Living With Cancer

This is the story old woman that has cancer on her body:

I'm living with cancer, not dying from it!" Jane Pike of Boston became, in her own words, a "cancer militant" when she herself was stricken. She decide to spread the word that cancer can be talked about - in fact, her message was.

"Please talk", She founded a group called Omega aimed at making it possible for cancer patients and their relatives to get together and do just that. There are many other such groups around the country, where members can share their feelings - whether happy or sad - and go on living productive lives as long as they possible can.

Throughout this article we have spoken about the emotional and psychological impact of cancer. Depending on the nature of the disease and the family and friends involved, the effect of cancer may be catasprophic or it may be an experience that, while never pleasant, can be dealt with and can even strengthen the people involved.

What to tell the patient and When....
How much - and when - a patient should be told is a long decision. More and more doctors are encouraging a candid approach with most patients but it's a tough question. Most of us can deal with a problem more easily if we what that problem is, and we may resent having the truth hidden from us.

Undoubtedly, there are some patients who are simply unable to deal with the knowledge that they have cancer. Confronted with the truth, they are in danger of becoming so depressed - perhaps even suicidal - that whatever time they have to live is quite lost. Another point is relevant here. There is an added danger that a patient who is not told the seriousness of his or her condition may not take the basic precaution of having period checkup after being successfully treated.

Other patient may need to be told the truth little by little. Still others, though, would much prefer to know the truth so that can have "quality time" and structure their lives accordingly.

A recent landmark television program. A time to die, filmed a series of patients in the Omega group who felt this way. "I set goals. I used to set big goals. Now I set small goals," said one. "My illness has shown me how to focus on the key road that is much more here and now," observed another. Because they can never be sure how much time is left (I can only say I'll be around tomorrow"), the patient who adjust best may be those who take their situation one day at a time - and try to anticipate the inevitable problems so that they can deal with them when they come up. They report that though they still feel moments that are "the pits," the happy times between seem happier.

"I'm just able to deal with reality," said a group member.

There is no black and white answer to the question of how much a cancer patient should know. We can say for certain, however, that those concerned must do all they can to prevent the patient from giving up all hope. There isn't cancer specialist in the world who can't tell you of patients diagnosed as terminally ill with only month to live at most, who are still living years and years later.

Radiation and Cancer

Radiation light can cause cell growth more active than a normal, certain cell on our body than affected by radiation ray sometime grow faster than others. This Strange growing called as tumor or cancer. Radiation itself can come from tools that is used a radiation light, or from environment like sun light. Tools that use radiation light like in hospital, industry, nuclear reactor, research institution and many others.

This is reported by AMA – Australia about their founding about cancer in related of using radiation light in their hospital. The Australian Medical Association (AMA) believes there is a minimal risk to cancer patients who have been caught up in a bungle at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. For two years up to July 2006, more than 700 patients received a 5 per cent reduction in their radiation dosage from one of four machines.

South Australia's Health Department is notifying those patients and has launched an independent inquiry. The AMA state president Dr Peter Ford is urging patients to contact SA Health.

"There are individual circumstances that have to be examined here and I think every person who had treatment in that period and who has been notified by the department should follow up with the department," he said.

Breast Cancer on Man

Man also can have breast cancer, because man has a similar breast network. As on the new research, breast cancer in man often too late diagnoses and found on further stadium. So breast cancer on man often founded on critical condition. This research analyzes from 146 man breast cancer patient. Men who get these diseases have 62 years old of average.

From the research one third found that man who knows has a breast cancer in further stadium when he checks up to the doctor. This is not same with women who check up to doctor only 10% have on further stadium.

This happen may because of doctors who check up some man doesn’t suspect that that bump is a breast cancer. And so do man might not will distrust that they have a breast cancer and the slower cancer diagnose come to doctor compared to woman

Breast cancer on man is more affected by hormonal factor. If take in a good care from the beginning will get a better prognosis compared with woman. Men who detect earlier have breast cancer will life 10 years or more about 47%. While for a man with further stadium will life on 10 years future about 44%.

