What are mesothelioma lawsuits and how do they arise? Mesothelioma lawsuits are filed by the victims of mesothelioma to avail reparations for medical expenses, pain & suffering and loss of income associated with the growth of this disease. Mesothelioma is a kind of cancer, which is inflicted by exposure to asbestos most frequently used in industrial and residential places till the late seventies. The numbers of mesothelioma victims were on the rise as the employers continued using these ha...
Mesothelioma the medical name for cancer of the lung or the abdomen lining, and is usually caused by exposure to asbestos. Asbestos is a type of building material used in thermal insulation products and ceiling tiles. Asbestos usage peaked during the 1950s - 1970s, but during the late 1960s, concerns over the health consequences of asbestos exposure began to arise, thereby decreasing the amount of asbestos manufactured over the following two decades. But even though new measures where brou...
By Donald Saunders Although prostate cancer is one of the commonest forms of cancer in men, and is currently responsible for the deaths of over 30,000 men every year in the United States alone, a reluctance on the part of many men to visit their doctor and to talk about anything to do with sex or their sexual organs has meant that, until recently, prostate cancer has been given something of a low profile. Today, however, the deaths in the past few years of a number of well known pers...
by Trevor Mulholland It is important for men to know their options when it comes to prostate treatments specific to a cancer's stage. Staging is used to describe the extent by which a cancer has spread. In prostate cancer, the most commonly used staging system is called the TNM. The overall stage under the TNM system is expressed in Roman numerals. The least advanced condition is tagged as Stage I, while the most advanced is categorized as Stage IV. In considering prostate treatments, ...
Prostate cancer is the leading cancer diagnosed among men in the United States. Because prostate cancer is so slow-growing, many men, once diagnosed are told to do nothing but "watch and wait" for it to progress. Generally, prostate cancer is a progressive disease that is likely to grow and spread over a period of time, unless it is treated. Unfortunately this form of cancer is diagnosed in an estimated 80% of men who reach age 80.The good news is that if caught early, prostate cancer is v...
Being diagnosed with prostate cancer is by no means a death sentence as compared to previously. There are a number of prostate cancer treatment options available. You need to speak with your oncologist to find out which option works best for you. Learning about your prostate cancer diagnosis may be difficult to accept initially. So you should get your oncologist to answer any questions you may have. He should be able to give you very helpful advice. You may consider bringing a family mem...
For some peculiar reason, whenever I address a health issue and my male friends are present, the discussion is quickly redirected to another subject as they try to avoid the discussion. I recently encountered the same phenomenon and one of my friends responded that men are feeling guilty of making mistakes when it comes to their health. From forgetting to eat their daily fruit and veggies indulging in a hamburger of French fries, to scheduling an appointment with the doctor only when the sy...
While millions of people are slowly dying of hunger, modern societies have to face new challenges directly linked to our way of life. Bad nutritional habits, stress, junk food and other factors contribute day after day to a dramatic explosion of obesity. But how can the obesity of today, combined with an aging population have a direct impact on the next children generation? Although no real study has ever been performed on this subject, science already proved us that obesity can have nega...
Drug development has produced many tales of important pharmaceuticals that originate in plants. Now scientists at the Indiana University School of Medicine want to write another, hoping to turn an extract from feverfew--an herb traditionally used as a treatment for migraine headaches--into a new tool to fight cancer. The compound, parthenolide, may be a key to reducing the spread (metastasis) or the recurrence of several types of cancer, including breast, prostate, lung, bladder, leuke...
A new American Cancer Society report says that men with diabetes seem to have a reduced risk of developing prostate cancer. The society's study tracked 72,000 men from 1992 to 2002 and found that men diagnosed with type 2 diabetes were less likely to also be diagnosed later with prostate cancer. Scientists say a drop in insulin levels among diabetes patients may be key to the lowered risk. * Men with type 2 diabetes seem to be less likely to develop prostate cancer, overall, a new study i...
If sex is the sweet part of a relationship, then orgasm has to be all that delightful chocolate they put in my favorite sweet things. Jokes aside, sex can be very accurately described as the glue that holds together the other aspects of a relationship between two people. And orgasm is the goal of every hot sex session. The pleasure that makes the tight worlds of intimate relationships go round. What is less known is the fact that orgasms have certain health benefits attached to them. Inde...
After prostate cancer surgery, obese men are more likely than men with normal weight to have high levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA), a marker for cancer recurrence, according to a study led by Johns Hopkins researchers. "Our results show that moderately and severely obese men were at an increased risk for high PSA levels after surgery and therefore are likely to have prostate cancer recurrence," said Stephen Freedland, M.D., instructor of urology at the Brady Urological Institut...
The first longitudinal study of male orgasmic quality following radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP) found that some men experience decreased orgasmic quality. Overall, orgasmic quality improved with increasing length of follow up. It has been known that RRP and other surgical procedures for the treatment of prostate cancer can negatively impact sexual function, but previous studies had focused solely on erectile and ejaculatory function issues. The study will be presented during a discusse...
New research on genes linked to hereditary prostate cancer helps scientists better understand how prostate cancer grows. Tests to find abnormal prostate cancer genes could also help tell which men are at high risk. They could then be tested more often. Further research could provide answers about the chemical changes that lead to prostate cancer. Then, perhaps, we could design drugs to reverse those changes. One of the biggest problems now facing doctors and their patients w...
Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers to be diagnosed in men. Unlike many other cancers, prostate cancer often grows very slowly and is difficult to detect for many years. A man with this disease may not exhibit any prostate cancer symptoms for some time. Many men pass off prostate cancer symptoms as just signs of getting older. Aging men do experience many of the same symptoms as those with prostate cancer because of how both affect urination. Prostate cancer symptoms incl...