Cancer


Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer - Diagnosis. Diagnosis: Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. Estimates indicate that 212,290 American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006... www.pdrhealth.com
Breast Cancer - Basics
Basics: Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. Estimates indicate that 212,290 American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, and about 41,000 women will die annually from this disease... www.pdrhealth.com
Lung Cancer
Lung Cancer - Basics. Basics: Lung cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the lung. Figure 01 . There are two main types of lung cancer: non-small cell cancer and small cell cancer... www.pdrhealth.com
Cervical Cancer
Cervical Cancer - Symptoms. Symptoms: Cervical cancer often has no symptoms. This is especially true in the early stages of disease, when the cancer is most treatable... www.pdrhealth.com
Endometrial Cancer - Diagnosis
Diagnosis: Endometrial cancer, also known as uterine cancer, most commonly occurs in older women... Endometrial cancer involves abnormal cellular growth of the endometrium... www.pdrhealth.com
Lung Cancer
Lung Cancer - Diagnosis. Diagnosis: Lung cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the lung. Figure 01 . There are two main types of lung cancer: non-small cell cancer and small cell cancer... www.pdrhealth.com
Prostate Cancer - Diagnosis
Diagnosis: Prostate cancer is a very common problem as men age Figure 01... These cancer cells may spread beyond the prostate gland and invade (metastasize to) other parts of the body... www.pdrhealth.com
Ovarian Cancer
Ovarian Cancer - Diagnosis. Diagnosis: Ovarian cancer involves abnormal cell growth that begins in the ovaries Figure 01... www.pdrhealth.com
Cervical Cancer
Cervical Cancer - Diagnosis. Diagnosis: Cervical cancer begins when cells of the cervix undergo abnormal changes and begin to multiply... Cervical cancer is second only to breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer deaths in women worldwide... www.pdrhealth.com
Endometrial Cancer
Endometrial Cancer - Symptoms. Symptoms: Abnormal bleeding occurs in 98% of cases of endometrial cancer. Endometrial cancer almost always causes vaginal bleeding... www.pdrhealth.com

Prostate Cancer
What is prostate cancer? The prostate gland is found only in men... Prostate cancer is the second most common cause of cancer deaths among men... www.drweil.com
Cancer surgery: Physically removing cancer
Cancer surgery — an operation to repair or remove part of your body to diagnose or treat cancer — remains the foundation of cancer treatment... www.mayoclinic.com
Cancer Prevention
Scientists estimate that 35 percent of cancers are related to nutritional factors. Our best defense against cancer is prevention: keeping ourselves as healthy as possible and eating the kinds of... www.joybauer.com
Ovarian Cancer Puzzle?
She has just been diagnosed with ovarian cancer. How is it possible to have ovarian cancer when you have no ovaries... The first is that cancer was already present in the ovaries and had spread to the abdominal cavity before the hysterectomy... www.drweil.com
Breast Cancer Basics - Breast Cancer - Everyday Health
What Is Breast Cancer? Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer found in women in the United States. Overall, you have a 1 in 8 chance of developing breast cancer in your lifetime... www.everydayhealth.com
Second Cancer Likely to Be Same Kind as First
When cancer survivors are diagnosed with a second primary cancer, the risk is twice as high that it will be the same kind of cancer as the first one, according to Danish researchers... www.medpagetoday.com
Oral cancer screening: What tests are recommended?
What is the best way to screen for oral cancer? Are special oral cancer screening tests better than an oral exam? Most dentists perform an examination of your mouth during a routine dental visit to screen for oral cancer... www.mayoclinic.com
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month... Diet and Breast Cancer There are many studies connecting the relationship between diet and cancer, specifically breast cancer... www.dietsinreview.com
The War on Cancer Continues
TUESDAY, Sept. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Forty years after President Nixon signed the National Cancer Act into law and pledged to put the country's resources to work to find better treatments for... www.everydayhealth.com
Prostate Cancer Statistics
Prostate cancer is second only to skin cancer as the most common type of cancer to affect men in the United States... www.prostate.net
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