Attention for all Men: If you have bump in your bosom, go to a doctor. Don't wait because you may possibly have got a breast cancer.

Smoke Causing Cancer

About 65.6 million woman and 43 million Children of Indonesian get exposed to cigarette smokes or said that they are as passive smoker. They have risk to get many diseases such as, bronchitis, tuberculoses, intestine cancer, liver cancer, stroke, and many other diseases cause of smoke. Other smoke also can cause the same diseases like exhaust of car, motorcycle, plant and others. Those numbers is from Kompas daily news about healthy or Kesehatan.
In Jakarta many car that should not be functionalize again, old car, bajay, and many bus that out of standard can cause cancer if you get exposed every day. Who get exposed from this, women and children, how many of them who get exposed from this? Not as much as those number but every city civil surely be exposed. They have risk from cancer and many other diseases more possible.

The dead people cause of those diseases always increasing every year, but no body can detect and guarantee the basic cause of those diseases. But if the patient mainly from city, this is cause by the pollution environment, not cause by cigarette. If the patient came from country or village, this disease can believe caused by cigarette. But how many people from village get cancer, very low.

So what realy causes of cancer dieses?

By the way cigarette remains not good for health and financial, better you stop for smoking. Because prevention is better than curing. Our environment is becoming worst and worst, oxygen consumption is always increasing. The increasing of consumption is not because of human live consumption but your car, your motorcycle, plant and other machine is consume Oxygen for out Atmosphere.

The global warming is not because of deforestations only, but more cause of high increasing for oxygen consume and release CO2 and CO from your car, your motorcycle, engine, and Plants and Industry.

Cancer Type

Cancer is the common term for aggressive and usually fatal forms of a large class of diseases known as neoplasms. A neoplasm is described as being relatively autonomous because it does not fully obey the biological mechanisms that govern the growth and metabolism of individual cells and the overall cell interactions of the living organism. Some neoplasm grow more rapidly than the tissues from which they arise; others grow at a normal pace but because of other factors eventually become recognizable as abnormal growths. The changes seen in a neoplasm are heritable in that these characteristics are passed on from each cell to its progeny, or daughter cells.

Classification of neoplasm as either benign or malignant relates to their behavior. A benign neoplasm, for instance, is encapsulated; malignant neoplasms are not. Malignancies grow more rapidly than do benign forms and invade adjacent, normal tissue. Tissue of a benign tumor is structured similarly to the tissue from which it is derived; malignant tissue has an abnormal and unstructured appearance. Most malignant tumors, in fact, show abnormalities in chromosome structure, that is, the structure of the DNA molecules that constitute the genetic materials duplicated and passed on the later generations of cells. Most important, benign neoplasm do not metastasize, that is, begin to grow at sites other than the point of origin, whereas malignant tumors do. The term cancer always denotes a malignant neoplasm, whereas the term of Tumor indicates a readily defined mass of tissue distinguishable from normal living tissue.

Skin Cancer

Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States and generally tropical such as in Indonesia, Brazil and African country. In United States more than 600,000 cases diagnosed annually. The most common types of skin cancer are the highly curable basal-cell or squamous-cell cancers. The most serious skin cancer is melanoma, which causes more than 6,000 deaths each year. Factors that increase the risk of developing skin cancer include excessive expose to the Sun's ultraviolet rays, a fair complexion, or occupational exposure to coal tar, pitch or radium.

A change in a mole or other spot on the skin may be the first sign of an early malignant melanoma or other form of skin cancer. Regular self-examination to detect changes in asymmetry, border, color, and diameter of a mole is the best way to detect a problem while it is still treatable.

A common benign mole is usually round and symmetrical, with smooth, even borders (top left). A persistence reddish patch or irritated area on the arms, legs, or shoulders may be a sign of basal-cell carcinoma (top right). Some forms of early malignant melanoma have an asymmetrical shape (bottom left) or an uneven border with notched or scalloped edges (bottom right).

