Since the prostate is near the urethra and gall bladder, a person with prostate cancer will experience difficulties with urination, or the other extreme, which is the frequent need to urinate.Other similar symptoms include weak flow or interrupted flow of urine, physical pain during urination, blood incorporated in the semen or urine, painful ejaculation, as […]

Over 1 million Americans are diagnosed with cancer every year. It is a medical condition occurring when there is rapid and uncontrollable growth of cells in the body. It targets any body part and weakens the immune system.Cancer has been a killer disease as early as 1900-1600 BC. For many years, medical society has been […]

A lot of parts of the body may develop cancer. Fortunately for the patients diagnosed with this dreaded disease, there are a lot of treatment options that are available now.As long as cancer is diagnosed and treated in its earliest stage, it is highly treatable. There was a time in the history of medicine that […]

A lot of people dread cancer. Who doesn’t? Cancer kills, if not treated properly. That’s why the moment one person is diagnosed with cancer, he must be ready and willing to submit himself to therapies that will kill the cells and eventually, make him better.Cancer therapy is very much available. This therapy depends on what […]

One out ten people suffers from cancer. Lance Armstrong was the first cancer patient to wear a cancer bracelet. Lance wanted to tell the world about cancer.He wanted the world to be aware of this dreadful disease. He thought of ways to communicate to the world the importance of this disease in order to help […]

Take a look at the following general symptoms of cancer:1. Loss of appetite.This is one of the earliest and most common cancer symptoms. Later on, it may lead to weight loss. This is also a normal body response when a cancer patient undergoes many treatments.2. Loss of memory.During treatments, a cancer patient may suffer memory […]

Next to heart disease, cancer is considered the number two “killer disease”. It is one of the most dreaded and common diseases in this day and age.Several parts of the body can develop cancer but fortunately, with recent technological advancements, it is treatable if caught early on.Cancer occurs when a cluster of cells divide uncontrollably […]

Chemotherapy and radiation are only two types of cancer treatments. There are several more types of ways to treat cancer (and hopefully many more will be available in the future). Additional cancer treatments include the following:Photodynamic therapyBiological therapySupportive therapyComplementary therapyHormonal treatmentSurgeryCancer treatments vary. It is up to the doctor to decide what to […]

Another form of treatment is radiotherapy.Radiotherapy uses x-rays and other rays of the same kind (like electrons) to treat cancer.There are two kinds of radiotherapy; external radiotherapy and internal radiotherapy.How does radiotherapy work?Radiotherapy destroys cancer cells in a certain area. Normal cells are sometimes affected, even damaged, but they have the ability to repair themselves.If […]

One of the procedures in treating cancer is called chemotherapy. Chemotherapy uses cytotoxic (or anti-cancer) drugs to kill cancer cells. With different 50 types of chemotherapeutic drugs available, this type of cancer treatment relies on a few factors. These factors include; cancer type, what part of the body the cancer originated, how the cancer cells […]