What is Cancer? Cancer, also called malignancy, is an abnormal growth of cells. There are more than 100 types of cancer, including breast cancer, skin cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, and lymphoma. Symptoms vary depending on the type. Cancer treatment may include chemotherapy, radiation, and/or surgery.
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A recent case report by Helaleh Khoshbakht Ahmadi and her team from Iran University of Medical Sciences and Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences has described a very rare kind of esophageal cancer in young people (28 years old man in case report).
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Gastric cancer is the cancer of the stomach’s inner lining. In Iran, the North and South Khorasan provinces lack proper medical facilities for treatment of cancer. That’s why the people who live there must travel to the more developed provinces in order to get cancer treatments. This situation has resulted in errors in calculation of […]
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Cancer Statistics are important to know so that a comprehensive preventative and control strategies can be developed. This article will be discussing about Cancer Statistics in Iraq focusing on the colon cancer in the Misan province of Iraq.
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Even though there’s been great progress in cancer research, one thing that is doubtful, is- what is the Origin of Cancer and which cells does the cancer originate from?
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It was only in the late 1970s that chemotherapy was introduced as a way to treat Ewing’s Sarcoma. Before this, amputation of the affected limb was the only way to treat the cancer. At that time the survival rate was also very low. It was only 10%!
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Cell adhesion is the binding of a cell to another cell. Cell adhesion can be homophilic or heterophilic. Homophilic adhesion is when the cell adhesion is caused by binding of similar adhesion molecules. Heterophilic adhesion, on the other hand, is where cell adhesion is facilitated by binding of different adhesion molecules.
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Insomnia is a common sleep disorder that can make it hard to fall asleep, hard to stay asleep, or cause you to wake up too early and be unable to fall asleep again. You may still feel tired when you wake up.
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Probiotics are living microorganisms which have beneficial effects on the health of host. They do this by balancing the host’s gut flora. Gut flora or intestinal microflora is a term used to define the bacteria and other organisms that live inside the intestines. Also, they digest food and produce vitamins such as Biotin and vitamin […]
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The best diagnostic imaging method for Skeletal Metastasis is a combination of the available imaging modalities. For example, bone scintigraphy must be used alongside FDG- PED in order to ensure accurate diagnosis and detection of the bone metastases. This is because bone scintigraphy is the most sensitive and cost effective method, but it is not […]
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