Archive for 2011
One in three gets dangerous rays
In Spain, one in three people taking a sun bathing during the times that is most dangerous between 12 am and 4 pm. Delial Garnier and the Association of European Cancer Leagues (ECL) confirmed this figure three a thorough study.
This study also revealed that two percent of Europeans have or have had skin cancer. While 79 percent of Spanish has this evil among their top concerns, even in women this alarm is reflected in a 81 percent of respondents.
Another alarming figure says that only 36 percent of Spanish applied sunscreen against UV rays. However, they recognize that not re-apply the cream all day. When you know that it is necessary applications throughout the day. But the most dangerous thing is to know that 10 percent do not use sunscreen at all.
As for skin care of children, have also revealed worrying figures. As the 34 percent applies protective their children who are not specially designed for sensitive skin .
All in all a calculation that arouses hope is that 41 percent of Spanish in the sun less than it did before. The 46 percent is still doing the same and only 13 confessed that over time in the past.
New ways to fight skin cancer
One of the cancers most common in the world is the skin. It is estimated that in Spain there are six to seven cases per hundred thousand inhabitants and in Australia the figure rises to 42 in every hundred thousand. That’s why two medical institutions are innovating in how to detect and combat this type of cancer.
The first is the Clinical Hospital Virgen de la Victoria, where in a relatively short time has been using a new operating system. This is the Mohs micrographic surgery. With it you can access hard to reach places such as the nose or eyelids.
Is that while the surgeon operates, the anatomist, the tissue removed. In this way. He begins to cut the fabric of downtown, where large percentage of cancer. Then he begins to cut out circles to remove the skin compromised. When the anatomist realize that you have removed all the cancerous tissue and that there is only healthy skin line stops the procedure.
Also, the Carlos Haya Hospital has a unit of teledermatology . This unit is responsible for digitally photograph the area believed to be cancer. This photograph is emailed to a specialist medical center for diagnosis. This will reduce the detection time and you can start, if you require a treatment much faster and therefore more expectation of success.
Neuroblastoma, an aggressive childhood tumor
Children are most affected with a very aggressive brain tumor that bears the name of neuroblastoma.
Such a tumor would be associated with a genetic trait through a variation in the number of copies of DNA according to a study at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania School of Medicine published in the journal Nature.
This tumor, usually fatal for the victim, could be part of a chain of variations in DNA copy number (CNV). Such changes are present between nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), which features one side (in some cases) is a nature susceptible to cancer.
The study was led by John Maris, and he became involved in an analysis of genome-wide association in patients with neuroblastoma . Among the findings was discovered VNC found on chromosome 1 that could be associated with the disease.
The research team has determined that this genome is usually expressed in fetal brain tissue and that would be involved in the initial stages of tumor development.
The number of young people affected with testicular cancer
The conference “Asexorate” was a good time for the Department of Youth Care Tower to instruct high school students , testicular cancer, its impact on young people and self-exploration as the best way to find an abnormality.
The conference was offered to approximately 200 students from CETIS number 59, the colonial expansion of Torreon and Las Margaritas was provided by Juan Carlos Acosta de la Torre, a specialist in clinical sexology, which addressed several issues such as teenage pregnancy, diversity sexual and venereal disease.
According to data presented at the conference testicular cancer in young people between 15 and 30 have high statistics in Mexico.
The information provided was related to Human Papilloma Virus, the exploration of the testicles as a means of cancer prevention among youth and adults.
One of the main weapons against cancer is early detection testes for a full treatment or removal .
The testicular exploration campaign has been carried out in schools as School Venustiano Carranza, Institute London School LUZAC, among several others.
Factors that cause inflammatory breast cancer were identified
Researchers at the University of Medicine in New York in the United States have identified factors that cause the incidence of inflammatory breast cancer, a deadly disease that is the growth of cancerous tissue derived metastases usually very quickly in the body patient .
The study was published in the journal “Nature” data giving information about this type of cancer and their origins .
On the one hand it was found that breast cancer is inflammatory consequence of excess protein identified as eIF4GI. This protein on the one hand help to make cancer cells more adhesive and is rapidly transformed into metastatic tumors.
Worth noting the extremely malignant nature of this type of cancer, at the same time represents between 1 and 2 percent of breast tumors that invade the body affected .
You can prevent prostate diseases
According to statistics from the Mexican Social Security Institute, 60 percent of men over 50 years have a good chance of seeing your prostate affected with any disease. Even in this gland cancer is the second cause of cancers in men.
