Category: Cancer

You may feel there is nothing humorous about cancer. Too true. After the diagnosis and during the treatment patients may not feel like laughing. Their minds are likely to be concerned with details about insurance and chemotherapy.

How then do we convince you that laughter is good for cancer? Most people would consider it insensitive to crack a joke or laugh when with a terminally ill patient. But have you thought that perhaps they need to be diverted from their condition? If you can do that for them you are helping them to put their disease on the backburner and live a fuller life.

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Cancer is genetic in the sense that altered genes activate it is a disease of genes gone wrong. A healthy body depends on the interaction of thousands of genes that manage the systematic reproduction of cells. When these genes are damaged they allow the cells to replicate unchecked, which then extend to other tissues and form growths.

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Cryotherapy was once a popular method of treating prostate cancer patients in the seventies and eighties. Though it seemed to be an effective way to treat the cancer, the instruments and technology available at the time led to some negative side effects, and in turn some negative publicity which put this treatment on the proverbial back burner for over a decade.

Now with several advancements having been made in medical science and technology cryotherapy is once again surfacing as a potential in the minds of many doctors and prostate cancer sufferers alike.

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The Hodgkin’s Lymphoma disease is a type of cancer that attaches the lymph system of the immune system.

I was listening to the radio last evening and a program cased me to link to a website from all the pages of the www.healthoma.com. The program was performed by a young man, Tooraj, who is suffering from Hodgkin’s disease.

He is waiting for the bone marrow transplant but the suitable donor has not been found yet.

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Though many diets choose to exclude red wine due to its high calorie content and appetite inducing effects, many nutritionists are now admitting that the alcoholic beverage does have some redeeming qualities. Indulging in a glass or two from time to time could, in fact, be beneficial to your health.

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Searching for that elusive cure for the dreaded cancer is forever ongoing. Scientists everywhere are dreaming of being the one man who will find the actual and positive cure for every type of cancer in existence. When this will come about no one knows but it will happen. That man may not yet be born but time will tell.

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Cancer and chemotherapy is a word known by almost every person in the universe; it is a dreaded word that no one person wants to hear about especially concerning ourselves. Cancer is a malignant growth that is ruining millions of peoples lives daily.

It doesn’t have a care who it attacks, rich, poor, adults, children, even animals. Has cancer always been so virulent among the population, or is it the modern lifestyle that has caused what seems like an explosion through out the whole world.

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How to avoid getting cancer?

Cancer is one of the ugliest words for most people because almost everybody has someone in the family, friends, relatives and … who is involved with cancer or passed away because of it. I personally have lost some of my loved ones because of cancer. My grandfather, grandmother, uncle, aunt and …

I think I am personally at risk because the genetic background is one of the most important risk factors.

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