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Breast Cancer

How high incidence rates of breast cancer?

The incidence rate of breast cancer is a malignant tumor occupying the whole body of 7% -10%. Women in their lifetime probability of breast cancer reached 10%. Around the world each year about 1.2 million people with breast cancer. 400,000 people died due to breast cancer, the death rate per year increased 2% -3%, incidence rate per year increased 0.2% -8%.

Any danger of breast cancer?

1. Threaten the lives and health of women.

2. Risk of cancer metastasis.

3. Have the possibility of recurrence of cancer.

4. Cause atrophy of muscles in the arms and upper limb.

What Are The Causes of Breast Cancer?

Factors such as infertility, parity bit, the old age of menopause, premature puberty, history of benign breast disease, family history of breast cancer, oral contraceptives, radiation exposure has certainly nothing to do with breast cancer.

The cause of breast cancer can not be completely confirmed, several factors that have been demonstrated is still a matter of controversy. The hormone estrogen before and after menopause become a significant factor stimulates breast cancer. Besides genetics, diet and mental closely related to the occurrence of breast cancer.

Breast Cancer Symptoms, What's It?

1. One side feels slightly sore breasts or one side of your back feel stiff and uncomfortable.

2. At the palpable breast lump feels there peanut painless.

3. The skin on the lump protruding.

4. The skin on the chest mencekung or wrinkles.

5. Putting milk into erosion or asymmetric.

6. The skin of the breast becomes thick and coarse, and enlarged pores.

7. There's nipple fluid (nipple discharge), bloody fluid.

What are the methods of diagnosing breast cancer?

1. Check-up every month: every woman should check for themselves on the fifth day after menstruation. The trick is soaped hands, Touch the breast with the middle finger and index finger clockwise and axillary and clavicular fossa.

2. Palpation physicians: specialists who bepengalaman by means of palpation to determine whether there is a tumor in the breast, it can filter out some breast cancer patients.

3. B-Ultrasound: B-Ultrasound examination can determine the type and location of the tumor.

4. X-Ray Mammography: Mammography X-Ray to be able to get a clear picture, can check palpate small tumor buds are hard to find.

5. Biopsy Cytology: study of the B-Ultrasound and Mammography X-Ray done if there is a tumor or abscess that can not be distinguished, then had to perform diagnostic certainty puncture lesions.

What Is Traditional Method of Treatment of Breast Cancer?

1. Breast-conserving surgery: mengeksisi tumor and a small amount of surrounding tissue.

2. Radical mastectomy: mengeksisi the entire breast, including the presence or absence of axillary lymph nodes.

Breast Cancer Treatment Methods There Any?

Post-Surgical Treatment Methods

1. Continuous exercise of the shoulder joint after surgery.

2. Get plenty of rest when he gets out of the hospital, appropriate exercise, such as jogging and tai chi.

3. Keep your diet, high nutrition, healthy lifestyle habit.

Psychological Treatment Methods

1. Regular inspections to the hospital.

2. Keep your mood and mental state either.

3. Support and warm atmosphere of the couple and the family.

4. Immediately provide enlightenment and persuasion.

Best Breast Cancer Treatment Methods

Multidisciplinary team formed by breast surgeons, pathologists, radiation oncologists, oncologists minimally invasive, breast care nurses and translators, based on the condition and symptoms of breast cancer patients by consulting experts to ensure effective diagnosis, treatment and control of disease, increasing the probability treatment of breast cancer patients.

Cervical Cancer

What is cervical cancer?

　　Cervical cancer is a malignant tumor develops in uterovaginal portion or cervical canals. Its high incident age is around 50. Besides, it inclines to occur in the females who are married and give birth to babies early, or are proliferous or infected by HPV. In recent years, the incident age of cervical cancer is tending to young females.

　　What are the incidence and death rate of cervical cancer?

　　The incidence of cervical cancer rages second of all female cancers. Each year, there are about 53,000 new developed cases globally, 85% of those cases are from developing countries.

