Leukemia is also known as the cancer of the blood or that of the bone marrow. Multiple myeloma, another name for cancer of the blood is a cancer wherein the bone marrow (which is the soft tissue in the bones) is infected with malignancy. The bone marrow produces cells called stem cells which mature into three different types of cells i.e. red blood cells (carry oxygen), white blood cells (fight infection) and blood platelets (help in blood clotting). Every normal cell dies after completing its life cycle. However, in patients suffering from cancer of the blood, the white blood cells (also called leukocytes) forget to die after their life cycle completion. As a result they make other blood cells non-functional.

Due to the non-functioning blood cells, the body loses its ability to fight diseases thus rendering it highly susceptible to infections like diarrhea, pneumonia and flu. Cancer of the blood causes the body to loose weight suddenly and unexplainably. Anorexia is commonly seen in patients suffering from cancer of the blood.

Mostly the blood smear of patients with cancer of the blood when seen under a microscope shows an unusually high number of white blood cells while an extremely low number of red blood cells. As a result of excessive white blood cells, the non-infected cells have to share their resources which causes malfunctioning of these cells as well. Red blood cells contain hemoglobin which carries oxygen. Shortage of red blood cells leads to anemia and shortness of breathe i.e. breathlessness.

Cancer of the blood can be diagnosed with a blood test, bone marrow biopsy and lymph node biopsy. Amongst these, blood test may not be very accurate because sometimes the cancerous cells remain within the bone marrow and have are yet to infect the bloodstream. In this case only the bone marrow is infected and not the blood stream. This is also known as aleukemia.

The usual methods of treating cancer of the blood are chemotherapy, radiation therapy, anti cancer drugs and bone marrow transplant. Since cancer of the blood is basically cancer of the bone marrow, it can be treated well by transplanting healthy bone marrow in place of the infected one. Doing so prevents the further production of cancerous blood cells thereby avoiding cancer in the bloodstream which may spread to other parts of the body. Blood transfusions, performed to replenish the body with hemoglobin lost in the form of red blood cells, is a common practice with patients suffering from cancer of the blood.

Blood cancer or leukemia is the cancer that originates in the tissue that forms blood. White blood cells or leukocytes and red blood cells or erythrocytes together compose blood. The unusual proliferation of leukocytes is the causal element of blood cancer. Also known as bone marrow cancer, this disease springs up in the bone marrow where bloods cells i.e. red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets are produced. In leukemic patients, the white blood cells do not die after completing their life cycle causing overabundance of leukocytes. Thus one of the major blood cancer symptoms and signs includes lack of blood platelets which play an important role in clotting of blood. Thus, excessive bleeding and bruising like a peach are major blood cancer symptoms.

White blood cells are mainly responsible for providing immunity to the body against various diseases. When they do not function properly the body becomes susceptible to various disorders. Being easily infected with diarrhea, tonsils, pneumonia or sores in the mouth are also blood cancer symptoms. Some patients may experience fever, shivering, chills, night sweats, feeling fatigued and other flu like signs which may be blood cancer symptoms. Also, the onset of anemia, which is a result of the loss of red blood cells, is another one of the blood cancer symptoms.

Sometimes the liver and spleen may swell up due to leukemia. This causes patients to feel full thereby resulting in unintentional weight loss. This along with constant headaches (which may occur of blood cancer cells invade the central nervous system) blood cancer symptoms which should never be ignored.

Some other blood cancer symptoms are weakness, breathlessness, malaise, nose bleeds, bleeding gums, anorexia, enlargement of the lymph node, weak bones, pain in the bones or joints, back pain, fractured bones with minimum impact, swelling or pain in the abdomen, fluid retention, delirium, visual disturbances, decreased urination, etc.

As most blood cancer symptoms are associated with other diseases, leukemia is more often than not diagnosed with medical tests. These tests include blood cells, lymph node biopsy and bone marrow biopsy. Blood tests can sometimes be deceptive as the large number of white blood cells may not show in the blood smear seen under a slide. This occurs when the leukocytes are still trapped in the bone marrow and have not yet entered the blood stream. This is known as Aleukemia and is mostly seen in hairy cell leukemia.

Leukemia, also known as multiple myeloma is the cancer of the blood. Cells of the blood, mainly white blood cells (also called leukocytes) affected by cancer are known as blood cancer cells. Any normal blood cell (erythrocytes, leukocytes and blood platelets) originates in the bone marrow. The cells of the bone marrow are called stem cells. Stem cells develop into three different types of cells on maturing depending on the nature of the tasks they perform. Red blood cells carry oxygen for the body, blood platelets help in blood clots which controls bleeds and white blood cells help fight infection. Blood cancer cells are cells of the blood (basically white blood cells) which forget to die after completing their life cycle. As a result there exists an excess of white blood cells.

