The Online Cancer News and Information
MTV — the ultimate source of music videos and pop culture — has been around for 25 years now. And that amount of time makes for a lot of memories. So in recognition of the entertainment MTV has offered over the years, Indystar.com, Indiana’s #1 local media site, takes a walk down memory lane and [...]
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A blood test that looks for the body’s own immune response to tumors may provide an easy way to find lung cancer in patients long before an X-ray or CT scan could, U.S. researchers reported on Friday. The test correctly predicted non-small-cell lung cancer in blood samples taken from patients years before they were actually [...]
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Head and neck cancers kill about a person a day. Even when treated successfully, they tend to leave patients hurting both physically and psychologically. “The side effects of our treatment are really devastating in some respects,” said Kenneth Watkin, a University of Illinois speech and hearing science professor. Watkin, whose research focuses on the diagnosis [...]
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It is a rare, but very aggressive form of breast cancer. One of the concerns about this type of breast cancer is that it may not show up on a mammogram or ultrasound. However, those diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer or IBC usually have noticed physical changes in their breasts. Dr. Virginia Borges with the [...]
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Cancer screening is an attempt to detect unsuspected cancers in the population. Screening tests suitable for large numbers of healthy people must be relatively affordable, safe, noninvasive procedures with acceptably low rates of false positive results. If signs of cancer are detected, more definitive and invasive follow up tests are performed to confirm the diagnosis. [...]
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A cancer may be suspected for a variety of reasons, but the definitive diagnosis of most malignancies must be confirmed by histological examination of the cancerous cells by a pathologist. Tissue can be obtained from a biopsy or surgery. Many biopsies (such as those of the skin, breast or liver) can be done in a [...]
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Most cancers are initially recognized either because signs or symptoms appear or through screening. Neither of these lead to a definitive diagnosis, which usually requires the opinion of a pathologist. Signs n Symptoms Roughly, cancer symptoms can be divided into three groups: * Local symptoms: unusual lumps or swelling (tumor), hemorrhage (bleeding), pain and/or ulceration. [...]
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