Archive for the ‘Cancer’ Category
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TUMOR RECURRENCE AND TAMOXIFEN RESISTANCE: WHAT DOES IT MEAN IF THE DOCTOR SAYS MY BREAST CANCER IS NOW DRUG RESISTANT?
Drug resistance is a term used to describe a condition in which cells are able to survive despite drug therapy. There are at least two forms of resistance. In the first variety, called innate resistance, tumor cells are resistant even before any drugs have been given. This kind of resistance is usually not typical of [...]
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THE CAUSE OF CANCER: ANALYTICAL STUDIES
In the performance of analytical studies epidemiologists move from the demanding chores of collecting accurate information into the realms of designing studies that seek to answer important individual questions about the causes of cancer. In this area they will usually have an idea to test – a hypothesis about some possible causative factor. The focus [...]
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BREAST FEEDING AND HORMONE DISRUPTERS – INVISIBLE DANGERS
To sum it all up, the womb experience is now fraught with many invisible dangers. The undeniable toxic exposure in utero to synthetic hormones, petrochemicals, organochlorines found in pesticides, fungicides, herbicides and insecticides, along with the new members to the club such as phthalates, nonylphenol and bisphenol-A, pose a grave risk to the developing fetus. [...]
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THE ONGOING CONTROVERSY OVER THE TAMOXIFEN CHEMOPREVENTION TRIAL: WHAT WERE THE RESULTS OF CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS ON THE STUDY?
In testimony before several congressional subcommittees formed in October 1992 to review the safety of the tamoxifen trial, opponents expressed their concerns about both the design of the research and the ethics of performing such a study in healthy women. After the first round of hearings, anxiety was expressed over the informed-consent process which is [...]
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YOUR CANCER YOUR LIFE – STAGES OF CANCER
Doctors have developed a sort of shorthand method for describing how extensive a cancer seems to be. We call this the stage of the cancer. For most cancers there are four stages. Here are the essential things which determine the stage of a cancer. I won’t go into details, but for each type there are [...]