While the majority of forms of cancer can affect anyone of any gender, a great deal of research has shown that women may be more susceptible to certain kinds of cancer than men are. Likewise, men are more likely to get some types of cancer than women. While cancer is rarely, if ever, gender-specific, it’s […]
Category: Cancer
Cancer is a deadly disease that affects both men and women. In 2018, an estimated 1,735,350 new cancer cases were diagnosed in the United States alone. Unfortunately, the majority of people diagnosed with cancer are men. Statistics show that cancer mortality is higher in men than in women. For instance, in 2018, at least 323,630 […]
The term metastasis is one we often hear connected to cancer, though sometimes it’s not clear precisely what this term means. When a doctor says that cancer has ‘metastasized,’ this is referring to cancer spreading beyond its original location or body part. Other terms that mean the same as metastasis commonly used by doctors may […]
Sometimes cancer can return after successful treatment, this is what doctors call cancer recurrence. The cancer recurrence might come back at the same place, or it may attack somewhere else in the body. When cancer strikes a new part of the body, it is still named after the part of the body where it first […]
Cancer treatment may cause immediate or long-term side effect depending on the patient, medicines used, or the method of treatment. The side effect occurs because the treatment therapy or medicine damages healthy cells too. In the last decade, there has been a lot of scientific discoveries on how to treat cancer and one is not […]
Nausea is a discomfort feeling in the digestive system often characterized by a strong urge to vomit. When you are undergoing cancer treatment, you are likely to experience nausea most of the time. The unease discomfort is mostly caused by the drugs taken during the chemotherapy treatment. Nausea is risky to your health as it […]
Cancer treatment isn’t cheap in most areas of the world. The reason that it isn’t affordable is currently under debate. In the meantime, it’s not uncommon for cancer patients to face bills that range from a few thousand to millions of dollars over the course of their treatments. The costs depend on a variety of […]
You may not understand or be certain about a diagnosis you receive from your doctor, particularly when it comes to a complex issue such as cancer. A second opinion is a medical term which means that you choose to seek out the diagnosis of an additional doctor, to be more certain that what the first […]
The term cancer describes a destructive process that happens to cells in different parts of the body. As people age, their bodies can overproduce cells, or fail to combat abnormal ones. Immune system dysfunction and exposure to certain toxic or cell-damaging substances also causes these problems. Cancer is the term given to abnormal cells that […]
If you’re facing cancer treatment following a diagnosis, one of the things that your doctor may first talk to you about is chemotherapy. Chemotherapy has been one of the primary treatments for cancer since a study was first done in the mid-1940s in the United States. In that study, which took place during World War […]