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A new study suggests that stress reduction programs mindfulness meditation (MBSR) could benefit breast cancer survivors.

The MBSR is a structured, standardized method for teaching stress reduction groups. MBSR The term was originally used by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., to name a program used in patients with pain that incorporated the principles of mindfulness meditation (mindfulness) traditional yoga and awareness techniques body. Read the rest of this entry »

one of the most terrible scourges to human health is the cigarette. This service is attracting more people, and when walking down the street is inevitable to see many people smoking. Some take this “habit” because they say it calms the nerves, others because they just love, and others because it makes them more powerful or more presence.

Lung Cancer

However, no one is aware of the terrible effects that smoking has on the human body. Does the principal? Lung cancer, of course. This is a disease that more lives are collected worldwide, and worst of all is that his work on the smoker is very slow, gradually destroying it.

For many years, the highest number of deaths from lung cancer was in men. But now that has reversed, and women are more prone to dying from the disease. In Europe there have been studies that show that the number of cases among females has increased at twice the previous years.

And the reason is actually very simple to identify: the cigarette. Smokers start the habit from a young age. Usually, they start college age but in many cases can be seen smoking in high school adolescents.

According to research, the biggest risk for women smokers reach 60 years. At that age the body is extremely deteriorated due to snuff and soar into the stratosphere the chances of dying from lung cancer.

Besides suffering from the disease itself, we know that cancer patients have it twice as hard. Facing cancer is not just face the fact of having a potentially terminal illness, but also a lot of symptoms that it makes us suffer in our bodies, which may constitute a considerable obstacle to recover from the disease.

The more we can reduce the symptoms of cancer, the more we overcome the disease, and improve our quality of life. But how to get rid of them? Apparently, the massage is the answer to this question.

According to a study presented at the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting in Melbourne, which was carried out by Dr David Joske, which evaluated the quality of life of 1,244 cancer patients, who carried out massages to reduce the symptoms of the disease.

Joske noted that a 14% reduction in symptoms was experienced by cancer patients in the study, including some such as fatigue, pain, breathing difficulties, lack of appetite, nausea and insomnia.

Although researchers are not entirely clear whether this was due to a placebo effect, the fact is that actually happened in this way, recognizing that massage may play an important role in order to develop natural cancer treatments .

In fact, after receiving massage therapy patients also experienced a reduction of symptoms using conventional therapies as massage may work both ways.

New technique cancer reconstructed breast affected by Hospital Clinic of Barcelona presented a new technique to reconstruct the breast to women who have had breast cancer, with fat grafts that are implanted body without scarring.

The head of the Plastic Surgery Medical Center, Joan Fontdevila, said at a news conference that the new technique is much simpler than those used so far to repair affected by breast tumor tissue as obtaining large areas body to carry out a reconstruction or the use of prostheses.

He explained that this is a technique similar to liposuction, in which the surgeon takes fat under the skin with the help of a canola (small tubes) special in any area of the body, leaving scars under three millimeters.

After removing the fat, processed in the operating room to clean it, separating the red cells and plasma, and subsequently injected into the affected breast by mastectomy, without the need for a new scar.

The operation takes about two hours and recovery time is much smaller, which improves the condition of the patients, who have to endure surgery to remove the cancer and aggressive treatments of chemotherapy or radiotherapy.

According Fontdevila, with this new method of regeneration could cover 80% of patients with cancer who have had breast conserving surgery, and specify a percentage for other types of more radical surgery.

This technique has the disadvantage that can not be made until after three to nine months after the operation to remove the tumor or after completion of chemotherapy and radiotherapy sessions.

Diagnosis is by blood and bone marrow and treatment with intensive chemotherapy and sometimes bone marrow transplantation

Since other diseases have symptoms similar to those of leukemia such as mononucleosis, anemia and some chronic infections like tuberculosis, it is necessary to establish the proper diagnosis, so consultation with an endocrinologist, oncologist and hematologist are importance. Read the rest of this entry »

Leukemia or blood cancer is a chronic disease that can develop over many years without showing obvious symptoms

The immune system is responsible for protecting the body against agents that may cause damage.

Therefore, in the blood are white blood cells that although they live only a few hours, renewing all the time in the bone marrow that is located within a few bones and is responsible for producing them. Read the rest of this entry »

For conventional radiation therapy, initial visit with the oncologist is called consultation. On this visit I asked the history of their illness and do a physical exam. At this point you may need consultation with other members of your treatment team.

After you and your (s) doctor (s) have decided the course of treatment, beginning the first phase of treatment planning. At this stage, a radiation oncologist, a doctor who specializes in radiation therapy “will make a simulation of radiotherapy treatment using current radiographs (X rays) or computed tomography (CT). In some cases, you may need an MRI. These radiographic studies are used to plan the type and direction of radiation beams used to treat cancer.

During the simulation, you must be lying for no move, on the treatment table, although at that time is not given radiotherapy. Usually, at this stage there will be an immobilization mask to keep your head in the same position. Treatment usually begins one or two days after the planning session.

During the actual treatment with radiation therapy will be asked to lie on the treatment table without moving. The radiation therapist will administer the treatment prescribed by radiation oncologist. The treatment lasts only minutes, and you do not feel anything. Stereotactic radiosurgery If you do, you might put a rigid in the head. This procedure uses computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to help the doctor identify the exact location of the tumor, and a computer to help regulate the radiation dose as needed. You may be taking multiple images on the treatment machine to ensure their alignment.

The treatment planning sessions and the first sessions of radiotherapy can take an hour or two, then the treatments last a few minutes and you can get from the department of radiotherapy after 30-45 minutes each session. In general, treatments are given once or twice a day, five days a week for five to seven weeks.

* The three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3D-CRT) is a conventional form of radiation therapy that uses a specific adaptation of the X-ray beams designed to conform to the shape of the tumor to maximize the tumor dose and minimize dose applied in the surrounding normal tissue. This form of treatment is customized according to the patient’s particular anatomy and the location of the tumor. Often, it requires a CT scan or MRI for treatment planning.
* Brachytherapy is the temporary location of radioactive material in the body, usually used to give an additional dose (or stimulus) of radiation in the area instead of splitting. See page Brachytherapy (www.RadiologyInfo.org/sp/info.cfm?PG=brachy) for more information. Read the rest of this entry »

Various treatments are used to treat brain tumors. The type of treatment recommended depends on the size and type of tumor, the growth rate and the overall health of the patient. Treatment options include surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, targeted biological agents or a combination thereof. Surgical resection (if not dangerous) is usually the first recommendation of treatment to reduce pressure on our brain quickly. This website focuses on radiation therapy for brain tumors.

In the past two decades, researchers have developed new techniques to deliver radiation to the brain tumor while protecting nearby healthy tissue. These treatments include brachytherapy, intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and radiosurgery. Read the rest of this entry »

A brain tumor is a group of abnormal cells growing in the brain or around it. Tumors can directly destroy healthy brain cells. They can also indirectly damage them by invading other parts of the brain and cause inflammation, brain swelling and pressure inside the skull.

Brain tumors can be malignant or benign. A malignant tumor, also called brain cancer often grows quickly invade healthy brain areas. Benign tumors do not contain cancer cells. Viewed under a microscope to look normal, and usually grow slowly.

Brain tumors can be of two types: primary or metastatic. Primary brain tumors originate in the brain, and metastatic cancer cells appear when another part of the body spread to the brain. Therefore, metastatic brain tumors are almost always malignant, while primary tumors may be benign or malignant. Read the rest of this entry »