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Breast cancer is cancer that begins in the breast tissue. Each breast has 15-20 sections, called lobes, with smaller sections called lobes, glands responsible for milk production. Lobes and lobes are linked by thin tubes called channels. The breast is also found blood and lymph vessels. They are carriers of fluid called lymph, which contains infection-fighting cells. Lymph nodes are found throughout the body, including arms, above the collarbone and chest.

There are many types of breast cancer named after part of the breast, in which the beginning.

Ductal carcinoma is the most common type of breast cancer. Starting in duct cells.
Lobular carcinoma is another type of breast cancer. It begins in the lobes or lobes.

Risk Factors

Risk factors for breast cancer include: age and gender, genetic factors, previous breast cancer, early menstruation or late menopause, contraceptive used by mouth; hormone replacement therapy, physical characteristics, alcohol consumption, smoking, chemicals, radiation, other.

Symptoms

Breast cancer often does not show any symptoms in its early stages.

A woman who has early stage breast cancer usually does not feel pain or do not have any symptoms.

With the progress of cancer may occur following changes:
Appears to lump or thickening place on or near the breast or under arm
Change in size or shape of the breast
Nipple discharge, tenderness, or inversion (flipping) in breast nipple
Change in appearance or skin sensitivity breast, areola (breast nipple areola) or a single nipple

Diagnosis and treatment

Optimal treatment of breast cancer often requires a number of different therapies.

Breast cancer may spread to adjacent skin, local or regional lymph nodes or via blood to other places in the body such as the liver, bones and lungs. To determine an effective treatment plan is important to first define the rate of spread or stage of cancer.

Treatment by stage

Treatment options are directly related to stage of breast cancer, invasive tumor stage.

Stage 0 (carcinoma in situ – cancer neprerážajúci basal membrane)
Carcinoma lobular carcinoma in situ – is associated with an increased risk of cancer over time, require surgery, hormonal therapy and preventive action (exercise, dietary changes)
Ductal carcinoma in situ carcinoma – is regarded as a direct precursor of invasive breast cancer, requiring surgery (mastectomy, significant excision – excision), radiation

Stage I: – Breast-conserving surgery, axillary dissection or sentinel lymph node biopsy, radiation therapy, in some cases, hormone therapy

Stage II: – Conserving surgery (lumpektómia, mastectomy), axillary dissection or sentinel lymph node biopsy, followed by irradiation, in some cases, chemotherapy or hormone therapy

Stage III: – Surgery (mastectomy) or chemotherapy

Stage IV: – Breast cancer is back again or metastasizes (to spread) beyond the breast.

Systemic therapy with chemotherapy and / or hormonal therapy
To treatment at this stage is to extend life and maintain quality of life

From diagnosis, you can discover cancer and begin to apply some strategies to treat. There are very various approaches to treat cases of cancer. Development of cancerous cells need be prevented when the doctors make diagnosis of this disease. Thus, cancer treatment ability bases on the the stage of cancer. Every patient is different at the time of diagnosis. Also, there are several important health decisions and considerations necessary to take into account when choosing any treatment procedure, to make sure that his or her health standards do not go down. Chemotherapy is considered as the most important cancer treatment procedure.

 

The patients’ health will be deteriorated after treatment by the method of chemotherapy. The reason is that chemotherapy’s affection is very serious.

Consequence to treat cancer is mental illnesses, and hair and weight losses. The treatment process occurs until abolishing cancer successfully.

 

Patients with cancer should ask for doctors’ advice in the diet and medication. The effective cancer treatment strategies are radiation therapies. Radiation therapy is considered as a treatment procedure successfully because it applies to many individuals. For instance, the cancer growth comes to the end, it takes much more time to treat by radiation therapy process. In fact, the patients’ bodies are negatively affected by many changes of chemical medication.

 

When in this serious disease, patients need many encouragements and helps.

It is progressive for radiation therapy to keep until finishing a treatment.

 

Although radiation kills cancerous cells, it also kills healthy cells. A lot of toxins will be released away from the patient. Besides, there is another cancer treatment procedure which removed cancerous tumors from patients’ body. It is surgical removal.

