Archive for February, 2010
What is Trachea Cancer?
Trachea cancer is very rare and only affects one in a thousand of all cancer cases. The Trachea itself is also known as the windpipe it connects your mouth and nose directly to your lungs; it can actually be felt if you rub the front of your neck. As with most cancers the causes of [...]
What is Vulva Cancer?
Vulva cancer affects the area between a woman’s legs that area is known as the vulva and cancer can occur anywhere in that area. There are various types of vulva cancer, some grow slowly, some grow quickly and one type takes many years to develop. The cancer itself is very rare only a thousand women [...]
What is Womb Cancer Or Womb Uterus Cancer
Womb cancer affects around six thousand women a year in the UK and typically only affects the over 50s. Womb cancer is only classified as such when it affects the womb lining if it is anywhere else it is classified a different way. This type of cancer can become very serious as the womb is [...]
What is Thymus Cancer?
Thymus cancer affects a gland positioned behind the breast bone at the center of the chest. The gland creates white blood cells that are part of the immune system and helps to fight off infection. The gland typically becomes fully developed in puberty and then it gradually stops functioning and shrinks to be replaced by [...]
What is Thyroid Cancer?
Thyroid cancer affects the thyroid gland, a small gland that is located just below the larynx, also known as the voice box, the gland produces various hormones designed to keep the human body functioning, if it hasn’t gotten nutrients it requires people tend to feel lethargic and gain weight. In a majority of cases the [...]
What is Testicular Cancer?
Testicular cancer is a form of cancer that appears to be increasing in frequency the rate of men being affected by this has doubled in the last forty years. It also a cancer that can be treated extremely effectively if it is caught at an early stage with a 98% success rate if it is [...]
What is Stomach Cancer?
Stomach cancer is a very deadly form of cancer to have; every year over eight hundred thousand people die around the world from stomach cancer. This type of cancer is so deadly simply because it so difficult to diagnose and usually by the time it is diagnosed it has already spread to other parts of [...]
What is Liver Cancer?
Liver cancer is a primary cancer that is generally originated in the tissues of liver. Primary liver cancer is totally opposite to liver metasis or secondary form of cancer in which the cancer is started from some organ and tissue of body and after wards the cancer is spread to liver. Thus liver is affected [...]
What are Symptoms of Liver Cancer?
The symptoms of liver cancer are different and the presence of these symptoms helps the physician to make the right treatment of liver cancer. A symptom is something that is very distinctive and prominent _ pain that is often felt or revealed by the patients .The Symptoms of any disease are important to make a [...]
What is Bile Duct Cancer?
Bile is a substance which is manufactured in the liver, and it is useful for the body to digest the body fats. The bile vessels course throughout the liver to collect the bile, traveling it to the gall bladder where the bile gets stored. When the bile is needed like after getting a fatty meal [...]
What is Bone Cancer?
The human body consists of 206 bones. These bones serve up multiple-diverse functions. Firstly, the bones provide composition to the human body and help to provide a framework and shape. Different Muscles are attached to the bones which enable them to move. Without the bones the human body would become just a pile of soft [...]
What is Bladder Cancer?
The bladder is a hollow body organ which is located in the lower abdomen of a human body. It stores the liquid waste which is produced by the kidneys known as the urine. The Urine passes from each kidney into the urinary bladder through a tube called urethra. An outer layer of muscles environs the [...]
What is a Brain Tumor?
A brain tumor takes place when abnormal growth of cells occurs within the brain, and it can be non-cancerous or cancerous. It is known as an intracranial tumor which is created by the uncontrolled and abnormal cell division normally in the brain all by itself. Primarily, the tumors in the brain are located in posterior [...]