But it usually attacks only the cancer, other diseases common in the male audience is prostatitis and obstructive prostatic hyperplasia. The first is a serious inflammation of the prostate and may be caused by an infection or sexually transmitted disease. For its part, prostatic hyperplasia occurs when there are changes in the body due to advanced age.
Symptoms that have a patient with these diseases are: urinary urgency, pressure reduction when missionary, pain or burning when passing urine, blood in semen or urine and severe pain in the lower back.
These diseases can be treated and detected sooner is better. However, many men refuse to get tested for fear of the exploration is done in the year. This bias must be discarded because it is the only way to prevent diseases of the prostate.
15 percent of cancers in men is prostate
In Europe alone there were more than 214 000 cases of prostate cancer . Statistics show that this type of cancer is the third most popular among men over 60 years. However, the prostate cancer is curable if detected early.
There are four levels of prostate cancer ranging from T1 to T4. The medical and scientific advances have helped the majority of cancers detected to be made while still in stage T1 and T2, suggesting treatment by radical prostatectomy, ie complete removal of the prostate. This form of healing has great success in patients.
However, the person may be a radical prostatectomy, the cancer must have been caught early and it is therefore recommended, and almost demanding that men over 45 years made regular prostate exams so that you can identify if there is evil.
Unfortunately, radical prostatectomy is erectile dysfunction sequel to the patient. But new technologies are allowing this complication is increasingly reduced to 10 or 15 percent of those treated.
How can we deal with a cancer
It’s a terrible story that no one is prepared to receive. We always believe that “it is up to others but to me or my loved ones, no.” What happens when we have to ourselves?
All around us we hear the same thing has died of cancer this or that or they are giving chemotherapy or the like. Seldom thought we going to play even though the disease and any of its types is the most prevalent is in society.
It is easy to say but the last thing we must do is master the panic. Think we’ll be able to do past life in almost all times, except for medical treatment that we assigned. Not all cancers are the same, thus, treatments either.
You’ll have to sleep and rest more than before, though. You should also change your diet for a much lighter and healthier. Leave the smokers and snuff if you go to check-ups hoping to be touched.
When you complete your treatment, it is time to think again, return to the previous life. But while do not miss any appointments. Do not let the disease go to the fore. On the contrary, leave out but forget it until you heal, be there.
Gradually increase your confidence and the day of discharge without further revisions to do. If many people get it, why you will not get you too?
Cervical Cancer
One of the most common types of cancer that attacks young women today is the cervical cancer . The disease can be caused by the appearance of the human papilloma virus, which spread through sex.
The area commonly hosts this type of cancer covers the bottom of the uterus or womb. This is a place of great importance since it is responsible for the normal course of pregnancy.
It is known that the consumption of snuff as well as sexual promiscuity, low socioeconomic status, menopause after age 52, diabetes, high blood pressure and having many children or begun to be sexually active age are low causes of this disease.
The clearest symptom is bleeding between menstrual periods or postcoital. Either way, it may happen that in some cases the tumor is asymptomatic.
It is therefore recommended the implementation of the Pap test called as soon as a woman starts her sexual life .
The study, which is one of the methods more reliable screening should be repeated every 12 months for 2 or 3 years. If the results indicate good health in all cases, can be performed every 3 years.
What is a brain tumor?
Today, many people suffer from brain tumors. Due to the lack of information, not all individuals prevent fatal outcomes. For this reason it is important to know what it is pathology.
It’s called brain tumor to a condition whose nucleus is in one of the structures of the cranial cavity. For example, can be located in the brain parenchyma, blood vessels in the cranial nerves, glands and bones. The abnormal mass formed by the tumor grows and thus damages the brain tissue .
Among the most common symptoms may be appointed as follows: temporary paralysis, aphasia, apraxia, partial motor seizures and visual disturbances. They are produced with the destruction of the tissues mentioned above and / or increased pressure.
On the other hand, there are signs that are generated away from the brain. They are called false location because symptoms are caused by intracranial hypertension or brain stem displacement.
The brain tumors are classified as primary intracranial tumors, astrocytomas, glioblastoma multiforme, ependymoma, meningiona, primary brain lymphoma, medulloblastoma, hemangioblastoma of the cerebellum, fourth ventricle papilloma, pinealoma, craniopharyngioma, acoustic neuroma, pituitary adenomas and tumors of the foramen magnum .
Each of these conditions has some individual characteristics and other communities. If it takes a healthy lifestyle and regular medical checkups, all can be prevented.
