I wrote the following last year for one of my favorite magazines, BARK (the inventors of “Dog is my co-pilot”). With the holidays once again upon us, I thought I’d toss this information out into cyberspace as a timely reminder to avoid overindulging our dogs!
‘Tis the season for family gatherings, gift giving, and food galore. Veterinarians know that this is also the season for canine pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas), a painful, potentially life-threatening condition most... Read Full Story
What are Mesothelioma Cancers? Mesothelioma cancers are the cancers that spread in the mesothelium tissues. Mesothelium in general is the name of tissue that forms lining of different body organs such as heart, lungs, abdomen and reproductive organs. The lining around abdominal organs is known as peritoneal membrane. Lining around lungs is called pleural membrane while the lining around heart is called pericardium. These linings perform two functions. They protect the internal organs by... Read Full Story
Mesothelioma is serious cancer and asbestos is main cause. During in 1940 and 1950s constructions community used asbestos as the best thing to happen after cement for construction industry. Asbestos was applied greatly in insulator and ceiling tiles in homes, schools and factories because to high degree of stability and resistance to very high temperatures. Nonetheless, asbestos is capable of causing harm, contaminant. It has trend to break into small parts and remain stay in the air for... Read Full Story
BOSTON (Reuters) - Researchers in Italy said on Wednesday they have developed a test that identifies most people with autoimmune pancreatitis, which could make it easier for doctors to distinguish it from pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest types of cancer. But the method is not perfect. While it gave a correct diagnosis in 94 percent of cases, 5 percent of people with pancreatic cancer falsely tested positive for the less-serious inflammatory condition. "Therefore (it) cannot be used... Read Full Story
The location, stage of the disease along with the paitent's age and general health all play a role in determining the treatment of mesothelioma. Options for treatement generally include surgery, radiation therapy and chemo therapy. Surgery is a common treatment for mesothelioma. The doctor may remove part of the lining of the chest or abdomen and some of the tissue around it. For cancer of the pleura ( pleural mesothelioma ), a lung may be removed in an operation called a pneumonectomy... Read Full Story
Your lungs remove carbon dioxide from your blood before enriching it with oxygen and sending it back to your heart. If cells within any of the lobes develop abnormally, they can become cancerous. If lung cancer (LC) forms, it can spread throughout the rest of your body.
One of the challenges of this disease is that symptoms do not manifest in a quarter of diagnosed cases. The affliction is identified through a routine computerized tomography scan or chest X-rays. The problem is that by... Read Full Story
Symptoms of lung cancer are varied depending on where and how and how widespread is tumor formation. The warning signs are sometimes hard to identify or even nonexistent. Lung cancer may have the following types of symptoms: -without symptoms - around 25% of people ill in the early phase present no symptoms. The disease can be discovered in a routine (a ray or a CT scan), the tumor may be the size of a coin. -appearance of the faction of the tumor and its tendency to develop metastases to... Read Full Story
This form of mesothelioma cancer is less common than the pleural form but is more aggressive, resulting severe symptoms and short life expectancy. Like many other cancers, peritoneal mesothelioma can also be either malignant or benign. ... Each year, approximately 2000 new cases of mesothelioma are diagnosed. At some point of their lives, the patients of mesothelioma have been exposed to asbestos that later cause the hideous cancer of mesothelioma . ... Read Full Story
Most often bones are the locations of tumors that are the consequence of metastasis of the cancer present in another organ like the breasts, lungs or the prostate. Cancers that originate in the bone such as primary bone cancer are quite rare occurrences.
Bone tumors could be benign or malignant in nature. Benign bone tumors are more prevalent, however both kinds could proliferate leading to compression of healthy, normal bone tissue and sop up or substitute it with anomalous tissues... Read Full Story
Mesothelioma is a very aggressive cancer that is caused by exposure to asbestos . About 20 percent of cases of cancer caused by asbestos , peritoneal mesothelioma . This form of cancer occurs in the mesothelial cells of the abdomen, ... Read Full Story
