Archive for the ‘Cancer’ Category

Health experts say that a proper diet to prevent cancer

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

Health experts say that a proper diet to prevent cancer, can reduce up to 50% the chance of developing this disease. Below you will find a list of anti-cancer foods that should not be missing from the pantry of anyone.

Olive oil: This protects against colon-rectal cancer. By acting on the bile acids, olive oil lowers the risk of development of the gastrointestinal mucosa to adenoma or carcinoma. Not to mention that by keeping arteries flexible to improve circulation and oxygenation of all tissues.

Water: While not a food, its consumption is highly recommended because the water helps flush toxins from our body, we hydrate our cells and keeps them alive. (more…)

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Tumors in The Brain

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Stop Tumors In The Brain

In laboratory experiments on rats, found that blocking c-Fos protein can interfere with the development and progression of brain cancer. Globally, the study of this disease does not present a major advancement because it is very difficult to smuggle drugs into the blood-brain barrier.

Unique in the world of work this problem from this approach, Chemical Biology Research Center (Ciquibic) from UNC to try to determine whether blocking c-Fos protein reasonable measures to prevent the growth of tumors in the brain.

“We were always the basic sciences, namely the study is not intended to cure brain cancer, but to understand how cells work. And in the process of finding a new role for c-Fos protein,” explains Beatriz Caputto, director of the research team responsible for the project.

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Electric Brain Tumor

Friday, June 25th, 2010

Electric brain tumor

June 25, 2010. University of Illinois at Chicago participated in a multicenter, international for newly diagnosed patients, the most common type of aggressive brain tumor, glioblastoma multiforme glioblastoma multiforme, which is supported by the use of medical devices that apply an electric field of the brain.

Clinical trials will evaluate the safety and effectiveness of research tools that target the cancer cells are growing rapidly with the frequency of the electric field. Treatment with the device will be tested in combination with standard therapy and maintenance therapy compared with standard care alone.

The Novo-TTF is a non-invasive medical devices that change the distribution of cells in brain cancer with an alternating electric field is called “tumor treating fields,” sent to the surface of the scalp electrodes isolated.

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Abnormal uterine bleeding: Events and Treatment

Saturday, June 12th, 2010

Events
The affected person may submit any of the following conditions:
* Menstrual period less than 21 days
* Frequency greater than 35 days
* Absence of menstruation for more than six months
* Bleeding, usually abundant
* Bleeding unrelated to menstruation
* Spotting, pre-ovulatory, premenstrual and postcoital

Treatment
Must be individualized according to the age of the affected their decision about contraception or fertility, side effects, cost of treatment, severity and chronicity of the bleeding. The doctor must first rule out pregnancy and assess the severity in terms of blood loss. You can start with anti-inflammatory drugs to reduce bleeding and continue with hormone therapy when required, progesterone, oral contraceptives or estrogen, and if necessary curettage, among others. In extreme situations can be reached on the removal of the uterus.

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Abnormal uterine bleeding: Causes and Diagnosis

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

Causes
Are many and depend on age: a common cause of abnormal bleeding in young women and teenagers is pregnancy. Many women have bleeding in the first months of a normal pregnancy.

The pills or the device for birth control can also cause abnormal bleeding. If during a menstrual cycle do not ovulate, you could have abnormal bleeding, either light spotting between periods or heavy bleeding during the period. Between 40 and 55 years before menopause (last menstruation), women have months when not ovulating. This can cause abnormal uterine bleeding. The thickening of the endometrium (outer layer of the uterus) is another cause of bleeding. After menopause, hormone replacement therapy is often the origin of uterine bleeding. Other causes include a thickened endometrium and uterine cancer.

Diagnosis
Any woman with abnormal uterine bleeding should be evaluated in a medical consultation. The diagnosis is easy as it relates affected. However, the difficulty lies in determining the cause of it, so often the physician needs and a good history and physical examination, use of laboratory tests including hormonal studies, and making endometrial tissue. They can also be helpful to ultrasonography, transvaginal ultrasound or MRI, which present images of the affected areas.

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Abnormal uterine bleeding

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Vaginall bleeding is anyone coming from the uterus (womb) that is different from the woman’s normal menstruation. It is characterized by the presence of bleeding at a time unexpected or excessive bleeding during the regular menstrual period, which causes the woman discomfort, anxiety, fatigue and risk of developing anemia.

Considerations

Menstruation is the only normal uterine bleeding. It is characterized by menstrual bleeding of approximately 50 to 70 mL, with three to six days and intervals of 25 to 35 days.

Abnormal uterine bleeding is a public health problem very often, it is estimated that 30% of women have this condition. Particularly affected are of reproductive age or perimenopausal (age 45 years), the latter have been associated with greater likelihood that affected this cancer.

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