Hong Kong Institute of Science and Technology has created a new drug for liver cancer, not only can effectively inhibit cancer cell growth, it will not even kill healthy cells. Queen Mary's Hospital will begin using it in clinical practice in patients with end stage liver cancer, and if successful, then the predicted bias marketed in 2007.
Hong Kong Institute of Science and Technology managed to extract some of the bacillus subtilis arginine, which can inhibit cancer cell growth. Relevant experts from the institute said that in March last year had conducted a clinical trial on two late stage liver cancer patients, and the results are quite encouraging as one cancer cell tumor patients became significantly smaller after 6 months of treatment. In contrast, the treatment of other patients is not effective, so the doctor stopped the treatment.
Relevant experts said, that if the final stage liver cancer patients who umumnyahanya can survive for several months, after the age of drug use may be extended for more than 10 months, it was a satisfactory result. Hong Kong Institute of Science and Technology will further cooperate with the Queen Mary Hospital, which is trying the drug in 30 patients, and if successful, this new drug can be marketed in 2007, and gave new hope for patients with end stage liver cancer. Total research had already spent more than 30 million Hong Kong dollars within four years, and earned two awards from the Golden international association of new technologies in Geneva, Switzerland.
Liver cancer by the Hong Kong Department of Health stated sebaga cancer killer-2. And according to statistical data, that from 1986-1996, a total of 12.498 people die from the disease in Hong Kong. On average each year found about 1500 new cases of disease, and every year who died of liver cancer less than about 1300 people. Previous treatments such as liver transplantation, chemotherapy and therapeutic arterial embolis, just get rid of liver cancer cells, but for end-stage patients, the percentage of living is generally no more than ½ year
Senin, 30 Juli 2012
Know Your Colon Cancer
Colorectal Cancer or known as Ca. Colon or Bowel Cancer is a form of malignancy that occurs in the colon, rectum, and appendix (appendectomy). In developed countries, cancer is ranked the third most common, and a leading cause of death in the western world. Necessary to find an action called a colonoscopy, whereas for treatment is surgery followed by chemotherapy.
At first the symptoms are not obvious, such as weight loss (as a common symptom of malignancy), and fatigue is not clear why. After a few time before other symptoms appear related to the presence of a significant size of the tumor in the colon. The closer the location of the tumor with anal symptoms usually increase. When we talk about the symptoms of colon tumors, the symptoms are divided into three, namely the local symptoms, general symptoms, and symptoms spread (metastasis).
Local symptoms are:
Change in bowel habits
Changes in stool frequency, reduced (constipation) or grow (diarrhea)
Sensation of incomplete bowel movement such as, (still want but can not get out) and change in diameter as well as the size of the stool (feces). Both are the hallmark of colorectal cancer
Change the physical appearance of dirt / feces
Stool mixed with blood or blood out of a landfill during defecation
Stool mixed with mucus
Black stools, usually associated with the occurrence of bleeding in the upper gastrointestinal tract
Arising out of pain accompanied by nausea and vomiting during bowel movements, caused by blockage of sewage by the tumor mass
A lump in the abdomen that may be felt by people
Other symptoms arise in the vicinity of the tumor, because cancer can grow about organ and tissue around the tumor, such as bladder (blood in urine arise, arise the air bubbles, etc.), vagina (vaginal discharge that smells, appears excessive mucus, etc. ). These symptoms occur later, showed greater and more extensive tumor spread
The most common symptoms are:
Weight loss for no apparent reason (this is the most common symptom in all types of malignancy)
Loss of appetite
Anemia, the patient was pale
Often feel tired
Sometimes experience sensations such as floating
Symptoms spread is:
The spread to the liver, causing symptoms:
Patients appear yellow
Abdominal pain, more often in the upper right, in the vicinity of the liver
Enlargement of the liver, usually seen in a physical examination by a physician
The other symptoms that arise are called paraneoplastic, associated with increased blood viscosity due to the spread of cancer.
