Cancer – What is Cancer? What Causes Cancer?
Cancer is a class of diseases characterized by out-of-control cell growth. There are over 100 different types of cancer, and each is classified by the type of cell that is initially affected. Cancer harms the body when damaged cells divide uncontrollably to form lumps or masses of tissue called tumors (except in the case of [...]
TURBT (Transurethral Resection Of The Bladder Tumor)
Transurethral resection (TUR) for bladder cancer Transurethral resection (TUR) of the bladder is a surgical procedure that is used both to diagnose bladder cancer and to remove cancerous tissue from the bladder. This procedure is also called a TURBT (transurethral resection for bladder tumor). General anesthesia or spinal anesthesia is usually used. During TUR surgery, [...]
Phase II Study for Advanced Bladder Cancer
Emory Winship Cancer Institute is the only cancer research and treatment facility in Georgia to offer an innovative Phase II clinical trial for transitional cell carcinoma (TCC), a common form of bladder cancer. The clinical trial is testing the efficacy of the investigational drug Vinflunine. Vasily Assikis, MD, assistant professor of hematology and oncology and [...]
Cancer Therapy
Cancer is one of the deadliest diseases the century has seen and the alarming number of people affected by the disease has made the need to find a cure for the disease a desperate one. According to the statistics of WHO, one out of every three women and one out of every two men are prone to cancer in the current world.
Choose the Right Prostate Cancer Therapy For Faster Recovery
For patients that have just been diagnosed with prostate cancer, choosing the right prostate cancer therapy could be a frightening task due to the high level of risk involved in case of making the wrong choice. However, an expert team of doctors and specialists would be able to offer expert advice on the various therapies available even as advances in science lessen the risk and improve the prospects of recovery with each passing day.
Understanding Cancer Therapies – A Patient’s Guide
There are many different types of cancer therapies. Some are well established and some more experimental. Some have proven to be useful only in certain cancers and not in others. If you embark on the path of researching cancer treatments, you’ll become very familiar very quickly with the treatments being used for the particular cancer you’re researching.
An Overview of Lung Cancer
This article provides information on lung cancer. The article level is basic, and is for the common reader.
Do I Have Cancer?
There are over 100 different types of cancer. Each type of cancer can have different symptoms, diagnostic tests and treatment options. As a result, there are many terminologies and phrases that are used to describe the type, symptoms and diagnosis of cancer, and treatment methods. It is often very confusing as well as frustrating for the readers if too many medical jargons or terminologies are used in describing the cancer. It is difficult for readers to understand the context of the topic or take any action, if required, after reading any article or book on cancers. As a result, the information is often misinterpreted or not fully understood or comprehended. This article tries to explain in simple terms the terminologies and phrases used in describing a cancer.
Cancer is Not a Disease – It’s a Survival Mechanism
What you are about to read may rock or even dismantle the very foundation of your beliefs about your body, health and healing. The title, “Cancer Is Not a Disease” may be unsettling for many, provocative to some, but encouraging for all. However, it will serve as a revelation for those who are sufficiently open-minded to consider the possibility that cancer and other debilitating illnesses are not actual diseases, but desperate and final attempts by the body to stay alive for as long as circumstances permit.
Recent Studies Show How Our Bodies Fight Disease
**Obese people less likely to survive colorectal cancer According to a new report, people who are physically inactive and are obese around the middle have poor odds of survival after a diagnosis of c…
Alternative Cancer Therapies
There are very strong feelings surrounding alternative cancer therapies. There are frequent television snippets and online blogs bemoaning the deaths lost to alternative treatments used after well recognized medical treatments have been turned down by the patient.
Alternative Cancer Therapies That Can Kill Cancer Cells Naturally
If you have cancer, of course, you’d like to win against cancer. There are alternative cancer therapies you can try in order to kill cancer cells naturally. You may combine them with conventional treatments. Learn more from this write up.
Alternative Cancer Therapy Can Help You
Are you going through cancer treatment and wish that you had an alternative? Many people who are in your position feel this way and they start to look for alternative cancer therapy to bring about an improvement in their health and outlook. You might not realise it but there are hundreds of different things that you can do that will make a positive change to your health and help you to combat cancer and live longer.
Final chemotherapy
November 1st, 2011 Today I was supposed to have my final chemotherapy (in this case Glemcitabine, see below for details) in a range of twelve. The drill at the hospital is as follows: Blood sample Hour waiting for the blood sample test results Chemotherapy subject to the blood sample test being OK Awaiting the test [...]
