Even with the use of registries to share medical procedures, treatment methods, and medical information, cancer remains a major cause of death in the United Says. Is there any real benefit to the purpose behind developing and maintaining this large collection of data in the cancer registries? Are they apt to errors?
Answer: There’s always a […]
Is it a very painful, unbearable death like AIDS?
I was just wondering, thanks.
Answer: When they’d first discovered HIV/AIDS in the 1980's, they thought it was a cancer amoung homosexual men. Now we know it is a disease that everyone can get.
AIDS does not disciminate. It does not care about your race or how young […]
Jon - a “spatula” is a flat thin implement used especially for spreading or mixing soft substances, scooping, or lifting - commonly used in the kitchen during food preparation.
If you meant “patella.” that is a thick flat triangular movable bone that forms the anterior point of the knee and protects the front of the joint […]
No, it isn’t true. While there are circumstantial studies that advocate green tea, raspberries, strawberries, and blackberries can lower the risks of acquiring oral cancer. There is no evidence that there is anything you can eat or drink as a method of treating or killing oral cancer.
The most common treatment for oral cancer […]
i dont know if it officially does but i have red stories about people gettting aspertame poisoning and i know when i drink things with aspertame in them, i get achy and lethargic, but for different people it has different effects
Answer: No — but the plastic bottle it came in might.
Answer: nothing has been proven […]
High prolactin level itself does not cause cancer. But some tumor secrete/cause high prolactin. These tumors are not necessarily cancerous.
Pituitary adenoma (prolactin producing adenoma) is associated with high prolactin. Some other benign conditions can cause increased prolactin level such as liver cirrhosis etc.
High prolactin might cause breast secretion and cessation (lack) of periods.
Answer: No, it […]
My son just had a brain scan after a concussion, and all was normal except for this result
Answer: Whew! That is what you want to see on an xray! Sorta.
Artifact, when speaking about radiology, is an imperfection in the picture. If your son moved, if the film got exposed, or something like that, they would […]
My last post on this. I am 26 8 mo ago dr. felt lump in my neck. Had an ultrasound and the lump was ,arked as a 1 cm solid noudle on thyroid. Well I had a thyroid scan and it was normal as well as normal bloodwork.
So dr. stated it mustn’t be on […]
she wont get the colostmy bag what are her chances of survival?
Answer: I'm 20 and have a colostomy bag after surgery for colon cancer. It's due to get reversed in a few weeks. If it is strongly suggested by her docs, she should have one.
I'm not going to lie, it is difficult to get […]
I've recent read an article linking anti persperant deodorant to breast cancer, is this true?
Answer: There’s no evidence that links antiperspirants to breast cancer.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/MED/conten…