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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 »

Treatment is directed at symptom control and prevention of complications that may arise by failing to treat the injury. Fibrocystic changes generally do not require any treatment and get better over time.

Lifestyle Changes:

These measures are implemented, not only because it could alleviate the symptoms associated with BBD, but also because of the advantages related to the overall health and wellness.

Eating a low-fat diet and the elimination of methylxanthines (coffee, tea, chocolate and carbonated drinks) produce improvement in 60% of cases and can be used to treat fibrocystic change, particularly if the pain is shown.

Although no direct association has established a short, was enacted smoking cessation and exercise regularly. Women who experience fat necrosis, must wear a bra like additional support.

Medications:

The BBD with infectious etiology, such as an abscess or mastitis, is treated with antibiotics, but the duration of therapy depends on the severity of symptoms and response to treatment. Patients usually require at least 1 week of oral antibiotics.

The choice of antibiotic depends on the suspected causative organism, usually gram-positive cocci. Acute mastitis is also treated with warm compresses.

In mastitis related to breastfeeding, breastfeeding should continue while the patient is mastitis.

As drug treatments include:

Diuretics poor results could be considered almost as placebos.

Progestogens: Based on the hypothesis that luteal insufficiency have shown a dubious activity in randomized studies against placebo. Have been implemented:

+ Topically: ointment between 1 and 10% of progesterone.

+ Vía parenteral: Hydroxyprogesterone (second phase of the cycle) and MPA (every 3 months).

+ Oral: norestestirone, Lynestrenol, didrogesterona second phase or throughout the cycle. Read the rest of this entry »

Lung leiomyosarcoma is a rare disease that consists of tumors in the soft tissues of your body, such as the lungs. It is most often malignant; however, there are treatments to remove these tumors.

Surgery
1. Surgery can be used to obtain soft tissue for diagnosis and for removing the actual tumor.

Chemotherapy
2. Chemotherapy consists of many cancer-fighting drugs that attack the cancerous soft tissue cells on the lung.

Radiation
3. Radiation oncologists may apply high-energy radiation beams to the tissues containing sarcoma to try to shrink or kill the cancer cells.

Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT)
4. This delivers beams of radiation to the cancer cells during surgery, allowing doctors to administer high levels of radiation to the tumor without exposing organs nearby.

Brachytherapy
5. Often used post-surgery, brachytherapy allows for a higher than normal dose of radiation to be placed near the tumor. The radiation source is placed within the body near the tumor or within a body cavity and may be permanently left in place

Causes and Risk Factors
Wilms tumor is the most common form of kidney cancer in childhood and its exact cause in most children is unknown.
The absence of the iris (aniridia) is a birth defect sometimes associated with Wilms’ tumor. Other birth defects linked to this type of kidney cancer include certain urinary tract problems and enlargement of one side of the body, a condition called hemihypertrophy.
It is more common among some siblings and twins, suggesting a possible genetic cause.
The disease occurs in about 1 in every 200,000 to 250,000 children. It usually strikes when a child is about three years and rarely occurs after age 8. Read the rest of this entry »

Carcinomas originate in the epithelium, tissues that are formed by one or more layers of juxtaposed cells that line the cavities and canals of the body besides the skin, and also form the mucous glands. Mucosa, for example, the lining inside the mouth or nose. Any viscera, any duct or gland is formed, in large part by mucous ..

The epithelia are constantly regenerating: The epithelial cells have a short cell cycle, due to continuous wear to which they are subjected.

Most cancers originate in the epithelium and are called carcinomas. They are the most common malignant tumors such as breast, lung, colon, stomach and prostate. Read the rest of this entry »

In most cases, prostate cancer is a hormone-dependent tumor, particularly androgens. When androgens are removed from the blood is the improvement of the symptoms caused by metastases or urinary obstruction, and, lower PSA levels.

It is a palliative treatment, achieving the improvement of symptoms in patients with advanced disease (metastases), the delay of clinical progression and possibly prolonging surviva
Androgens are produced mostly (90-95%) in the testes in the form of testosterone, and the remainder (5-10%) in the adrenal glands, which lie on top of both kidneys. These act on the prostate androgen stimulating the proliferation of tumor cells Read the rest of this entry »