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Source: An Original HealthTheater.tv Production/In association with the Dept. of Urology, Weill-Cornell New York Presbyterian Hospital. Credits: Executive Producer:Sean Moloney

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1. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer, other than skin cancers, in American men. It is the second leading cause of cancer death in American men, behind only lung cancer, and accounts for 9% of cancer-related deaths in men. The American Cancer Society estimates that during 2008, about 186,000 new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed in the United States. 30% of prostate cancers occur in men under age 65. About 1 man in 6 will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime, but only 1 man in 35 will die of it. More than 2 million men in the United States who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point are still alive today.

2. Different prostate problems sometimes have similar symptoms. For example, one man with prostatitis and another with BPH may both have a frequent, urgent need to urinate. A man with BPH may have trouble beginning a stream of urine; another may have to urinate frequently at night. Or, a man in the early stages of prostate cancer may have no symptoms at all.

3. One prostate problem does not lead to another. For example, having prostatitis or an enlarged prostate does not increase the chance for prostate cancer. It is true that some men with prostate cancer also have BPH, but the two conditions are not automatically linked. Most men with BPH do not develop prostate cancer. But because the early symptoms for both conditions could be the same, a doctor would need to evaluate them. It is also possible to have more than one condition at a time. This confusing array of potential scenarios makes a case for all men, especially after age 45, to have a thorough medical exam that includes the PSA test and DRE every year.

4. The PSA blood test determines whether you have cancer of the prostate. The test measures how much of a protein essential to human reproduction, PSA (prostate-specific antigen), is in your blood. PSA turns your gelatinous pre-semen into a liquid, thus supporting ejaculation. If your PSA is below 4, most doctors agree that you needn’t be tested again for a year. During annual tests, remember that it is normal for your reading to go up by a few tenths of a point every year. In general, only a drastic increase in PSA (an increase of at least 0.75 points or 20 percent) is considered a reason to worry. This test is recommended on an annual basis for all men over 50 (and for men above 45 if there is a family history of prostate problems)

5. Over 100 million men in the world suffer from symptoms of BPH (Prostate Enlargement). By the time you are 60, there is a 50% chance that you’ll have BPH. By the time you are 85, there is a 90% probability that you’ll have BPH.

6. Prostate Cancer is the second most common cancer in men and the second leading cause of cancer death in men. 1 in 6 men will be diagnosed with Prostate Cancer during their lifetime

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Ovarian cancer is one of the cancers that are found in women. It is the cancer that begins in ovarian of women. But this cancer can be treated if it is found in its initial stage.

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Ovarian cancer is one of the fifth most common cancers found in the women. It is found that many women are diagnosed with this cancer and many women are dieing with this cancer. But this cancer can be healed if it is found in its initial stage with the proper treatment. But this disease is rarely found in its early stage so it is called as silent killer. In many cases this disease is found advanced before it is diagnosed. But now a day it is said that women have signs and symptoms before the disease has spread. So, it is an urge need that to have earlier detection before it leads any danger to us.

This Ovarian cancer is a disease produced by the brisk expansion and separation of cells within one or both ovaries reproductive glands in which the ova, or eggs, and the female sex hormones are made. It is a cancer that mainly affects the middle and upper class women in the industrialized countries as the dietary differs from others.

The most common symptoms of this disease are urinary urgency, bloating, back pain, constipation, abdominal pain creeping and swelling of abdomen, fatigue, feeling of pelvic pressure or discomfort, abnormal vaginal bleeding, leg pain, pain during sexual intercourse, loss of appetite, and others.

There are certain risk factors which may cause ovarian cancer. But if you have one or two risk factors then you are at the risk of ovarian cancer than the average women has. Some of the factors are genetic mutations, family history, age, child bearing status, infertility, ovarian systs and obesity in early childhood, consumption of food which contains high diet regularly and many others.