　　About 76,000 people dies of cancer every year all over the world, which takes up 13% of global deaths. Among them, the death number of cervical patients is closed to 27,000 and 88% of them are in developing countries.

　　What causes cervical cancer?

　　70% cervical cancer cases arouse from human immunodeficiency virus(HIV). Besides that, smoking and human immunodeficiency virus(HIV) can cause cervical cancer. Other risk factors are also mutually related to each other to lead to cervical cancer.

　　Other risk factors of cervical cancer include choamydiae infection, improper eating habits, or frequent contact or taking of harmonic medicines, family history of cervical cancer, or taking oral contraceptives often, having sex and bearing baby in an early age, prolificacy and so on. All those risk factors would possibly cause cervical cancer.

What are the symptoms of cervical cancer?

　　1. Irregular menses or bleeding in vagina after menopause.

　　2. Vaginal discharge increases and presents white or sanguinloent with fish stench.

　　3. Symptoms like frequent and urgent micturition, constipation and so on occur.

　　4. Terrible pain appears in different parts of body.

　　5. Emaciation, anemia, fever and general exhaustion and other symptoms present.

　　Screening methods of cervical cancer

　　1. Have gynecologic examination regularly can detect cervical cancer early.

　　2. Cervicitis may probably change to cervical cancer that positive treatments should be performed once cervicitis is found.

　　3. To know the early symptoms of cervical cancer so that once any similar symptoms occur, the patient can go to hospital right way.

　　Diagnostic methods of cervical cancer

　　1. Cervical scraping smear examination. It has to perform in gynecologic examination or cancer detection for married women.

　　2. Iodine test is to observe cervix by vaginoscopy. Wipe out the mucilage on the surface of cervix, apply 2% iodi liquor directly on cervix and vaginal mucosa. The area cannot be stained means positive. Biopsy samples should take from the areas presenting abnormal negative to iodine.

　　3. Biopsy. When cervical biopsy indicates negative, samples for biopsy should be taken from the point 6,9,12 and 3 of squamous cell juncture of cervix, or use small curet to scrap cervical canals and send the scrapping material for biopsy.

　　4. Vaginoscopy. It cannot diagnose cancer directly, but has to coordinate with biopsy.

　　5. Conization of uterine cervix is applicable when biopsy cannot confirm if cancer infiltration occurs.

　　Clinical stages of cervical cancer

　　Stage 0: the cancer cells are still limited in cervical intraepithelial regions. The cervical cancer in stage 0 is also what we call primary cancer.

　　Stage I: the cancer cells localize in cervix and encroachment occurs.

　　Stage Ⅱ: the cancer cells have encroached to vagina but do not cover 1/3 of vagina, or have encroached to paracervical connective tissues but do not reach pelvic wall.

　　Stage Ⅲ: the encroachment has reach the lower 1/3 of vagina or the cancer cells have encroached to cavum pelvis and bilateral hydronephrosis occur.

　　Stage Ⅳ: cancer cells have spread out from generative organs or surpass cavum pelvis to encroach to rectum, gall bladder or other distant organs.

　　What are the traditional treatments for cervical cancer?

　　1. Metrectomy is the most common treatment for cervical cancer, which includes:

　　1) Total hysterectomy, it will remove cervix and uterus.

　　2) Radical hysterectomy, it is to remove cervix, uterus, upper vagina, ovaries, oviducts and affected lymph nodes.

　　2. Radiotherapy includes external radiation exposure and intra-cavitary irradiation. Cervical cancers from different stages can have radiotherapy. But it would hurt the ovarian functions of those females before menopause.

　　3. Chemotherapy for cervical cancer is using chemicals in treatment, which is applicable to the patients from late stage or are suffering from recurrent cervical cancers. But the toxic side effect is heavier that some weak cervical cancer patients normally cannot stand that.

