Heart disease is a number of abnormal conditions affecting the heart and the blood vessels in the heart. Types of heart disease include coronary artery disease, Angina, Heart attack, Heart failure, Heart arrhythmias. Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most common type and is the leading cause of heart attacks. When you have CAD, your [...]
All of us know someone who has been touched by cancer in some way, whether it is skin cancer or another type. Skin cancer, while normally not considered to be as serious as other types, can still be a dangerous disease. However, if skin cancer is caught in the early stages, as when a individual [...]
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. In the United States, around 1000 patients die each day from complications of cancer. Approximately 2.4 million Americans are expected to be diagnosed with the dreaded disease in 2007. The exact cause of cancer is unknown. It is only characterized by the abnormal cell division [...]
Many doctors and scientists believe that many cancers could be prevented with a good diet. Here are a few foods that have been shown to decrease the incidence of cancer. Tomatoes Tomatoes are loaded with vitamin C. They also contain lycopene, which may explain a recent popular Italian study finding that people who ate raw [...]
Blood cancer is an uncontrolled increase in the number of blood cells. To better understand blood cancer, you may need to know a bit more about blood cancer and leukemia. All blood cells are formed in the bone marrow from stem cells. A stem cell is the earliest stage of every blood cell. If a [...]
As men grow older especially around retirement age and shortly afterward life can be very good as they begin to enjoy the fruits of their labor and the opportunity to do what they want to do for a change. No longer punching time clocks or holding their heads to the grinding stone; life can prove [...]
Are you or do you know someone who is facing prostate cancer? Even though cancer is still a deadly disease it is not as frightening as it once was. There are many survivors of cancer. I know several survivors of prostate cancer and reading the research on resveratrol and prostate cancer gives me hope that [...]
War was declared on cancer in 1971 and since then billions of dollars have been spent looking for a cure for the disease. Research has concentrated on finding a drug or a better way to treat cancer but so far anything they have come up with has only been marginally better than current treatments. Why [...]
An “Early Stage” breast cancer is sometimes referred as Stage 1 breast cancer. In such cases, the affected region is less than 2–2.5 centimetres in diameter. However, cancer does not spread inside the tissue of the breast. In fact, among all the women detected for breast cancer in the U.S, 63% of them suffer from [...]
Bladder is a hollow organ located in lower abdomen i.e. the pelvic region which stores urine coming from kidney. Bladder cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer; seen more in aged people. Men are said to be infected by this tumor more than women. Studies suggest that the ratio of men getting [...]
