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Cancer Treatment In India
Cancer surgery: Physically removing cancer
The prospect of cancer surgery may make you feel anxious. Put your mind at ease by learning more about cancer surgery and how and why it’s used…..
How is cancer surgery used in treatment ?
Common reasons you might undergo cancer surgery include : -
* Cancer prevention : – If there’s reason to believe that you’ll develop cancer in certain tissues or organs, your doctor may recommend removing those tissues or organs before cancer develops. For example, if you have a genetic condition called familial polyposis….
How is cancer surgery traditionally performed ?
Traditionally, the primary purpose of cancer surgery is to cure your cancer by physically removing all of it from your body. The surgeon usually does this by cutting into your body and removing the cancer along with some surrounding tissue to ensure that all of the cancer is removed. Your surgeon may also remove some lymph nodes in the area to determine if the cancer has spread. This helps your doctor assess the chance of your being cured, as well as the need for any further treatment. ……
What other techniques are used in cancer surgery ?
Many other types of surgical methods for treating cancer and precancerous conditions exist, and investigators are always researching new methods.
Some common types of cancer surgery include : -
* Cryosurgery : – During this type of surgery, your doctor uses very cold material, such as liquid nitrogen spray or a cold probe, to freeze and destroy cancer cells or cells that may become cancerous, such as irregular cells in a woman’s cervix that could become cervical cancer……
What are the risks of cancer surgery ?
As with any surgery, cancer surgery does carry risks. What side effects you might experience after cancer surgery will depend on your specific surgery….
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Back Pain Relief That Works as Fast But Lasts Longer Than Cortisone Two months ago, I told you about Prolozone, a tremendous breakthrough in pain management. With Prolozone, we inject an oxygen/ozone gas mixture into painful and inflamed areas. It causes an extremely fast healing response. Now we have proof that this treatment is even better than the standard steroid shot for pain relief.
Each year thousands of Americans are subjected to epidural injections of steroids for low back pain, sciatica, degenerative arthritis, etc. It’s sort of a one-size fits all treatment. You have degeneration, let’s shoot it with some steroids. We’ll knock out the pain for you. Don’t worry about the toxicity of the steroids. Just enjoy the pain relief now. That’s the mindset of the typical American doctor. Well, leave it to the Italians to show us up. Italian researchers studied 306 patients 166 had primarily disc disease and 140 had non-disc vertebral disease. All of them had acute or chronic low back or sciatic pain. The researchers gave them one of two treatments. The first treatment was an X-ray guided injection of an oxygen/ozone gas mixture. This injection went into the area of nerve exit from the spine. The second treatment was the standard injection of steroids around the spinal joints.
Neurologists who did not know what injection the patient received (hence the study was blinded) evaluated all of the patients. There was little difference between the two forms of injection for short-term pain relief. Both worked, with 80% of the patients reporting clear improvement. Most had complete remission of pain at one week.However, at six months, the gas proved far more effective for those with disc disease. Of 86 patients getting the O2/O3 gas mixture, only 13 (15%) had poor outcomes. The steroid injection group had a 22.5% rate of poor outcomes. Among patients without disk disease, 6 of 70 (8.6%) receiving the gas had a poor outcome. But 21.4% of those getting the steroids had a poor outcome. The oxygen/ozone treatment beat steroids long-term for both disc and non disc pain.
However, for that non-disc pain group, they said the difference was not statistically significant. What that means is that there was a 10% possibility that ozone’s superiority to steroids for non-disc long-term improvement was due only to chance. I know the odds on a craps table. Ozone was clearly superior in my book.
There are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of epidural steroid injections in America every year. I will admit that the literature suggests that complications from these injections are uncommon. While I have seen permanent pain relief from these injections (after several injections), the effects are usually short lived. And, repeated injections of steroids have significant long-term risks. Steroids are potent blockers of inflammation.They also reduce collagen production, leading to long term weakness of the tissue injected.
