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Bee Gees? Robin Gibb Diagnosed with Liver Cancer
2011-11-20 19:08:00 The Bee Gees? singer/songwriter, Robin Gibb, who is reportedly battling a liver cancer, was rushed to hospital earlier this week after an emergency call was made from his residence in Thame, Oxon (England). The 61 year-old was allegedly diagnosed with cancer a few months ago, before he was hospitalized back in October for what was ...
Drink Up! More Coffee May Lower Risk For Liver Cancer
2008-07-04 21:46:00 Think drinking coffee is bad for you? Well think again. Researchers have found that drinking more coffee may decrease your risk of liver cancer. Technorati Tags: Education Environment Food and Drink Health Lifestyle Miscellaneous News Science Technology
Hacienda Brothers? Chris Gaffney Succumbed to Liver Cancer
2008-04-18 17:34:00 One of the roundups at the beginning of the month included the news that founding member and lead singer of the Hacienda Brothers Chris Gaffney was diagnosed with liver cancer. His insurance wasn’t going to cover all of the costs, so a benefit and a website were set up to help collect donation. In a ...
Can Milk Thistle Prevent Liver Cancer?
2008-04-11 16:16:00 Toxic substances surround us every day, in our food, water, medications, and especially the air we breathe. These toxins are extremely detrimental to the health of your liver, and your choice of liver support supplements can drastically affect this very important organ. Milk thistle has long been known for its liver supportive and protective qualities, and is the number one herbal supplement prescribed for most liver ailments. It has proven in various clinical studies to have a profound effect on the progression of fibrosis, and has been quite effective in slowing the rate of advancement of liver damage.Most people are aware of the stages of liver disease: inflammation, fibrosis, cirrhosis, and liver failure. If not treated in the early stages, liver cancer (Hepatocellular carcinoma, or HCC) can develop. Milk thistle has been proven to help protect liver cells against further damage from harmful toxins, which speed up the progression of the above stages of liver disease. Supplementi...
By: American Cancer
Natural Liver Cancer Treatments
2008-03-19 05:20:00 There have been reports that natural liver cancer treatments can also be highly effectively. These can be used as alternative or complementary measures to conventional medical treatments. Conventionally, drugs, chemotherapy and/or surgery are used to treat liver cancer. However, these solutions produce plenty of side effects and can also result in potential risks to the patients. Natural liver cancer treatments can help alleviate symptoms and in some cases, do much to help reverse the situation.In order to properly treat liver cancer, the liver first needs to get repaired through a cleansing process. Getting liver repair can begin with a very simple idea. Water is cleansing to the body and is an important component in flushing the liver. Hence, make it a point to drink between one half to one gallon of water every day. Tea and fresh juices can also provide hydration while adding cancer fighting ingredients that are known to help your body defend itself against cancer. Avoid unhealth...
By: American Cancer
ISRAEL - Can-Fite initiates Phase I study against liver cancer and hepatiti
2007-12-03 18:03:00 Can Fite BioPharma, an Israeli biotechnology company, has 2 pipeline drugs in ...
By: Israel-Times.com
Bilberry helps in the treatment of liver cancer
2007-10-22 00:50:00 Composition of bilberry may become a new tool in the fight against liver cancer. Researchers from the University of Leicester (UK) believe that the use of berries over a long period is useful for the prevention of cancer. Specialists are planning to draw nutrients from blueberry and create the basis for ...
By: Pharma Blog
Comprehensive treatment of liver cancer outlined
2007-09-20 09:18:00 A modern medical treatment of the concept of integrated cancer The body of the patient, the pathologic tumor type, the scope of violations (of disease) and the trend of development in a planned, rational application of existing treatment with a view to greatly increase the cure rate and improve the patient's quality of life. This concept by our predecessors in oncology 40 years ago, and in recent years have further development, and stressed the importance of patients the disease organism two, does not exclude any effective method to clear, improve the cure rate and improve the patient's quality of life, and clearly stated, "give full play to Chinese Discrimination certification of governance. Fuzhengquxie the guiding ideology of China in this regard and the tradition of raising the level of comprehensive treatment, the right to make contributions to the medical world is promising. Two, modern medical treatment tumor model example 1, Chinese medicine treatment s...