Depth / Staging / Stage Colon Cancer
There are several types of colon cancer staging classification, there TNM classification, Dukes classification, but which I will describe the classification is as follows (similar to the Dukes classification):
Stage 1: Cancer occurs in the colon wall
Stage 2: The cancer has spread to the muscle layer of the colon
Stage 3: The cancer has spread to lymph glands
Stage 4: The cancer has spread to other organs
Risk Factors
Anyone can get cancer of the colon? Here are the factors that increase a person's risk of colon cancer:
A. Of age. The risk increases with age. Most cases occur in the age of 60-70 s, and rarely under the age of 50 unless there is a family history of colon cancer is.
2. The presence of polyps in the colon, particularly adenomatous polyp type. With removal of polyps at the time found also reduce the risk of colon cancer later in life.
3. History of cancer. Someone who had been diagnosed with or treated for colon cancer are at risk for colon cancer later in life. Women who have ovarian cancer (ovarian), uterine cancer, and breast cancer have a greater risk for colorectal cancer.
4. Heredity:
a. History of colon cancer, especially in the immediate family.
b. Disease FAP (Familial adenomatous polyposis) - familial adenomatous polyps (in families); have 100% risk for colorectal cancer occurs before age 40 years, if not treated.
c. Other diseases in the family, such as HNPCC (Hereditary Non-polyposis Colorectal Cancer) - non colorectal cancer polyps in families, or Lynch syndrome
5 Diseases of colitis (inflammation of the colon) ulcerative untreated.
6. Smoking habits. Smokers have a much greater risk for colorectal cancer than nonsmokers.
7. Eating habits. Once in meticulous that many meat eating habits and a little fruit, vegetables, and fish also increase the risk of colorectal cancer.
8. Less active. People who are more physically active had a lower risk for colorectal cancer is formed.
9. Inveksi Virus. Certain viruses such as HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) that contribute to the occurrence of colorectal cancer.
How to detect it?
Colorectal cancer can take many years to develop, so early detection is very influential on the possibility of recovery. If you are someone who is at risk, you'll want to do a screening. Examination are:
A. Rectal examination with a finger (Digital Rectal Exam), in which the doctor examines the state of the wall of the rectum as far as possible with your fingers; these checks do not always find any abnormality, particularly colon cancer that occurs in the course and has not spread to the rectum.
2. Examination of blood in the stool.
3. Endoscopy. This examination is very useful because in addition to seeing the state of the colon can also act, for example when finding polyps endoscopy can pick it up at once and then do a biopsy.
4. Examination by double contrast barium enema.
5. Virtual Colonoscopy.
6. CAT Scan.
7. Examination of CEA levels (carcinogens Embryonic Antigent) of blood.
8. Whole-body PET Scan Imaging. While this is the most accurate diagnostic tests for the detection of recurrent colorectal cancer (which comes back).
9. Fecal DNA testing.
What about Treatment?
Patient care depends on the level of staging the cancer itself. Therapy will be much easier if the cancer is found at an early stage. Cancer cure rates of stage 1 and 2 are still very good. But if the cancer is found in the advanced stage, or is found at an early stage and is not treated, it is likely recovery would be much more difficult.
Among the therapeutic options for patients, surgery option is still ranked first, with supported by chemotherapy and / or radiotherapy (may be required).
Surgery
This action is divided into Curative, Palliative, bypass, fecal diversion, and Open-and-close. Curative Surgery is done if the tumor was found in a localized area. The point is to remove the affected part of the tumor and its surroundings. In this situation it may take an action called TME (total mesorectal Excision), which is an act of throwing the gut in significant numbers. As a result, both ends of the intestine is left to be sewn back. Usually in this situation required a colostomy bag, so that dirt can be removed through the large intestine through other channels. This option is not a good option but it is a necessary step to stay alive, considering the patient's impossible not to eat so that the intestine is also impossible not to charge food / feces, while there are parts that need healing. What and how the continuation of the colostomy is conditional and individual, each patient has different circumstances so that the handling is not the same.
Palliative Surgery is done in the case of tumor spread widely, with the aim to avoid throwing the primary tumor-induced death of patients with the primary tumor. Sometimes this action is supported chemotherapy could save lives. If the tumor has spread to vital organs of the surgery was technically difficult, so the doctor may choose to bypass surgical technique or fecal diversion (transfer of stool) through the hole. The final choice in the worst condition is an open-and-close, in which doctors open the areas of operations, then the de facto look at the situation is such that it is impossible to do anything more or actions to be taken it does not benefit the patient, then in cover. This action seems to have never done it again now that are already widely available laparoscopic and advanced radiography to detect the presence and condition of cancer long before the necessary surgery.