　　Post operative care of cervical cancer

　　1. Mental care. Cervical cancer patients may easily develop the emotions like fear, anxiety, upset and so on. The family should care and support the patient at moments.

　　2. Hygiene care. Wash the cunnus and urinary meatus twice a day to keep cunnus clean and apply antibiotics to prevent wound infection.

　　3. Exercise care. Have exercises like abdominal breathing and drawing up the anus, that can enhance the contractility of urethra muscle and sphincter urethrae and help the injured nerves of gall bladder recover.

　　4. Diet care. Have the foods that are rich in vitamin, proteins and easy for digestion to enhance the resistance of cervical cancer patients.

　　The best treatment for cervical cancer

　　A multidisciplinary team composed of surgeons, pathologists, radiation cancer experts, minimally invasive oncologists, nurses for cancer nursing and interpreters carries out expert consultation according to symptoms and conditions of patients with cervical cancer and then gives treatment plans that are most applicable to the patient, in order to greatly improve the therapeutic effect of cervical cancer patient.

　　Characterized therapy of Chinese medicine in treating cervical cancer

　　Traditional Chinese medicine can regulate the balance of body and strengthen the resistance to fight against tumor. Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou combines Chinese medicine and other cancer treatments together, while at the same time integrates the advantages of both Chinese medicine and western medicine, which can effectively improve the cure effect of cancer treatments.

　　What kinds of supports can be obtained?

　　Practice proves that the clinic team services composed by multiple disciplines like oncosurgery, oncology, pathology, imageology and anesthesia doctors as well as professional nurses, can provide patients with most effective, most suitable and most economic treatment plan, and also can greatly improve the therapeutic effect of treating cancer patients.

　　“One station” medical system constructed by Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou combining multiple disciplines, can perform comprehensive diagnosis and treatment for patients under the condition of without adding patients’ burden. Therefore, on one hand, it can provide all-round and heartfelt medical services, and on the other hand, it improves medical efficiency and level. There are many channels can be applied to conduct the communication between patients and doctors, like online consultation, email, telephone conversation, and face-to-face consultation. All these consultation services can effectively help patients to fight the cancer. While the medical team faced by the patients includes doctors, nurses, dietitians, interpreters and so on to meet various demands in different level of different countries. Patients would be more confident under the unobstructed communication environment to cooperate the hospital to diagnose and treat the diseases.

The human immune system is the best "anti-cancer"

A study of Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou showed that the immune system naturally to fight a specific pathogen invasion, the harmony of the immune system is the main reason for relieving cancer. The study found that about 10% of cancer patients in the case are not in care or receiving a small amount of medicine, natural healing cancer with rare recurrence. Experts in the long run of 176 cases observed in relieving cancer patients, found that only 10 cases of recurrence, 2 cases had spread.

Why can enhance immunity against cancer?

Human immune leukocyte count. Leukocytes have a wide variety, including T cells, B cells and K cells have a role in the killing of the cancer cells themselves. The normal human body cell metabolism produces every day, 100 billion new cells can be formed every day, which may have two or three abnormal cells. If two or three abnormal cells are not eradicated, by external factors and internal, it could likely be the main enemy of human development - the cancer cells.

Under normal circumstances, the immune system in the monitoring at any time and at the right time to kill the abnormal cells, it is medically known as "immune surveillance function". That is, when the immune system is found abnormal cancer cells, primarily T cells actively invade, and contact with cancer cells and firmly stuck, the enzyme turns into a cancer cell membrane permeability, potassium ions inside the cancer cells will be removed , while sodium, the amount of injection of calcium ions and water, thus, cancer cells will lose osmotic equilibrium.

B cells participate in the eradication of cancer cells, immediately forming specific antibodies - immunoglobulin, distributed to body fluids, forming a "humoral immunity". B cells have greater power to kill the cancer cells, the B cells to produce a substance called "cytotoxic" cells are useful as a killer and destroyer of cancer cells.