The diagnosis and treatment of liver cancer
2007-09-20 09:14:00 [Treatment] A surgical therapy: (1) early or mid-liver, decompensated liver function better, a surgical exploration, in accordance with conditions for radical resection or palliative resection. Radical resection of tumor, if recurrence or metastasis, viable again resection. (2) removal of the tumor after palliative, the need for comprehensive treatment. Comprehensive treatment of cancer by referring to Chinese medicine (such as cancer and Ning Bo) combined with chemotherapy, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and immune therapy. (3) preoperative anti-cancer medicine (such as cancer and Ning Bo) + chemotherapy, and its aim is to liver cancer patients in the blood of cancer cells and stimulate the surgery or extrusion, or the transitional cell cultivation, inhibit or kill a role, in addition to local tumor cancer, in order to reduce response organizations edema, thus shrinking tumors and reduce the tumor and surrounding tissue adhesion to the surgical resection. Preoperati...
Complications of liver cancer - cancer of the infection and fever
2007-09-20 09:11:00 Because of the low resistance of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, often infected. The main part of the respiratory, intestinal, biliary and peritoneal. Symptoms of infection from different sites and different manifestations, such as respiratory infections, mainly manifested as cough, short breath, fever; Intestinal infection mainly manifested as abdominal pain, diarrhea; Intra-abdominal infection can be abdominal pain, fever. Mainly due to infection by bacteria, fungi infections not uncommon. Cancer of fever in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma is common, and more for sustained low - to moderate fever. Cancer is the main reason for liver cancer fever necrosis induced by heat released into the blood circulation of people. Right cancer fever caused by infection with fever of identification, the former invalid antibiotic therapy in addition to fever, and there was no other obvious symptoms, patients antipyretic analgesics favorable response.source:China TCM web-China
Also in need of treatment after liver cancer?
2007-09-13 11:17:00 Cancer, we are a pair of ominous words can be said about all the "cancer" discoloration. In medicine, liver cancer called "carcinoma of the king." HCC is it so frightening? Yes, no liver cancer in people's perception, quietly malignant form, was often has reached advanced. Liver, the same as the devil eroded people's physical, tortured soul of the people. However, after the tireless efforts of medical staff, some of liver cancer can be completely treated, not as people imagined as a terrible scourge. The key to the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma is based on the biological characteristics to develop effective treatment programs. Liver cancer is the diversity of the pathogenic incentives, liver cancer cells in a number of positions at the same time growth, the growth rate is not balanced. Another feature of liver cancer clinical symptoms were not typical, diversity, which cause some inconvenience to the early diagnosis. Therefore, liver found to be more belong to the late...
How reasonable treatment of liver cancer
2007-09-13 11:16:00 Nearly half a century, as medical imaging, a local cancer treatment, cell biology and molecular biology of progress, people's understanding of liver cancer, research, diagnosis, treatment and have great progress, especially the rapid development of molecular biology, have provided a lot of potential clinical significance avenue. Liver cancer research both in the epidemic, etiology, diagnosis and treatment, etc., have seen significant progress. The concept of liver cancer etiology has updated the diagnosis become more difficult, from a single surgical treatment of a variety of methods integrated into Application prognosis from dead become part of governance. Surgery in the treatment of liver cancer is still the leading position. In recent years, new theories, new technology and new concepts on the basis of liver cancer surgery have a lot of progress. In the past a single large on the basis of liver cancer has emerged can significantly improve the efficacy of small liver cancer, can ...