Non-Surgical Therapy
Chemotherapy is done as an act to reduce the occurrence of metastasis (spread), tumor cell growth, shrink in size, or slow growth. Radiotherapy is rarely used for colon cancer because it has side effects and is difficult to be fired to a specific part of the colon. Radiotherapy more frequently in rectal cancer only. Immunotherapy is being developed as adjunctive therapy for colorectal cancer. Other therapies that have been tested and proved to be very promising vaccine therapy. Discovered in November 2006 and a branded TroVax vaccine proven effective against various cancers. The vaccine works by increasing the patient's immune system to fight the disease. The testing phase is currently targeted for kidney cancer and is scheduled for colon cancer. Other therapies are treatments aimed to overcome the metastases (tumor spread).
Well apart from the above non-surgical therapy, which is equally important is the Supportive Therapy. Diagnosis of cancer is often caused a huge influence on the psyche of the sufferer. Hence the drive from the hospital, doctor, husband / wife, relatives, family, social support group is very important for the sufferer.
An advice:
This section is from me personally, if you or your family is a colon cancer patient, my suggestion is as follows:
A. Do not delay your treatment, just in case you are still included in the category of early stages.
2. Do not despair, in every difficulty there is always a way out.
3. Do not linger trying alternative therapies and thwart a proven medical therapy.
4. I personally believe habbatus Seed (black cumin) as adjunctive therapy for any therapy, especially for cancer issues. Since the first Prophet said: "Verily habbatus Seed is the cure for all diseases except death% u2026 ', and I believe in it. Scientists recently discovered that habbatus brothers have a potent anti-cancer effects
At first the symptoms are not obvious, such as weight loss (as a common symptom of malignancy), and fatigue is not clear why. After a few time before other symptoms appear related to the presence of a significant size of the tumor in the colon. The closer the location of the tumor with anal symptoms usually increase. When we talk about the symptoms of colon tumors, the symptoms are divided into three, namely the local symptoms, general symptoms, and symptoms spread (metastasis).
Local symptoms are:
Change in bowel habits
Changes in stool frequency, reduced (constipation) or grow (diarrhea)
Sensation of incomplete bowel movement such as, (still want but can not get out) and change in diameter as well as the size of the stool (feces). Both are the hallmark of colorectal cancer
Change the physical appearance of dirt / feces
Stool mixed with blood or blood out of a landfill during defecation
Stool mixed with mucus
Black stools, usually associated with the occurrence of bleeding in the upper gastrointestinal tract
Arising out of pain accompanied by nausea and vomiting during bowel movements, caused by blockage of sewage by the tumor mass
A lump in the abdomen that may be felt by people
Other symptoms arise in the vicinity of the tumor, because cancer can grow about organ and tissue around the tumor, such as bladder (blood in urine arise, arise the air bubbles, etc.), vagina (vaginal discharge that smells, appears excessive mucus, etc. ). These symptoms occur later, showed greater and more extensive tumor spread
The most common symptoms are:
Weight loss for no apparent reason (this is the most common symptom in all types of malignancy)
Loss of appetite
Anemia, the patient was pale
Often feel tired
Sometimes experience sensations such as floating
Symptoms spread is:
The spread to the liver, causing symptoms:
Patients appear yellow
Abdominal pain, more often in the upper right, in the vicinity of the liver
Enlargement of the liver, usually seen in a physical examination by a physician
The other symptoms that arise are called paraneoplastic, associated with increased blood viscosity due to the spread of cancer.
Depth / Staging / Stage Colon Cancer
There are several types of colon cancer staging classification, there TNM classification, Dukes classification, but which I will describe the classification is as follows (similar to the Dukes classification):
Stage 1: Cancer occurs in the colon wall
Stage 2: The cancer has spread to the muscle layer of the colon
Stage 3: The cancer has spread to lymph glands
Stage 4: The cancer has spread to other organs
Risk Factors
Anyone can get cancer of the colon? Here are the factors that increase a person's risk of colon cancer:
A. Of age. The risk increases with age. Most cases occur in the age of 60-70 s, and rarely under the age of 50 unless there is a family history of colon cancer is.
