Posts Tagged ‘Cancer’
Health Risks of Snuff: Cancer and Lung Disease
The cancer risk is usually greater for smokers than nonsmokers in a ratio of 2.24. This is particularly true of lung cancer, throat cancer and mouth cancer, which hardly ever affect non-smokers.
If the snuff disappear occur at least 40% reduction in overall cancer incidence.
Some types of cancer are particularly favored by snuff as the lung, lip, tongue, mucosa of the mouth, pharynx, larynx, and bladder. 85% of all lung cancer cases are related to snuff, and a smoker is 12 times more likely to develop lung cancer than a nonsmoker. If a smoker quits, it will take approximately 15 years before your risk of lung cancer equal to that of a nonsmoker. But there is always a clear benefit to quit since the first day.\
There are other types of cancer are also more frequent among smokers than nonsmokers.
These are:
- Esophageal Cancer
- Kidney Cancer
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Cancer of the cervix. Read the rest of this entry »
Dangers of Being Overweight in Old Age
Obesity and overweight are defined as excessive body energy reserves, mainly as fat, although it is known that in both cases the health is at risk, older adults increases the risk. This may be the time to take action to prevent future problems, do not you think?
Increased body fat is always manifested by weight gain, but this does not mean that all people who weigh more than what is considered normal to be obese. To find anthropometric indicators have been established as weight, height, thickness of skin folds and circumferences (waist and hip).
However, body mass index (BMI) is a medical tool that determines how much a person has exceeded the reserves of energy as fat. For BMI, divide the number of its weight in kilograms by the result of his height squared, if the shunt is less than 24.9 kg/m2 your weight is normal, if it goes from 25 to 29.9 kg/m2 means overweight. On the other hand, obesity is defined in three classes: the first corresponds to a BMI between 30 and 34.9 kg/m2, second, or risk, 35 to 39.9 kg/m2 and the latter in the sounding the alarm of danger, the index exceeds 40. Read the rest of this entry »
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Health Lifestyle and Prostate Cancer
There is also considerable evidence that some western lifestyle factors play a role in the crash of the prostate. However the details of lifestyle factors that are involved are not yet clear. Nevertheless there are suggestions that excessive consumption of calories, dietary fat, and refined sugar increases the risk of developing prostate cancer. Also a reduction in consumption of fruits and vegetables, reduced exercise, and overall higher rates of obesity are also considered to increase the risk of having. More specifically, obesity has been clearly demonstrated to increase the risk of death from prostate cancer. Thus, the simplest advice for avoiding the death of prostate cancer is to prevent obesity and if you’re obese, lose weight and keep it. Read the rest of this entry »
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Fats Can Cause Cancer
One of the causes of cancer is fat and overweight. This is a problem that many experienced people and could unwittingly be the cause of cancer.
Fat excessive body can increase the risk of the individual against the six types of cancer. This was stated by a report from the cancer research group in Washington, United States, as reported in the Los Angeles Times.
An American Institute for Cancer Research and World Cancer Research Fund provides 10 recommendations for cancer prevention, including limiting consumption of red meat and alcohol.
A non-profit organizations in the United States, invites the public to as much as possible keep your weight within normal limits as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) or the American government, and avoid weight gain and waist circumference increase in old age.
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Sunbathing die trying
Knowing how long you can spend in the sun, without running the risk of ultraviolet rays damage the skin, it is now possible thanks to a system that calculates the appropriate period of exposure to solar radiation, according to the skin of each person and the place where you are.
With this invention seeks to reduce the incidence of skin cancer. “The software determines the maximum recommended exposure to solar UV radiation, including the use of protective creams for people with different skin types displayed at any time and day of the year,” he told EFE Ruben Piacentini, director of Institute of Physics of the Argentina’s Rosario city (IFIR), which developed the project.
According to Argentine newspaper Infobae, the system can be installed on any computer and was created with the collaboration of researchers from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, Argentina and the Foundation Skin Cancer.