 

Removal of the tumor is strategy which is used in most cases of cancer treatment. However, several serious tumors cannot be treated. Therefore, perpetual surgeries and treatment are applied into practice to treat patients’ cancer. Moreover, patients can refer other methods such as cryosurgery, or angiogenesis therapy.

 

One interesting study is called, Adenovirus-mediated wild-type p53 overexpression reverts tumourigenicity of human mesothelioma cells. By Giuliano M, Catalano A, Strizzi L, Vianale G, Capogrossi M, Procopio A. Int J Mol Med. 2000 Jun;5(6):591-6. Department of Oncology and Neuroscience, Clinical Pathology Section, Gabriele D’Annunzio University, 66013 Chieti, Italy. Here is an excerpt: Abstract – Pleural malignant mesothelioma (MM) shows poor survival, regardless of tumour stage at diagnosis. MM is unresponsive to present treatment regimens and new protocols are desperately needed. The localised nature, the potential accessibility, and the relative lack of distant metastases make MM a particularly attractive candidate for somatic gene therapy. A common target for cancer gene therapy is the tumour suppressor protein p53. p53 does not seem to be mutated or deleted in MM, but it can be inactivated by binding to other proteins, like mdm2 and SV40 large T antigen. We tested the effects of a replication-deficient adenoviral vector carrying wild-type p53 cDNA in human MM cells. Our results show that >95% of MM cells were efficiently infected with 25 multiplicity of infection (MOI) of vector. Wild-type p53 was effectively expressed resulting in >80% inhibition of proliferation in MM cells. AdCMV.p53 infection induced apoptosis while controls did not show any evident morphological alterations. Ex vivo p53 gene transfer experiments inhibited tumourigenesis in nude mice. In vivo, direct intratumour injection of AdCMV.p53 arrested tumour growth and prolonged survival of treated mice. These results indicate that p53-gene therapy should be strongly exploited for clinical trials in MM patients.

Another study is called, Congenital polycystic tumor of the atrioventricular node (endodermal heterotopia, mesothelioma): A histogenetic appraisal with evidence for its endodermal origin – Human Pathology Volume 18, Issue 8, August 1987, Pages 791-795 by MD Gerald Fine and MD Usha Raju. Here is an excerpt: The small, variously designated, primary atrioventricular node tumor has been considered to be of endothelial, endodermal, or mesothelial origin. To identify its derivation, we studied seven tumors using silver staining and immunocytochemical labeling with a variety of antibodies. Cytoplasmic argyrophil granules but not argentaffin granules were found in isolated cells among the more numerous bubule-lining cells in four tumors. Serotonin and calcitonin were demonstrable in seven and six tumors, respectively, in a similar distribution to that of the argyrophil cells. A positive reaction of different distribution from that of the argyrophil cells was noted in a varying number of tubule-lining cells for carcinoembryonic antigen, epithelial membrane antigen, and blood group antigen in seven, four, and seven tumors, respectively. No activity was noted in the tumor cells for factor VIII-related antigen or a number of peptides. An endodermal rather than mesothelial or epithelial origin for the tumor is substantiated by the presence of neuroendocrine cells in the midst of the more numerous carcinoembryonic-antigen-positive lining cells of the tumor tubules.

Another study is called, SV40 expression in human neoplastic and non-neoplastic tissues: perspectives on diagnosis, prognosis and therapy of human malignant mesothelioma. By Procopio A, Marinacci R, Marinetti MR, Strizzi L, Paludi D, Iezzi T, Tassi G, Casalini A, Modesti A. Dev Biol Stand. 1998;94:361-7. Department of Oncology and Neuroscience, Gabriele D’Annunzio University, Chieti, Italy. Here is an excerpt: Abstract – We have recently demonstrated the association of SV40 and human pleural malignant mesothelioma. Here, we have investigated whether SV40 viral sequences may be associated with other human tumours or other non-neoplastic pathology and whether SV40 DNA or protein expression may be of diagnostic, prognostic or therapeutic relevance. DNA was extracted from paraffin embedded tissues. SV40, JC and BK viral sequences were detected by the polymerase chain reaction and molecular hybridization with specific probes. The screening with three different sets of SV40-related primers demonstrated that 7/18 (38.8%) mesothelioma specimens were SV40 positive as well as 5/18 (27.7%) tubercular pleural lesions. None of the 18 lung cancers, nor the 20 pleural non-specific inflammatory specimens tested were positive. Twenty-five blood samples and 18 urinary sediments from MM patients were also negative. We have also found that SV40 Tag proteins are present in mesothelioma cells and tumours. Tag proteins may interfere with tumour suppressor gene products, such as p53. Preliminary results suggest that wild type p53 transgene expression, obtained after infection with recombinant adenovirus (AdCMV.p53), inhibited in vitro and in vivo proliferation, inducing apoptosis of mesothelioma cells. Infections with control viruses were ineffective. Thus, SV40 DNA and Tag expression in mesothelioma tumour cells, though probably not relevant for diagnostic or prognostic purposes, may be crucial for innovative gene therapy strategies.

