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| | Childhood Cancer |
 | | The cancer treatment team can guide patients and their families through the pain, uncertainty, and disruptions caused by cancer. | | | Once cancer has been diagnosed, it is important for parents to seek help for their child at a medical center that specializes in pediatric oncology, or treatment for childhood cancer. | | | The duration of chemotherapy treatment and type of drugs that are used depend on the type of cancer the child has and his or her response to the drugs. |
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| | National Cancer Institute - Cancer: Questions and Answers |
| | Cancer can be treated with surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, hormones, and/or biological therapy (see Question 5). | | | Cancer treatment can include surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, and biological therapy. | | | Patients who take medications for cancer pain, as prescribed by their doctor, rarely become addicted to them. |
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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Cancer |
| | For example, lung cancer can cause coughing, shortness of breath, or chest pain, while colon cancer often causes diarrhea, constipation, and blood in the stool. | | | If the cancer is confined to one location and has not spread, the goal for treatment would be surgery and cure. | | | Cancer screenings, such as mammography and breast examination for breast cancer and colonoscopy for colon cancer, may help catch these cancers at their early, most treatable stages. |
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| | What Is Cancer? |
| | The sooner cancer is found and treatment begins, the better someone's chances are for a full recovery and cure. | | | Cancer is actually a group of many related diseases that all have to do with cells. | | | Cancer is treated with surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation- or sometimes a combination of these treatments. |
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| | Cancer |
| | Studies that seemed to show a correlation had not been corrected for age; penile cancer is a disease of old men, and the old men with cancer in the studies had simply been born at a time when circumcision was less customary than when the younger men without cancer were born. | | | But the damage was done, and cervical cancer in partners entered the mythology as yet another "reason" to circumcise babies. | | | As a cancer risk, it is at least twice as dangerous to have intact labia as an intact foreskin. |
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| | WHO Cancer |
| | Cancer control is a public health approach aimed at reducing causes and consequences of cancer by translating our knowledge into practice. | | | Lung, colorectal and stomach cancer are among the five most common cancers in the world for both men and women. | | | Cancer is the uncontrolled growth and spread of cells that may affect almost any tissue of the body. |
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| | Cancer (medicine) - MSN Encarta |
| | Cancer rates also vary globally—residents of the United States, for example, are nearly three times as likely to develop cancer than are residents of Egypt. | | | The sooner cancer is found and treated, the better a patient’s chance for survival. | | | Cancer develops in almost any organ or tissue of the body, but certain types of cancer are more lethal than others. |
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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Breast cancer |
| | For stage I, II, or III cancers, the main considerations are to adequately treat the cancer and prevent a recurrence either at the place of the original tumor (local) or elsewhere in the body (metastatic). | | | Breast cancer is a malignant (cancerous) growth that begins in the tissues of the breast. | | | Chemotherapy is often used to kill cancer cells that may still remain in the breast or that may have already spread to other parts of the body. |
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| | Cancer: Information from WebMD |
| | If you have cancer, be it lung, bone, skin, gynecological, testicular or any other type, we want to support you in your daily struggle against your illness. | | | Your cancer, your cure: Learn about all the latest treatment options | | | Decide which breast cancer treatment options are right for you. |
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http://www.webmd.com/diseases_and_conditions/cancer.htm
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| | Open Directory - Health: Conditions and Diseases: Cancer |
| | Cancer Story - PBS series provides details about cancer in terms the average person can understand. | | | ErbituxChat - Users of this targeted therapy can share tips and experiences using Erbitux for cancer therapy. | | | Cancer Dictionary and Acronyms - Terminology and abbreviations presented in a searchable format. |
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http://dmoz.org/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Cancer
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| | Cancer Center - MayoClinic.com |
| | Cancer basics: What is cancer and why does it occur? | | | Get the basics on cancer — what it is, how it acts and how it can be prevented. | | | Cancer resources and cancer research for a range of cancer treatments. |
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| | Cancer - New York State Department of Health |
| | The number of cancer cases has risen dramatically over the past 40 years, but much of this increase is a reflection of the increase in population, especially in the older age groups. | | | Cancer is a group of more than 100 different diseases that are due to abnormal growth of body cells. | | | Researchers do not fully understand why some people develop cancer while others do not. |
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| | Cancer |
| | A good cancer support group could be of critical importance for your quality of life. | | | Here is what we would do to find the best cancer treatment. | | | To help a cancer patient quickly, easily maximize the chance for long term survival and good quality of life, we have uniquely organized a group of cancer doctors, researchers, survivors and caregivers to develop this information guide. |
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| | cancerfacts.com. |
| | This online resource for cancer patients, their families, and caregivers is dedicated to delivering accurate and personalized information at a time of need. | | | The NexProfiler™ Tools for Cancer help people with cancer make informed treatment decisions for an optimal outcome. | | | Learn how others are coping with cancer -- and share your story |