How to use
For information, the user must enter your skin type, the kind of surface you are (sand, water or cement), time of day and geographic location in which you, as the height or snow can increase the risk of radiation by 60 percent.
Sunbathing die trying
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Physical Urticaria
Urticaria is the appearance of skin lesions with erythema (redness), formation of hives (elevated pale skin), and itching that can occur locally or widely throughout the body. Causal factor whose hives are the physical stimuli, heat, cold, scratching, pressure, etc … are the group that is called physical urticaria. Constitute the majority of known cause chronic hives.
Special Features
1. Are clinically measurable or quantifiable, because the stimuli that cause so are to play in the diagnosis.
2. They tend to be immediate (onset in minutes) and short (after an hour tend to disappear). As an exception we delayed pressure urticaria.
3. In the majority of cases are located at the site of stimulation.
4. They tend to be reproducible challenge test clinically well defined, which makes diagnosis and control. Physical Urticaria
5. They usually affect young adults, with a preference for females.
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Burns and his Treatment
Burns are a specific type of soft tissue injury. Occurs when the body receives more energy (heat, chemical or electrical) than it can absorb without injury.
A severe burn can be life threatening and requires immediate medical attention. The severity of the burn depends on the temperature of the medium that caused and duration of exposure. They are primarily skin lesions, but sometimes affects other organs like lungs, heart, kidneys, etc.
The severity of burns is determined by five factors:
Depth of burn: 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade.
Extent of burn: Percentage of body area affected.
Condition critical regions: Hands, feet, face and genitals.
Patient age: Under 2 years old or very old.
Overall health of the individual.
Causes. What causes it and how is it produced?
Physical agents
Burns and his Treatment
Solid hot irons, stoves.
Boiling liquids: water, oil, coffee, etc..
Cold: Exposure to extremely low temperatures, local ice unprotected intermediate cooling sprays misused.
Fire, flames directly or solid waste.
Chemical
Gasoline and oil in general.
Acids: hydrochloric, sulfuric etc.
Alkali: Caustic soda, lime or carbide.
Electrical Agents
Electric shocks at different voltages: Cables, electrical appliances, plugs without protection, lightning.
Radioactive agents: solar rays, X rays, infrared radiation.
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Detection and Symptomps of Prostate Cancer
In the early stages of prostate cancer does not usually occur many symptoms.
The most common symptoms are:
- Frequent urination, and especially at night.
- Difficulty starting or stopping urination.
- Inability to urinate.
- Interrupted or weak flow of urine.
- Painful urination or burning sensation.
- Difficulty getting an erection.
- Painful ejaculation.
- Blood in urine or semen.
- Frequent pain or tightness in the lower abdomen, hips or upper thighs.
Any of these symptoms may occur when there is cancer but also other less serious problem. It is actually far more common than any of this trouble is related to benign prostatic hypertrophy with cancer, so no need to panic if you have, but you should check with your doctor.
Prostate cancer grows very slowly, this does not change much the survival rate if detected early and treatment is placed or if you do something later, if the tumor has not spread beyond the gland.
Introduction and Statistics of Prostate Cancer
WHAT IS IT?
It is a malignant tumor that develops in the prostate gland. It consists of uncontrolled growth of prostate cells. This means, among other things, that the prostate, because of its location, press on the bladder and urethra by preventing the normal urine output.
Most prostate cancers grow very slowly, although some do it quickly, they can even spread.
The prostate is a glandular organ, the size of a walnut, found in men and situated around the neck of the bladder and urethra, in front of the rectum. Some liquid, whitish and viscous, which is mixed with sperm at the time of ejaculation.
There are lymph vessels surrounding the prostate and that lead to pelvic lymph nodes. When a prostate cancer, there is the possibility that cancer cells spreading through lymphatic vessels and affect the lymph and from there to anywhere on the body.