We all know that cancer treatments are performed to kill or remove cancer cells and tumors. The most common cancer treatments are chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation. They all are quite effective in many ways and are still used by top medical experts worldwide. Furthermore, two immunologists, Tasuku Honjo and James P. Allison, were awarded the…
When it comes to eating healthy food, people think it is only for weight reduction. Even after being so skinny, people always ask me why are you having a salad for lunch? And my reply is as simple and healthy as my food: I don’t eat a salad to be slim; I eat a salad…
We all live in a world where pollution, stress, unhealthy lifestyle is extremely common. It happens because we have extreme work pressure and don’t have enough time for ourselves. Also, people don’t even have enough time to talk to their dear ones. Due to these high-speed life habits, the figure of deadly extremity victims especially…
Cancer is a life-threatening disease that brings a lot of difficulties in one’s life. However, when cancer is diagnosed in its initial stage, it doesn’t cause as many problems and gets treated easily. But when cancer reaches its final stage, it brings severe life risks. Cancer extremities treatment also causes some side effects. Targeted therapy…
Cancer is regarded as one of the confusing and hard to understand diseases. Most of the time, it gets a bit trickier to understand what exactly is happening in the body and when it comes to blood cancer, it becomes more challenging to decipher it. Blood cancers are the worst. The malignancy affects the blood…
Cancer is a disease in which the body cells grow uncontrollably and spread to several parts of the body. It is pretty scary to know that age is one of the most significant risk factors for this malignancy. The risk of the disease increases considerably after the age of 50, while studies reveal that half…
People often use terms such as HIV and AIDS together, but they have different meanings. In simple terms, HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a type of virus that damages the immune system. At the same time, AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) is a severe, life-threatening disease caused by HIV. Let us talk more about the virus…
Skin, the largest organ of the human body, protects us from infections, injuries and helps to modulate the body temperature. Also, the organ stores water and fat and is responsible for producing vitamin D. You might have studied in your school that skin is made up of three layers, i.e., the epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis.…
A pancreaticoduodenectomy is another name for the Whipple procedure. Most cancer patients know what is a Whipple procedure as it is the most common surgical treatment for pancreatic cancer that has spread to the gland’s head. In this procedure, the pancreatic head, duodenum, and a section of the intestine, gallbladder, and accompanying lymph nodes are…
People with breast cancer can choose between total removal of a breast (mastectomy) or breast-conserving surgery (lumpectomy) followed by radiation in specific conditions. For people with only one side of cancer in the breast and a tumor less than four centimeters, a lumpectomy followed by radiotherapy is likely to be as beneficial as mastectomy. It…