If you found any of these excerpts interesting, please read the studies in their entirety.

OK, you have just been diagnosed with cancer……….

You have cancer is a phrase which one in five people in the United States will hear this year alone in one form or another. Too many people have cancer! Cancer rips through your life tearing its own pathway.

Unfortunately, a lifetime of ignoring certain aspects of your body and you life has resulted in dis-ease.

Hearing you have cancer is earth shattering! Cancer is perhaps the most dreaded disease because we know so little about it and for many it is a death sentence.

All you can do is ask yourself… how did I get cancer? What did I do to get this in my body? Am I going to die? What am I going to do? Where do I turn? What? What? Where? Where? Why? Why? Confusion and fear sets in. You are a wreck!

What are you going to do? You need a plan. Prayer helps, but you also need a plan. You need a support system of friends and you need to depend on God to help you.

You question… Am I going to die? Depending on what type of cancer you have and where it is in your body, you have different questions. On the other hand, a few questions are very much the same for everyone. Will I ever get better? Will I look the same? What about insurance? Will it cover everything? What about my family? What about my job? What about business? Who will help me? What shall I do? How much is all this going to cost?

Do these words sound familiar? These words and emotions are all very normal. You are being challenged with the biggest test of your strength in your lifetime. My thoughts probably sound familiar to your thoughts. Your journey has just begun.

As a two time cancer survivor I am able to show you that cancer does not have to be a death sentence. You will have to change many things in your life. All I can do is to share my experiences and hope that because of my pain and suffering, you will find comfort and cure for your cancer.

Healing yourself, even with the help of modern medicine is a task that only you can do for yourself. Many people will try to help you and guide you, but you need to make the decision that you are going to be well and that certain changes must be made in the way you live your life. In order for you to get well and go on living many more years, you will need to make the decision to be well.

Think wellness thoughts. Your mind needs to know that you are already well so that the rest of your body can catch up to such thinking. This concept might be a bit difficult to grasp at first; please read on. Cancer is perhaps the greatest challenge you have ever had to face, and it takes tremendous courage to get well. You must be strong, unbelievably strong!

Your body, designed by God, has its own self-healing power. Your body got sick by you not listening to it. When you listen to your body and your inner self, you will get well. So many people term cancer as a journey because it is a life changing event. Today, many people are facing cancer and healing themselves. Be hopeful the journeys and research of many others.

I attracted cancer to myself. As you read on, I will unfold my story. I was diagnosed with throat cancer. The doctors were perplexed as to how I got cancer, as I was not the typical profile of the person who contracts throat cancer. I did not smoke, and did not drink to excess.

When I walked into the Chemotherapy Infusion Room with a doctor for scheduling, the woman at the help desk asked “who is the patient?” The doctor said, pointing to me and replied, “it is for her.” On the outside I looked healthy, (or so I thought at the time.) To search the reason why I got cancer was my personal journey. Looking back, I have a totally different perspective.

My journey was not easy. In fact, no cancer healing is simple; however’ curing yourself of cancer is not as mysterious as you might assume.

Decisions must be made quickly and seriously. You will need a support system.

