Showing posts with label therapy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label therapy. Show all posts

May 7, 2011

Natural Breast Cancer Treatment vs conventional therapy

If you have cancer diagnosed was breast cancer, it may not be so easy to kill and spread through your body. You can choose a treatment to try to get rid of it. These days, that means either conventional therapy or as an alternative or natural therapy "called.

Let's look at each:

Conventional treatment - at the time when referring to conventional treatment of breast cancer, weare as surgery, chemotherapy and / or radiation spoken. These treatments are a lot of money for pharmaceutical companies and doctors, but they are effective decision makers? People within the industry will tell you that these methods are tested and new and wonderful drugs out all the time. They will tell you that breast cancer is very complex, very complex and requires treatment to be successful.

So effective?In a word ... Not really. Despite millions of dollars raised for the awareness of breast cancer, the results are not really that great. You do not cut your precious body parts. You will still be filled with toxic chemicals and you will be zapped with radiation. And for the trouble your survival rate is not much better than they did 50 years ago.

Alternative treatment alternative treatments or naturalTreatments only. They normally come from nature in one way or another. Conventional medicine fails to recognize its validity, cited inconclusive evidence. The real reason is probably closer to the fact that it can be patented and sold as drugs, but I will make your review.

It 's true that the examination is not vigorous natural treatments implemented with most of its success stories to cure breast cancer everywhere. These types of treatments are not ignorant environmentalists who try to fight the man down. real doctors with real credentials to understand its value at the moment to kill breast cancer and other cancers.

The bottom line ... is a conventional cancer treatment is not the reason for the problem. You attack the tumor cells (and healthy), but not the underlying reason that you> Cancer in the first place. Alternative treatment reverses the conditions, the environment creates a cancer-friendly to begin with and destroy cancer cells. The choice is yours, but in my head, there is no debate.

May 2, 2011

Breast cancer - side effects of chemotherapy and hormonal therapy

Some side effects associated with hormonal therapy with tamoxifen. Hot flashes are the most commonly reported side effects and occur in approximately 40 percent of women on the drug. In younger women, tamoxifen can control are irregular bleeding associated with, but pregnancy may still be possible to have these young women non-hormonal contraceptive use in pregnancy during the years they take to avoid tamoxifen. Some women notice mild nausea during the first daysTamoxifen, but usually disappear after a few days. Some women may find it useful to take the drug with food or to experiment with taking at different times of the day.

Less common side effects are gas, cramps, headache and swelling of the joints. Weight gain is not usually associated with tamoxifen alone, however, menopause in women who received chemotherapy in breast cancer and is also seen for women. E 'canthe tendency to gain weight may also through other factors such as hormonal influences and age are affected. Some studies have shown that healthy women who took five years for the prevention tamoxifen does not show a significant difference in weight gain in women who took a placebo seen.

Fortunately, serious side effects of tamoxifen are rare. These include a slightly increased risk of blood clots, but the risk is less than 1 per cent and is comparable with the reported riskEstrogen therapy. If a woman has a history of blood clots believed before, or the doctor who had a particularly high risk for developing blood clots, then, alternative hormonal agents such as Arimidex are considered. Because of its effects on estrogenlike uterus, ovarian cysts may be associated with tamoxifen and, rarely, uterine cancer.

The risk of developing cancer of the uterus for one-year-old woman of fifty years is 1 in 1,000 risk of developing endometrial(Uterus) for one-year-old woman of fifty who take tamoxifen cancer, 2 in 1000. So even if the risk is twice as high, it remains an unusual event. In general, endometrial cancer is made ​​known to the irregular bleeding or bleeding that you do not expect that the time and is outside the normal. For example, women with tamoxifen, which previously had hysterectomies do not need to close gynecologic follow-up, and doctors recommend routine annual examinations. If a woman has symptoms such asabnormal bleeding and rapid assessment is needed. At that time, your doctor may decide to have an ultrasound or biopsy of the endometrium. However, studies have shown that women who are not with symptoms such as abnormal bleeding do these tests just because I have to tamoxifen. Finally, tamoxifen may be associated with a higher risk of cataracts, so doctors recommend eye exams every 1-2 years.

The side effects of anastrozole are hot flashes and joint and muscle pain. It isa slightly increased risk of osteoporosis and bone fractures with anastrozole in contrast to the slight protective effect of tamoxifen. In addition, tamoxifen anastrozole associated with a lower risk of blood clots, and as, of course, do not increase the risk of uterine cancer.

The side effects of letrozole are similar to those associated with anastrozole and include hot flashes, joint and muscle pain and increased risk of osteoporosis.

Side effects of adjuvant chemotherapyare usually limited in time. Some women vein irritation, after which they regard as a chemotherapy medicine catheter, making it easier to manage. With adriamycin, hair loss occurs from second to fourth week of treatment, in some people, this may include loss of body hair, eyebrows and eyelashes.

March 30, 2011

Hormone therapy for breast cancer

Hormones are produced naturally in the body. You are responsible for the activity of normal cells. The female hormones estrogen and progesterone could affect the development of a number of breast cancer cells.

Several hormones, cancer cells could reproduce the set and could have an impact on their eligibility. The role of hormonal therapy - hormone treatment - is added to get rid of hormones or block.

About Two thirds of women with breast cancer have tumors that are estrogen receptors. This type of cancer is based on female hormones for development. Hormone therapy is given to block estrogen's body and, of course, the fight against cancer development. Women who are ER-positive are more likely to act in response to hormonal therapy than women, the ER-negative.
There are two types of hormonal therapy in breast cancer.

*Drugs> slow estrogen and progesterone in promoting cell development of breast cancer.

* Drugs or surgery to disable the creation of hormones by the ovaries.

* There was a general hormonal drugs for breast cancer used some: Tamoxifen, Fareston, Arimidex, Aromasin, Femara and Zoladex.

It is not always an appropriate treatment for breast cancer. You have cancer tests cells observed, if they have hormone receptors. These are the parts that are estrogen or progesterone on the cell block. The hormone then wakes up the cancer cell to grow. Your cancer cells) could be tested PR estrogen receptor (ER) or progesterone receptors (. If you have neither, your specialist will recommend chemotherapy after surgery instead of hormone therapy.

You may need to reduce the therapy in cancer> The breast before surgery. This may indicate that you are a small company than would otherwise be necessary. One could say that was only the cancer is a mastectomy get rid of, rather than hormone therapy might help, dass also prevent cancer returns later as your business.

It seems better run for women who have estrogen-receptor-positive tumors. You have treatment for several years after diagnosis. Exactly how longbased on the treatment you have. They usually have a hormonal therapy for 5 years required.

One advantage of hormonal treatments is that the hormones make it very safe and although the side effects can rarely be of concern, are difficult to severe.