Author: Salman

The diagnosis of cancer puts paid to every other thought in a patient’s mind until pain comes to the fore. The cancer itself might cause pain and the treatment might add to it.

A patient has not only to face the thought of a terminal illness but also the aches and pains that go with it.

The severity of the pain will also determine a person’s emotional and physical health. Pain can result from diagnostic procedures such as biopsies and remedial intercessions such as chemotherapy. The pain from the tumor can be chronic and can last over a long period of time. Continue reading “Can Pain Be Relieved in Cancer Treatment?”

Summers are already at the doorstep. Which means more time outdoors, more social activities such as family outings and picnics with friends. Let us also put this time to good use by taking an effort to reduce cancer.

The suggestion may sound slightly out of place to some of you but it’s not! In this article we will share some cancer prevention tips which you can include in your day-to-day routine and reduce your risk. We shall also make sure that while you stick to a regime you also enjoy the warm and sunny season. Continue reading “Bring Down Your Cancer Risk – Agenda For This Summer”

Fewer people are diagnosed with bone cancer than with other kinds of cancer, as it is very rare (about 0.2%). This kind of cancer can affect any bone in any part of the body.

Bone cancer can also be a result of any other type of cancer in the body metastasizing or spreading to the bones. Bone sarcoma and multiple myelomas are the two most common kinds of cancer, of which the latter is less rare. Continue reading “Why Does Bone Cancer Develop?”

Brain Tumors, as the name suggests grow in the brain — an organ that controls everything from movement to emotion. Around 20 percent of all malignancies in patients under the age of 15 are either Brain or spinal cord tumors. They are also known as central nervous system tumors (CNS) and are the most common type of solid tumor among children.

Brain tumors can be malignant or non-malignant (non-cancerous). Brain tumors can be of several types. Some tumors get formed in the tissues and cells of a child’s brain are these are called primary brain tumors. In other cases, tumors originate in other parts of the body, spread or metastasize to the brain, which is quite rare but has been noticed in children also. Continue reading “Types of Childhood Brain Tumors, Symptoms and Treatment”

It is true that there are not as many instances of kids get cancer as adults, but they do. Kids do get cancer & it can also be cured in most cases. With each passing year survival rate of kids has been going up because of medical researches & breakthroughs.

Kids get cancer when cells go through an abnormal rate of growth and division, just as in adults. Thus the reason why cancer happens is alike for everyone. When cells that are not normal, they grow and spread fast in the affected part of our body and the result is cancer.

Normal body cells grow and divide and know when to stop growing. Over a period of time, they die and are replaced by new cells. Like such normal cells, cancer cells simply keep growing and divide out of control and don’t die. Continue reading “Why Kids Get Cancer?”

You’ve heard the term usually used in connection with the diagnosis of cancer. But how much do you really know about what a biopsy is?

To start with: once cancer is suspected the physician will suggest that a biopsy be carried out to determine if a cancer in a particular organ is present. It’s a procedure wherein a piece of soft tissue or fluid or bone is taken from the relevant part of the body of a patient and given to the laboratory/pathologist for analysis of a particular type of cancer. Continue reading “What You Need to Know About Biopsies”

Do we really give any thought about this part of our body?

How much attention do we pay to what it does? But once the pain sets in then we are aware of little else. The colon is amazingly four feet long, starting at the end of the small bowel and ending at the anus.

This organ is quite muscular and tube-like, snaking its way through your belly. It helps to take up nutrients from food, and stores, controls, and empties fecal matter. Continue reading “What Do We Really Know About Colon Cancer?”