When talking about cancer, you just can't stop but think about severe discomfort, depression, survival and even death. Wishing that this type of disease won't find its way into your home. Indeed, cancer poses a threat that when left unobserved can open the door to misery or a scary passing you do not want to accept. Try to imagine hearing from your doctor that you or your chum or family member has cancer. It's likely that your GP's words wouldn't...more
Where do you think stretch marks would list in a survey of most embarrassing health problems?What if this survey was a cross section of all types of people? The beautiful & ugly, big & small, confident & shockingly shy....etc etc.Well the results of a 2009 survey in the UK have them at number 3! Coming in only behind bad breath and sweating.The full list is;1.Bad breath2.Sweating3.Stretch Marks4.Facial hair5.Spots / pimples6.Warts7.Foot odourThis...more
Breast reconstruction is necessary in cases when the breast or some part of the entirety is taken out due to disease, injury or trauma. Most, if not all, cases usually concern women who may have had cancer at this particular area a certain point in their life or have had an operation with which part of it or all of it has been removed. There are two basic approaches to this problem and these include flaps and implants.Implants: These have long been used to augment this part of a woman's anatomy for aesthetic purposes. In reconstructing the chest, these are also used to fill in all or part of what is missing. Although this option is probably the least expensive and easier to do for many surgeons, there are risks that com with it.One of the risks is the introduction of a foreign material to the body. This means that the body might reject it or that the foreign material might not work well in the body. This form of breast reconstruction can also hinder or complicate some forms of therapy used to treat the patient as well as hide growths that may be present in the chest. The patient may also need to be operated on twice, first to stretch the skin and then to put the implant.Flaps: The...more
Are you concerned about undergoing boob surgery? It should make you feel at ease to learn that bosom augmentation surgeries have been performed and perfected over a hundred years ago. There were many failures, and discoveries made in the early days of boob surgery but so much has been learned and now over 300,000 surgeries are performed annually...more
If you plan to get pregnant in the future and would like to feed your infant the natural way then it is helpful to know that breast feeding is something you will still be able to do following a cosmetic procedure. To what extent you will be able to breast feed is dependent upon the kind of operation you had.Of all of the breast surgeries, reduction...more
ClassificationThe accepted form of Breast Cancer classification divides all the different forms of breast cancer into four distinct groups, viz. pathology, the particular grade of the tumour, the expression (by which information from a gene is used in the synthesis of a gene product, such as a protein) of proteins and genes, and the stage at which the tumour has reached. Each of these groupings is in accordance with different criteria and each serves a different purpose. Such classifications are normally based on the histological (anatomy of the cells) appearance of the tissue in the tumour. Rare variants may be identified as a result of a physical examination. A typical example is that of Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC). This is a particular form of a malignant cancer which is found in the ducts. This variant is distinguished from other carcinomas by the inflamed appearance of the affected breast.Consider now the four groups in turn:Pathology - A pathologist will identify each tumour according to its histological appearance, and other characteristics. The most common forms of breast cancer are: (a) a malignant (become progressively worse and potentially result in death) cancer in...more
Getting cancer is very common nowadays. It may be a loved one, a relative or your next door neighbour, who has got cancer and is now desperately trying to find a cancer cure. Finding a cure when one is already diagnosed with cancer is definitely more...more
There is no known cure for breast cancer. More than 1.5 million people will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year worldwide. Scientists don't know why most women get breast cancer, yet breast cancer is the most frequent tumor found in women the...more
Several lung cancer treatments are currently available and the determination as to which one is prescribed depends on the lung cancer stage that has been diagnosed, the location of the cancer, and the patient's health. The most common treatments for...more
Lung Cancer PreventionDid you realize that approximately 10% of lung cancer patients have never in their lives smoked cigarettes? When asked about lung cancer prevention, most people will tell you that the easiest way to prevent lung cancer is to...more
Once a diagnosis of lung cancer has been made, the doctor will attempt to determine the stage the lung cancer is at. The staging system is somewhat like a measurement system, with the numbers indicating: whether the cancerous tumors are localized or...more
Abnormal cell growth in either one or both of the lungs is the simple answer to the question, "What is lung cancer?" In healthy individuals, the cells within the lungs go about their business duplicating at a normal rate and turning into more and...more