It is an urge need if you find to meet your doctor or physician if you find any of the above symptoms. The first need is you must have to urge for the first phase of treatment as it may harm you in the future. If the treatment is not satisfied and the there is no relief in it then you should have a follow up for it and ask your doctor for the second opinion. But as already said if you have a family background of this disease then it is a need that you must be aware of it and have a regular check ups when you find any of the symptom and if you don’t get relief from that.

The ovarian cancer can be divided into four stages. So the treatment for this depends on the stages. That is if the patient is at the first stage then it is called as the earliest stage and if he is at the fourth stage then he is at the final stage. There are many kinds of treatment like surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, natural healings, by the intake of natural supplements, usage of herbal products and many others. The surgery, chemotherapy and the radiotherapy are the modern method of curing the chronic disease like cancers.

The surgery cures the disease by removing the cancer causing tissues. The chemotherapy is the treatment in which it destroys the cancer causing cells through strong anti-cancer drugs. The other kind of therapy is the radiotherapy which kills the cancer cells through high energy radiation exposure.

Many people find difficult to accept this statement that the usage of the alternative treatment is not good when the disease reoccurs or the disease reaches the final stage. There are kinds of therapies like homeopathy, acupuncture, massage, aromatherapy, visualization, reflexology and others. At our center we treat this ovarian cancer with dietary supplements which are natural and have no harm. They treat and have made the changes in the patient’s life. You can hear there views about how they had their miraculous improvements with the usage of these medications.

The urge need of getting restore with our healthy health is we should be responsible of our own physical, spiritual and mental well being. It is we and our body’s immune system that heals the sickness that we have got as early as possible. The body is restored to healthy stimulating the immune system through diet, exercise, visualization, relaxation techniques and goal setting. The recovery is not without complications so it can be cured with proper diet, exercise and top resistance factor in warding off cancer cells. Exercise helps the lymphatic system operate efficiently. Our optimal health depends on constantly feeding those cells with proper nutrients. An essential part of cancer survival is keeping the body healthy enough for its immune system to eliminate abnormal cellular growth as it appears.

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Prostate problems have symptoms that are easy to identify. Many of them are caused by the obstruction of the urethra and the loss of bladder function. Symptoms vary with each individual but the most common symptoms involve changes in urination habits. Symptoms include:

A weakened stream of urine, or interrupted stream

Having an urgency to urinate or leaking and dribbling

More frequent urination during the night

Some men who have an enlarged prostate will not suffer any symptoms and others may face serious problems. Some men with an enlarged prostate do not have symptoms, while other men may have symptoms but their prostate is not too large. A man may not know he has a problem until he stops urinating totally. This can happen if he is on an over-the-counter decongestant drug. The drug used in decongestants may prevent the bladder opening to relax to allow the urine to flow out.

Cold temperatures, alcohol, or long periods of inactivity can also cause retention of urine. If you are having any of these symptoms, contact your doctor to have the problem checked. In most cases, the symptoms can point to BPH or enlarged prostate, but sometimes it can mean a more serious condition that may need immediate treatment.

If symptoms are left untreated, more serious complications can be the result. The strain on the bladder and the retention of urine can cause kidney or bladder damage and urinary tract infections. It may lead to the inability to control urination, cause kidney or bladder stones and may resist treatment if not diagnosed early.

Diagnosis can be done with a routine checkup with your doctor. Part of that routine checkup will be a prostate check if you are over the age of 40. The doctor can feel the part of the prostate that is positioned next to the rectum by doing a rectal exam. If the doctor suspects that you may have a problem with your prostate, he/she will probably refer you to an urologist, a specialist in urinary tract problems. The urologist may perform several tests in order to isolate any prostate problems.

Besides the digital rectal exam the doctor may perform a blood test that will show if there is a high number of PSA, a protein made by the prostate gland. If high levels are found it may signal prostate cancer. A PSA test may be given to men who have successfully been treated for prostate cancer. There is a problem with using only a PSA test to discover prostate cancer. High levels of PSA in the blood could signal other benign prostate conditions.