Liver cancer patients hepatorenal syndrome
2007-09-13 11:16:00 Hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with liver cirrhosis, liver cirrhosis in decompensated liver function, often occur suddenly or gradually oliguric or urine, azotemia, functional renal failure in the performance, and at this time there is no organic kidney disease, called for hepatorenal syndrome (renal or hepatic failure, HRS people such patients a majority of deepening jaundice, hepatosplenomegaly, hypoproteinemia and refractory ascites and liver failure performance of the disease is characterized by the end of deep coma, oliguria serious sexual and blood pressure drop. Hepatic function at the onset of renal failure in patients with kidney disease do not have organic, but renal blood flow and glomerular filtration rate is likely to reduce serious kidney is the result of the continued contraction. A study, liver dysfunction induced renal vasoconstriction leading to liver failure and renal function key, the following factors may cause renal vasoconstriction causes. (1) Tension ...
The relationship between hepatitis B and liver cancer
2007-09-13 11:15:00 The relationship between hepatitis B and liver cancer Hepatocellular carcinoma (primary liver cancer) is our common cancer, according to the census data prove, liver, stomach and lung cancer mortality after, rank third. The liver is an important material in a variety of human metabolism centers and other liver detoxification, secretion, excretion, and other important functions, if there liver cancer, the human health risks greatly. In fact, liver cancer is not impossible to prevent, after years of scientific workers The study found that close to hepatitis and liver cancer, especially hepatitis B and liver cancer is a certain link prevention of hepatitis can effectively reduce the occurrence of liver cancer. Clinical notes HCC patients with acute hepatitis - Chronic hepatitis - cirrhosis - a history of liver cancer, hepatitis and liver cancer that extremely close ties. Domestic HCC study also noted: liver cancer among high-incidence area high proportion of hepatitis, liver cancer pat...
From what causes liver cancer
2007-09-13 11:14:00 Numerous studies in light of international and domestic data analysis that the main reason for liver cancer the following types: (1) Hepatitis: is hepatitis B and hepatitis C virus infections, particularly hepatitis B and hepatitis B virus carriers, the incidence of primary liver cancer than the normal two to 100 times higher; The high incidence of liver cancer in the region, about 20% of the people may be carrying hepatitis B or hepatitis B virus with those. (2) Aflatoxin (AFT): aflatoxin B for the most important carcinogenic substances. Suitable for high-temperature, high humidity climate in the growth and reproduction, especially in summer Moldy food and grain, feed, the most susceptible to aflatoxin contamination of produce aflatoxin, long-term consumption of food containing the toxin can induce liver cancer. (3) Water pollution: the serious pollution of drinking water, the liver is one of the important incentives, in particular the ditch water pollution, followed by water, ...
Prevention of hepatitis reasonable treatment of liver cancer
2007-09-13 11:13:00 Cancer from the past to now unknown women, the survival of human health posed a grave threat. Conquering cancer, overcome illness, the desire for human heads. Because of the high incidence of liver cancer, the development of rapid, high mortality, let people talk about it discoloration. The incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma is closely related to hepatitis, hepatitis control to a certain extent, can prevent the occurrence of liver cancer. In the history of human cancer, surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, etc., as classical effective method in the treatment made no doubt about the success, but regretted that these effective therapy because of the existence of physical harm and great clinical limitations, the number of lives left to regret.source:China TCM web-China
Hepatitis patients how to prevent the occurrence of liver cancer
2007-09-13 11:12:00 Generally, the majority of hepatitis prognosis is good, suffering from acute hepatitis can be smoothly restored, they will not develop into liver cirrhosis and liver cancer, but it has long-term hepatitis B patients recover gradually develop into cirrhosis and eventually develop liver cancer. Foreign reports, chronic carriers of hepatitis B surface antigen in the risk of liver cancer than non-carriers high 200 times. Over 95% of the patients with primary liver cancer by chronic hepatitis B surface antigen evolved from the carrier. Why minority of patients with hepatitis B, a primary liver cancer to the adverse changes? Its mechanism is not yet fully clear, and thus does not have a very effective way to prevent. Some scholars believe that the culprit since hepatitis B virus, hepatitis B prevention will help reduce the occurrence of liver cancer. Dissident scientists believe that the liver is very complex factors, hepatitis B virus causes only beginning. Because many people infect...
