Cancer News Information

There are many kinds of cancers that affect our health. In order to understand this deadly disease it is necessary to know the main categories of this disease and their different stages. Though there are many different types of this disease, they all are called cancer due to some characteristic similarity. All varieties of cancer cause cell growth in an abnormal proportion, in the affected parts and they tend to spread to...

Breast cancer charities alone will raise more than six billion dollars this year. The money raised for all forms of cancer is impossible to estimate, but it is easily in the tens of billions. And for anyone who has ever had cancer or knows someone who has suffered from the terrible disease, they know that every penny raised is vital towards the ultimate discovery of a cure. Everything from t-shirts to key chains, lanyards...

Scientists since the 1970's have been aware of the importance of angiogenesis in controlling cancer growths and have been searching for ways to stop these new blood vessels forming. To date they have had limited success. When cancer cells first develop they are supplied with nutrients from nearby blood vessels but to grow larger than 1 to 2 millimetres they need their own blood vessels. New blood vessels then have to grow...

Cancer can be of many different types. In the recent days, with the immense progression of medical science, some kind of Cancer Treatment has been effectively found, but when cancer is detected in the early stages, the treatment can prove to be the most effective. Unfortunately, in most cases, the symptoms of the disease appear at a very advanced stage when the disease seems to have spread in many other parts of the body....

An unsolved mystery surrounds the reason alcohol causes cancer and takes years off of one's life. The mystery may remain because scientists hesitate to address the dangers of the socially accepted drug, alcohol. Alcohol is placed in a social category of its own outside the drug pill box and therefore treated differently.Breast cancer is the most common alcohol-related cancer among women. It is reported that alcohol contributes...

I have a long-standing argument with my professor brother, a brilliant intellectual trained in the hallowed halls of Berkeley. It usually starts with me saying something like: why is it that so and so never seems to make it our parties? Then my brother would reply that it is because they are busy, to which I would counter that we are all busy and can always make time. And then he would retort, that sometimes life takes over...

Do you know somebody who is currently going through chemotherapy? If so, you know that your friend is going through a difficult, challenging period in their life. It's easy to feel helpless when you're not the person going through the struggle, but there's no reason to feel bad and sit on the sideline. As a friend, you can do a lot of great service helping somebody who is going through intense radiation treatments. How can...