Showing posts with label Prevent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prevent. Show all posts

Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Breast Cancer Treatment - Advanced Medical Care to Kill Cancer Cells and Prevent Them From Returning

If you are in need of breast cancer treatment a comprehensive medical center can provide you with the help you need. You highly can benefit from highly skilled and knowledgeable nurses, physicians, pharmacists, counselors, therapists, dietitians, and chaplains at the medical center, as they provide you with the treatment you need. This center may offer outpatient chemotherapy in addition to mastectomy surgery, and reconstructive surgery.
The two goals of breast cancer treatment include ridding your body of cancer and preventing the cancer from returning. If you have breast cancer, the type of treatment you will receive will depend on the extent of which the cancer has developed in your lymph nodes or throughout your body, the size of the tumor, and the presence progesterone and estrogen receptors. Underlying health issues, mental status, personal preferences, and age all play a vital role in the decision of what treatment to choose.
There are systematic or local breast cancer treatments available; these include:
• Surgery- This treatment can be either lumpectomy or mastectomy.
• Radiation Therapy- Uses high levels of radiation to kill the body's cancer cells or prevents the cells from growing and dividing. This treatment also minimizes the damage to your healthy cells.
• Chemotherapy-This treatment uses drugs in order to kill the cancer cells in the body.
• Hormone Therapy- Uses drugs to prevent hormones from encouraging the growth of cancerous breast cells that may stay following surgery.
• Biological Therapy- Uses drugs that work by using the body's own immune system to kill the cancerous breast cells.
In order to find the best treatment for you, call and set up a consultation with your doctor. During your consultation, your doctor may discuss all the benefits and risks of each treatment option available to you and how these treatments will relate to your own lifestyle. You should also consider joining a support group to help you with the emotional issues you may be facing that surround your diagnosis and treatment choice.
Breast cancer patients that are in the early stages of the disease may choose to have something like a partial mastectomy, which removes the tumor and a large part of the surrounding breast tissue. Individuals who have the advanced stages of breast cancer, those that have a high risk of the disease returning, or if the necessary breast tissue cannot be removed, your surgeon may recommend mastectomy treatment (a complete removal of your breast). For additional information of treatment call and schedule an appointment with a doctor at a reputable medical center.


Tuesday, 11 September 2012

How Indoor Tanning Helps Prevent Breast Cancer

Indoor tanning is safer than the sun helping to prevent breast cancer by up to 75% because of the Vitamin D benefits in the UV rays from tanning beds and booths.
Only a moderate amount of UV rays is needed to achieve a healthy body along with a beautiful tan. Vitamin D is needed to survive and the human body doesn't manufacture enough of it.
With our body starving for Vitamin D, the cells start to die causing all types of cancers with breast cancer ranking number one as the most deadly killer of cancers.
The food is depleted of this much-needed vitamin, therefore you can take supplements, soak up 30 minutes in the sun or go to a tanning salon where you can get a five-minute spray tan or use the tanning bed for 10 to 15 minutes.
UV rays are good for you in moderation because of the Vitamin D and you're getting a tan at the same time. The problem with the sun it emits not only UVA rays but also UVB rays.
A small amount of UVB rays is emitted damaging our DNA. Sun tanning is risky because the UV rays are not consistent all the time, whereas indoor tanning is consistent so you get the same amount of UV rays.
Sun tanning during mid-day is most dangerous because it's the hottest part of the day emitting more powerful UV rays causing heat strokes, cancer, premature aging and eye damage.
It's a myth that indoor tanning is risky, if instructions are followed properly. It takes just a small amount of UV rays to get a tan from the fluorescent UV bulbs in the tanning beds and booths.
With proper guidance, wearing tanning goggles to protect the eyes is totally safe and gives you a natural tan with your needed source of Vitamin D in just a few minutes.
More women die from breast cancer than any other form of cancer known. Most are deficient in vitamins which help keep us alive. Vitamin D along with other nutrients, destroys the bad cells that cause breast cancer.
The bad cells are stronger than the good cells attacking the immune system killing off the good cells. The sun gives you the Vitamin D you need, but the sun also causes burns among other illnesses and diseases if you stay in it too long.
Tanning beds and booths emit a small amount of UV rays supplying you with plenty of Vitamin D while making your skin healthy and beautiful all at the same time helping to prevent breast cancer.