Posts tagged "Detection"

Survival in ovarian cancer: the importance of early detection

Another article about what is cancer… Buried in the basin, the ovaries are difficult to examine. Thus, cancers that affect them are often discovered later. If improvements are to provide treatment, the prognosis remains closely linked to the early attention. Ovarian cancer is the fifth largest cancer of women in the U.S., with 4 000 new cases per year. However, his prognosis remains very poor, since it is often discovered at a late stage. Seen from an unknown illness. Ovarian cancer is relatively uncommon. Too often discovered at an advanced stage, this cancer is difficult to treat. As is detected late, ovarian cancer prognosis is bleak. Each year, 3 800 Americans die of cancer. The survival rate of ovarian cancer is just over 30% in 5 years, whereas for breast cancer, which is about 75%. Few women with a genetic predisposition to ovarian cancer. Genetic factors are responsible for 5 [...]

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Mouth Cancer Detection

Another article about what is cancer… Cancer is a disease that never welcome. But of all cancers, oral cancer has the highest mortality rates. Why? Because it is so much pain and cunning in the early stages, often undetected until it is advanced beyond what can be effectively fought by cancer treatments. Dr. Warren L. Spencer, Central Florida, explains that there are five common risk factors that correlate strongly with oral cancer. When using any product snuff chewing, dipping snuff, smoking cigarettes, cigars, or smoking a pipe, your chances of developing cancer are significantly higher than those not exposed to the mouth with snuff. In fact, 80-90% of oral cancers are found in people who take part in these activities. You also have an increased risk of oral cancer if you eat frequent or large amounts of alcohol. And worse, when alcohol and snuff are used together, the risk not [...]

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