Even High-tech Treatments Do Not Guarantee That Cancer Can Be Cured or Will Not Spread
By Chris Teo, Ph.D.
Sometime in early August 2007, Swee (not real name, 71 years old female from Indonesia) had coughs with blood stained phlegm. She consulted a general medical practitioner who ordered an X-ray to be done, suspecting that she might […]

A Cancer Survivor Story - Moments Of Being Alone
By Gregory Drambour
There are going to come moments when you re alone with the cancer or illness. They are inevitable. You wake up in pain and don t want to bother anyone and you feel yourself wanting to give up: “It s just too much, I ve […]

Increased Cancer Risks Associated With Working The Graveyard Shift
By Brenda Skidmore
You may have heard some alarming health news recently, about how working the graveyard shift may increase your odds for developing breast or prostate cancer. This story is based on recent research, over the last 20 years, that does, indeed, find an increased rate of […]

Stomach Cancer: Causes and Diagnosis
By Michael Russell
There are several causes of stomach cancer. To name a few are previous exposure to radiation, bacterial infection caused by Helicobacter pylori, pernicious anemia, stomach surgery, as well as genetic factors that cause predisposition to the disease. Helicobacter pylori infections now thought to be responsible for most cases of […]

Colorectal Cancer Part 2: Medical or Herbal Treatment?
By Chris Teo, Ph.D.
The primary therapy for colorectal cancer is surgery. At an early stage, surgery cures it. However, more often than not, doctors would refer patients to the oncologists after the surgery. And oncologists, from my experience living in the developing country, would invariably ask patients to […]

Mesothelioma Stomach Symptoms
By Eric Morris
Stomach or abdominal symptoms are often experienced by patients with peritoneal mesothelioma. This type of mesothelioma is a cancer of the peritoneal cells that line the abdomen. Symptoms of peritoneal mesothelioma are insidious and often tend to be confused for symptoms of more common, and often more benign, abdominal conditions. Peritoneal […]

Stomach Cancer is More Closely Linked to Stomach Ulcers than You Think!
By Gavin Freeman
Interestingly enough, both the causes and the signs and symptoms of stomach cancer (also called gastic cancer) are almost identical to those of peptic ulcers. It is important to note that you are more likely to have a peptic ulcer if you […]