Liver cancer drug - Nexavar
2007-08-29 05:54:00 Nexavar, a pharmaceutical drug designed to treat liver cancer, had a late-stage trial recently cut off and disbanded. But, the reason is not what you think: the trial was ended because the results of patients using the drug were all so positive that a further continuation of the trial was not needed. The trial (which was ...
By: cancer war
The cause of liver cancer
2007-08-24 10:33:00 So far, the cause of liver cancer is not clear but is now widely felt that the following factors may be related to the incidence of liver cancer. 1 liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma : current clinical liver cancer has been noted often in patients with acute hepatitis, chronic hepatitis ? history of cirrhosis. From the point of view of pathology, in primary HCC patients, about 50-80% of cases associated with liver cirrhosis : Primary liver cancer and bile duct epithelial cell carcinoma, 18.2 ~ 50% of cases associated with liver cirrhosis. The figures show that the two diseases are closely related to liver cancer may be caused by cirrhosis of the liver cell regeneration over the results. Through the HCC patients with hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) to the determination of liver cancer patients found the HBsAg positive rates as high as 81.82%. The results seem to indicate they have had hepatitis B before, but the relationship between the two remains to be further stud...
Liver cancer prevention
2007-08-24 10:33:00 For the prevention of liver cancer, we must proceed from everyday life, if we can pay attention to the following points will be useful. 1 to keep the home consumption of food, to prevent mildew. Adamantly refused Aflatoxin contamination of rice, wheat flour, corn, soybeans and peanuts. 2 eat or eat less NOx amine containing dioxin over the food material, such as pickles, pickled vegetables, salted fish, sausages. 3 quit alcohol, alcoholism and other bad habits, drink alcohol, poor liquor, alcohol to prevent damage to the liver cells, causing liver operation and chronic liver poisoning. 4 attention to food hygiene to prevent the occurrence of hepatitis. Once suffering from viral hepatitis, should be actively treated to a rest, a speedy recovery. Together actively prevent cirrhosis, maintain good spirits. Fresh building a more fresh vegetables, fruit and fish, meat and eggs.source:China TCM web-China
Liver cancer prevention and early signals
2007-08-24 10:32:00 Early symptoms of liver cancer : an epidemiological survey, about 90% of the liver and hepatitis B or hepatitis C virus infection. Hepatitis B surface antigen-positive, "two half" positive hepatitis C antibody-positive were infected with the hepatitis virus signs. Preventive measures : over the age of 35 hepatitis B surface antigen positive chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis over five years, with immediate family members of three generations of family history of liver cancer every six months followed by detection of AFP and liver sonography, Early detection of liver cancer is the most effective method. Moreover, the injection of hepatitis B vaccine; Blood transfusion products have not been infected with the hepatitis B virus. Alcohol was also triggered by a large liver enemy, and therefore prevent liver cancer should quit drinking.source:China TCM web-China
New Test Using Small Blood Sample Improves Liver Cancer Detection
2007-08-10 05:29:00 Cancer of the liver is very difficult to detect, and it is a major cause of death in Asia and Africa, with rising incidence in Western countries as well. Now, VIB researchers connected to Ghent University, in collaboration with research centers in Beijing and Shanghai in China, have developed a test to detect liver cancer ...
By: Cancer war
Coffee To Reduce Chances of Liver Cancer
2007-08-05 08:00:00 Scientific Medical Health Report Show Coffee Reduces Chances of Developing Liver Cancer
An effective treatment for liver cancer
2007-07-14 06:08:00 Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine report a significant new advance in the search for an effective treatment for human liver cancer in the July issue of Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. Using a newly available monoclonal antibody, they demonstrated significant reductions in tumor cell proliferation and survival in human and mouse hepatocellular cancer ...