1.If you smoke, you need to stop immediately.
2.If you are in a home where everyone else smokes, you need to get yourself to a clean environment where you are not exposed to second-hand smoke.
3.If you are a heavy alcohol drinker, you need to stop immediately. Did you know that alcohol consumption can cause cancer? Most of us do not. Where is the “surgeon general” warning on alcohol consumption? Drinking alcohol can cause cancer.
4.If you drink soft drinks with aspartame you need to stop immediately. In fact, soft drinks are nothing but sugar and chemicals. You need to drink juices and water instead.
5.You need to decide that you want to live and that you are going to go about changing your life in order to do so.
6.Get plenty of rest. You need at least 8-10 hours of sleep each day. Naps also are recommended. While at rest, your body can do its own healing process.
7.You need to forget about FEAR. You need to get to work on healing the body that you have badly neglected for many years. Right now, you have no time for fear.
8.Have a positive attitude towards your healing. You are going to become healthy again.
9.Let go and let God!
10.Most of all, expect a miracle!

When I first was diagnosed with cancer, I took the American Medical Association approach to the disease. I went to the University of Virginia Medical Center which has state-of-the-art cancer treatment.

First, I had chemotherapy treatments for several weeks. Chemotherapy gives poison to all cells, killing both cancer cells, and at the same time, healthy cells. I also received seven weeks, five days a week, of radiation therapy.

Tomotherapy Radiation equipment takes a scan of the cancer tumor daily and as the treatment progresses, the tumor size and positions change. This equipment targets the tumor and lasers it with radiation, killing the cancer cells.

I almost died during the combination of these lengthy treatments. However, after the grueling treatment was over, my cancer went into remission.

Recovery from the treatments took a very long time because my body was quite frail and weak. All cancer patients have anemia, and I was no exception. Cancer causes anemia and chemotherapy also causes anemia. Therefore if you have cancer and take chemotherapy treatments, your body had a double dose of anemia.

My weight went down to 80 pounds. I lost all my hair. I was depressed beyond anything I could ever imagine. I did not eat for five weeks. I had a stomach tube inserted so that my body could get the nutrition it needed. Everything tasted like cardboard, so why eat? It was a horrible experience.

However, the cancer went into remission and I was cured, or so I thought.

I began to gain weight and come alive again. I had hair stubble.

With my immune system being challenged by the chemotherapy, I attracted a very rare amoeba in my right eye. The amoeba ate my cornea and eye blood vessels before the problem was diagnosed correctly. The pain was excruciating and for almost nine months, I was blind in my right eye.

When the amoeba was gone, and my eye began to heal, I began to see again. At the eye doctor’s visit for the first time in almost a year, I finally saw and recognized the “BIG E.” That was a happy day!

However, since my body was malnutritioned and weak, the following day I had a heart attack.

On the operating room table during heart surgery, I could hear the nurses talking about me. “She is so tiny.” I weighed about 90 pounds soaking wet.

After recovering from the heart attack and gaining weight, I gradually got back to my old self and went back to work. I had a new heart, I was thin and fashionable, and I was designing and traveling all over the world again. Modern medicine had cured me of the dreaded disease and surrounding complications. Happy days were here again!

I slipped back into my old bad habits. I worked hard, did not rest enough, stressed over things, and did not eat correctly. Basically I did not love myself any more after this entire ordeal than I did before the cancer.

The reason being, I did not know any better.

You are sitting there saying “what?” I am here to tell you that cancer is the symptom of something much deeper than just the disease of the cells. The body and the mind are much more complex than what we treat with medicine and medical treatments.

In case you have forgotten, your mind is attached to your body and the mind and the brain are very much in charge of everything that goes on in your body either on a conscious or subconscious level.

Within two years, the same cancer returned. I was diagnosed with cancer a second time. This time the treatment was more complicated and severe.

After a biopsy verifying cancer, the doctors decided to do surgery. They felt that chemotherapy and radiation had not worked, therefore this time they would do salvage surgery which would have left me maimed for the rest of my life.

I refused salvage surgery and everything else that went along with it.

The doctors had suggested I at least take another flight of chemotherapy.

I went to the appointment with the Chemotherapy Physician. During the course of our conversation (I was taking notes) we discussed my previous chemotherapy treatments and how the cancer had disappeared very quickly.

At that point, the doctor turned to me and said “everyone knows chemotherapy does not cure cancer.” I asked him, “then why did you put me through all of that horrendous experience nearly killing me if it could not cure me?” I did not wait for an answer.

My mind was made up that instant. Something was really wrong with this picture! After seeing several of my friends go through cancer treatment with a fatal end, I chose quality of life.

I got three different professional opinions on the second cancer diagnosis.

