The incidence of anal cancer is higher among women compared to men. This is usually a disease of the older population, and 80 percent of all anal cancers occur in people over the age of 60.The anus is where stool leaves your body. It is made up of your outer layers of skin and the end of your large intestine.Anal cancer is a disease in which cancer cells form in the tissues of the anus.The commonest symptoms of anal cancer are bleeding, pain and a feeling of fullness.Most often these symptoms…
By: Pankaj Nagpal
Intensity modulated radiation therapy
Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is a powerful cancer-fighting technology. Annually, Mayo Clinic radiation oncologists treat more than 200 patients using IMRT.
Conditions Treated with IMRT
Oncologists consider IMRT to be ideal for prostate cancer as well as benign and malignant tumors of the head and neck, and other organs that lie [...]
By: Pankaj Nagpal
Gamma Knife What Is Gamma KnifeA type of radiosurgery (radiation therapy) machine that acts by focusing low-dosage gamma radiation from many sources on a precise target. Areas adjacent to the target receive only slight doses of radiation, while the target gets the full intensity.The gamma knife may be used to treat brain tumors, metastatic [...]
Research has shown that the growth of cancer cells depends partly on inner body controls that excite tissue growth. These controls appear to be regulated by certain psychological factors, through neurological, hormonal, and immunologic pathways.
a look at some of the recent medical breakthroughs in the detection and treatment of cancer.
Psychological treatment of workers is the conscious use of psychological techniques to achieve the urgent need to change the character or conduct of the patients taken by medical means. Another explanation is: doctor according to principles of psychology, analysis and understanding of the past and the present psychological and pathological state, choose the right time, the use of targeted language or other appropriate means, with a senior role in the nerve center, With a view to improving the me
Cancer can be treated in several ways. Surgery is one major treatment for cancer that involves the removal of just the tumor or sometimes the entire organ.
In order to give normal cells time to heal and to reduce a patient’s side effects, radiation treatments are typically given in small daily doses, five days a week, over a six-or seven-week period. It is estimated that more than 50% of cancer patients will receive radiation at some point during their treatment.Radiation therapy uses high energy x-rays to damage the DNA of cells, thereby killing the cancer cells, or at least stopping them from reproducing. Radiation also damages normal cells, but
A linear accelerator (LINAC) is the device most commonly used for external beam radiation treatments for patients with cancer. The linear accelerator can also be used in stereotactic radiosurgery similar to that achieved using the gamma knife on targets within the brain. The linear accelerator can also be used to treat areas outside of the brain. It delivers a uniform dose of high-energy x-ray to the region of the patient’s tumor. These x-rays can destroy the cancer cells while sparing the surro
This article talks about an alternative treatment for cancer that involves raising the ph of ones bodily fluids to an alkaline level.
