Archive for February, 2010
What are Types of Bengin Liver Tumor?
Liver cancer is result of two basic forms of cells such as one in cancerous cells and other is non-cancerous cells. Tumors are cancerous cells and benign is non cancerous cells. When the liver cancer is started due to cancerous cells then it must be treated before it is too late. But when the reason [...]
What is Head and Neck Cancer?
“Head and Neck cancer†refers to biologically similar cancer that starts from upper aero digestive tract. These include the lips, mouth, nasal cavity, pharynx and larynx. Most of these cancers are squamous cell carcinomas. Head and neck cancers mostly spread to the neck first before spreading to the lymph nodes.
What is GallBladder Cancer?
Gallbladder cancer is a malignant cell or tumour that has infected the tissues of the gallbladder. Gallbladder is an organ of the body found just below the liver. It is pear-shaped and stores bile, which is manufactured by the liver to digest fat. Bile is released from the gallbladder and passes through the bile duct [...]
What is Spinal Cord Tumours?
Spinal cord tumours are growths of tissue found in or near the spinal cord. The spinal cord is part of a human body’s Central Nervous System and usually the cells within the CNS grow in a controlled way, however occasionally a tumour can form due to unknown reasons that are still being researched. More commonly [...]
What is Soft Tissue Sarcomas?
Soft tissue sarcomas are a type of malignant disease affecting fat or any supporting tissues of the body. They can occur anywhere within the human body although the most common place to find them is around the limbs. They are not very common with less than one out of every hundred cancers reported being classified [...]
What is Eye Cancer?
Growth of cells in the body is controlled in an orderly and systematic manner. Uncontrolled growth of cells results in eye cancer. This can occur in or outside the eye. There are basically two main types of eye cancer: Those that occur in the eye, known as intraocular. These include Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (usually develops in [...]
What is Cervical Cancer?
Cervix is the important reproductive organ of woman, which exists in the lower and the narrow part of the female organ Uterus also called as womb. The main cause of cancer is with the cells that build up the human structure. The cycle of human structure is in the way that for every periodic time [...]
What is Colon Cancer?
In the human digestive system Colon is a part where the waste material of the digested material is stored. Colon is the part of the large intestine which is connected to the rectum and anus. When the cells in the large intestine are infected and with the cancer cells there are tumors called polyps formed [...]
What is Breast Cancer?
One of the dreadful diseases that one out of eight women suffers through out the world is the Breast cancer. With the infection of the Breast Cancer many women fear the decrease in their glamour, undergoing surgery and death. Nothing has been officially declared that the cause of the cancers and if the Breast cancer [...]
What is Endocrine Cancer?
Endocrine is the system which directly relates to the secretion of the hormones directly in to the blood. The glands that are involved with the Endocrine system are spread all over the human body structure are the pituitary gland, pancreas, ovaries, testis, thyroid gland and adrenal glands. Hormones make the chemical reactions to take place [...]
What is Pancreatic Cancer?
Pancreas is the gland that is responsible for the release of the juices that help in for the digestion of the food and which overall controls the sugar levels in the blood. The cancer that infects the pancreas is called as the pancreatic cancer. It is very hard to recognize the pancreatic cancer in the [...]
What is Larynx Cancer?
Larynx is the organ that is responsible for breathing, talking and swallowing and is found on the front portion of the neck muscle which is responsible for the voice emission. It is situated above the windpipe and behind the esophagus. As Cancer is caused with the cells being infected at the Larynx part the cancer [...]
What is Unknown Primary Cancer?
Unknown primary cancer is actually a general term when cancer has been found but the doctors do not know where it has originated from, which is known as the primary. It usually affects between three and four percent of cases and after a quick examination of the area the primary is usually located. However in [...]
What is Vagina Cancer?
Vagina cancer is a very rare type of cancer less than a few hundred are diagnosed in the UK each year. There are usually two types of this cancer, primary vaginal cancer in which the cancer developed in the vagina and secondary which is the most common where the cancer has spread from elsewhere in [...]