Boost immunity, there are some basic practices

1. Improving the quality of sleep. Sleep is closely related to the system

immunity, immunology experts through trial "sleep away" found that, good sleep allows increasing the number of lymphocytes significantly. Experts of Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou has shown that, when the body is sleep will produce muramic acid called sleep factors, these factors encouraged increasing leukocytosis, activate macrophages, enhance the detoxification function of the liver in addition to the eradication of bacteria and viruses that attack.

2. Maintain an optimistic attitude. Optimistic attitude can maintain an optimal state of the human body, especially in today's society, people are facing a lot of pressure, a huge psychological pressure causes the immune system increases the inhibitory hormone, are susceptible to the flu or other illnesses.

3. Limit alcohol. Every day drinking low-alcohol white wine not more than 100ml, yellow wine is no more than 250ml, beer is not more than 1 bottle, because it has a negative impact for certain body parts. Even if drinking wine can lower cholesterol, should limit daily 1 glass, excessive drinking can damage the blood flow, the heart and other organs.

4. Participating in the exercise. 30-45 minutes of exercise every day, 5 days per week, after 12 weeks, increasing the number of immune cells, cell rejection will also increase. The most important thing to note is, the sport just need to speed up the heart rate, ideal for a walk after dinner.

What Are the Traditional Treatments for Brain Cancer?

Brain cancer is a commonly-seen malignant tumor. Its morbidity and mortality is increasing year by year. To ensure good health, periodical physical examinations are required. Do not be caught up in panic once has been suffering from brain cancer, instead, active cooperation with doctors’ treatment is recommended to achieve effective control on brain cancer.

1、Chemotherapy is a commonly-used method for all kinds of cancers, and brain cancer is not an exception. By now chemotherapy has achieved a great improvement in treating brain cancer, but due to special construction of blood-brain barrier, chemotherapy has been confined by many factors. Any drugs of chemotherapy can penetrate endangium cells due to liposolubility, and then enter and work on cancer cells. Such mode has influenced the speed and efficiency of drugs action.

　　2、Radiotherapy applies radioactive rays, γ-rays or high velocity neutron ray to treat cancer cells. Radiotherapy mainly adopts the characteristics that cancer cells are extreme sensitive to radioactive rays and can be easily damaged by these rays to perform treatments. The scale of radiation scope and dosage shall be defined as per tumor cancer pathologic diagnosis, differentiation degree and results of imageology examinations. For the in-depth brain tumor that cannot be safely cut, radiotherapy can be applied; however, the process of radiotherapy may cause relatively big toxic reaction or side effect.

　　3、Surgery is a direct method for treating brain cancer. For primary brain cancer, surgery can be applied to cut the tumor to maximally eliminate cancer cell thoroughly and avoid cellular proliferation after surgery to further prevent brain cancer recurrence. Such treatment is commonly used while the potential of recurrence after surgery is relatively high.

　　Minimally Invasive Therapy for Brain Cancer

　　Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou has introduced advanced cancer treatment facilities that feature many characteristics like minimally invasive, pain-free, quick recovery and so on. Tumor experts shall work out a series customized and suitable treatment plans for the brain cancer patients as per their different condition, symptoms through the way of expert team’s consultation.

　　Brain cancer experts of Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou are able to combine interventional therapy, Ar-He knife, TCM, radioactive particle, bio-immunotherapy and photodynamic knife with minimally invasive technologies together to treat brain cancer. This can not only avoid the shortcomings like poor therapeutic effect and big side effect that traditional therapies own, but also improve the therapeutic effects and living quality of brain cancer patients.

Liver Cancer Symptoms

Signs of Liver Cancer:

1. Hepatalgia: Continuous dull pain in hepatic region of right upper quadrant is an important and the most frequent symptom of primary hepatic carcinoma. It is caused by rapidly increasing liver which make liver capsule tense or by malignant tumors’ violation of liver capsule or peritoneum. It can be continuous dull pain or gas pain. When malignant tumors violate diaphragma, patient will feel pain in right shoulder or right back. Tumors growing toward rear right can cause pain in right waist. When cancer nodules rupture, necrotic cancer tissues and blood flow into abdomen. Then patient suffers severe abdominal pain. Symptoms and signs of peritonitis appear.