The blood cancer cells eat away the resources of the otherwise non-infected cells rendering them unfit for proper functioning of their tasks. As the white blood cells mainly fight diseases, a person suffering from blood cancer loses his/her immunity against various infections. Thus diarrhea, pneumonia, fever and other flu like signs are common symptoms of blood cancer.

Other symptoms include weakness, the feeling of fullness, bone and joint pain, pain in the lower back, swelling and pain in the stomach. Since the oxygen supply to the body is also through the blood, breathlessness is another symptom caused by the non-functioning blood cancer cells. Anemia, anorexia and sudden weight loss are also caused by infected blood cancer cells. Anemia and breathlessness are both caused by the low red blood cell (which contains hemoglobin that is the oxygen carrier) count in the body.

Unlike other cancers, there exists no tumor in leukemia. The blood cancer cells in the bone marrow undergo uncontrolled proliferation as a result of which the entire bloodstream has blood cancer cells. Thus leukemia can be mostly diagnosed with a blood smear test. The blood cancer cells i.e. the white blood cells, when observed under a microscope will appear to be unusually large in number. The red blood cells (erythrocytes) on the other hand will be extremely small in number in a leukemia patient. Other diagnostic tests include lymph node biopsy and bone marrow biopsy. The treatment for this disease involves bone marrow transplant. Blood cancer is basically cancer of the bone marrow and replacing the infected bone marrow so as to stop the supply of blood cancer cells to the body is an apt treatment.

It is often noticed that women do not feel comfortable discussing issues related to breast and other private organs. They prefer being silent about their related problems. This has led to an increase in the number of cases going undiagnosed and untreated, especially breast cancer cases. This is also due to lack of knowledge and awareness among the women. Thus, the need of the hour is to bring the women out of these shackles of bashfulness. For this purpose only, October is considered as the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM). Breast cancer awareness is symbolized by a folded pink ribbon.

NBCAM has brought up a grand success in educating the women all over the world. Women are told about the benefits of early detection, treatment and diagnosis of the disease. Various non- profit organizations have come up with the objective to support women suffering from breast cancer, raising money for them and celebrating the success of those who have survived it. Companies have also joined hands to support the cause. They have contributed money to promote research in the field of breast cancer. The items related to awareness regarding this are labeled with pink ribbon.

The efforts of raising awareness are not limited to women only. The men also come in the ambit. There is a big myth among the people that men are not prone to breast cancer and thus, not much was done about the breast cancer in men. But, now, even men are considered and diagnosed for signs of breast cancer. Though October is designated as the breast cancer awareness month, but the drive for this cause is a year – round commitment.

Though a number of steps are being taken up sporadically by people all over the world, the success can be achieved only when we decide to take up a step for ourselves. Our body is a gift God has endowed us with and we have no right to harm it merely because of our shyness to face the problem. If we are not ready to do something for us and our body, nobody else in the world can help. Thus, there should be an urge in every individual to take care of the body first and then the rest of the world. Breast cancer is curable. The first step is diagnosis of the disease and we are the only one who can do it best. Thus, there is an urgent need of awareness and knowledge about it.

The liver cancer is also known as the primary liver cancer and is the rare form of cancer (1% of all cancer) in the western world as compared to the Asian & African parts of the world where it is a common form (10 to 50% of all cancer). It is mainly diagnosed in the males and it is the type of disease which is rapidly fatal.

Types of cancer: The basic tumors of liver cancer are known with the name of hepatomas. The primary liver cancer that originates in the bile duct (produces bile juice used during the digestion of food) is known as cholangiomas. Rare type of liver cancers includes hepatoblastomas & Kupffer cell sarcoma which are exclusively in the children and are curable. Other form of cancer is the metastatic which is called so because it originates in other body part and get spread to the liver. It is 20 times more common than the primary cancer and the leading form of liver cancer due to which death occurs after cirrhosis.

Liver Cancer Symptoms: Liver cancer does not show any symptom in the early stages and it becomes prominent only when the cancer has advanced to the next stages. These can be

• A lump of mass in upper right side
• Weight loss,  fever, weakness (basically signs of cancer in early stage but as these are usual one doesn’t guarantees cancer)
• Yellowing of skin

Causes: the exact cause of disease in adult is very difficult to tell. It can be because of inhalation of carcinogens, which can be there in variety of ways in the present environment. The most common way is smoking either active or passive. It may be because of the weak immune system or because of hepatitis B virus. In case o children the cause is mainly the genetic problem.

