Cancer Treatment Reviews

Cancer is a disease that can affect any part of the body. Though it affects different areas, it has several characteristics that are common to all of the diseases. It starts with the occurrence of malignant cells in a specific area. It comes with several stages and as these stages advance, there is a high possibility that the malignant cells are going to spread to other parts.

In breast cancer, the disease can begin in any part of the breast. It can be on the milk duct lining or on the breast tissue. Either way, these malignant cells can multiply and spread not only on the entire breast area. The time that the cancer metastasizes, this is where secondary cancer comes in. Aside from the primary cancer, there is another form, one that has been an after-effect of the first one, only that it has advanced. Just like the primary cancer, it requires treatment in order to prevent it from causing further damage.

Metastatic breast cancer is type that has advanced its stage. Breast cancer, in a some cases, can be treated right away and the patient has a good chance of recovery. If it advances its stage, that’s when metastatic breast cancer occurs. It is originally primary breast cancer but since the cancer has progressed, there are other surrounding organs that have been affected.

The selection of metastatic breast cancer treatment must be based on two things. The first one must be to help prevent further spread of the cells and stop it from causing damage. It must work to completely control the cancer cells. The other one includes treatment for the other symptoms that might come with the cancer by reason of its advancement. Read the full story

Skin cancer represents one out of every three new cancers diagnosed in the United States. Primarily there are two variations on this disease, malignant melanoma (skin cancer in the form of moles) & non-melanoma. Malignant melanoma is more serious and need to be attended to right away by medical staff. As for the non-melanoma, there are two basic varieties, basal and squamous cell carcinoma, of the former being the more common type and roughly six times more frequent than malignant melanoma. Skin cancer can be devastating to come to grips with but alternative medicine has no shortage of treatments.

Conventional medical treatments used to cure cancer can seem worse physically on the patient than the cancer itself. This is one of the many reasons that more and more patients are starting to turn to natural alternatives for their cancer treatments.

Alternative Skin Cancer Treatment for Patients

One of the alternative skin cancer treatment is a topical paste that you may apply to the area where the cancer is present. This paste actually seeks out and destroys cancer cells. Dr. Frederic E. Mohs and Dr. J. Weldon Fell were both well-known authorities in using this paste. Dr. Fell was a faculty member at New York University. Later he was one of the founders of the New York Academy of Medicine. Read the full story

Looking at these statistics, it is clear that breast cancer treatment today has to deal with not only treatment of the cancer and survival of these young women but also quality of life which for these young women in their reproductive age include fertility issues.

Recent surveys indicate that the majority of breast cancer survivors who have no children at the time of diagnosis would like to have them in the future. Surveys also indicate that survivors who already have children would like to have more. Yet, many report that they did not receive adequate information about their future fertility and how to preserve it at the time of their cancer diagnosis and when they were making decisions about their treatment.

Before we can discuss how to preserve fertility in these breast cancer survivors, we need to learn about what effects breast cancer treatments have on fertility.

Chemotherapy drugs work by targeting rapidly dividing cells. These rapidly dividing cells not only include cancer cells but also normal cells such as those in the sperm, egg and/or hormone producing cells that are important in reproduction. Often, these chemotherapy drugs render a breast cancer patient infertile or leave her with decreased overall ovarian reserve (decreased egg that can reproduce).

Radiation used in breast cancer treatment also target rapidly dividing cells but is usually limited to tissues that surround the breast. This means that the radiation used to treat breast cancer usually does not affect the ovaries which are located in the pelvis. However, for those young women who receive radiation to these abdominal/pelvic region for other cancers can damage the uterus and ovaries. Read the full story