Colorectal cancer is second only to lung cancer among cancers that kill both men and women. Most colon cancers occur in people over fifty. Its strikes men and women nearly equally. Mostly credited to an increase has been declining during the past decade. The large intestine is made up of the colon (the upper five to six feet) and the rectum (the last six to eight inches). This is where the last stage of digestion occurs and where solid waste is held until it is...

Chemotherapy is used for treating esophageal cancer with the help of the drugs which can restrict the growth and division or reproduction of cancer cells thereby destroying them.  Hence they are also known as anticancer drugs.  Esophageal cancer chemotherapy could be administered in the patients by mouth in the pill form or intravenously by injection.  Chemotherapy is combined along with surgery or/and radiation therapy for patients who are fighting against esophageal...

Esophageal cancer is a disease which affects the cells of the esophagus.  Our body is a structure made of various cell types.  Cells grow and divide to produce newer cells whenever required under normal circumstances for the functioning of the body to be healthy.  But sometimes the cells keep on dividing that the additional cells become tumor or extra growth.  These tumors can be either malignant or benign.  Benign tumors might not become cancer and can be...

Stage IV Esophageal Cancer is said to be the metastatic cancer state which has spread to various locations of the body near and far.  Different factors influence the decision of the patient for receiving cancer treatment.  Patients in their Stage Iv Esophageal Cancer might have various purposes of receiving or undergoing treatment for cancer.  For some, it might be for enhancing the symptoms via controlling cancer locally, for others it might be a chance for cure or for...

Esophageal cancer is developed normally in the muscular tube like structure which connects the stomach and the throat called the esophagus.  It is located at the back of trachea and is nearly ten to thirteen inches long enabling the food to get digested in the stomach.  The esophagus wall is created of many layers and the esophageal cancer begins from the inner most layers and grows to the outermost layer.

Nobody knows the reasons that cause esophageal cancer...

Researchers have found the association of wine and esophageal cancer.  According to their studies conducted recently, wine consumption is found to lower the risk of getting barrett's esophagus.  Barrett's esophagus is nothing but a pre cancerous condition affecting the esophagus's lower region.  In order to identify the changes which lead to esophageal cancer, researchers analyzed the dietary practices followed by people in association with the esophageal cancer...

You've had that hacking cough for a while, or you felt that hard lump.  It doesn't hurt, but you decide to get it checked out anyway.  The Doctor doesn't seem worried, but the next day the nurse asks you to come in, and she will not tell you anything.  The doctor comes in, and your heart is racing.  You know by the expression on his face, that it's not good news. The Doctor quietly tells you the results, and it's the worst word he could say...

It's...

How can something that makes you look and feel so healthy...be so bad for you?



* Facts taken from the Skin Cancer foundation:

* Cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States.

* More than 90% of all skin cancers are caused by the sun.

* The risk for skin cancer doubles after 5 or more sun burns.

* Approximately 59,940 melanomas will be diagnosed this year alone, over 8,110 will result in death.

Teen obesity has reached nearly epidemic proportions in recent years. The American Heart Association and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention state that between 15% and 33% of adolescents in the United States alone is overweight. The increase in overweight and obese teenagers has also increased the number of teens being diagnosed with diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, and other physical problems.

Obesity is defined as a body weight roughly 10% higher...

cancer is a disease in which uncontrolled growth of cells takes place ,causing, intrusion on and destruction of adjacent tissues(invasion) and sometimes spreads to other part of body with the help of blood or lymph(metastasis).Most of cancer are tumors,However some like luecamia are not. The Department of medicine that deals with diagnosis,study ,prevention and treatment of cancer is calledOncology.And the medical term for cancer is malignant neoplasm . Cancer Killed nearly 18%...