Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
As the awareness of breast cancer increases, so does the availability of information on the disease to the general public. There has been much research done on the disease, which includes the statistics on its prevalence and survival rates. Below is an enumeration of these statistics.
Recent figures
Breast cancer has been proven to be the second […]
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Saturday, October 24th, 2009
Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer in American men. It is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in men. Over 30,000 men in the United States will die of prostate cancer this year. Although in the early stages there are no prostate cancer symptoms, most of the prostate cancer deaths can […]
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
Considered the most deadly of cancers, Lung cancer does not present any symptoms until it is well advanced. This reduces the success rate of treatments. In the United States, over 170,000 Americans are diagnosed annually. Smoking, along with other environmental exposures, is a causative agent in contracting lung cancer. Surprisingly, causes more cancer deaths in […]
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
In the American society, cancer is the disease most feared by the majority of people within the U.S. Cancer has been known and described throughout history.
In the early 1990s nearly 6 million cancer cases and more than 4 million deaths have been reported worldwide, every year. The most fatal cancer in the world […]
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Research continues to show that the most common cause for lung cancer is the use of tobacco. Lung cancer typically develops over a long period of time. The first pre-cancerous changes that form in the lungs mutate and produce chemicals that result in the formation of new blood vessels. These blood vessels nurture the cancer […]
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Monday, July 13th, 2009
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the American population and the western world. Lung cancer use to be the leading cause of cancer deaths in American men only, but since 1988, women have caught up with men and since then lung cancer is leading cause of cancer deaths in women as […]
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Prostate Cancer kills if allowed to grow. If ever there was a good reason to have a simple blood test, this is it. The Prostate cancer PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) test is one of the tests given to determine if cancer cells are present in an otherwise healthy prostate. It is a simple […]
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Sunday, July 5th, 2009
Because of its nature, prostate cancer is a disease suffered only by men. In fact, the American Cancer Society has found that prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in men. While this statistic may seem the disease dooms a man to death, the prognosis isn't as bleak as the facts seem […]
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Breast Cancer in women is second only to lung cancer deaths and a woman in the United States has a 1 in 8 chance of having breast cancer in her lifetime. That’s a startling 13 percent chance that any woman in the U.S. will get breast cancer during her life.
Breast Examination is vital to a […]
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Saturday, June 13th, 2009
If you have prostate cancer, are concerned about getting it, or if you're looking out for the health of someone you love, this article can help. In most men, prostate cancer grows very slowly: most men will never know they have the condition. Prostate cancer is the third most common cause of death from […]
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