Medical Health Care Advices

The colon is part of the digestive tract between the small intestine and rectum which occurs in fluid absorption from the intestinal contents and feces are formed. Colon cancer is currently an important public health problem in developed countries. It is the fourth most common cancer in the world. In Spain, there are approximately 19,000 new cases each year.

What are its causes?

It is a cancer whose incidence and mortality is higher in industrialized countries. Approximately 80% of cases are sporadic, but 20% have a genetic influence, with increased familial risk in the need for greater monitoring and control.

Age is a key risk factor, with a sharp increase in incidence after age 50. The presence of a first degree relative who has had double the risk, and quadrupled if the diagnosis of cancer occurred before 60 years of age. The increased incidence is closely related to lifestyle in industrialized countries.

There are different risk factors in relation to colon cancer: the consumption of fats and red meats, especially canned meats or deli meats, obesity, smoking and high alcohol consumption and diabetes associated with obesity . Patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis is most at risk with respect to the general population, especially in Crohn’s disease (risk 20 times higher).

The liver, the organ of the human body larger without the skin, is located below the ribs on right side of the abdomen.

Its main functions include the filtration of blood and the elimination of toxic wastes and the production of enzymes that help digest food, converting them into substances needed for the proper functioning of the body. Some nutrients have to be chemically altered (metabolized) in the liver before the rest of the body can use as energy source. The liver produces some of the clotting factors that prevent the blood is too liquid and also secretes bile to the intestine to help absorb nutrients.

The liver is divided into three lobes, the right, the left and a smaller one called square, which in turn are subdivided into segments. Unlike most other organs of the body receives blood from two sources. The hepatic artery supplies the liver with blood rich in oxygen while the portal vein carries nutrient-rich blood from the intestines. All blood from the digestive tract through the liver before it reaches the rest of the body, making it a sort of ‘office’ from the outside world.

Liver cancers

Cancer occurs when normal cells change and begin to grow uncontrollably and form a mass called a tumor. A tumor can be benign (not cancerous) or malignant (cancerous, meaning it can spread to other parts of the body).

Primary liver cancer is cancer that originates in the liver. More commonly, the liver is the site of metastasis (spread) of cancer that started somewhere else, like pancreatic cancer, colon, stomach, breast or lung. However, these are not primary liver cancer. For more information about cancer that originated elsewhere in the body and spread to the liver

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What is the cervix?

The cervix is the name given to the lowest part of the uterus. The uterus is an organ that only women have, and is where babies grow and develop when a woman is pregnant. During pregnancy, the uterus grows enormously. When a woman is not pregnant, the uterus is an organ small, pear-shaped which lies between the rectum and bladder of women. The cervix connects the uterus to the birth canal (vagina). The cervix can be visualized and examined by his doctor during a routine pelvic examination.

What is cancer of the cervix?

Cervical cancer develops when cells in the cervix begin to grow uncontrollably and can then invade nearby tissues or spread throughout the body. Large collections of cells that grow abnormally are called tumors. Some tumors are not really cancer because they can not spread or threaten the lives of people. These are called benign tumors. The tumors that can spread through the body or invade nearby tissues are considered cancer and are called malignant tumors. Usually the cancer of the cervix is very slow-growing but in some circumstances it can grow and spread quickly.

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Symptoms and Complications

Brain cancer causes symptoms when it pushes on the brain that destroys brain tissue. Symptoms depend on the size and location of the tumor, and the speed at which it multiplies. Although headaches are often a symptom of brain cancer, it is important to remember that most headaches are not caused by cancer but are caused by less serious conditions such as migraine or tension. Headaches caused by brain tumors are often severe, associated with nausea and vomiting and often worse early in the day. They can last long or occur intermittently.

Other symptoms include:

* Dizziness
* Impaired vision as double vision
* Impaired coordination
* Weakness or numbness on one side of body
* Seizures
* Changes in mood, senses, personality or feelings
* Impaired memory
* A state of confusion or difficulty concentrating

What is it?

The primary liver cancer is cancer that occurs in the liver spontaneously and develops depends directly on liver cells (liver cells).