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| | Cancer |
| | Metastatic malignant melanoma is an extremely aggressive cancer with no current viable therapy. | | | Bladder cancer, a cancer that develops mainly in older adults, is the fourth most frequently diagnosed cancer in men. | | | For decades, standard treatment for cancer has consisted of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. |
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| | Stomach cancer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Biologic therapy is still in the testing stages for stomach cancer. | | | Cancer of the stomach is difficult to cure unless it is found in an early stage (before it has begun to spread). | | | Stomach cancer also may spread to distant organs, such as the lungs, the lymph nodes above the collar bone, and the ovaries. |
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| | Cancer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Cancer can be treated by surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy or other methods. | | | Cancer research is the intense scientific effort to understand disease processes and discover possible therapies. | | | Although all practicing doctors have the therapeutic skills to control pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, hemorrhage and other common problems in cancer patients, the multidisciplinary specialty of palliative care has arisen specifically in response to the symptom control needs of this group of patients. |
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| | Duodenal cancer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Duodenal cancer is difficult to remove surgically because of the area that it resides in, there are many blood vessels supplying the lower body. | | | A 'Whipple' is a possible surgery that is tried sometimes with this cancer. | | | Duodenal cancer is a cancer in the beginning section of the small intestine (see small bowel cancer). |
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| | Glossary |
| | This is a valuable test to determine if cancer has spread to the bone, if anticancer therapy has been successful, and if affected bony areas are healing. | | | To spread from the first cancer site, for example, breast cancer that spreads to the bone. | | | Cancer arising from the skin or the surfaces of other structures, such as the mouth, cervix, or lungs. |
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| | Thyroid cancer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This form of thyroid cancer has a very poor prognosis (near 100% mortality) due to its aggressive behavior and resistance to cancer treatments. | | | It is also the predominant cancer type in children with thyroid cancer, and in patients with thyroid cancer who have had previous radiation to the head and neck (in this group, the cancer tends to be multifocal with early lymphatic spread, and portends a poor prognosis). | | | Masses of the thyroid are diagnosed by fine needle aspiration (FNA) or frequently by thyroidectomy (surgical removal and subsequent pathological examination). |
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| | Gastric cancer - definition of Gastric cancer in Encyclopedia |
| | Many people who have cancer want to learn all they can about the disease and their treatment choices so they can take an active part in decisions about their medical care. | | | Cancer of the stomach is difficult to cure unless it is found in an early stage (before it has begun to spread). | | | When cancer spreads to another part of the body, the new tumor has the same kind of abnormal cells and the same name as the primary tumor. |
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| | Endometrial cancer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Transvaginal ultrasound to evaluate the endometrial thickness in women with postmenopausal bleeding is increasingly being used to evaluate for endometrial cancer. | | | Endometrial carcinoma is surgically staged using the FIGO cancer staging system. | | | The incidence of endometrial cancer in women in the U.S. is 1 % to 2 %. |
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| | Colorectal cancer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The stage of a cancer is usually quoted as a number I,II,III,IV derived from the TNM value grouped by prognosis; a higher number indicates a more advanced cancer and a likely worse outcome. | | | Cancers on the right side (ascending colon and cecum) tend to be exophytic, that is the tumour grows outwards from one location in the bowel wall. | | | Radiotherapy is not used routinely in colorectal cancer, as it could lead to radiation enteritis, and is difficult to target specific portions of the colon, but may be used on metastatic tumor deposits if they compress vital structures and/or cause pain. |
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| | ACS :: Cancer |
| | The objective of CANCER is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of information among oncologic disciplines concerned with the etiology and course of human cancer. | | | Please note that clicking on any of the links to CANCER Online will take you to a Web site to which our Privacy Policy does not apply. | | | M.D., Ph.D. CANCER is a peer-reviewed publication of the American Cancer Society integrating scientific information from worldwide sources for all oncologic specialties. |
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| | Cancer of the larynx - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | People with cancer of the larynx often want to take an active part in making decisions about their medical care. | | | Staging is a careful attempt to learn whether the cancer has spread and, if so, to what parts of the body. | | | The cancer cells can also spread to the back of the tongue, other parts of the throat and neck, the lungs, and other parts of the body. |
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| | Neoplasms |
| | CancerBACUP, including among other things, a section on Cancer Treatments | | | Medical imaging techniques used in cancer management - MedicineWorld.org | | | Cancer Mondial (incidence, mortality, etc. data), and Press Releases from IARC - (FR) |
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| | Latest Eye Cancer Treatments |
| | Each Cancer Group Review represents the most advanced and up-to-date information about the condition from trustworthy medical sources. | | | We've created an extensive library of over 120 patient information Cancer Group Reviews to help answer all of your questions about a specific chronic or life-threatening condition. | | | Eye Cancer although rare, is a very deliberating disease. |
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