By: cancer war
Hepatitis patients how to prevent the occurrence of liver cancer
2007-07-13 03:40:00 Generally, the majority of hepatitis prognosis is good, suffering from acute hepatitis can be smoothly restored, will not develop into cirrhosis and liver cancer, but really a long-term hepatitis B patients each day, gradually develop into cirrhosis, eventual development of liver cancer. Some foreign reports, chronic carriers of hepatitis B surface antigen occurred risk of liver cancer than non-carriers 200 times. More than 95% of primary liver cancer patients from chronic carriers of hepatitis B surface antigen from the evolution. Why is the minority of patients suffering from hepatitis B and primary liver cancer can occur adverse changes? The mechanism is not yet fully clear, and therefore it is no effective way to prevent it. Some scholars believe that since hepatitis B virus is the culprit, then to prevent hepatitis B will help reduce the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma. Hold different views of scientists believes that the liver is very complex factors, hepatitis B virus j...
Jaundice, Liver cancer
2007-07-03 14:22:00 JAUNDICEJaundice is characterised by a yellowish tinge to the skin and eyes. About six out of 10 newborns have jaundice to varying degrees, while the condition is more common among premature babies. Jaundice is caused by an excess of a chemical called bilirubin, which is normally eliminated by the liver. However, a newborn's liver takes a few days to process this chemical. If the baby is full term and healthy, mild jaundice is nothing to worry about and will resolve by itself within a week or so. However, a premature or sick baby, or a baby with very high levels of bilirubin, will need close monitoring and medical treatments. Other causes of jaundice in babies include blood group antibodies (Rhesus factor & ABO incompatibilities), haemolytic anaemia, hepatitis and galactosaemia.SymptomsThe symptoms of jaundice depend on the cause and severity, but may include:Yellow tinge to the skin, usually appearing first on the skin of the face and scalp.Yellow tinge to the white parts of the e...
By: A health blog
Cancer research: kidney and liver tumors
2007-06-29 15:55:00 Hollywood talent manager Louis Bershad, 68, whose clients include many top actors in town, recently underwent a routine MRI for kidney stones only to learn from his urologist that he also had a tumor in his left kidney. The tumor turned out to be malignant. Facing a new diagnosis of kidney cancer, Bershad recalls, “The room ...
By: Cancer war
Radiation therapy for ?Virtual Patient?
2007-06-29 15:46:00 With a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are developing a physics-based virtual model that can simulate a patient’s breathing in real time. When used in conjunction with existing 3-D models, adding the fourth dimension of time could significantly improve the accuracy and effectiveness of radiation ...
By: Cancer war
New Treatment For Colon And Liver Cancers
2007-06-23 18:04:00 Leire García Navarro, a researcher at the School of Pharmacy of the University of Navarra, has developed a new treatment which slows the growth of colon and liver cancers. This discovery is the principal result of her doctoral dissertation, entitled ?Lipo-Polymeric Vectors for the Transfer of DNA in Cancer Cells of the Colon?, which was subsidized ...
By: Cancer war
Nexavar and advanced liver cancer
2007-06-22 16:32:00 A newer drug called Nexavar, used for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma cancer, is being marketed by Bayer and Onyx Pharmaceuticals in Europe to be approved for an officially-sanctioned treatment of liver cancer. Although Nexavar is being used in 50 countries for kidney cancer, the drug is now being described as a possible treatment for advanced ...
By: Cancer war
Coffee may reduce the risk of liver cancer?
2007-06-22 16:30:00 Can coffee reduce the risk of liver cancer? According to findings published in the medical journal Gastroenterology it can. “Data on potential beneficial effects of coffee on liver function and liver diseases have accrued over the last two decades,” states Drs. Susanna C. Larsson and Alicja Wolk, from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. 11 studies involving ...
By: Cancer war
Nexavar may increase advanced liver cancer survival rate
2007-06-11 16:25:00 People with advanced liver cancer lived about 3 months longer when given the drug Nexavar (sorafenib) compared to those given a placebo, according to new research. In a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, researchers said the drug should become the new standard of care for this form of ...
By: Cancer war
kidney cancer drug - sorafenib
2007-06-06 17:33:00 Liver cancer is one of the toughest cancers to battle, and it claims close to half a million people each year as sufferers. Some positive news on the liver cancer front was discovered recently, as cancer specialists said that the drug sorafenib was seen to give liver cancer patients long lifespans compared to study participants ...
