Tag: Liver

Consider these staggering statistics: according to the American Diabetes Association, about 24 million people suffer from diabetes and a whopping 5 million people are undiagnosed and don’t even know they have the disease!1 Overall, 54 million Americans suffer from some degree of blood sugar imbalance and insulin resistance.1 Most of these people have type II [...]

Tarceva is targeted anticancer drug that works by blocking a biological pathway referred to as the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) pathway. The EGFR pathway is involved in cell growth and replication and when mutated or altered, excessive replication of cells can occur. Tarceva has been shown to improve treatment outcomes in selected patients with [...]

Diagnosis of a solitary plasmacytoma requires a full workup to rule out myeloma elsewhere.  This is because many patients  are ultimately found to have evidence of myeloma. Following complete evaluation, patients with a solitary plasmacytoma can be treated with radiation therapy alone, as studies have indicated that the addition of chemotherapy to radiation does not [...]

Diagnosis of a solitary plasmacytoma requires a full workup to rule out myeloma elsewhere.  This is because many patients  are ultimately found to have evidence of myeloma. Following complete evaluation, patients with a solitary plasmacytoma can be treated with radiation therapy alone, as studies have indicated that the addition of chemotherapy to radiation does not [...]

Breast cancer can come back as a local recurrence (in the treated breast or near the mastectomy scar) or as a distant recurrence somewhere else in the body. The most common sites of recurrence include the lymph nodes, the bones, liver, or lungs. There are three kinds of recurrence, these are;: Local recurrence, this is [...]

The brilliant sunshine streaming through my window reminds me that we can now spend more time outdoors. Just in time, too. After the gray winter doldrums, especially in northern latitudes, say above the axis between Boston and northern California, there is a silent, invisible epidemic: vitamin D deficiency. This is a major component of widespread [...]

In This Issue: Vitamin D Deficiency — The Invisible Epidemic By Dr. Bill Stillwell The brilliant sunshine streaming through my window reminds me that we can now spend moretime outdoors. Just in time, too. After the gray winter doldrums, especially in northern latitudes, say above the axis between Boston and northern California, there is a [...]

It is one of the most frequent cancers in women. Cancer cells can sometimes spread to other organs and tissues in your body through bloodstream or lymph system. When this happens, the cancer is called metastatic breast cancer. In metastatic breast cancer, new tumors may form in other organs and tissues of the body as [...]

Small cell carcinoma of the cervix is a rare cancer, comprising less than 3% of all cervical neoplasms. It uniformly has a poor prognosis, and has a high mortality even with early stage disease. It can metastasise rapidly and metastatic sites include lung, liver, brain, bone, pancreas and lymph nodes. The largest retrospective review was [...]

In most cases, people never realize they have cancer, not until the feel some kind of pain and have it checked out, only to find out that they already have it. Especially nowadays, with the kind lifestyle that is being imposed upon us, news and studies tell us that we can get it from the [...]