General information on a vast variety of issues related to cancer.
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Liver Cancer
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Articles on Liver cancer symptoms, liver cancer treatment and other issues related to the disease.
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Leukemia
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Leukemia, or cancer of the blood, was first recognized as a distinct disease around 1830 in Germany. The term "leukemia" comes from the Greek words meaning "white blood" and refers to the whitish or pale pink blood that was first noticed in patients with extremely high numbers of circulating malignant white cells. Leukemia is more accurately described as a cancerous disorder not of the blood itself, but rather of the organs that manufacture the blood cells. These organs, principally the bone marrow and the lymph system (the lymph nodes and spleen), are the places in which normal red cells, white cells, lymph cells, and platelets originate and grow to maturity before entering the bloodstream. The cancerous counterparts of these normal cells go through approximately the same process but with important differences in rate, number, and ability to function.
Although leukemia is the most common of the childhood cancers, it is actually far more common in adults. Approximately 25,000 new cases of leukemia are diagnosed annually in the United States, 22,500 of them in adults and 2,500 in children. Men are affected by leukemia 30 percent more frequently than women. About 17,000 people die from the disease each year. About half of the newly diagnosed cases of leukemia fall into the acute category; the rest are chronic.
Most of the advanced industrial nations have experienced an apparent increase in the incidence of leukemia since the 1930s. Epidemiologists and biostatisticians have not determined whether this is a true increase or whether it can be attributed to improved diagnostic methods and wider access to health care. One important contributing factor is the rising proportion of elderly people in these countries, since cancers of all kinds are more likely to develop in older populations.
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Colon And Rectum Cancer
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In the course of a year approximately 138,000 Americans develop cancer of the large bowel the lowermost portion of the gastrointestinal tract, which is made up of the colon and rectum. Large bowel cancer is a leading cause of cancer death among both sexes, exceeded only by cancer of the lung in men and of the lung and breast in women. At present half of these patients can expect to be cured, a figure that could be greatly improved by more diligent attention to established methods of screening for bowel cancer. This chapter reviews what is known about large bowel cancer, describes how it can be prevented or detected in its early stages, addresses the principles of treatment, and tells how patients may care for themselves following surgery.
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Breast Cancer
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The breast is the most common site of cancer in American women today, accounting for more than one quarter of all cancer cases in women. With about 115,000 new cases each year, one out of every eleven women will develop breast cancer at some time in her life. Find Information on breast cancer surgery, chemotherapy, medication patient information and more.
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Brain Cancer
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Articles on the cancer of the brain. Find information on brain cancer treatment and more.
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Bone Cancer
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Information regarding Bone Cancer. Treatment and therapy for cancer of the bones.
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