Although prostate cancer is considered a disease of the elderly man, it has been known to inflict its damage unmanned as young as their early 30s. Heredity seems to play a factor especially in younger patients.If you’re a men over 50, you should consider a yearly Prostate cancer PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) test. It’s a [...]

According to the American Cancer Society, 50% of all men and 33% of all women in the United States, will develop some sort of cancer in their lifetime. In a healthy body, cells divide at a controlled rate so as to grow and repair damaged tissues and replace dying cells. This predetermined rate of cell [...]

At my parents’ house-second to potatoes-red beets were always one of the main vegetables at meals. During my youth, I did not pay any attention to their medicinal quality. Beets only became part of my diet after I have learned about their healing benefits. The Oncology/Hematology Department of the local hospital used beets as an [...]

It’s unfortunate that we should have to worry about acute leukemia symptoms. After all, at some points in our history, it always looks like a disease is getting better. In this case, it is Leukemia – and many doctors say that it is something that drugs will help. However, there are still more than 30,000 [...]

Prostate brachytherapy (pronounced bray-kee-ther-uh-pee), the implantation of radioactive seeds into the prostate gland, is one of the standard methods of successfully treating prostate cancer. The tiny radioactive seeds are smaller than grains of rice.A prostate seed implant may be the only type of radiation therapy needed by a man with low-risk prostate cancer or it [...]