Prevention of cancer attempts to eliminate the disease by protecting the individual and the community from the causative agent. This is called primary prevention. This involves environmental monitoring of cancer-causing agents (carcinogens), identification of high risk groups and procedures to abolish any contact between the carcinogen and the host.
Cancer Treatment: Terms Used in Treatment of Cancer
Adenocarcinoma: A cancer starring in glandular tissue.
Adjuvant therapy: A secondary treatment which usually follows surgery and involves chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
Adrenalectomy: Removal of adrenal glands.
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Cancer Treatment: Preventing Cancer of Penis and Uterine Cervix
Uterine Cervix Cancer
Cancer of the uterine cervix is the most important cancer in terms of its frequency and also of its potential of control. Early marriage and multiple pregnancies are significant factors for the prevalence of this cancer. Avoidance of these, can be a safety measure against this cancer.
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Cancer Treatment: Prevention of Lung Cancer
Cancer of the lung is most prevalent in males in Western countries and is also said to be increasing in India. It is known to be associated with smoking cigarettes. It is generally accepted that there is a causal connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. Epidemiological studies have shown that there is a clear relationship between the number of cigarette smoked and the incidence of lung cancer. Giving up smoking decreases the susceptibility to lung cancer, in proportion to the number of years that smoking has been given up.
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Cancer Treatment: General Measures to Prevent Cancer
Improvement of personal hygiene such as of mouth, skin and genitals will help to reduce the incidence of certain types of cancer.
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Cancer Treatment: Warning Signs and Prevention of Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is one of the common cancers in women. The breast is easily examined by self or the doctor.
Self-examination of the breast is done after learning the technique from the specialist doctor. This should be done monthly. This is the first line of screening and a careful examination should pick up a small lump if present.
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Cancer Treatment: Methods to Prevent Uterine Cervix Cancer
As already stated, it aims at correcting those pathological states which have already been produced, and which if allowed to continue, may lead to symptoms of cancer.
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Stress Relief: Why Am I Stressed
1. Why you should know something about stress
While moderate amount of stress is essential for normal growth and maturation, excessive stress combined with poor coping and managing invariably leads to loss of tranquility of mind; emotional disorders such as anxiety and depression; and physical disorders such as obesity, high blood pressure, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, irritable bowel syndrome, and many other disorders.
Stress Relief: What is Stress and What are Stress Related Symptoms
In order for the reader to process the information in this guide, he must first understand basic definitions of certain terms used in it. This would ensure that both the reader and the author are ?tuned in? with each other. This is important because the reader brings into this learning process his own meaning of certain terms, which might not be consistent with their true meaning. For example, the term ?stress? might mean different things to different people. When asked, ?What is stress?? the often heard incorrect replies are, ?Anxiety?? ?worry?? ?out of control?? ?overwork??
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Stress Relief: What are stressors?
Stressors are what upset us and cause our balloon to inflate. There are basically two things in life that upset us: Bad events and bad problems. Life is full of them: if it is not one thing, it is another. It should be noted here, however, that regardless how bad a stressor is, some good could come out of it in the long run, if one learns to deal with it. Wise people are able to make compost out of garbage life gives them.