Thursday, January 20, 2011

Symptoms and signs of ovarian cancer

ovarian cancer symptoms



Additional signs and symptoms that women suffering from ovarian cancer, among others:
* Nausea
* Constipation
* Frequent urination
* Loss of appetite or feeling full quickly
* Increased thickness of the stomach or tight fitting clothes on your waist
* Pain during intercourse (dyspareunia)
* Lack of energy
* Back pain
* Changes in menstrual

Treatment
Treatment of ovarian cancer usually involves a combination of surgery and chemotherapy.

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Factors and risk of breast cancer

types of cancer


What risk factors that cause breast cancer?

Medullary Carcinoma: This is the type of invasive ductal carcinoma, often through the lymph nodes. This cancer can grow larger but have a better prognosis than the average.

Mucinous Carcinoma: This is the type of invasive ductal carcinoma, which produces gelatinous tumor. This cancer has an excellent prognosis.

The type and type of breast cancer and description

types of cancer

There are several types of Ca Mamma or type of cancer in terms of its histological features. The following are the types of breast cancer:

Adenocarcinoma: Cancer oval, often attached to other networks.

Ductal Carsinoma situ (DCIS): Sometimes described as precancerous, preinvasif, or intraductal cancer. This type of breast cancer is non-invasive, which means not yet spread beyond the breast ductal cells or other parts of the breast, such as axillary lymph nodes, or to other parts of the body. There are three levels of DCIS is low, intermediate, and high. Grade DCIS refers to how abnormal the cells are viewed under a microscope and give an idea of how fast the cells can develop into invasive cancer. DCIS is highly curable.

Saturday, January 1, 2011

The cells in the breast cancer and symptoms

breast cancer symptoms

As the name implies, breast cancer is a disease caused by the growth of cancer cells in the breast area. These diseases mostly affect women, but men can also be affected. Breast cancer is a type of cancer with second highest number of sufferers in the world. While the rate of death, type of cancer is the fifth largest cause of death in the world.

Early signs of breast cancer was the discovery of a lump in the breast that feels different. If pressed, the lump is not painful. Initially these lumps are small, but over time grow and eventually attached to the skin or cause changes in the breast skin or nipple.

Here among other things you should note that a symptom of breast cancer:

* lump in your breast change shape / size
* breast skin change color: from pink to brown up like an orange peel
* nipple into the (retracted)
* one of your nipples suddenly loose / missing
* if the tumor is large, the pain appears that relapsing-remitting
* a burning feeling breast skin
* breast bleeding or other fluid when you do not breastfeed

Breast cancer symptoms and criteria

breast cancer symptoms

Advanced breast cancer is very easily recognizable by knowing operbilitas Heagensen following criteria:

* there is extensive edema in breast skin (over 1 / 3 area of breast skin);
* the existence of satellite nodules on the skin of the breast;
* breast cancer types of mastitis karsinimatosa;
* There parasternal model;
* There supraklavikula nodules;
* of the edema arm;
* the existence of distant metastases;
* and there are two of the signs of locally advanced, namely skin ulceration, skin edema, skin fixed to the thoracic wall, axillary lymph node 2.5 cm in diameter, and axillary lymph nodes attached to each other.