2. Hepatomegaly: It is the most frequent sign of primary liver cancer. Liver is increasing swelling, solid with uneven surface. Different-size tubercles or lumps cause local eminence, untidily borderline with tenderness.

3. Jaundice: One third of patients suffer it. Mostly, it occurs at an advanced stage liver cancer. And it is caused by damage of liver cells or by malignant tumors which press bile duct.

4. Fever: In general, patient suffers low-grade fever, occasionally above 39℃. It can be continuous low-grade fever or irregular hyperpyrexia. The reason is that organism absorbs a large quantity of damaged tumor tissues. Or it may be result of cholangitis or concurrent infection caused by malignant tumors pressing bile duct.

5. Alimentary canal and general symptoms: Decreased food appetite, dyspepsia, nausea, emesia, diarrhea, acratia, maciei, asthenia universalis and cachexia.

6. Symptoms of metastasis: Relative symptoms appear when liver cancer with metastasis to stomach, bone, pelvis cavity and brain. For example, pulmonary metastasis cause cough and emptysis; pleural metastasis cause chest pain and bloody hydrothorax; osseous metastasis cause local pain or pathologic fracture; metastasis to spinal column or press spinal nerves can cause local pain and paraplegia; Brain metastasis can cause headache, emesis and signs of nerve localization.

7. Other symptoms: Endocrine syndrome or metabolic endocrine, also called syndrome associated with cancer, are caused by abnormal metabolism in malignant tumors.

(1) Spontaneous hypoglycemia: 10% to 30% of patients suffer it. It is caused by liver cells secreting insulin or insulin-like substance not only in pancreatic islet. It is also caused by hepatocellular carcinoma tissue consuming too much glucose. Sever patients may hepatocyte, shock even die.

(2) Globulism: 2% to 10% patients suffer it. It is caused by increasing haemopoietin in circulation.

(3) Others: There are also hyperlipemia, hypercalcinemia, carcinoid syndrome, gonadotrophins syndrome, skin porphyria and dysfibrinogenemia. These symptoms may be related to synthesis of paraprotein, dystopia endocrine seretion and porphyrin metabolism disorder in liver cancer tissue.

How to diagnose brain cancer?

Fundus checkup (lower eyelid)

Observe the fundus is visible papilledema. Papilledema is a kind bintilan on the inside of which is a sign of increased intracranial pressure. headache and vomiting referred to as increased intracranial pressure, but unfortunately only a quarter of patients with brain cancer which showed negative fundusnya checkup of the possibility of brain cancer.

X-ray of the head

X-ray checkup can help to understand whether the increased intracranial pressure, or any damage or hyperplasia of the skull, the expansion of calcified skull, pineal shift and pathological brain, it can also help to detect the location and diagnosis, less than a third X-ray showed a positive rate , so the negative results of the X-ray can not be used as a reference for diagnosis.

EEG (Electro encephalo Graphy)

Starting from positioning tumors found in the brain, the location of the tumor will be seen in the cancer decreased amplitude, frequency slowed. However, the diagnosis of midline brain hemispheres inner part infratentorialnya meningioma and not too supports the diagnosis.

CT scan of the brain

Results from CT scans of the brain have brain cancer detection rate to 90% or more, because it can show the lesion size, shape, number, location, density and nature of brain cancer, which is the primary method of diagnosis of brain cancer.

MRI checkup

MRI was able to show most of the brain tumor and edema around the tumor, and also can accurately show the location, size and shape of brain tumors.MRI, CT scan is an important additional checks and major. Modern Hospital Guangzhou Cancer Hospital advised to immediately do so undetected brain cancer treatment, and do maintenance and routine checks.