Bladder Cancer Risks Of Smokeless Tobacco
Many people are not aware that smokeless tobacco has a more far ranging effect on the human body than those diseases mentioned above. It has been shown that smokeless tobacco can increase greatly the chances of developing bladder cancer. What is frightening is that so many people now using and those who will soon begin to use smokeless tobacco have no idea of the serious effects this substance can bring down upon unsuspecting users.
My Story
Cancer. My continued story until cured or until I cannot write anymore.
We are all Passing Travelers…
In May of this year, 2011, I was diagnosed with cancer of the bladder. Tomorrow, November 12th, 2011, I will have my twelfth chemo. See below for a simple description of what cancer of the bladder is. Later, in other posts, I will try to give multiple descriptions of this, and possibly other, type(s) of cancer. The problem with “my cancer” was, or is, that initially it was diagnosed late and wrong. I was living in Spain at the time of feeling more and more sick every day. Looking back, I think the cancer may have developed over probably a period of even ten years. At the time of developing this disease I was subject to great degrees of stress. I am convinced now that stress can develop also cancer. These ten years were dominated by “feelings of physical discomfort”, pains everywhere. Nobody could ever find something. We lived in France, from a medical point of view, a sophisticated country, and even until recently they could not find anything wrong with me. This despite the fact that I lost significantly in weight and in physical energy. In Spain I started to show blood in my urine and went to my physician, Dr. Bernadette Veeger, with her practice Morche, Andalusia. She carried out some blood tests which were all negative. Anyone could have known that blood in the urine is most likely related to either a form of cysts or cancerous material in the bladder. In the end she finally send me to an urologist, Dr. Eduardo Sanchez de Badajoz, of the Santa Elena Clinic located in Torremolinos, Andalusia. Although I had an appointment with Dr. Eduardo in his clinic I had to wait for three and a halve hours before it was my turn. By that time it was well in siesta and the moment I entered the office of Dr. Sanchez his telephone rang and I heard him apologize to his wife for him being late for lunch but that he now would be ready in ten minutes time. Dr. Sanchez carried out a echogram and placed a finger in my rectum to investigate the prostate gland. His diagnosis was that I “suffered” from a degree of prostatitis and he prescribed antibiotics. Dr. Sanchez found it too early and too expensive for me to undergo a CT scan (I was insured against these sort of things)… The presence of blood in the urine continued also after the first range of antibiotics after which Dr. Sancheze decided to prescribe the same antibiotics treatment once more. Still no change or improvement in my condition and Dr. Veeger suggested to give it some, months, more time to see if there was an improvement with time and, if not, for me to back to Dr. Sanchez. By that time my wife decided we lost enough time and made arrangements to go back to our native country. I was ill and in a form of being from a different planet, not functional, going from one day to the next. My new physician in my home country made a rectal investigation and did send me to the local hospital to see an urologist. The urologist made me undergo a CT scan and a day or two later I was phoned by the hospital to come and see the urologist. He explained carefully that they saw a tumor in the top of my bladder about 6cm in circumference that was probably proliferated into the upper muscles and possibly the surrounding lymph nodes. I am considering legal action against Dr. Veeger and Dr. Sanchez. The outlook for muscle-invasive bladder cancer is less favorable because achieving a complete cure is not often possible. An estimated 50% of people who are diagnosed with muscle-invasive bladder cancer will die within five years.
Read the further articles of my treatments since the last diagnoses of my condition and the further treatment.
Bladder cancer is a disease in which abnormal cells multiply without control in urinary bladder.The bladder is a hollow, muscular organ that stores urine; it is located in the pelvis. The most common type of bladder cancer begins in cells lining the inside of the bladder. A study suggested that by consuming high amount of fluid, you can reduce your risk for bladder cancer.
What are main symptoms of bladder cancer?
Bladder cancer characteristically causes blood in the urine; this may be visible to the naked eye or detectable only by microscope. Other possible symptoms include pain during urination, frequent urination or feeling the need to urinate without results.
What are main sources of bladder cancer?
Tobacco smoking (I never, or hardly, smoked) is the main known contributor to urinary bladder cancer, about 50% cases. 30% of bladder tumors probably result from occupational exposure in the workplace to carcinogens such as benzidine. Occupations at risk are bus drivers, rubber workers, motor mechanics, leather (including shoe) workers, blacksmiths, machine setters and mechanics. Hairdressers are thought to be at risk as well because of their frequent exposure to permanent hair dyes.
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