On the other hand, the ozone gas mixture has several positive actions. It normalizes the levels of inflammatory chemicals, beneficially increases key enzymes, minimizes toxic reactive free radicals and, most importantly,improves circulation. After all, ozone is oxygen the most important nutrient for cellular and tissue repair. Where there is inflammation, there will always be a deficiency of oxygen. And oxygen is the key to actually rebuilding the tissues.Cortisone may block pain. It may reduce inflammatory chemicals. But ozone modulates inflammation. That means it brings the process into balance. It doesn’t simply suppress one necessary arm of healing (inflammation). It promotes the healthy balance of chemicals that oppose wanton inflammation. It provides oxygen the starving cells need to actually repair and rebuild tissue. Cortisone does nothing of the kind. Instead, it knocks out the ability of the cells to make collagen.
Even better: You might not need the X-ray guided needle to get terrific results. Since it’s a gas, and not a liquid, it has much greater diffusion capacity. Dr. Shallenberger and I are seeing oxygen/ozone administered via standard prolotherapy techniques (needling) into more sensitive areas that rival the results of X-ray guidance.Prolozone is nothing short of miraculous.
The authors of the Italian study concluded: Our most interesting finding was the increase in the number of patients with disc disease (disc-induced pain) who reported an improvement in symptoms. This finding supports other evidence that O2-O3 infiltration affects not only the symptoms but also the cause of pain by accelerating the natural recovery mechanism of disc herniation.If you’d like more information on Prolozone, please read my report on it in the March 2009 issue.
Ref: American Journal of Neuroradiology, 6:996-1000, May 2005.
There are millions of people who suffer from back problems on a regular basis. These back problems range from slight to severe and have a significant impact on whether or not the day will be a good one or it will be plagued by such back problems. One way to minimize some back problems is to pick a support bed for your back troubles.
Some mornings, you may wake up and find that your back is stiff and feels as though it is in knots. You may have sleep soundly but if you do not have the proper support for your back, you will wake up regularly with pains and troubles in your back. You may have a very strenuous job that is taxing on your back. Heavy lifting and constant bending are the types of physical exertion that can wreak havoc on your back when it comes time to go to bed at night. The absence of the right support in your mattress can produce nothing short of a disturbed night’s sleep.
Getting the proper sleep when you have back troubles is very important. Picking the right supportive mattress is the way to get the sleep and relief your back needs during the night. There are many different mattresses that are manufactured to help with back problems. Some of the most popular supportive beds are adjustable beds.
One of the most popular beds that support a bad back is one that has a memory foam mattress. This type of mattress takes on the shape of your body when you are in bed, contouring to provide you with the most supportive yet comfortable sleep. The nice thing about a memory foam mattress is that it restores to its original shape once you are out of bed and contours again when you come to bed the following night.
Another supportive bed that can help back troubles of all kinds is the adjustable beds. Capable of lifting or lowering your head or feet, these beds provide added circulation where needed and can take unwanted stress off of a particular section of the back to ensure a pleasant night’s rest.
Even with the proper supportive bed for your back troubles, there are some considerations you should keep in mind when it comes to the way you sleep:
1. Don’t sleep flat on your stomach because this may cause back troubles to flare up or even increase.
2. Don’t place your pillow under your shoulders. The best place is beneath your head.
3. When sleeping on your back, tuck a pillow beneath your needs so that you are supporting the natural curve of your lower back.
4. Remember that the proper support for your back should allow you to sleep comfortable otherwise it is not the best mattress for you.
Recurring back problems should be treated by your physician. In addition to having a supportive mattress, you may need to have physical therapy to strength your back muscles and ease out some tensions you’ve continued to have.
Dinara Safina withdrew from the WTA Championships when a back injury left her crying in pain. Safina, her eyes welling with tears, said that one of the disks in her lower back was “starting to fracture.” The problem had been bothering her for months, since at least the US Open, but anti-inflammatory injections had helped smother the pain. By Doha, however, where she returned to defend her title, the injury had flared again. Safina was told by doctors that she may be sidelined for at least six weeks; it’s not likely that she will be in the best of shape for the Australian Open in January of next year. The player had returned to the No. 1 spot in the world rankings just this week, but with a thin margin of difference between Safina and Serena Williams, the position depended heavily on the results of the Doha tournament.
