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| Cancer fatigue: Why it occurs and how to cope The exact causes of cancer fatigue and how best to treat it aren't known. Find out what doctors know about cancer fatigue and what you can do about it. Fatigue, usually described as feeling tired, weak or exhausted, affects most people during cancer treatment. Cancer fatigue can result from the side effects of treatment or the cancer itself. read more |
| Alternative cancer treatments: 11 alternative treatments worth a try Alternative cancer treatments can't cure your cancer, but they may provide some relief from signs and symptoms. Many people with cancer are interested in trying complementary and alternative cancer treatments. If cancer makes you feel as though you have little control over your health, alternative cancer treatments may offer some hope. But many alternative cancer treatments are unproved and dangerous. To help you sort out the good from the bad, here are 11 alternative cancer treatments that are generally safe. Plus, there is some evidence that these 11 alternative cancer treatments may provide some benefit. read more |
| Cancer surgery: Physically removing cancer The prospect of cancer surgery may make you feel anxious. Put your mind at ease by learning more about cancer surgery and how and why it's used. Cancer surgery — an operation to repair or remove part of your body to diagnose or treat cancer — remains the foundation of cancer treatment. Your doctor may use cancer surgery to achieve any number of goals, from diagnosing your cancer to treating it to relieving the symptoms it causes. Cancer surgery may be your only treatment, or it may be supplemented with other treatments, such as radiation, chemotherapy, hormone therapy and biological therapy. read more |
| Skin Cancer Melanoma Cancer spreads — or metastasizes — when cancer cells break away from the original tumor and travel through your bloodstream or lymphatic system to other parts of your body. Link to video This video shows how a type of skin cancer called melanoma can metastasize. Although the appearance of cancer cells and the way they spread vary depending on the type of cancer, the general concepts shown here are useful in understanding how any cancer can spread. Keep in mind that not all cancers metastasize. Melanoma begins in the melanocytes — cells that produce skin color, or pigment. Melanoma typically begins as a mole. If you catch it early and it hasn't spread, melanoma can be surgically treated. Here you can see a mole being removed, along with the surrounding skin. The extra skin is taken to ensure that no cancer cells are left behind. Melanoma is dangerous because it can spread beyond what you can see, moving deep into your skin where it can gain access to your lymphatic vessels. This allows cancer cells to travel to distant locations in your body. Cancer cells can also travel to different parts of your body by way of your blood vessels. In this example, melanoma cells migrate to a lymph node. From the lymph node, the melanoma cells can then travel to other parts of your body. Here, you see cancer spreading to the lung. |
| What we know about Autism Asperger's Syndrome This condition was originally described by Hans Asperger in Vienna in 1944. Although Asperger was not aware of Leo Kanner's work on autism, he did use the word autism ("autistic psychopathy") to describe the social deficits he observed in a group of boys. His original description, in German, received little attention in the English-language literature until recent years. In people with Asperger's Syndrome, deficits in social interaction and unusual responses to the environment, similar to those in autism, are observed. Unlike in autism, however, cognitive and communicative development are within the normal or near-normal range in the first years of life, and verbal skills are usually an area of relative strength. Idiosyncratic interests are common and may take the form of an unusual and/or highly circumscribed interest (e.g., in train schedules, snakes, the weather, deep-fry cookers, or telegraph pole insulators). read more. |
| What Will Health-care Reform Mean for Families Affected by Autism? Thursday, August 27, 2009 By: Hannah Cary Myths and Realities The health-care reform debate became extremely heated this month, while Congress was on recess and home in their districts and states; however, navigating the claims from both sides and finding out the realities about what health-care reform means for our families has gotten a little easier. read more |
| What is HPV and where are we to know it? STUDY REFERENCE Comparison of Two PCR-Based Human Papillomavirus Genotyping Methods † Philip E. Castle,1* Carolina Porras,2 Wim G. Quint,3 Ana Cecilia Rodriguez,1,2 Mark Schiffman,1 Patti E. Gravitt,4 Paula González,2 Hormuzd A. Katki,1 Sandra Silva,5 Enrique Freer,5 Leen-Jan Van Doorn,3 Silvia Jiménez,2 Rolando Herrero,2 Allan Hildesheim,1 and for the CVT Group read more STUDY REFERENCE Highly Effective Detection of Human Papillomavirus 16 and 18 DNA by a Testing Algorithm Combining Broad- Spectrum and Type-Specific PCR Leen-Jan van Doorn,1* Anco Molijn,1 Bernhard Kleter,1 Wim Quint,1 and Brigitte Colau2 DDL Diagnostic Laboratory, Fonteijnenburghlaan 5, Voorburg, The Netherlands,1 GSK Biologicals, Rue de l'Institut 89, Rixensart, Belgium, 2 *Corresponding author. Mailing address: DDL Diagnostic Laboratory, Fonteijnenburghlaan 5, 2275 CX, Voorburg, The Netherlands. Phone: 31-70-3401670. Fax: 31-70- 3401671. E-mail: L.J.van.Doorn@ddl.nl. read more STUDY REFERENCE High Prevalence of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infections and High Frequency of Multiple HPV Genotypes in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Women in Brazil Jose´ E. Levi,1 Bernhard Kleter,2 Wim G. V. Quint,2 Maria C. S. Fink,1 Cynthia L. M. Canto,1 Regina Matsubara,3 Iara Linhares,4 Aluísio Segurado, 1,4 Bart Vanderborght,5,6 Jose´ Eluf Neto,7 and Leen-Jan van Doorn2. read more |
| HPV Studies currently in progress USA - CDC/HPV Typing Pilot Study There are 5 States involved with the study based on tissues randomly selected from the data base of State Central Cancer Registry of the participant States. They are collecting cases from cervix, vulva, vagina, anus, penis, and H&N HPV related). EUROPE - ICO (Instituto Catalan de Oncologia There are 33 countries with about 10,000 cases of invasive cervical cancer already done. They are now in progress with the collection of cases from VULVA, VAGINA, PENIS, ANUS, and H&N related cancer. |