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Cancer patients could be treated with any of the more than 100 chemotherapy drugs that work differently and whose effect on the body is different. The October issue of the “Mayo Clinic Health Letter” contains an eight-page special report on how to get the most benefit from chemotherapy and ways to manage side effects. Among the suggestions are the following:

Eating well: nausea and vomiting are common side effects of some chemotherapy, but not all. Also, the person may lose your appetite and reduce weight without wanting to. It is important to work with the medical team to manage these side effects and eating balanced meals when hungry.

There are medicines that prevent or treat nausea. Furthermore, studies have shown that acupuncture may also be an effective treatment for nausea. Among other tactics would be useful to take ginger pills, drinking ginger ale (ginger ale) or engage in relaxation techniques like meditation, deep breathing or hypnosis. (more…)

Eggplant is a plant belonging to the Solanaceae family, which has approximately 2300 species and 75 different genera. It’s basically a berry that can have different forms and usually exhibits a deep purple.

On the other hand, it is important to note that eggplant originated in India and introduced to the middle Ages in Europe. Although at first the plant was only used as a kind of extravagant ornament in the homes of the people because they believed that eating an eggplant can cause various diseases such as cancer and leprosy, with the passage of time they discovered the many properties which has this berry.

Among the many benefits of the body’s consumption of eggplant, you may note that this is really useful against fluid retention. In fact, eggplant acts as an effective diuretic that helps people to avoid unwanted fluid retention, not to mention that this plant provides very few calories to the body. Because of this feature eggplant can be part of any diet to lose weight in different ways: boiled, roasted, tread, alone or in complement with other vegetables.

Besides all this, the eggplant is ideal for those cases which are suffering from kidney stones, edema, hypertension and various cardiac conditions.

Also, this plant is truly useful to stimulate production of pancreatic juice and bile function activation. Finally, it is important to note that the eggplant has laxative properties and may even be highly effective in preventing cancer.

Excessive alcohol consumption has been linked to diseases such as breast and gastric cancer, however a new study opens up other possibilities and it relates to prostate cancer.

It is believed that alcohol accelerates the metabolism of cancer cells and this causes it to develop a more aggressive cancer, experts say.

The new study was conducted by doctors in Holland Center and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research recently published in the journal Cancer. It pointed out that excessive consumption of alcohol, especially beer, cause it to quickly develop a highly aggressive prostate cancer, whose chances of survival are less than 50%. (more…)

SRC protein attack has proved effective in slowing the process of metastasis in breast cancer and other tumor cells lodge in vital organs like the lungs or brain, and can spread the disease, said researcher Joan Massagué, Deputy Director of the Institute of Biomedical Research.

Massagué said the SRC protein is a key power in the deadly cancer cells for years can stay dormant in other parts of the body. (more…)

Protects a vegetarian diet to avoid getting cancer? It now has a team of researchers at the University of Oxford examined.

52 700 British women and men aged 20-89 years participated in the study and were followed up through the 90s. They were divided into four groups:

- Carnivores
- Fisketere
- Vegetarians
- Vegans

“Vegetarian” is a broad concept. Some vegetarians eat fish and birds, while others stay away from any kind of meat, also from the fish kingdom. (more…)

There are several types of treatment for use in breast cancer. The therapy is applied depends on many factors, which include the stage or stage where the tumor is, whether or not metastasis, the size of the cancer and how cancer cells are. With the classification made by doctors are set to tumor size, lymph node involvement and the degree of metastasis or spread to other organs, if any. The most used is the TNM system created by the American Joint Committee on Cancer. Each letter refers to a characteristic, which is defined by a number:

* T (size), followed by a number from 0 to 4 indicates the size of the tumor, the larger the cancer, the higher the number. (more…)

A mammogram is an x-ray of the breast which is placed between two plates, gently pressing to get a better picture.

It can detect when cancer is still very small, even two years before the patient, not even the most experienced doctor can feel a lump or hardening.

Almost 90% of women who were cancer detected early, when it still has not spread to other body parts, and given immediate treatment, survive. (more…)

The most important way to reduce the risk of developing skin cancer melanoma is to avoid unprotected exposure to sunlight and other ultraviolet light sources. The easiest way to avoid excessive exposure to ultraviolet light is to stay away from the sun and the shade whenever possible.

This is particularly important at midday when UV light is more intense.

* Protect yourself with clothing, including a shirt and a brimmed hat. In general, tightly woven fabrics offer the best protection against the sun. Sunglasses that offer good coverage, with a percentage of UV absorption of 99% to 100%, optimally protect the eyes and the skin area around them. (more…)

The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland located at the base of the neck, formed by 2 lobes on the right and 2 on the left, connected to the center. The thyroid produces, stores and releases thyroid hormones (T3 and T4) acting within almost all body cells and allow the regulation of extremely important functions such as metabolism.

Thyroid cancer is a malignant tumor that affects the thyroid gland. Generally the older thyroid cells are replaced by new cells constantly and regularly. Sometimes a few cells grow abnormally without following the normal cycle of growth and continue to grow and reproduce in an uncontrolled manner, forming a tumor. (more…)

Introduction

Breast cancer is more common in men over 60 years. Few men know and often the diagnosis is made later than in the
women. Therefore, the cancer is usually more advanced when diagnosed and more difficult to treat.

Breast cancer also affects men but in a much smaller percentage (1%) compared to the female population suffer from it. Symptoms are similar to those of that woman, and the prognosis and treatment is the same as theirs and is explained below.

It is generally believed that breast cancer is a disease of women, but about 1 percent of these cancers are in men. Each year are diagnosed with breast cancer about 300 men. Men have a small amount of tissue behind the nipples, and even not being very great as in women, cancer can form in this area also.

The biggest problem is that there is detected a little later then, to be in a few men, you think of other diagnoses before a breast cancer.