Breast cancer accounts for more than 11 000 deaths in world each year. Several factors may increase your risk of developing this disease. If some are innate, others are modifiable.
The combination of genetic and environmental factors that may lead to the development of cancer. By browsing, we can emphasize the importance of scientifically established factors, or those who are the subject of considerable controversy. (more…)
Endometriosis is a common disease (there are more than 1 million cases in the U.S. alone), which can affect any woman of childbearing age, since the first menstruation or menarche to menopause, but sometimes lasts until after the menopause.
The disease impairs quality of life of women with the disease, their relationships, family and even work. His symptoms characterizing mainly by what is known as the three Ds: Dysmenorrheal,
dyspareunia (painful intercourse) and more commonly, pelvic pain, especially in the lower abdomen, in the lower back and pelvis itself. There may also be hyper menorrhea or very abundant menstrual bleeding and even inter-menstrual.
For these women at once becomes difficult or impossible to become pregnant, and often have intestinal disorders including diarrhea, constipation, painful bowel movements or cramps. And feel tired.
Achieving determine the diagnosis for endometriosis is difficult, hence the need to perform one or more tests, including a pelvic ultrasound or MRI. Laparoscopy may be necessary to review the bodies inside and view any or entopic endometrial tissue outside the uterus. Laparoscopy shows the location and extent of endometrial lesions, which are then biopsies. (more…)
Irritable Bowel Syndrome absolutely affects the quality of life of a person, i.e. integrally affects, and is especially dangerous because it can be confused with more serious illnesses. Before it was called irritable colon, but experts have sought to give the term more accurately after discovering that it is a general inflammation of the intestine, including the colon. The most common symptom is pain in the abdomen, associated with changes in the patient’s stool patterns, or whether the person may have constipation or diarrhea. Also often a strained stomach, which in simple words is just inflator in the stomach.
At the same time, the patient may suffer from migraine headaches, body aches and general tiredness, so that the syndrome can “throw” the patient, as popularly said. (more…)
Treatment is directed at symptom control and prevention of complications that may arise by failing to treat the injury. Fibrocystic changes generally do not require any treatment and get better with time.
Changes in lifestyle:
These measures are implemented, not only because it could alleviate the symptoms associated with BBD, but also because of the advantages related to overall health and wellness. Eating a diet low in fat and the elimination of methylxanthines (coffee, tea, chocolate and carbonated beverages) produced improvements in 60% of cases and can be used to treat fibrocystic change, particularly if the pain is shown. Although not established a direct association ultimately promulgating quitting smoking and exercising regularly. Women who undergo fat necrosis, must wear a bra as additional support.
Medications:
The BBD with infectious etiology, such as an abscess or mastitis, is treated with antibiotics, but the duration of therapy depends on the severity of symptoms and response to treatment. Patients commonly require at least 1 week of oral antibiotics. The choice of antibiotic depends on the suspected causative organism, usually gram-positive coccid. Acute mastitis is also treated with hot compresses. In mastitis related to breastfeeding, breastfeeding should continue while the patient is treated for mastitis. (more…)
“People with a history of periodontal disease had a 14 percent higher risk of cancer than those without this disease and the increase persisted among never smokers,” said lead researcher Dominique Michaud, a cancer epidemiologist at Imperial College London in the UK.
People with gum infections have a high amount of inflammatory markers circulating in their blood, and inflammation has been linked to cancer, experts say. But the exact relationship, if any, between gum disease and cancer remains unclear.
This new finding needs to be examined in other populations and among women, but at least suggests that oral health may have some impact on cancer risk, Michaud said.
“If other data can support this relationship, then it will have implications for prevention and may offer new clues about the role of immune function in cancer development,” Michaud said.
In the study, Michaud’s team collected data on more than 48,000 men who participated in the follow-up study of health professionals, which was attended by health professionals 40 to 75 years. (more…)
For too long the benefits of green tea and its components have been subject of scrutiny by investigators in the medical fraternity.
Many studies have indicated that green tea and its components are helpful in providing treatment for various ailments including prostate cancer and benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH).
The phytochemicals, chemicals that are biologically active but not nutritive antioxidants in green tea work on growth factors and proteins and act as prostate medicine to restrict the growth of benign and malignant tumors as well.
For men, prostate cancer is the second most common type of cancer after skin cancer. Benign enlargement of the prostate gland, in its worst form, causes several problems with urination and libido. Prostate cancer is reigns since it separated from its origin to distant parts of the body. Moreover, there is no guarantee when a benign condition takes a turn for the worst and develop premalignant and ultimately malignancy. (more…)
A note of Europe Press, mentions that a study by Cancer Center at Stony Brook University published in the online edition of the journal Lancet Oncology ’stresses that the cancer doubles the risk of bowel perforation.
The perforation in the stomach or intestines caused the death of more than 20 percent of cancer patients taking the medicine study and was more common in those suffering from advanced colorectal cancer and renal cancer.
Bevacizumab belongs to a class of medicine called angiogenesis inhibitors that slow the growth of tumors by cutting off its blood supply.
The medicine is beneficial in the treatment of many cancers including colorectal, renal cell cancer non-small cell lung and breast.
The researchers, led by Wu Shenshong, conducted a meta-analysis of 17 trials in which 12,294 involved patients with a variety of solid tumors to evaluate the role of bevacizumab in gastrointestinal perforation. The authors also examined whether the dose or have a specific type of cancer is associated with increased risk of perforation of the stomach or intestines.
The findings showed that the incidence of gastrointestinal perforation was 0.9 percent with a risk two times greater in patients receiving the medicine compared with controls, and a mortality of 21.7 percent in those who developed the perforation. The probability of occurrence of the disorder depended on the dose. Thus, smaller amounts of bavacizumab increased the risk of gastrointestinal perforation in 61 per cent (2.5 mg / kg per week) and increased by 167 percent (5 mg / kg per week).
