Health and Fitness Guide

I have to start today’s article with an apology. I was out for an intensive course that lasted for eight weeks. During this period, there was no time to spare in order to drop some lines for my fans out there who are reading my articles. To crown up my error, I did not tell you guys that I will be away for some time. Please accept my apology.

Today, we are still going to discuss another type of cancer that attacks man. Cancer is such a terrible disease that it can attack any part of the body, except if there is no blood flow into that area.

Cancer of the esophagus occurs in any part of the body, starting from the throat down to other organs of the body, however, it is commonly found in the lower parts of the body organs. A person suffering from this type of cancer finds it increasingly difficult to swallow something. When this type of cancer is noticed, it requires the attention of a specially trained doctor to handle the treatment.

The cervix, which is an outlet of the uterus, is situated right deep inside the vagina. When there is a cancer threat in this part of the body, it might take sometime before being noticed. This is because, the cancer can lie dormant for many years inside the cervix, but when it begins to spread, it can invade the inner tissues, and spread to the lymph nodes area of the body. This makes it very difficult for this problem to be treated at this stage. In fact, the best hope of cure at this stage is only through intensive treatment such as using radium or cobalt radiation.

Stress is a normal psychological l response to stimulus precipitated by the adrinocuticle system. It makes men and women to look ugly, cause pimples, wrinkles, hair loss and receding hair lines. Stress can make a 50 year old man to look 70 years. As much deadly as this problem is, it is still amazing that millions of people are ignorant of this killer sickness. But the truth still remains that stress related diseases kills more people than the dreaded HIV/AIDS.

In the previous discussion about breast cancer, I pointed out that cancer of the breast, which usually manifests at the early stage as a lump that may look harmless are of two types. They are the benign tumor and the malignant tumor. In treating these tumors, the doctor must first understand the type of tumor he is about to remove in order to get the desired result.  The approach here is to first remove a small portion of the abnormal tissue, and send it to a pathologist for a microscopic examination, in order to know the exact nature of the tumor. All these will take place while the patient is still lying down on the operating table. When the result is out, the doctor will now know the next line of action to take.

Okay, I am happy to back again on this platform. Remember we have not exhausted the topic we started last about the common cancer locations in the body. We are starting from where we stopped last time, so read on.

There is no unique or collective way that we can say that this is how all cases of cancers appears. That is to say that cancer occurring in any part of the body has a special way it occurs. Today, we are going to list the different parts of the body where you can find cancer, and mention a brief feature about them.

1) BILE DUCT: When there is a case of cancer development in the bile duct, one of the earliest symptoms is jaundice. This is caused by a disturbance to the flow of the bile. With this type of cancer, surgical treatment does not always prove effective because the symptoms usually develop late.

Yes, we suggested yesterday that the best way to achieve a maximum result with the treatment of cancer is when it is treated early, and this comes by detecting the symptoms early enough and carrying out treatments immediately, without any delay. This, no doubt is the best way to handle this ugly situation in our lives and the lives of our loved ones, but the unfortunate thing here is that some cancers develop “silently”, and by the time the least symptom appears, the cancer itself has really gone far, and the prospects of getting adequate result from treatments will be very minimal. So the question now is, in matters like this, what are we expected to do, in order to adequately stamp our authority in handling this disease?

Cancer occurs in different ways, but most or all of them appears as tumors. This is the reason some doctors are of the opinion that it is better to have all tumors examined, whether they show signs of cancer or not, and that they should be removed at the earliest stage if there is any sign or trace of cancer in them. Any long-continued sores on the skin or on the mucous membranes of the body must be examined with the appropriate methods, and if it proves malignant, should be treated immediately without any further delay. Some of the signs to watch out for as signs of cancer are:

Presently, there is no known factor that can be said that is the basic cause or causes of cancer. There are some facts that have long been held about cancer that has been discovered to be false, but new facts about this deadly have equally emerged. The lists below are however, some of the facts that are widely believed to be the true facts about cancer.