General
Common Side Effects of Radiotherapy
All cancer treatments can have long term side effects. This is as true for radiotherapy as any other treatment.
Radiotherapy is painless, but it has varying side effects during treatment (acute side effects), in the months or years following treatment (long-term side effects), or after re-treatment (cumulative side effects).
Common Side Effects of Chemotherapy
The known side effects of chemotherapy are caused by the cell killing effect of anticancer drugs. Chemotherapy drugs act on normal cells as well as cancer cells, because they are not accurate like a sniper. They are, rather, like a night raid, they kill the malignant cells but with collateral victims.
Clinical Trials for Cancer - “Should I take part?”
A person diagnosed with cancer has a lot of difficult decisions to make. Participating in a clinical trial is one of them.
Clinical trials are scientific research studies that involve people designed to find better ways to prevent, diagnose or treat a disease. Clinical trials come after a long, careful research process. Patients who participate in […]
Smoking and Cancer
The 1982 Surgeon General’s Report stated that “Cigarette smoking is the major single cause of cancer mortality in the United States.” This statement is as true today as it was in 1982. Smoking is responsible for about 30 percent of all cancer deaths annually in the United States more than 155,000 each year. Cigarettes kill […]
Lower Your Risk of Having Breast Cancer
Everybody seems to know a person with breast cancer and there are thousands of women living everyday under the risk of developing breast cancer. Doctors don’t know what exactly produces breast cancer, but there are a lot of known risk factors.
Breast Cancer – Risk Factors
A risk factor is anything that increases your chance of getting a disease, but the fact you have one or several risk factors doesn’t mean you are going to have the disease. In the same time, the fact you are not having any risk factor doesn’t mean you will never have cancer, but the probability […]