1.University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, Virginia where I had been treated for the first cancer treatment.
2.Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California to their Top Oncology Center.
3.Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona to check out Trans Oral Micro Laser Surgery for Throat Cancer. This is a fairly new procedure done by only two renowned doctors in the world; one of them is at Mayo Clinic.

I saw the most highly regarded Throat Cancer Oncologist in each of the above three places.

I did my diligence with world-class surgeons. All the doctors reviewed my medical history. They assessed my CT Scans, and all gave the same diagnosis.

Both University of Virginia and Loma Linda would do the salvage surgery, the only difference being that Loma Linda would remove the artery from my right leg, not my right arm to replace the artery in my neck.

At the Mayo Clinic, the surgeon would do a new procedure, Trans Oral Micro Laser Surgery which would involve inserting a laser down my throat surgically and using a laser as the primary cutting tool. This procedure would eliminate cutting my jaw, and removing my artery.

However, I was advised the procedure “isn’t magic” and was “not minimalistic.” I would have a sizable wound, maybe some difficulty with speech, a stomach tube inserted through my nose, a very long recovery, problems swallowing, and a speech hindrance for several years, possibly forever.

I tell you this story because you will hear something similar and you have to weigh your odds. How do you want to live the rest of your life?

At that point in time, I my body weight was 112 lbs. How much more weight could I possibly lose? I also did not want to look in the mirror and see a part of my face removed. In my mind, I had no choice but to take an alternative route.

I turned to alternative cancer treatment, and I began what people call the journey to wellness.

I saw a naturopathic doctor in California and changed my diet drastically to include herbs and vitamins, coupled with fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains, and fish.

This diet changed my life. When you have cancer, your body has been depleted of the nutrients it needs, you must give your body and your brain the nutrition it needs to get you well again.

All during my first cancer treatment, I was never given a diet or any information about how a diet can actually cure cancer. However, the truth of the matter is; I probably was not in the frame of mind to listen to anything, even if they had given me a nutritional diet.

I had not passed over what my intuitive healer calls the crossroads to wellness. My old habits of living and eating were still a part of my regime. My attitude was such that “I would just take the medicine prescribed for me, do what the doctors tell me to do, and get healed through the wonders of modern medicine.”

My attitude was that I would find the best doctors money could buy, the most famous in all the world, and beat cancer! Just take a pill and make it all go away…that was my thinking before I was challenged with cancer the second time.

It was only until I passed over the crossroads, what I call the point of no return when both my conscious and my subconscious mind were working in tandem to get me well forever.

I had refused salvage surgery, and knew if I were going to be healed I had to do something major for myself; quickly.

I began to study and to do research. I began investigating alternative cancer treatments and other options for healing. I became a voracious reader and searched the Internet for information about cancer cures and healing. I needed to find an answer and heal my self.

I was given a book titled Love, Medicine and Miracles by Dr. Bernie Siegel. Dr. Siegel states that the body has an incredible power to heal itself. This is where my journey began.

Your journey will be different than mine, and only you know where to find the answers buried in your body and mind.

Your body has an extremely powerful recuperative ability. You and your mind have the control to heal yourself. You must come to terms with your body.

The key is for you to be in charge of your own healing and understand your options. Get involved! Ask questions. Write notes when you go to a doctor’s appointment.

Take a friend with you on the doctor’s appointment and ask your friend to take notes as well. When you are in the doctor’s office, the stress and fear of being diagnosed with cancer sometimes blurs your ability to correctly comprehend.

Listen carefully. Compare your notes with your friend’s notes after you leave the doctor’s office. Evaluate both perspectives of exactly what the doctor said.

Be involved with your healing process. You and God almighty together will heal you. Cancer does not have to be the end; however, cancer is a wake-up call to how you are living your life, and what your body is telling you. You must learn how to listen to your inner self.

Our body has got 206 bones. Bones are known to do various functions and the most important of all is to provide the structure to our body. When muscles are attached to the bones, our body can move. Bones are important for protecting some of our vital organs such as brain, heart or lungs. Bones are helpful in collecting the nutrients like calcium or phosphorus. Cancer is caused in any part of our body when abnormal growth of the cells happens. Many different cancers can metastasize or extend into the bones. These are Prostrate, lung, kidney, breast, thyroid, lymphoma etc. Most of the ways to treat bone cancer are the treatments for the cancers which have affected or metastasized to the bones. That is the reason the early diagnosis is important.

