Cancer | What is Cancer?

Most common types of cancers among men

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 […]

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Cancer | Cancer Treatment

Cancer metastasis: what you need to know

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 […]

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Cancer | Cancer Treatment

How to deal with cancer recurrence

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 […]

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Fucoidan | Health Benefit of Fucoidan

Fucoidan and hypertension (Is fucoidan effective for hypertension?)

I briefly discussed hypertension and fucoidan in my previous blog. Hypertension has a risk of causing negative effects on health which can lead to heart failure, coronary artery disease, stroke, kidney disease, peripheral artery disease and hypertensive retinopathy. Hypertension is also associated with type 2 diabetes therefore, I will be discussing the complications caused by […]

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