Archive for June, 2008

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Jun

Cervical cancer??

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A friend of mine has to have a biopsy done in about a month and she's super nervous. She said the doctor says that when they take a piece of her cervix out(the possibly cancerous part) that the cervix will regenerate it self making whole again and generally the cancerous cells will be gone. […]

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4
Jun

What is chemotherapy?

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Chemotherapy is the use of medicines (or drugs) to treat disease. Sometimes this treatment is called just “chemo.” Although surgery and radiation therapy remove, destroy, or damage cancer cells in a specific area, chemotherapy works throughout the whole body. Chemotherapy can destroy cancer cells that have metastasized (spread) to parts of the body far away […]

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4
Jun

That's what my friend's dr. stated. Is that unusual for esophageal cancer and a spot on the liver? Thanks so very much.
Answer: I'm not familiar with this particular cancer so I can't answer your first question but as for your second . . .Treatment side effects and the management of them has improved […]

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4
Jun

is it superior in the back pocket?
Answer: I've checked the subject. A cell phone radiates, and though there’s still a wide debate as to what this radiation does to the body exactly, there is no doubt that it affects live tissue.rnnrnnThe thing about radiation is that it diminishes in a square proportion to the distance, […]

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4
Jun

My dads ideal friend, my Uncle Frank has been diagnosed with Oesophageal Cancer. It is a very massive tumour and so they gave him a CAT Scan and he has told us that is 'in both lungs and four other ''hotspots''…..' He has also had lazer treatment on his gullet so that he […]

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4
Jun

I’m naturally light-haired, light-skinned, and have greenish-blue eyes. rnnrnnWhen I was young, I got some sunburns, but no extreme, blistering ones. I didn't go out much in the sun as a teen and young adult; didn't like it. Got most of my sun in the last 20 years.rnnrnnHave been diagnosed, in the past, with squamous […]

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4
Jun

well im 15 1/2 and i've noticed a bump kind of under my sack. not exactly under,its more or so to the right. is it even possible that its prostate cancer since im just 15? i was hoping it was just a pimple o somthing but its been there for i guess 3 days give […]

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4
Jun

So I’ve an uncle who moved to Hawaii a couple years ago and is exposed to the direct sun at least 8-10 hrs per day. Anyhow, everytime he visits, he just looks tanned or sunburned…but last week, when he came back to Cali, his skin just looked extremely red and not like himself, so I […]

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4
Jun

Melanoma question?

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my mom has stage 3 melanoma and she is going through chemo. she just walked past me and she was wearing a tank top and i noticed a massive lump under her skin, she didn't even know it was there. not a mole or anything, but it looked like the size or a baseball, in […]

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4
Jun

1: I’ve a lump under my nipple that’s like a disk with a dent in it. It hurts a tiny when I apply a small amount of pressure on it. I heard it is normal, is it? rnn2: I also have two bumps on the right side of my neck that appered about a week […]

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