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Helpful Tips for Managing Side Effects from Cancer Treatment
Men’s Health Week, June 15 to June 21, is a national awareness program designed to encourage men to take proper care of their health and practice preventive medicine. For their contribution, Cancer Center of Southern California physicians and staff have some helpful suggestions for cancer patients.
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Five Early Symptoms of Gastric Cancer
Gastric cancer (stomach cancer) is a type of soft tissue sarcoma and ranks as the fourth most common cancer worldwide. Most cases of this disease tend to appear in men of African and Asian descent but it can develop in Caucasian males age 70 and older.
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Living With Cancer Can Be Normal
For some, cancer may not be a one-time event. Certain types of cancer, including ovarian, breast, lymphoma, and prostate when diagnosed in advanced stages may never completely go away. As long as you are getting maintenance treatment, your cancer can be prevented from growing or spreading. In cases like this, cancer can be compared to other chronic conditions, such as diabetes or heart disease. It needs to be closely watched and treated.
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Offering Emotional Support to a Cancer Patient
The emotional impact of a cancer diagnosis can be overwhelming not only to the person facing the illness, but to that person’s family and friends as well. Whether the person diagnosed is your own child, parent, sibling or best friend, finding the right way to offer emotional support through words and actions may be a challenge, especially if you have never been in such a position before.
Read Article >The Link Between a Sedentary Lifestyle and Higher Cancer Risks
As people spend more and more time sitting than at any other point in human history, the health effects and dangers that a sedentary lifestyle can have on a person’s overall well being have started to come to light in recent years, by way of numerous health studies and research into the subject.
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Nutrition Tips For Dealing with the Side Effects of Cancer Treatment
Cancer treatment therapies tend to affect every person differently. While one may experience fatigue and loss of appetite with chemotherapy, another may experience severe nausea and vomiting. Some side effects can be mild, while others can be more debilitating than the illness itself.
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Overcoming Stage IV Leiomyosarcoma – The Survival Story of One of Dr. Chawla’s Patients
When Dakota Neal was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called leiomyosarcoma in 2005, it changed her life. Not because her doctors concluded that they would have to amputate her leg, which had developed a tumor that ran from the bottom of her knee down to her ankle, and not because the disease lingered in her system despite undergoing extensive rounds of cutting-edge treatment. Dakota Neal was changed by cancer because it strengthened who she was as a person and gave her the conviction to fight back against the disease that threatened to take her life.
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The Relationship Between Hormones and Breast Cancer
As with most forms of cancer, no two cases of breast cancer are exactly alike. Breast tumor behavior can be especially complicated and unpredictable, and the type of breast cancer treatment a patient receives, and potential outcomes will depend in large part on the specific makeup of the breast cancer cells.
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Prevent Cervical Cancer
Ever since HPV (human papillomavirus) was identified as a primary risk factor for cervical cancer, there has been a decrease in cases of this once deadly disease. In having identified the virus’ role in cervical cancer, researchers have been instrumental in developing diagnostics and treatment for the virus. In fact, cervical cancer is now considered one of the most preventable varieties of the disease.
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