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Making some simple changes to your lifestyle can significantly reduce your risk of developing cancer. For example, healthy eating, taking regular exercise and not smoking will all help lower your risk.
A healthy lifestyle can help reduce your chances of developing cancer.
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There are many different types of treatments used against cancer. This includes both traditional therapies (such as surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy), newer forms of treatment (including information on clinical trials), and complementary and alternative therapies.
When there is no cure for an illness, palliative care tries to make the end of a person’s life as comfortable as possible.
Whitfield Growdon
Surgical OncologistDr. Whitfield Growdon was born and raised in Boston. He graduated from Williams College with a degree in Art History. After years of appreciating fine arts in the Berkshire Mountains, he attended the University of Massachusetts Medical School. There he metAmanda, and 5 days before graduation, they were married in Salem, MA.
He returned to Boston where he was a resident atthe integrated Brigham & Womens/MGH Combined OBGYN Residency, and alsocompleted a gynecologic oncology fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
His interests include minimally invasive surgery and correlative investigationinto rare gynecologic tumors. He lives in downtown Boston with his wife and his 2 year olddaughter Lily who lights up his world.
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Cancer is such a common disease that it is no surprise that many families have at least a few members who have had cancer.
Genetic testing can be useful for people with certain types of cancer that seem to run in their families, but these tests aren't recommended for everyone.
Cancer cells possess a broad spectrum of migration and invasion mechanisms. These include both individual and collective cell-migration strategies.
Cancer therapeutics that are designed to target adhesion receptors or proteases have not proven to be effective in slowing tumour progression in clinical trials--this might be due to the fact that cancer cells can modify their migration mechanisms in response to different conditions.
Each specific type of cancer has its own set of treatment methods.
However, many cases of cancer are treated using chemotherapy (powerful cancer-killing medication) and radiotherapy (the controlled use of high energy X-rays). Surgery is also sometimes carried out to remove cancerous tissue.
What drives cancer cells to grow and divide uncontrollably and to escape cell death? Studies of mutations in tumor suppressor genes have provided key answers to this question.
Tumor suppressor genes often function to restrain inappropriate cell growth and division, as well as to stimulate cell death to keep our cells in proper balance. In addition, some of these genes are involved in DNA repair processes, which help prevent the accumulation of mutations in cancer-related genes.
In this way, tumor suppressor genes act as "brakes" to stop cells in their tracks before they can take the road to cancer. Given this situation, loss of tumor suppressor gene function can be disastrous, and it often puts once-normal cells on the fast track to disease.