Now, with Safina making an early exit from the tournament, Serena has secured the No. 1 spot and is the favorite for the WTA title as well. Serena won the Australian Open and the Wimbledon titles this year; this is the first season in which she will end as the No. 1 player in the world since 2002.
Williams won her first match in Doha on Tuesday; she went on to beat her sister Venus 5-7, 6-4, 7-6(4) on Wednesday. After the match, Serena said that she felt great being No. 1 again, although she paid her respects to her injured colleague. “Dinara is such a great player. She must be really hurt, because she never gives up” the new No. 1 said. It was during Wednesday’s match that Safina, quite literally, threw her towel in. She was serving 1-1 in a match against Jelena Jankovic when, in the third game, she approached her chair, tossed a towel over her face, and announced her withdrawal.
She was replaced by her compatriot Vera Zvoraneva. “I did everything possible to play here,” Safina said. “As I was chasing this No. 1 (ranking), I was fighting with my body. Maybe I had to stop after the U.S. Open. But then for two tournaments, let’s say Beijing and Tokyo, it was quiet, it didn’t bother me that much,” she said. “But then my body just gave up.” Doha is the last major tournament of the season for the top eight players in the world. Safina will face a tough offseason, as she will need to return to good health in order to compete in the Australian Open in late January, where she lost this year’s final to Serena Williams. Doctors have suggested that, if her body does not recover enough, Safina may have to skip the Australian Open as well. Safina added that the rehabilitation process was going to be a long one for her.
She said that she would spend the offseason trying to strengthen her core to help her “hold” herself. Safina was the runner-up this year to Williams. She lost the French Open final to Svetlana Kuznetsova, leaving her still looking for her first Grand Slam title, a not-so-minor detail on her record that has led to persistent questions about her top position in the rankings. But she has been one of the most consistent performers throughout the year, winning titles in Rome, Madrid, and Portoroz, and held the top spot for 26 weeks.
If you are someone who has to deal with chronic back pain, you already know how a good night’s sleep can be. Regular mattress and box spring does not define the nature of the distribution of aid that your body needs, and you spend the nights in launching and turning instead of sleeping well. The result? Do you wake up feeling tired and in much more pain than you did when you went to bed? You do not have to deal with this more, however. There are thousands of people who have the same problem, and reliefs were given the option of memory foam mattress.
Memory foam mattresses are made from a special material that was first introduced by NASA decades ago. This material is sensitive to pressure and temperature, enabling it to conform to your body’s natural and gives you the outlines of an additional support when you need it most. With a memory foam mattress, you will be able to enjoy the deep, rejuvenating sleep that was to escape all these years.
If there is a disadvantage of this exciting technology is the cost. Brand Name Mattress memory can take you back more than a thousand dollars, which is quite a bit of money for most people. Fortunately, there are a number of outlets, both traditional and online, that offer these products at significantly reduced prices. Not all of the promotional versions of memory foam mattresses are of comparable quality, however, if there are some things you should watch.
Density is one of the most important things on a memory foam mattress. Most of the foam is dense; it will be more sensitive to temperature and pressure – higher density quite better mattress material. The most expensive of the foam in the industry have a density of about five and a half pounds, while many cheaper discount mattresses are provided for about three pounds. The difference is that you’re sure to notice. Make sure that the density rating of your memory foam mattress is a minimum of four books for the greatest benefit.
In addition to the density rating, pay attention to the reputation of the brand you are considering buying, as some are known for their low durability. Nobody wants to spend several hundred dollars buying new mattress memory foam which gives two to three years of service.
Remember that reputable retailers will provide a long term, money-back guarantee on every mattress they sell. Although the details of the guarantee vary from store to store, most places will let you try a foam mattress memory anywhere from one month to one year, after which you can return for a full refund if you are dissatisfied. Remember that the mattress must be in perfect condition for return. There are many advantages to buying from a retailer of this type.
There is no reason for you to continue suffering through sleepless nights filled with constant tossing and turning as you try in vain to find relief for your back pain. A memory foam mattress might be the answer you’re looking for, and then give a try.