In oncology the earlier the disease is diagnosed and the sooner treatment is started, the more favorable is the prognosis and better are survival rates. This is why several well known scientific centers and hundreds of modern medical scientists are trying to identify...
Tumor markers for ovarian cancer are very important and the most known once are CA-125 and HE4. Scientists tested several markers and few combinations of tumor markers and they noted that the combination of two markers CA-125 and HE4 can be considered as the best...
Cancer is the second leading killer after heart disease. Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women – every VI-VIII woman suffers from breast cancer. Modern medicine can treat breast cancer very successfully MOSTLY if breast cancer is diagnosed at very...
Endometrial cancer diagnosis, prevention and treatment can be complicated. Modern medicine developed diagnostic tests and effective methods of treatment which can insure long survival rates. Pelvic examination is frequently normal, especially in the early stages of...
Pap-test is recognized as the most popular test for cervical cancer. According to health experts, Pap-test helps to reduce women risks of cervical cancer. Pap test is a simple test used to look at cervical cells. Pap tests can find cervical cancer or abnormal cells...
Ovarian cancer (so called “silent killer”) is one of the most deadly diseases of women – it doesn’t show any specific symptoms at the beginning and it is very aggressive. As diagnosis is very difficult, better to concentrate on possible prevention strategies. Ovarian...
According to scientists, we all have a small amount of cancerous cells (malformed cells) in the body. Actually the cancerous cells are basically normal cells that have been “attacked” and transform at the genetic level by different types of stressors including...
Cancerous cells and tumors often produce a specific protein in the blood that can serve as a tumor marker for the cancer. Circulating tumor cells are cells that break off from the cancer and move into the blood stream – protein markers and circulating tumor...
During last decades the number of mobile users has increased rapidly. In general, the total number of mobile subscriptions all over the world is estimated by ITU (International Telecommunications Union) to be about 5 billion. This number is still growing every day. At...
Unfortunately sisters of women with breast cancer have higher risk of getting same cancer forever – higher than average risk of breast cancer. This increased breast cancer risk lasts a lifetime for breast cancer sisters. But only about 13% of women diagnosed...
Breast cancer is always a dramatic stress for woman but it is also pretty stressful for family members. But nobody in the family can feel the same emotional and physical suffer as woman with breast cancer. This is why thousands of breast cancer societies and...
Breast cancer is one of most dangerous diseases women could have. Unfortunately sometimes symptoms of breast cancer appear too late and only screening mammography can discover cancerous small tumor. But in most cases women don’t pay attention to signs which are...
Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women. Mammography is very common test for breast screening programs – it is actually X-ray of the breast (two X-ray pictures of each breast). This screening tool is used for breast cancer detection and precise...
Early breast cancer diagnosis can save lives and insure effective treatment and high survival rates. This why, it is very important to know all possible breast cancer tests. Breast cancer screening tests are used to find breast cancer before it trigger obvious...
Screening mammogram can save women lives – it is usually used for breast cancer early diagnosis. Earlier breast cancer is discovered, higher is treatment success and survival rates. Mammogram is the X-ray picture of the breast – it can identify not only cancer but...
