Cancer Information
NATIONAL MODEL OF CANCER PREVENTION
Actual Social Problem!
Cancer prevalence registered in Georgia exceeds 30000 person/year and additionally, more than 7000 cancer incidence and 5500 cancer mortality cases are registered annually.
It should be mentioned that person gets cancer in the optimal age (45-65 years) of professional and personal development, when one's activity brings the maximal benefit. That's way the cancer significantly hazards the world economically and obstacles the rhythm of its development.
10 STEPS TO A HEALTHIER LIFE AND REDUCED CANCER RISK
Population health, length of life time and quality greatly depends on personal diet, as the most important function in life sustaining system. Incorrect diet causes many diseases, including cancer, reduces length of life time and increases number of early deaths. Healthy diet helps to sustain person in a strong physical and spiritual condition for a long time, to prevent diseases, including cancer, to recover from many illnesses, to increase length of life time, to improve quality of life, to reach the top stage of personal self-expression.
Fasting is one of the best way to reduce periodically protein-louded and especially, high-fat products in personal diet. Fasting helps to control own diet and to sustain or reach physical and spiritual health.
What Can You Do To Protect Yourself Against Cancer By Correct Diet
Take under control what you eat and adopt to a healthy diet One's health, length of life time and quality greatly depends on personal diet, as the most important function in life sustaining system. Incorrect diet causes many diseases, including cancer.
Conduct 10 Steps of Healthy Life Style and Reduce the Risk of Getting Cancer and Death
The amount of cancer patients registered in Georgia exceeds 30.000, 7.000 persons are getting and 5.5000 are dying of cancer annually. 70% of cancer incidence and mortality could be avoided due to healthy life style.
Healthy Life Style (Videoclip)
Due to healthy life style person promotes health, protects himself from numerous of diseases, disability and death. 70% of cancer incidence and mortality could be avoided due to healthy life style.
Numerous cancer inducing factors are known at the present time and protection from cancer development or primary prevention is possible by avoidance of their exposure on humans.
Avoiding of cancer inducing factors or Carcinogenic agents exposure and consepently reducing of cancer risk is possible due to healthy life style.
The main ways of cancer inducing factors or carcinogentic agents exposure, concerned with healthy life style:
(Geo)Consider this recommendations to avoid the cancer-10 steps of healthy life style to reduce the cancer risk:
(Geo)NACC modified audio recommendations
Deny Adultery -Deny Narcotics -
Quit Tobacco Smoking
Tobacco smoking is the main cause of death. 400 000 - 500 000 persons are dying in the world annually because of diseased induced by smoking.
Tobacco smoking represents the main cause of death, brings the significant intellectual and economical damage to the world and obstacles its development.
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Tobacco smoking is causing numerous of diseases. Active and passive smoking is causing diseases of respiratory, digestive, cardiovascular and neural systems, cancer, pathological pregnancy, delivery complications, fetus anomalies, respiratory and allergic diseases of children, induces non-healthy habits in children and reducing risk of narcotic dependency, reducing of mean life time.
Tobacco smoking is causing the death. Among the main causes of cancer, tobacco smoking represents the most significant risk factor.
(Geo)Tobacco smoking is concerned with 30% of cancer cases. Due to permanet exsposure of tobaco conteining and it's burring produced substances, cancer of oral cavity, larynx, digestive, urinary and reproductive organs - breast, uterus, ovaries- are developing.
Tobacco smoking is causing genetical disorders, cancer development and death. Due to permanent exposure of carcinogenic agents, about 80% of smokers are developing genetical disorders, which causes the inducing of cancer, immune and psychological depression. Then malignant process progresses and ends with smoker's death.
Protect children from passive tobacco smoking.700 mln children are under the damaging influence of tobacco smoke due to passive smoking. 70% of such children have increased risk of respiratory system's diseases development: among of them risk of impaired respiratory function, infection diseases, chronic bronchitis and pneumonia, bronchial asthma. Development of mentioned diseases in children is a good phone and raises the risk of cancer in future as becoming adult.
