometriosis. Starting your period early and having the menopause late.

 

Symptoms of Ovarian Cancer

 

When symptoms occur they may include any of the following : -

Loss of appetite. Vague indigestion, nausea, excess gas (wind) and a bloated, full feeling. Unexplained weight gain. Swelling in the abdomen – this may be due to a build up of fluid, known as ascites, which can cause shortness of breath. Pain in the lower abdomen. Changes in bowel or bladder habits, such as constipation, diarrhoea or needing to pass urine more often. Lower back pain. Pain during sex. Abnormal vaginal bleeding, although this is rare.

 

Treatment Of Ovarian Cancer in India

 

Treatment :

 

 

Surgery to remove cancerous tissue. Chemotherapy to destroy cancer cells using strong anti-cancer drugs. Radiotherapy to destroy cancer cells by high-energy radiation exposure…

 

Surgery for Ovarian Cancer in India

Surgery usually is required to treat ovarian cancer. Most patients undergo surgery in addition to another form of treatment (e.g., chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy). Surgery helps the physician to accurately stage the tumor, make a diagnosis, and perform debulking (removal of as much tumor mass as possible). Debulking surgery is especially important in ovarian cancer because aggressive removal of cancerous tissue is associated with improved survival. Patients with no residual tumor mass, or tumor masses that measure less than 1 cm, have the best opportunity for cure…

 

Chemotherapy for Ovarian Cancer in India

Chemotherapy involves using drugs to destroy cancer cells. Many of these drugs destroy cancer cells by preventing them from growing and dividing rapidly. Unfortunately, many normal cells also divide rapidly and are damaged by chemotherapy…

 

Radiation for Ovarian Cancer in India

Radiotherapy may be used to kill cancer cells from a cyst that ruptures during surgical removal of an ovary, or it may be used to treat certain patients who appear cancer-free or who have only microscopic evidence of disease at second-look surgery. It is historically the treatment of choice for germ cell tumors known as dysgerminomas. However, recently it has been found that chemotherapy can cure a percentage of such patients…

  

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There are three main forms of treatment for ovarian cancer offered in India : –

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Change Your Lifestyle And Become Fit

  • Posted on July 2, 2009 at 7:15 am

Your lifestyle is the way that you live your life. Although each of these other elements that we’ve already talked about is very important parts of your lifestyle, they are not everything.

Each decision you make throughout the course of the day plays a role in your fitness. Unlike the other chapters, this one will be structured a bit different. Each of these lifestyle considerations is important and each offers a unique spin on the quality of life you will lead. Improve them, and physical fitness increases.

Smoking, Drinking And Drugs
Each of those three things, smoking, drinking and drugs, is a problem for your health and your ability to make it through the life you have. You probably already know the risks of what these things can do to your life, but you may not realize the extent at which it takes to improve them.

For example, smoking will eat away at your lungs and will cause cancer. There are no ifs about it. It will cause cancer eventually in your lungs.

But, smoking is something that you can stop, even if it is one of the hardest things you will have to do. To improve your fitness, find a method to stop smoking and do it. You will find that your health increases, your energy increases, your stress levels DO go down and you can feel better about the life you are living.

When you quit early enough, your body can repair the damage that you have done to your lungs. This can only happen if you stop soon enough, though.

Drinking and drugs are just as bad. Each time that you consume too much alcohol that makes you drunk or you take illegal drugs, you destroy your body slowly and methodically. You kill brain cells, you put your life at risk and you destroy the organs in your body. Some damage can be fixed through healing over time, others can’t.

To improve your lifestyle and to extend your life, you need to remove these problems from it. Smoking and drugs are simply a no no. Drinking alcohol isn’t nearly as bad for you when you drink it in moderation and only when you are drinking low concentrations of alcohol such as in wine rather than in hard liquor or beer.

Sleep

Do you sleep? No, we mean actually lying down and sleeping for 7 to 9 hours per night? Do you wake up rested? If not, then you aren’t getting the right amount of sleep for health. Your lifestyle fitness requires that you get quality sleep each night.

Why is sleep so important? There are actually several reasons. For one, sleep is the body’s time to relax and to recoup what it’s done all day. You need this time for your mind to. It’s the way that your mind works through problems. It’s the time that your body heals from the exertions of the day.

It’s a time to restart, refresh and give yourself the best chance at improving tomorrow.

Those that don’t get enough sleep are not capable of performing at their best physical or mental level. They aren’t able to improve the level at which they can function and they make bad mistakes. Stress hurts more, physical ailments hinder you more when you don’t get enough sleep.

If you are having problems with sleeping, there are many ways that you can overcome them.

• Reducing stress levels during the day is helpful as is working out the stresses that you can’t get rid of.

• Try to go to sleep at the same time everyday and give yourself as much time as necessary to feel rested.

• Don’t do stimulating things before bed such as watching television or working on a project.

• Don’t eat before bed, at least two hours beforehand.

If you are facing problems with insomnia or are struggling to get to sleep, talk to your doctor about it. There may be an underlying medical condition that could be causing it.

While it used to be that there were only sleeping medications that were addicting, today there are many that are not like that which can offer you a night’s rest. Don’t use these unless your doctor has Okayed them for you, though!

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