2. The presence of polyps in the colon, particularly adenomatous polyp type. With removal of polyps at the time found also reduce the risk of colon cancer later in life.
3. History of cancer. Someone who had been diagnosed with or treated for colon cancer are at risk for colon cancer later in life. Women who have ovarian cancer (ovarian), uterine cancer, and breast cancer have a greater risk for colorectal cancer.
4. Heredity:
a. History of colon cancer, especially in the immediate family.
b. Disease FAP (Familial adenomatous polyposis) - familial adenomatous polyps (in families); have 100% risk for colorectal cancer occurs before age 40 years, if not treated.
c. Other diseases in the family, such as HNPCC (Hereditary Non-polyposis Colorectal Cancer) - non colorectal cancer polyps in families, or Lynch syndrome
5 Diseases of colitis (inflammation of the colon) ulcerative untreated.
6. Smoking habits. Smokers have a much greater risk for colorectal cancer than nonsmokers.
7. Eating habits. Once in meticulous that many meat eating habits and a little fruit, vegetables, and fish also increase the risk of colorectal cancer.
8. Less active. People who are more physically active had a lower risk for colorectal cancer is formed.
9. Inveksi Virus. Certain viruses such as HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) that contribute to the occurrence of colorectal cancer.
How to detect it?
Colorectal cancer can take many years to develop, so early detection is very influential on the possibility of recovery. If you are someone who is at risk, you'll want to do a screening. Examination are:
A. Rectal examination with a finger (Digital Rectal Exam), in which the doctor examines the state of the wall of the rectum as far as possible with your fingers; these checks do not always find any abnormality, particularly colon cancer that occurs in the course and has not spread to the rectum.
2. Examination of blood in the stool.
3. Endoscopy. This examination is very useful because in addition to seeing the state of the colon can also act, for example when finding polyps endoscopy can pick it up at once and then do a biopsy.
4. Examination by double contrast barium enema.
5. Virtual Colonoscopy.
6. CAT Scan.
7. Examination of CEA levels (carcinogens Embryonic Antigent) of blood.
8. Whole-body PET Scan Imaging. While this is the most accurate diagnostic tests for the detection of recurrent colorectal cancer (which comes back).
9. Fecal DNA testing.
What about Treatment?
Patient care depends on the level of staging the cancer itself. Therapy will be much easier if the cancer is found at an early stage. Cancer cure rates of stage 1 and 2 are still very good. But if the cancer is found in the advanced stage, or is found at an early stage and is not treated, it is likely recovery would be much more difficult.
Among the therapeutic options for patients, surgery option is still ranked first, with supported by chemotherapy and / or radiotherapy (may be required).
Surgery
This action is divided into Curative, Palliative, bypass, fecal diversion, and Open-and-close. Curative Surgery is done if the tumor was found in a localized area. The point is to remove the affected part of the tumor and its surroundings. In this situation it may take an action called TME (total mesorectal Excision), which is an act of throwing the gut in significant numbers. As a result, both ends of the intestine is left to be sewn back. Usually in this situation required a colostomy bag, so that dirt can be removed through the large intestine through other channels. This option is not a good option but it is a necessary step to stay alive, considering the patient's impossible not to eat so that the intestine is also impossible not to charge food / feces, while there are parts that need healing. What and how the continuation of the colostomy is conditional and individual, each patient has different circumstances so that the handling is not the same.
Palliative Surgery is done in the case of tumor spread widely, with the aim to avoid throwing the primary tumor-induced death of patients with the primary tumor. Sometimes this action is supported chemotherapy could save lives. If the tumor has spread to vital organs of the surgery was technically difficult, so the doctor may choose to bypass surgical technique or fecal diversion (transfer of stool) through the hole. The final choice in the worst condition is an open-and-close, in which doctors open the areas of operations, then the de facto look at the situation is such that it is impossible to do anything more or actions to be taken it does not benefit the patient, then in cover. This action seems to have never done it again now that are already widely available laparoscopic and advanced radiography to detect the presence and condition of cancer long before the necessary surgery.