Diagnosis: In presence of cirrhosis it is difficult. But image study like ultrasound or MRI with certain test can help. The liver biopsy will surely do the job along with electrolyte study which indicates the increased sodium.

Treatment: it depends on the type of cancer, age, health of person, personal preferences, etc. There are ways like surgery and drug based treatment. In surgery the tumor part is removed or the other form of surgery is liver transplant but it is for younger people with large size tumor. In drug base alcohol injection are given in tumor which dries up the cancerous cell which then eventually dies.

is the life threatening disease that can be devastating for the person. The person suffering from the disease should get the medical treatment as soon as possible. Symptoms of the liver cancer are the usual one like loss of appetite, loss of weight, weakness which makes it difficult to diagnose in the early stages. The other symptoms which are clear indication of the problem are pain in the abdomen, yellowing of the skin but these are only there when the

Primary liver cancer cases in the US are the cases of the metastatic cancer rather than the liver cancer. Actually the liver cancer is there because it has been spread to liver through the other body part where the cancer originally originated. In this case the treatment is done of the body part where the cancer originated and in case this is not possible then efforts are made to maintain patient’s life through medical assistance and pain management.

Depending on the stage of the liver cancer in the patient different treatments can be adopted to solve the problem. These are surgery, radiofrequency ablation, radiation therapy, alcohol injection and liver transplant. In case of surgery the area which is infected by cancer is completely removed except in the surgical resection which is a different thing. This is for the people who are suffering from the cirrhosis of the liver. This treatment does not guarantee the eradication of cancer. It may appear in the other part of liver or in other areas in the time period of few years. Liver transplant is also another type of surgical treatment but is for the people in the early stages but the tumor size is large.

Other treatments mentioned above come under the category of drug- based treatment. In this type of treatment the cancer cells are killed using the different procedures. In alcohol injection, pure alcohol is injected in tumor which dries out the cancer cell and they eventually get killed. His is known to increase the liver cancer survival rate. In case of chemotherapy the anti-cancer drugs are introduces in the body either directly into the liver or systematically. Chemotherapy basically shrinks the size of tumor which can be treated more easily through other treatments afterwards.

Liver is the largest internal organ of the human body. The hepatoma is the primary liver cancer type of liver. The liver is the vital organ that performs many several functions like processing and storage of nutrients absorbed from the intestine and also the production of the clotting factors that helps in clotting of blood in case of injury or cut along with the blood platelets. Hemangioma is one of the common types of tumors of liver. It starts in the blood vessels, whereas Hepatic adenomas start in liver cells. Women are at higher risk of such tumor if they are on birth controlling pills. Discontinuing them may help to reduce the tumor size. Hepatic tumor begins in many sites in the liver and is not confined as a single large tumor. It is in different numbers where it starts as a spot inside the liver.

Hepatic tumor or liver cancer can be on or inside the liver. There are many types of cancer but the primary type is the malignant. Hepatocellular carcinoma comes under this category. Growth of these can be benign or malignant. This can be discovered by medical imaging even if it is not done specifically for the diagnosis of liver cancer.

Most of the time the liver is not the origin of the cancer but it get spread to liver from the other body parts. These tumors are then named after the place where they originate in body and furthermore called as metastatic. Liver cancer symptoms of this kind can b the lump in the abdomen or yellowing of skin but you may not seen them until the cancer is advanced to other stage.

Some researchers have a notion that the cancer every cancer starts with the damage of the DNA. DNA is basically a body library which has all the things related to the chemical processes going on in our body. Even the rate of cellular growth is included. The damage in the DNA causes the cells to grow abnormally and they grow out of control forming the masses which are eventually termed as tumors.  Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is the primary cause of the liver cancer in humans. It relates to the frequency of the virus. Studies on animals also prove the fact. Injecting the virus in mice causes him to develop the liver cancer, although the mice seldom develop liver cancer.

Treating the root cause of cancer is more important than just treating the symptoms. Symptoms are basically the growth of cancer that is now visible to the person. The treatment of the symptom will only cover up the actual problem and that will eventually reappear or may spread to another body parts. The genuine breast cancer treatment is to eradicate the root cause due to which the cancer appeared and allow the person to live without the disease.

As the person hears the words breast cancer they got scared and the one who is diagnosed with the disease blindly follows the doctor’s treatment without applying any common sense in that. Actually this is because they don’t have knowledge on the subject which can help them to make decisions on the best treatment available for them and that to on the knowledge base. There are many facts about which you are never told and becomes the reason of the panic that a person got by hearing the words breast cancer.

