According to recent data published in the second Comprehensive Plan of Andalusia Oncology 2007-2012, the prevalence by sex in this autonomous region amounts to 86,897 cases in over 90,000 men and women. “The most prevalent type of cancer among the Andalusian population in both genders, …read the rest of this entry»

The vaccine, to be applied in three doses over a period of six months to a year, will cost 1,400 Quetzales (about $ 186)

The National League against Cancer in Guatemala initiated a vaccination campaign to prevent cervical cancer, which affects on average each year about 2,800 women, reported that institution. …read the rest of this entry»

The World Health Organization has approved the use of a new vaccine against cervical cancer. This was announced in a statement the company developing the vaccine, GlaxoSmithKline PLC. The name of the new remedy is Cervarix.

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Several tests are, by choice that the Pap test is to detect cell changes before they turn into cancer would be the test of choice, with it although it does not diagnose cancer in itself, puts us track of whether any changes in the cells that warrant further studies to confirm.

There are precancerous lesions called L-and …read the rest of this entry»

Good afternoon, my name is Sandra. I want to tell you about an incident that happened to me. Well, not to me but to my son, and it was I who underwent this experience.
What Seemed Like an Ear Infection…
I want to begin to tell you how this all began, all of what happened to my son from the start. In 1998 we were completely fine, and my son started to feel bad all of a sudden–his ears began to hurt. I began taking him to the doctor–they sent me to see a specialist.
I took him to the doctor several times, until they came to the conclusion that he needed ear drains to avoid infection, and this would control everything. The day came- -they operated on my son, and they put in the drains.
From that day on, my son completely stopped eating. We did not know what had happened. I took him to the doctor that week, and the doctor told me that this was natural, because it was something strange that happened in his body- -that he had in his body–and he needed to adapt himself, and as the days passed, this would go away.
Several days passed, and once again the same thing happened: he did not want to eat, he refused to eat. “What’s wrong, son, why don’t you want to eat?” “I don’t know mom,” he says, “I am not hungry, food makes me sick”. From then on, every day was the same.
Then I took him to the doctor, and they told me, “Everything is OK, don’t worry.” He says, “Your son will get better. When this passes, everything will be normal.” I say, “Why has my son been like this for so long?” He said, “Maybe a month, and all of this will pass.” …read the rest of this entry»

Hi. My name is Rosemary and I am 48 years old. I live in Minnesota in a suburb of the Twin Cities, a suburb of Minneapolis. I am single, have no children, but have a great companion named Guinness, a black and tan cocker spaniel, and believe it or not, he’s brought me a lot of comfort over the years.
To just give you some background about my story, it’s kind of an interesting story because I suffered from some symptoms that were unexplainable for nearly three years. In January 1996, I started noticing that I was flushing, having red flushes and having diarrhea and I just assumed it was probably menopause. I was in my early 40’s and I knew some of my sisters had gone through menopause early, so I just assumed that was probably what was going on.
Tests Inconclusive Despite Extreme Pain and Symptoms
After a while, I went and made an appointment at the Clinic and told them what my symptoms were and asked to have the test for menopause done. Well, it came back that I wasn’t in menopause. So, I thought–oh okay. As the symptoms continued and as the diarrhea became worse and I was losing more weight, my doctor and I decided that we needed to do some other tests. I wasn’t concerned, really, at that point. We thought, maybe I had some intestinal parasite or something that I’d picked up when I’d been on a recent trip to Mexico. …read the rest of this entry»

Beating the Odds with Pancreatic Cancer
Hi, my name is Roger and I’m 63 years old. I am a resident of Montana, but not all the time. I’m a Nebraskan. Moved out here about twenty years ago. Worked in a gold mine for twenty years. I’m married to a very loving wife. We got three children. We got six grandchildren.
In the beginning–our cancer problems go back a long ways. My wife had cancer eight years ago and we went through the whole ordeal while I was well and got her through. She is an eight-year veteran of breast cancer, and now I’m a two-year veteran of pancreatic cancer.
It all started off when I was operating heavy equipment in the mine. I was having problems keeping food down. It just kind of gradually came on, and finally I went to my local doctor and he ran a tube down my throat and really couldn’t tell anything. He got clear down to my stomach and said, “Well, it looks like a bruise down there.” But then he said, “I think I’ll have you go see a gastroenterologist in Bozeman.”
So I did that, and they tubed me once and said there was some problem with the duodenum, that they’d want to try it again. So they tried it again, and this time they put a balloon in there and blew it out and it collapsed again. So they kept me in the hospital over Christmas, this was in 1999, and did that every day for three days, and finally arrived at the decision that it wasn’t going to work. So they thought they’d have to do some surgery to correct this. Well, I got lined up on the second of February of 2000. …read the rest of this entry»