Non-Surgical Therapy
Chemotherapy is done as an act to reduce the occurrence of metastasis (spread), tumor cell growth, shrink in size, or slow growth. Radiotherapy is rarely used for colon cancer because it has side effects and is difficult to be fired to a specific part of the colon. Radiotherapy more frequently in rectal cancer only. Immunotherapy is being developed as adjunctive therapy for colorectal cancer. Other therapies that have been tested and proved to be very promising vaccine therapy. Discovered in November 2006 and a branded TroVax vaccine proven effective against various cancers. The vaccine works by increasing the patient's immune system to fight the disease. The testing phase is currently targeted for kidney cancer and is scheduled for colon cancer. Other therapies are treatments aimed to overcome the metastases (tumor spread).
Well apart from the above non-surgical therapy, which is equally important is the Supportive Therapy. Diagnosis of cancer is often caused a huge influence on the psyche of the sufferer. Hence the drive from the hospital, doctor, husband / wife, relatives, family, social support group is very important for the sufferer.
An advice:
This section is from me personally, if you or your family is a colon cancer patient, my suggestion is as follows:
A. Do not delay your treatment, just in case you are still included in the category of early stages.
2. Do not despair, in every difficulty there is always a way out.
3. Do not linger trying alternative therapies and thwart a proven medical therapy.
4. I personally believe habbatus Seed (black cumin) as adjunctive therapy for any therapy, especially for cancer issues. Since the first Prophet said: "Verily habbatus Seed is the cure for all diseases except death% u2026 ', and I believe in it. Scientists recently discovered that habbatus brothers have a potent anti-cancer effects
Kamis, 26 Juli 2012
Colon cancer
What is cancer?
Cancer is a group of more than 100 different diseases. They affect the body's basic unit cell. Cancer occurs when cells become abnormal and divide without control or order. Like all other organs of the body, large intestine (colon) and rectum (rectum) is composed of many types of cells. Normally, cells divide to produce more cells only when the body needs them. In an orderly process helps keep us healthy.
If all the cells continue dividing when new cells are not needed, a mass of tissue formed. This mass of extra tissue, called a growth or tumor, can be friendly (harmless) or malignant (dangerous).
Tumors are not cancer-friendly. They can usually be removed and, in many cases, they do not arise again. Most important, cells from tumors do not spread to the friendly other parts of the body. These tumors are rarely a threat to friendly lives.
Malignant tumors are cancer. Cancer cells can invade and damage nearby tissues and organs near the tumor. Also, cancer cells can break off and get out of a malignant tumor and enter the bloodstream or lymphatic system. This is how cancer spreads from the primary tumor to form new tumors in other parts of the body. The spread of tumor is called metastasis.
When cancer spreads to other parts of the body, the new tumor has the same kind of abnormal cells and the same name as the primary cancer. For example, if colon cancer spreads to the liver, the cancer cells in the liver are cells of colon cancer. The disease is colon cancer spread (metastatic colon cancer), so it is not liver cancer.
Definition of Colon Cancer (Colon) and rectum cancer (rectum)
The colon is part of the gastrointestinal tract (digestive system) where the material that is discarded (waste) is stored. Rectum (rectum) is the end of the colon near the rectum (anus). Together, they form a long, muscular tube called the large intestine. Tumors of the colon and rectum are growths that come from the inner wall of the colon. Friendly tumors of the colon called polyps (polyps). Malignant tumors of the large intestine are called cancers. Friendly polyps do not invade adjacent tissue or spread to other parts of the body. Friendly polyps can be removed easily during colonoscopy and are not a threat to life. If the friendly polyps of the colon is not removed, they can become malignant (cancerous) over time. Majority of colon cancers are believed to have developed from polyps. Colon and rectum, also referred to as colorectal cancer (colorectal cancer), can invade and damage tissues and organs nearby. Cancer cells can also break off and go out and spread to other parts of the body (such as liver and lung) where new tumors form. Colon cancer spread to organs far away from it is called metastasis of colon cancer. Once metastasis has occurred in colorectal cancer (colorectal cancer), a full recovery from cancer is not possible.