By: Cancer war
Prevention : Hepatitis B when it was less susceptible to liver cancer
2007-06-06 00:49:00 Editor's note : the smaller the children infected with hepatitis B, grew up in the greater the risk of liver cancer. In the fifth, public health forum, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Beijing 100050, that hepatitis B vaccine to prevent hepatitis B infection is the most effective method. China is hepatitis B infection in high-prevalence areas. In recent years, the city epidemiological characteristics of hepatitis B obviously changed, the most important route of transmission is changing. As neonatal hepatitis B vaccination, the proportion of mother-to-child transmission, but iatrogenic transmission, sexual transmission, parenteral transmission has gone up significantly. Report by the World Health Organization, the global annual number of new hepatitis B patients, about 32% is caused by unsafe injection. Hepatitis B virus mainly menstrual blood and blood products, breakage of the skin and mucous membranes, maternal and child and sexual contact. By the skin and mucous transmission ...
Prevention : Prevention and Treatment of Liver Cancer remember two early 3
2007-06-06 00:46:00 "Two early" to enhance the effectiveness : two early control cancer, the multi-fingered early prevention and early diagnosis. Clinical Practice has proved that the diameter of less than 3 cm and small hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma different therapeutic effect. Advanced liver, the liver and accompanied transfer, unresectable, embolization and drug therapy difficult to be effective. However, early diagnosis of small hepatocellular carcinoma, surgical resection, embolization, ablation and other treatment methods are good. Early prevention is to avoid transmission of hepatitis and avoid alcohol, drugs and other liver damage, to the greatest extent prevention or mitigation, including the progress of liver fibrosis. "Checking" : three census management, under three different crowd inspection. According to liver cancer risk, in general good fat liver crowd divided into three categories, the first category of high-risk groups, as a result of chr...
Prevention : Hepatitis liver cancer patients how to take precautionary meas
2007-06-06 00:37:00 Editor's note : In general, the majority of hepatitis prognosis is good, suffering from acute hepatitis can be smoothly restored, will not develop into cirrhosis and liver cancer, but really a long-term hepatitis B patients each day, gradually develop into cirrhosis, eventual development of liver cancer. Some foreign reports, chronic carriers of hepatitis B surface antigen occurred risk of liver cancer than non-carriers 200 times. More than 95% of primary liver cancer patients from chronic carriers of hepatitis B surface antigen from the evolution. Why minorities suffering from hepatitis B patients with primary liver cancer emerging adverse change? The mechanism is not yet fully clear, and therefore it is no effective way to prevent it. Some scholars believe that since hepatitis B virus is the culprit, then to prevent hepatitis B will help reduce the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma. Hold different views of scientists believes that the liver is very complex factors, hepatitis ...
Prevention : the second category often eat food easy to get liver cancer
2007-06-06 00:32:00 Xiaobian Tip : most of the occurrence of cancer and unhealthy living habits and eating habits. Once the regular diet containing carcinogenic substances more easily trigger on the liver. 1. Moldy food, avoid eating fungus aflatoxin to carcinogenic substances, which can be induced by endotoxin, monkey, rat, poultry occurred liver cancer for the shortest time needed for 24 weeks. Prevention of fungal contamination of food, it should be noted : 1. Andrew possession of peanuts, corn, sweet potato stem, rice, millet and other drying must be dried thoroughly and store in dry ventilation environment. 2. Moldy peanuts, Potato, turnip, etc. should be removed stem discarded, both human and animal consumption of poultry. 3. Peanut oil and cottonseed oil is not appropriate long storage; When a large number of suspected foodstuff and dairy products contaminated with fungus, please check epidemic prevention station, Allow only after issuance, sale or consumption. 2. Action, a Kazakh oil La flavor ...
Interferon may improve advanced liver cancer patients? survival rate
2007-06-02 16:56:00 Interferon is an immune stimulating agent. According to an article recently published in the Annals of Surgery, administration of interferon following surgery may improve survival among patients with advanced hepatitis B-related hepatocelluar carcinoma. Hepatocelluar carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of liver cancer. Unfortunately for this disease, recurrences often happen after surgical removal of the ...
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