My name is Scott. I’m a cancer survivor. I’m 35 years old. I live with my wife Marianne and our three dogs in Portland, Oregon. I first got sick in July of 2001. I’ve kept a pretty good calendar of events, and it’s scary to see how fast this progressed.
I saw my general practitioner on July 3rd, and I seemed totally healthy. On July 16th I started experiencing pain in my knees with a little numbness in my jaw. The next day I was flying to the East Coast to begin a three-week vacation at the National Scout Jamboree. By the time I got back East, the pain in my knees was getting pretty bad. I was glad to know that I had a medical staff right there at my camp, because something was definitely wrong.
Over the next several days I was treated by the camp doctors, but the pain medications and antibiotics weren’t doing anything. At that point I was often in too much pain to walk. I had fevers up to about 102 degrees, was having sweats, and a lymph node in my neck was swollen. I spent one night in the Army Base hospital. I took more pain medications, and the X-rays didn’t show anything. Even blood work didn’t clue anybody in.
Exhaustive Testing Leads to Diagnosis
On July 29th I flew home to Portland. The next day I saw my general practitioner, who took more X-rays and blood work. This time the blood showed something. The following week I had my first CT scan, and my doctor arranged appointments with an oncologist and an infectious disease specialist. The infectious disease was ruled out in one visit with that doctor, and cancer was quickly considered with one visit to the oncologist. …read the rest of this entry»

My name is Santiago. I’m 64 years old. I live in sunny Southern California, Riverside. My wife, Becky, and I have been married for 44 years. We have six wonderful daughters from ages 43 down to 16 years of age. In or about April of 1997, I noticed a small amount of blood in my urine. I told my wife about it and she forced me to go to emergency and I did.
Some time went by before I was diagnosed with bladder cancer. At first I underwent BCG [Bacillus Calmette-Guérin] treatments. Then my urologist informed me that I had invasive cancer and that it was at a stage IV level. He suggested surgery and I agreed to it. At this point of the game, I figured I had nothing to lose. So I went ahead and agreed to whatever had to be done. I was totally, say, confident that my urologist would pull me through all of this. We had very long talks and he assured me that he would do everything possible within his own means. …read the rest of this entry»

Robert: living through kidney cancer
I live in Yuba City, California, which is a small town about an hour north of Sacramento in the north part of the state, which I refer to as God’s country. I am now 53 years old, I have been married for almost 30 years, and I have two beautiful daughters, both of whom are in college in the east. So I am very poor, paying college tuition. My story begins, I think this is my third year in November. I had two previous instances in which cancer I thought affected me, but in the end didn’t. About ten years ago I was told I had tumor on my neck and when I had an operation, they discovered it wasn’t a malignancy but something else. Then about five years ago as a result of my routine physical examination, my doctor called me up and said I think you have lymphoma. And after spending two or three days before a biopsy and being told it wasn’t lymphoma but was another disease called sacroid I had two instances in which I had been told that I had cancer, and didn’t.
The symptoms
So three years ago when I went in for my routine physical examination, I had been very tired. I’m an avid golfer and I play a lot of golf, and I do exercise, and I had been noticeably a little more fatigued, and also, my back had been bothering me. And those of us who have back pain know that sometimes you have pain down your leg, and I had pains down my leg but in addition I’d had some numbness in my toe. And I just assumed that it was part of my back problem. So really it’s a result of numbness in my toe, I decided it was time to see my physician for another routine physical examination. I had missed the previous year, but I went and visited him. I have a great doctor that I know personally, so I went through my whole battery of different kinds of things, and everything appeared to be normal. I told him about my tiredness and about my toe and we laughed because he assumed also that it was my back that was perhaps giving me problems with the tow. Anyway, you know I spent my day at routine physical examinations and went home. And the very next day, in the afternoon, at five o’clock, which I knew when he called was obviously some problem. My physician called and said, Robert, I think you should come back in, we need to do some more blood work. And I said, “What’s the matter?” And he said, “Why don’t you come over right now?”
Well, when your physician tells you to come over at 5:15 on a Friday afternoon, you obviously think, you know, what’s wrong. So I go back and the first thing he does is sit me down and they take so many vials of blood out of my arm that I was beginning to wonder, and basically he said to me, he said, “Robert, your hormonal levels are a little bit off. He said you had absolutely no testostricin and he says, “Is everything okay at home?” And I said, “Well, yes, everything is okay as far as I understand it.” But he said, “you had absolutely none. …read the rest of this entry»