Globally, cancer of the colon and rectum are the third leading cause of cancer in men and fourth leading cause of cancer in women. The frequency of cancer varies worldwide koloretal. It is common in the western world and is rare in Asia and Africa. In countries where the people have adopted western diets, the incidence of colorectal cancer increases
Cancer is a group of more than 100 different diseases. They affect the body's basic unit cell. Cancer occurs when cells become abnormal and divide without control or order. Like all other organs of the body, large intestine (colon) and rectum (rectum) is composed of many types of cells. Normally, cells divide to produce more cells only when the body needs them. In an orderly process helps keep us healthy.
If all the cells continue dividing when new cells are not needed, a mass of tissue formed. This mass of extra tissue, called a growth or tumor, can be friendly (harmless) or malignant (dangerous).
Tumors are not cancer-friendly. They can usually be removed and, in many cases, they do not arise again. Most important, cells from tumors do not spread to the friendly other parts of the body. These tumors are rarely a threat to friendly lives.
Malignant tumors are cancer. Cancer cells can invade and damage nearby tissues and organs near the tumor. Also, cancer cells can break off and get out of a malignant tumor and enter the bloodstream or lymphatic system. This is how cancer spreads from the primary tumor to form new tumors in other parts of the body. The spread of tumor is called metastasis.
When cancer spreads to other parts of the body, the new tumor has the same kind of abnormal cells and the same name as the primary cancer. For example, if colon cancer spreads to the liver, the cancer cells in the liver are cells of colon cancer. The disease is colon cancer spread (metastatic colon cancer), so it is not liver cancer.
Definition of Colon Cancer (Colon) and rectum cancer (rectum)
The colon is part of the gastrointestinal tract (digestive system) where the material that is discarded (waste) is stored. Rectum (rectum) is the end of the colon near the rectum (anus). Together, they form a long, muscular tube called the large intestine. Tumors of the colon and rectum are growths that come from the inner wall of the colon. Friendly tumors of the colon called polyps (polyps). Malignant tumors of the large intestine are called cancers. Friendly polyps do not invade adjacent tissue or spread to other parts of the body. Friendly polyps can be removed easily during colonoscopy and are not a threat to life. If the friendly polyps of the colon is not removed, they can become malignant (cancerous) over time. Majority of colon cancers are believed to have developed from polyps. Colon and rectum, also referred to as colorectal cancer (colorectal cancer), can invade and damage tissues and organs nearby. Cancer cells can also break off and go out and spread to other parts of the body (such as liver and lung) where new tumors form. Colon cancer spread to organs far away from it is called metastasis of colon cancer. Once metastasis has occurred in colorectal cancer (colorectal cancer), a full recovery from cancer is not possible.
Globally, cancer of the colon and rectum are the third leading cause of cancer in men and fourth leading cause of cancer in women. The frequency of cancer varies worldwide koloretal. It is common in the western world and is rare in Asia and Africa. In countries where the people have adopted western diets, the incidence of colorectal cancer increases
Rabu, 25 Juli 2012
Early Detection of Colorectal Cancer Bes
person, the tumor has been advanced and difficult phase disembuhkanResiko esophageal cancer Colon (Colon Cancer) becomes higher with increasing age. In general medicine, based on statistical data, believes the threat of developing colon cancer begins at age 40 or older, especially for those who live with the diet of modern life.
With increasing age of a person 'is a cancerous threat also increased.
At present there are sophisticated ways to detect the danger of early colon cancer with colonoscopy action.
By using a colonoscope, an expert doctor can examine the entire colon wall carefully to detect the presence of tumors or polyps that if left to the passage of time can turn into malignant tumors (cancer). In developed countries Colonoscopy examination is highly recommended as part of a health test (Check Up) for the aged over 40 years and especially those aged over 50 years to be done every 3-5 years. With can be detected early, can be acted upon before the spreading of malignant tumor that can harm a person's life (death).
With increasing age of a person 'is a cancerous threat also increased.
At present there are sophisticated ways to detect the danger of early colon cancer with colonoscopy action.
By using a colonoscope, an expert doctor can examine the entire colon wall carefully to detect the presence of tumors or polyps that if left to the passage of time can turn into malignant tumors (cancer). In developed countries Colonoscopy examination is highly recommended as part of a health test (Check Up) for the aged over 40 years and especially those aged over 50 years to be done every 3-5 years. With can be detected early, can be acted upon before the spreading of malignant tumor that can harm a person's life (death).
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