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Symptoms of head and neck cancer vary according to location:

- Lips and mouth could see or feel a lump, an open wound, a bleeding area, a patch with an abnormal white or red pigmentation inside the mouth or lip. There may be persistent sore throat, ear pain, discomfort when chewing or swallowing, or jaw inflamed (swollen).

- Throat and larynx: symptoms include hoarseness, pain or difficulty swallowing, pain in the neck, jaw or ear, a lump or swelling in the neck or a feeling of obstruction in the throat.

- Salivary glands: the most common symptom is a slow growing lump on the cheek, under the chin, on the tongue or the palate. Sometimes the lump causes pain. Read the rest of this entry »

The head and neck cancer begins with abnormal cell growth. These cancer cells multiply uncontrollably forming a tumor. As the tumor grows, it can form a lump, a sore, a surface patch of abnormal tissue and colorless or white. Without treatment, the tumor can invade and destroy nearby bones and soft tissues. Finally, you can spread (metastasize) to lymph nodes in the neck and other body organs.

In many cases, the head and neck cancer are caused by carcinogens, substances that cause cancer.

Such substances include chemicals found in smoke snuff, snuff in smokeless (chewing) and snuff snuff. Alcohol abuse or alcoholism may also contribute to head and neck cancer. The disease is especially prevalent in those who smoke and drink alcohol. In addition to the following classification, the head and neck cancer includes the classification of cancers of the larynx (voice box), soft palate and hard palate and salivary gland tumors, including the parotid glands. Read the rest of this entry »

Patients tend to lose the urge to eat and suffer side effects that increase the lack of appetite

As cancer treatment goes, know what to eat becomes more significant. The chapters of nausea and vomiting are almost certain. The unwillingness and episodes of diarrhea occur, can also form sores in the mouth and develop disorders of taste and smell. Are side effects that become more or less as a result of chemotherapy or radiotherapy.

In this period the diet becomes crucial. The dietary recommendations may be different from those appropriate for the healthy population, not because the recommended foods, discouraged or prohibited, for the quantities of certain ingredients. Patients undergoing treatment have to eat foods rich in calories and protein. If the general public should avoid obesity, a person with cancer should try not to lose weight. Read the rest of this entry »

Although there are few studies that examine how these variables affect the survival rate of people who have had cancer, some studies have linked weight gain after diagnosis with increased mortality in women who have had breast cancer. By contrast, an isolated body weight of overweight and obesity would be associated with better survival.

The “Guidelines recommendation of diet and physical activity” includes tips for choosing foods and beverages that help achieve and maintain a healthy weight. The basic dietary changes are: Read the rest of this entry »

In a recent paper published by the American Dietetic Association (ADA), discusses what the scientific evidence regarding the recommendations related to diet and physical activity aimed at this sector of the population. Most studies associate a protective role for fruit and vegetable intake.

More generally, the so-called “prudent diet” rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, poultry and fish, appears to reduce the risk of mortality in patients diagnosed with breast cancer.

Deserve special attention to the recommendations in relation to nutritional supplements (antioxidants, vitamins, etc..). Information concerning the United States indicate that 52% of the population consumed these products and, among survivors of cancer, this percentage rises to 64-81%. Read the rest of this entry »

Increased access to fruits and vegetables allow people adopt and maintain healthy eating behaviors are key to successfully preventing and overcoming cancer

Having had a cancer associated with a series of long-term consequences, both psychological and physical. Of these measures included, among the most common, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and other endocrine disorders, osteoporosis and osteopenia.

It is known that people who have had cancer die more often from cardiovascular disease than the rest of the population. Thus, nutritional interventions based on scientific evidence and which seek prevention and treatment of these consequences are necessary once the disease. Read the rest of this entry »

Chemotherapy is one of the methods used to combat leukemia and, in general, all types of cancer. Involves the application of specific drugs intensively. Used more than 50 different drugs to prevent the growth, multiplication and dissemination of cancer cells. Usually performed before surgery, but also combined with surgery and radiotherapy. His prescription arises through the application of advanced technology and complex chemical mixtures, but things do not enough if the chemotherapy fails to materialize in the precise dose.

Not everyone absorbs the chemicals at the same speed. Today scientists are working especially in the doses specified.

According to a study by American researchers, leukemia can be treated more efficiently with a new chemotherapy merits.
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Many types of cancer, but more common in Honduras is the cervix, then the breast, which are being watched at a younger age, later the ovary and endometrium are less frequent.

In this context he said that early detection is the most important because by detecting early stage cancer is virtually ensuring his life because if it is detected in intermediate or advanced stage the prognosis of life five years severely affected, this added to the tedious chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

“My message is that cancer does not give a second chance and therefore my advice is early detection, to have the culture of going to medical checkups to diagnose at an earlier stage and offer a more optimal,” said Dr. José Manuel Palomo, gynecologic oncologist.

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It is worrying to see how each day increases the number of deaths due to dreaded cancer, but more worrying is that this disease is currently diagnosed at a younger age.

Dr. José Manuel Palomo, gynecologic oncologist, said that this phenomenon is partly due to neglect of the people by the lack of a preventive level, because in our culture there is to see a doctor early on but when it occurs any symptoms, what cancer means an intermediate or advanced in most cases is not operable.

He noted that each type of cancer has different origins, such as cancer of the cervix may be due to the onset of early intercourse, multiple sexual partners, not using protection and different ways of sex, factors that increase the incidence Vaginal infections at an event is the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) that is responsible for 98% of cervical cancer.

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Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States. The two types of common skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma have a high chance of cure. However, the melanoma, the third type of common skin cancer is more dangerous, especially in young people. Most melanomas are caused by exposure to ultraviolet (UV) rays from sunlight or tanning beds.

Data on the global epidemic of skin cancer:

About 65.161 people die every year because of the sun, the majority of malignant skin cancers.

It is estimated that about 160,000 new cases of melanoma each year. Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer, causing an estimated 48,000 deaths annually.

Two to three million cases of skin cancer other than melanoma (predominantly basal and squamous cell carcinoma) are diagnosed each year.

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