There are many types of bone cancer and mostly the children and teenagers suffer from bone tumors which is less frequent in adults.

In adults mostly the bone cancer is caused due to metastasis of other forms of cancer. Bone cancer has a common symptom-pain in the bone tumors. As the cancer is heading towards the last stages the pain becomes unbearable. Once diagnosed of bone cancer, there are various ways to treat bone cancer and the mode of treatment depends on the nature of the cancer, the location and the severity of bone cancer. The treatment of bone cancer also depends on the fact if the surrounding tissues have been metastasized or not. The ways are-
Surgery- It is a very common method. It is used so that the bone tumor and the surrounding tissues of a normal bone could be removed. Then the biopsy check is done for the tissues to become sure that the normal tissues are surrounding the bone.
Chemotherapy- Various medicines are used so that the growth of the cancerous cells could be stopped. Sometimes chemotherapy is used before surgery so that the bone tumors could be reduced in size and the surgery becomes easier. At times it is used after surgery so that the remaining cancerous cells could be killed.
Radiation therapy- High-energy C-rays are used so that the cancerous cells could be killed. It is used for long time in small doses.

Depending on the type of the cancer the combination of one or more ways can be used. There are various side effects which are caused when any of these ways to treat bone cancer is followed. The most common are vomiting, loss of appetite and nausea.

Most people believe, at least in the start of treatment, that doctors know what they are doing and that there will be drugs to fix up any trouble that might occur, such as cancer. Unhappily, those beliefs are not as true as we would like them to be.

What the doctors don’t tell you is that, on average over all types of cancer, chemotherapy only contributes just over 2% to the five year survival rate over all cancers.

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Aromatherapy and herbal teas can offer holistic relief during cancer treatment. Frankincense helps the body cope with shock and has shown promise in the treatment of bladder cancer.

Sweet violet, Viola odorata is useful for respiratory circumstances and cancers of the throat.

Pau D’Arco is known to build up the immune system and elder foliage has been used to reduce tumours. Barley water is soothing to the body and helps with sickness and debility.

Home remedies for cancer include spending of broccoli, grapes, ginseng, myrrh, green tea, aloe vera, lycopene, maitake mushroom, soybean, wheatgrass etc directly or indirectly as explained in this piece of writing.

Cancer is a sickness that is characterized by presence of continuously dividing cells. Initially localized at a point called tumor, later these cells distribute in the body via blood or lymphatic system and ultimately death results. Cancer is enthused due to several external or internal stimuli.

Various kinds of cancer show symptoms in unlike ways. Certain home remedies exist which aim at prevent cancer, while several other focus on the establishment of immune system. There are also certain kinds of food that are beneficial to be taken by patients undergo chemotherapy or radiation therapy.

Cancer Treatment

Many herbs (including astragalus, dong quai, echinacea, and Asian ginseng) allegedly “boost” the immune system and so shore up the body against future or obtainable cancer.

Extremely small studies put forward that shiitake or maitake mushrooms, mistletoe, extracts of the Venus flytrap, and various botanical therapies used in established Chinese medicine may help treat certain forms of cancer.

But until better evidence is in, we cannot totally rely on them. Ginger, and maybe some other herbs, may help relieve nausea that often accompanies conservative cancer therapies.

Home Remedies for Cancer

Cancer is the final stage of a gradual process that can be reversed.

In fact, the same home remedies that foil cancer also cure cancer.

Your body makes cancer cells regularly and then your immune system quietly sweeps them away. Now with new technology, hospitals are detect cancers and cancer symptoms earlier and often jumping the gun — and scaring people into needless and harmful cancer treatment regimes.

Discover how to support your body’s cancer all-encompassing process with natural remedies. New science has proven the cure for cancer is found by activate your body’s natural anti-cancer function.

The cure for cancer was always right in front of our faces. It was a classic situation of not seeing the forest for the trees kind of thing.

Cutting edge researchers like author Bill Henderson have seen the folly of solely treat cancer symptoms. Bill has invested his life penetrating and cataloging the ROOT CAUSE of all cancers.