Other tests to check for prostate cancer are a rectal ultrasound. A probe inserted into the rectum sends sound waves at the prostate gland and then displays the prostate on a screen. If the prostate looks unusual a needle biopsy can be done during the ultrasound. The needle picks up a few tiny pieces of the prostate gland and the doctor, or, more likely a specialist, can examine them under a microscope. Your doctor will help you decide further tests that you may need.

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Your friend is extremely young for an ovarian carcinoma.
How sure are you of the diagnosis?

Has she been on combination chemotherapy for these last 5-6 months?
I can’t believe they would give up on a 27 year old woman without trying all of the different chemotherapy regimens we have for ovarian carcinomas.

Where is the metastatic disease?
Liver? Lungs? Intraperitonal? Retroperitoneal lymph nodes?
If she does not have liver involvement, we would not expect to see the jaundice and liver failure that "globe trotter" describes.

What you describe is a person still in good health without weight loss and not appearing sick. It sure would help if we knew where her metastatic (stage IV) ovarian cancer is located. She must have had CT scans of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis.

And it would help to know what treatment she has received.
Did she have optimal debulking surgery? What chemotherapy has been tried?

By the way, doctors do not "give" people set amounts of time to live.
I know what you mean, but that phrase always bothers me – as if doctors decided the fates of patients. When doctors are pushed to make predictions, we are usually wrong. No one knows the future for any one person. We only provided statistics based on many other people who have had similar situations. Yet each patient is different.

It does not sound like she is within 6 months of death from the description you provide.

If she allows it, you might go with her when she sees her medical oncologist. That way you can hear what is really going on from a medical professional who knows all the details of her case details we do not have here.

From http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/255771-overview
Ovarian carcinomas are uncommon in patients younger than 40 years.
Most cases are diagnosed in the 60 to 70 age group.

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Inflammatory Breast Cancer is a rare type of breast cancer. Unlike more common breast cancer types, Inflammatory Breast Cancer appears as a rash or infection instead of a lump in the breast. M. D. Anderson is home to a clinic for women with inflammatory breast cancer (IBC), believed to be the first such clinic in the world. The Inflammatory Breast Cancer Clinic accepts patients who are newly diagnosed or previously treated, and offers the most innovative treatments currently available.

MD Anderson Cancer Center is currently conducting clinical trials and research in hopes of finding new treatment options for this rapid growing, and difficult to treat disease. For more information contact MD Anderson at 1-877-MDA-6789

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Only an experienced medical practitioner can detect the exact type of cancer, since the symptoms for all three types are mostly similar. Wrong diagnosis often proves fatal as it further delays the treatment. Shortness of breath, difficulty in swallowing, hoarseness, building up of extra fluid between the pleura, pain in chest, abdomen, shoulder or arm, tiredness, fever, loss of weight and appetite are the symptoms of pleural mesothelioma.

Depending of the seriousness of the disease, the symptoms may vary from person to person. About 90% of the patients experience chest pain and shortness of breath, 84% suffer pleural effusion and less than 30% bear weight loss. It should also be noted that around 3% of the patients remain without any symptoms.

 Peritoneal mesothelioma patients experience weight loss, pain or swelling in the abdomen, obstruction of bowels, high fever etc. Here also some patients may not experience all these symptoms but some others may witness some additional mesothelioma symptom also. Pericardial mesothelioma symptoms are chest pain of varying degrees, persistent coughing, high fatigue without any physical activity etc.

 Identifying the symptoms and understanding it in the genuine perspective is the primary step for deciding up on an appropriate treatment system. Since mesothelioma symptom usually appears once the person has passed his fresh stage, it can prove a serious hurdle in the way of a cure. The surgeon should identify the type and stage of cancer correctly and the treatment process should be started in earnest. Surgery can be used to get rid of the cancer if it is limited to a selected region. Complicated stages may need chemotherapy and radiation, though results aren’t always positive. If it is located that the patient doesn’t respond to the treatment definitely, then palliative treatment is done. Here the symptoms are treated, not the cause.

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