Blood Test To Detect Breast Cancer

Posted on April 21, 2012 by admin

Detecting breast cancer through mammogram is so far considered as a safe test to detect breast cancer. Mammography is a low-dose x-ray imaging of breasts to find out breast cancer.  Mammograms enable the doctor to have a closer look for breast lumps and changes in breast tissue and show small lumps if any that may not be found during a routine clinical breast check-up.  Mammography is so far considered the best screening tool to detect breast cancer.  But this may change if the research to detect breast cancer through blood test becomes a reality.

A team of scientists in McGill University in Canada are one step closer to developing a blood test that accurately detects breast cancer at very early stages.  This may be a breakthrough and this new development they say could make mammography screening obsolete.  The team has also mentioned that they have made improvements to the existing technology while discovering a biomarker “signature” for a common subtype of breast cancer – which is estrogen receptor-positive. The findings are from sampling the blood of a group of healthy people and breast cancer patients.  And the samples were measured for the concentration of 32 proteins in the blood samples. Using the latest in microarray technology the team found that out of the 32 proteins, six could be used to establish a signature for the hormone receptor-positive cancer. Continue reading →

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Green vegetables vital for breast cancer patients

Posted on April 14, 2012 by admin

Green vegetables vital for breast cancer patients

Women diagnosed with breast cancer are more likely to survive if they eat up their greens, a study suggests. A Chinese study has found a link between higher consumption of cruciferous vegetables such as greens, cabbage and broccoli, and reduced breast cancer death rates.

Researchers followed the progress of almost 5,000 women for around five years after they were diagnosed with breast cancer, Daily Mail reported. They found that the more cruciferous vegetables women ate during the first three years after diagnosis, the less likely they were to die.

As consumption increased, the chances of dying from breast cancer fell
by between 22 percent and 62 percent and from all causes by between 27
percent and 62 percent. Continue reading →

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Cancer Is Curable : Two-thirds of the cancers diagnosed these days are curable. The preservation of organ and function is possible, and is the standard of care now, Is cancer curable?

Posted on April 11, 2012 by admin
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Cancer Is Curable : Two-thirds of the cancers diagnosed these days are curable. The preservation of organ and function is possible, and is the standard of care now, Is cancer curable?

This is a common question asked. Yes, cancer is curable! These days more than two-third of cancers are curable if treated adequately. The rest one-third are not curable because of late diagnosis and advanced stage of disease. So, we need to be worried about late diagnosis of cancer and not cancer per se. Most of the cancers are almost curable if they are diagnosed in the early stage. Patients can not only get cured of cancer, but also get away with minimal treatment and less morbid procedures. It is very important that we should go for regular screening tests at regular intervals to diagnose cancer early.

Quality of life apart from quantity of life

As more and more cancers are getting cured, we need to look at the quality of life too. Curing cancer at any cost is not accepted casually in recent times. More than ever before, a premium is being placed on return to a productive and useful lifestyle after cancer treatment. The concept of organ and function preservation has been in the forefront of modern cancer care. The preservation of organ and function is now the standard of care in numerous malignancies including breast, larynx, rectum, anal canal, bladder, sarcomas of limb and many more, wherever possible. To be generally adopted, organ conservation approaches must have a likelihood of eradicating the tumour, have a low risk of recurrence and not compromise on organ form and function. Continue reading →

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More than 50 percent cancers can be prevented

Posted on April 4, 2012 by admin
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A recent study revealed that more than of all cancer is preventable. The only thing needed is to proper knowledge of information to the society to act upon. A team of researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, have marked the obstructions in front of making a huge impression in the cancer burden in the US and as well as across the world.

“We actually have an enormous amount of data about the causes and preventability of cancer,” said epidemiologist Graham A. Colditz, at the Washington School of Medicine, the journal Science Transnational Medicine reported.

As per Colditz and his co-authors, the major factors causing cancer includes lifestyle of people, from consumption of tobacco to diet and exercise, said a Washington university statement.

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Colorectal Cancer Treatment in India A Silent Killer – Fond of red meat cooked by barbequed or grilled methods? Better hold back on it to avoid colorectal cancer

Posted on March 7, 2012 by admin
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Though colorectal cancers are common in developed countries, the incidence is low in India, and intriguingly, the incidence is twice the rate in the rural group as compared to the urban population. Colorectal cancers rank third in frequency in men and second in women. They are the fourth leading cause of cancer mortality.

Etiology

The basis of colorectal cancer is the genetic change in the epithelial cells of mucosa. This is brought about by certain mutagens present in diets rich in red meat, especially those cooked by barbeque or grilled methods, and also diets rich in fat content.

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