Causes and risk factors

The primary liver cancer:

* Is increasing for several years;
* Is more common in some regions: Africa (tropical) and South-Eastern Asia;
* Occurs around age 60 in Europe and North America and to 35 years in Africa and Asia;
* Is mainly observed in humans;
* Is most often linked to the evolution of a pre-existing cirrhosis. In France, the cancerous cirrhosis due to alcohol varies between 10 and 30%. In the tropics, the carcinogenesis is linked to cirrhosis of viral origin (hepatitis B). When liver cancer develops on a liver showing no lesions of cirrhosis, the role of dietary factors has been advanced, and especially that of certain toxins (aflatoxin contaminant of peanut flour in Africa). (more…)

Papillomavirus is a necessary cause but not enough of this cancer. Other conditions may occur such as smoking, multiple sex partners. Some risk factors can increase the risk that a woman is diagnosed with cancer of the cervix. Among these include:

Cancer Risk Factors uterusLes major risk factors

Infection by certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV)

* Today, it is estimated that almost all cancers of the cervix is linked to HPV. Papillomavirus (HPV) are a cause necessary but not sufficient for cervical cancer. If they are removed from most women, they persist in others and participate in the development of cancer of the cervix. The most virulent strains are HPV 16 and 18;

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Many tumor or cancer types can spread to the brain, the most common are lung cancer, breast cancer, melanoma, kidney cancer, bladder cancer, certain sarcomas, testicular tumors and germ cell and many others. Some cancers only spread to the brain infrequently, such as colon cancer, and others such as prostate cancer almost never spread. Brain tumors can directly destroy brain cells may indirectly damage or inflammation, compressing other parts of the brain as the tumor grows, inducing brain swelling and causing increased intracranial pressure.

The classification of metastatic brain tumors depends on the exact location of the tumor within the brain, the type of tissue involved, original location of the tumor and other factors. Very rarely, a tumor can spread to the brain, although the original site or location of the tumor is unknown, to which is called cancer of unknown primary origin.

Metastatic brain tumors occur in about one quarter of all cancers that metastasize (spread through the body). These tumors are more common than primary brain tumors occur in approximately 10 to 30% of cancers in adults.
Symptoms

• Changes in the sensitivity of a body area
• Decreased coordination, clumsiness, falls
• Emotional instability, rapid emotional changes
• Fever (sometimes)
• General ill feeling
• Headache recent, persistent, and new to the person
• Lethargy
• Memory loss, impaired ability of discernment, calculating deficiencies
• Changes in personality
• Pupils of different size
• Seizures new for the person
• Language difficulties
• Changes in vision, double vision, reduced vision
• Vomiting with or without nausea
• Weakness in one area of the body

Treatment depends on the size and type of tumor, the initial site and the person’s general health. The goals of treatment may relieve symptoms, as well as improve performance and welfare. Often used whole-brain radiation to treat tumors that have spread to this organ, especially if more than one tumor.

You can use the surgery for metastatic brain tumors when a single lesion and when there is no cancer elsewhere in the body. Some tumors can be removed completely. In other cases, when tumors are deep or that infiltrate brain tissue, it can carry out surgical Debulking (removal of much of the mass that makes up the tumor to reduce its size). Surgery may reduce pressure and relieve symptoms in cases where no one can remove the tumor. Chemotherapy for brain metastases is not as helpful as surgery or radiation for many types of cancer.

Drugs for some symptoms of brain tumor may include the following:

• Corticosteroids such as dexamethasone to reduce brain swelling
• Osmotic diuretics such as urea or mannitol to reduce brain swelling
• Anticonvulsants such as phenytoin to reduce seizures
• Analgesics
• Antacids or antihistamines to control stress ulcers

When you find multiple metastases (widespread cancer), treatment may focus primarily on relieving pain and other symptoms. Welfare measures and safety, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and other interventions can improve quality of life for patients. Legal advice may help establish advance directives, such as a power of attorney, in cases which are likely to be intellectual or physical deterioration continued.

An examination reveals neurologic changes that are specific to the location of the tumor. Are also common signs of increased intracranial pressure. Some tumors may not show symptoms until they are large, then suddenly cause rapid deterioration of neurological functioning of the person. The original tumor (primary) and can be known or be discovered after an examination of tumor tissue in the brain indicates it is a metastatic type.

• A CT scan or MRI of the head can confirm the diagnosis of brain tumor and identify its location. MRI is usually more sensitive for finding tumors in the brain.
• Cerebral Angiography may be done occasionally. Doing so may show a mass that occupies space, which may or may not be highly vascular (filled with blood vessels).
• Make an X-ray, mammography and computed tomography of chest, abdomen and pelvis, as well as other tests to find the original tumor site.
• An EEG may reveal abnormalities.
• An examination of tumor tissue removed during surgery or CT-guided biopsy is used to confirm the exact type of tumor. If you can locate the primary tumor outside the brain, this tumor is that he and biopsied rather than the brain tumor.
• Sometimes also performed a lumbar puncture (spinal tap) to examine the cerebrospinal fluid.

Mobile phone radiation is indeed harmful to health effects result. This should be reflected in the largest study ever conducted was the dangers of mobile phone. The study was commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO). The investigation itself took four years to complete (from 2000 to 2004). The interpretation of the results then took another five years. The entire study will end this year, explained in detail be done, but some details are already leaking to the press. The evidence from the investigation of the WHO must show that frequent mobile phone use the risk of a brain tumor later in life increases.