Breast cancer just not happens on its own. It is a result of something you have done and so it can be corrected also by removing that mistake that you have done and after that of body heal itself by its own. Actually our immune system is the repair system that repairs all the cuts, wounds, infections, broken bones, etc. But it cannot do everything by its own. It needs a little help from you also to heal the body against any disease you say even in case of cancer. The foremost help is to eat healthy and remove all other food items from your menu that are cause of the problem. Actually breast cancer is the problem that creeps in due to the weakening of the immune system. This is so because of your lifestyle we are living now. These all the types of breast cancer are outcome of our lifestyle and basically our choices in case of foods items. Also our behavior and environment is contributing to the weakening of our immune system. Today we are always in worry, anger, depression, etc and also our environment is full of chemicals like chlorine, smoke, pesticides, etc.

Along with man-made treatment through medicines you can go for the natural way side by side which will help you to recover fast. Just try to eat fresh fruits and vegetables as these have cancer fighting properties. Also have complete rest and sleep with some exercise and fresh air.

A woman who suddenly finds a lump in her breast will surely think of having symptom of breast cancer. But simply having a lump in breast not necessarily means that the women got breast cancer because the benign lumps are quite normal in women breast. In fact 80% cases of finding a lump during self examination are not the cases of r breast cancer. Some of these benign lumps can show the similar symptoms as that of a cancerous lump because they to displace the tissues and change the shape of your breast, but it do not mean that they are cancerous lump. So along with these symptoms of lump certain others are there too in the tissues, skin or nipples of your breast.

These can be any one of the following:-

An area fells differ from the rest of breast although it is not a lump

Change in shape along with size of breast

Puckering of breast skin

Reddening of breast skin without any reason

Bloody discharge from nipples

Flaking skin of the nipples

Change in nipples appearance and it is pointing in a direction other than before

Pain in breast without any reason

The most important thing that has to take care is that how your breast feels normally as it will make the comparison easy. Breasts are not the flat or smooth. They do contain lumps naturally. Actually the breasts have bumps, rope and lumps type structure within them. These are basically in the top and the area near the armpit. The inside and bottom are smother. Also during the hormonal changes that take place there during the woman’s period also affect the shape and how breast feel on your fingers and hands. Also there is some difference that creeps due to age. Older women will have fatty breast as compared to the younger woman because they have more fatty tissues than the glandular lump one in their breasts. So while checking for the symptoms of the breast cancer bear in mind the feel of different areas of your breast and compare them with the ongoing feel to find what the difference is or what’s new there.

If you find that something is there in one of the breast than do not panic and feel the same part of the other breast too. If they resembles than it is perfectly all right. If there is still some confusion on your mind then do see a doctor to be on a safer side and please do not hesitate to see the doctor as it is important for your life.

From 1999 to 2008 the numbers of cases of breast cancer have been dropped quit considerably and too that in all breast cancer types. This is because of the awareness that has been developed among the females especially, about this disease. This is true that the prevention is the better than cure and the preventive measures along with the regular monitoring and medical screenings this threat which is a havoc in the females can be curbed easily. For this you can follow these preventions.

Cut Exposure to Chemical: This is basically refers to the plastic that have become an important part of our life without doubt. Certain chemical reacts or interferes with our body’s hormonal balance and harm the body’s growth.Chemicals like bisphenol A and phthalates are the some of them and to avoid exposure to them use the products made u of stainless steel, glass, ceramic, paper, jute, etc.

Choose Diet Carefully: Try to have 5 to 8 servings of vegetables and fruits daily. Researchers have found that there is a drastic affect of the consumption of variety of fruits and vegetables on the development of breast cancer. Keep in mind that not a single item will do the wonders. Researchers have found that the anti-oxidants and vitamins work in pairs effectively, i.e. presence of other is necessary for the working of other. Keep away from the one that are full of herbicides and pesticides. Also do not forget to wash them before eating, so that the organic and the chemical waste get washed out.

Limit Alcohol and Red Meat Consumption: It is a buzz around that a small amount of alcohol is good for health. But what is that small amount? So limit the intake to less than 5 drinks in a week, to stay healthy and prevent the breast cancer. Also check the amount o red meat you eat. It I advisable to not eat it at all but keeping the frequency to one time a week will be okay. Actually the beef contain many harmful things which were given during their live hood ranging from hormones to antibiotics for their accelerated growth and pesticides and herbicides which are there in their feed and now in their muscles, which eventually you eat as meat.

Watch Your Weight: Obese women are twice likely to develop breast cancer as compared to the fit women. Try to have short and frequent meals and do physical activities to keep your weight under control