The form of skin cancer that is sometimes to be avoided is warts or a nibble, abnormal moles and abnormal pimple or acne. If you have this abnormal sign on your skin you must check this condition to the doctor to make sure that those conditions are not including to dangerous cancer.

Cancer

In modern society cancer is the disease most feared by the majority of people throughout the world, supplanting the "white death" or tuberculosis, of the last century; the "back death," or bubonic plague, of the middle Ages; and the leprosy of biblical times. Cancer has been known and described throughout history, although its greater prevalence today is undoubtedly due to the conquest by medical science of most infectious diseases and to the increased life span of humans.

The study of cancer is known as the field of oncology. In the early 1990s nearly 6 million new cancer cases and more than 4 million deaths from cancer were being reported worldwide each year. The leading fatal cancer in the world is lung cancer, which has risen rapidly because of the spread of cigarette smoking in developing countries. Stomach cancer, prevalent in Asia, is the second most fatal form of cancer in men, after lung cancer. Also on the increase is the leading killer of women, breast cancer. The fourth on the list is colon or rectum cancer, a disease that mainly strikes the elderly. In the United States in the early 1990s more than one-fifth of all deaths were caused by cancer; only cardiovascular diseases accounted for a higher percentage.

In 1993 the American Cancer Society predicted that about 33 percent of Americans will eventually develop some form of the disease. Skin cancer is the most prevalent cancer in both men and women, followed by prostate cancer in men and breast cancer in women. Lung cancer, however, causes the most deaths in both men and women. Leukemia, cancer of the blood, is the most common type seen in children. An increasing incidence of cancer has been observed over the past few decades, due to improved cancer screening programs, to the increasing age of the population, and also to the large number of tobacco smokers, particularly women. In 1990 care and treatment of cancer patients in the United States cost more than $40 billion annually. The U.S. government was spending at least $2 billion each year for cancer research by the mild 1990s. Because of the marked improvement in the types of drugs available cancer patients under 30 years of age is decreasing, even though the number of deaths from cancer is increasing in the population as a whole.

Diet Forever

Avoid a hard way diet, although it promote increasingly. To lose weight very fast often followed with increasing weight fast too. Even lessen and increase the weight too fast can disturb the metabolism system. So use diet rule that can maintained after the body weight have reached.

What can be eaten?

• Eat variation food, this make many alternative health food so we will not boring.
• Eat food that contains much fiber like fruits, bread, rice, vegetable, bean, seeds, and cereal. These foods contains low calorie but make satisfied fast.
• Kind of flour food like rice, wheat, noodle and potatoes in a medium quantity will not make fat if not mix with butter or fried oil.
• Chicken, fish and tofu are protein source with lower fat contains than meat.
• Choose food that is cooked with steam, baked, boiled, set on fire or fry with a little oil. Avoid food that cooked with fried long.
• To lessen food that much contain of sugar like chocolate, sweet meal, crackers, and soda drink.
• Chose can food that is submerged in water not in syrup.

How to eat your food?

• Mix milled rice with rice that is not milled one or two in a week, or eat only bread every two days.
• Better eat boiled noodle than fried noodle, better eat white rice that fried rice.
• Through away the fat contain under the skin of chicken and meat before cocked.
• Use tofu or bean instead of meat twice a week.
• Dish up a fresh vegetable with sauce (so the vitamin is not omitted). Only use sauce that is not containing oil.
• Make a liquid soup not a concentrate soup.
• For cook, use soybean oil, maize oil or sun flower oil and just oily to the frying pan not dropped.
• By your household for cook that is not burnt easily
• Lessen to drink contain alcohol. Fruit concentrate without sugar or only water is better.
• Chewing your food slowly, and enjoy every feed, this will give a chance for your stomach fill well and avoid to eat too much.

When and Where is a good eating?

• Eat regularly and don't less the frequency, because you can feel very hungry and will eat too much later.
• Avoid eat snack because of habits. Eat only cause of hungry not cause of boring, frustrate or just for polite.
• Don't eat directly take from refrigerator, trying to eat always on the table. Don't eat while watching TV, or eat while read, or eat while cooks.