Children of every 9 from 10 smoker's families are un-protected from passive smoking. Tobacco smoke damaging exposure causes hearing disfunctions and deafness in 30%, 25% of children mortality is concerned with tobacco smoke influence.
Active and passive smoking is hazardous for your, your family members, relatives, friends and colleges health and lives.
(Geo)To quit smoking consult your family doctor NICORETTE (Videoclip)
LUNG CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PREVENTION
Lung cancer primary prevention, which intends the control of factors related to environment and life style. Popularization of Healthy Life Style directed against smoking and educational activities to increase citrus in diet. Adoption the law forbidding smoking in state and non state organizations and places of public meetings and the advertising of tobacco products and alcoholic drinks by means of mass media.
What Can You Do To Protect Yourself Against Cancer
Recommendations for Female Reproductive System's Cancer Prevention and Early Detection
It should be taken in to account 3 000 females are getting cancer and 2 000 are dying because of this disease annually in Georgia. First rank place in female's cancer incidence structure takes breast cancer. More than 55% of female's cancer incidence is composed by of reproductive system's cancer (breast, cervical, uterus, and ovary).
These sites cancer are getting 50-60 females form each 100 000 and these figure has the tendency of raise. According to cancer occurrence epidemiological study, high cumulative risk of cancer is estimated in female population of Tbilisi, Abkhazeti and Adjara regions.
How to do Breast Self Examination
Recommendations for Breast Cancer Prevention and Early Detection
It should be taken in to account 3 000 females are getting cancer and 2 000 are dying because of this disease annualy in Georgia. First rank place in females oncological disease structure takes breast cancer. 50-60 females form each 100 000 are getting cancer of this site and these figure has the tendency of raise. According to epidemiological study of cancer occurance high risk of breast cancer is estimated in female population of Tbilisi, Abkhazeti and Adjara regions.
1000-1500 women are registered annually with breast cancer in Georgia. By several months and years breast cancer is preceded by precancer diseases, due to in time detection and treatment of which the cancer itself could be avoided.
Breast cancer and its related death could be avoided
In time and early detection of breast cancer, precancer and phonic diseases is possible mercy to periodical preventive examinations in high breast cancer risk group females.
Breast cancer risk factors:
(Geo)Breast cancer and its related death could be avoided
The complete cure is possible in 90-100% if detect breast cancer in early stages. On the other hand, when the disease progress because of neglecting the symptoms, patient's survival chances significantly reduce.
Symptoms of breast cancer and phonic diseases
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Breast self-examination
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Breast self-examination
You can save your breast, maintain your health and life due to regular breast self-examination
Most of tumors in breast are detected by self-examination
Most of detected lumps are not cancer and their treatment can ensure to avoid the cancer
All women should conduct periodical preventive examinations
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When the breast self-examination should be conducted
The effective time for self-examination is after the menstrual cycle, when breast is not edematous and sensitive.
In case of irregular cycle or its interruption, self-examination is recommended on same days of each month, F. E. first days of each month.
How the breast self-examination should be conducted
(Geo)Remember: detecting any changes during self-examination, immediately consult your doctor
DIAGNOSES OF BREAST TUMORS
Similar to the international data, the incidence of breast cancer has also raised in Georgia and it takes the first rank place in female's oncological disease structure. Annual increase on each 100 000 female is 48,8.
This monograph is based on author's clinical material and consists the evaluation of different main diagnostic methods (clinical, radiological, cytological, thermograph, ultrasound and etc) in analyses of breast benign and malignant cases.
What Should We Know About Chemotherapy
This book - What Should We Know About Chemotherapy - is designed to help you become an informed partner in your care, but it is only a guide. Self-help can never take the place of professional health care. Ask your doctor and nurse any questions you may have about chemotherapy. Also don’t hesitate to tell them about any side effects you may have. They want and need to know.
MANAGEMENT OF HYPERCALCEMIA IN ONCOLOGIC PATIENTS
Hypercalcemia, one of the most common metabolic disorders accompanying neoplasia, with an estimated incidence of 150 new cases per million persons per year, can provide the great discomfort for the patient. Hypercalcemia occurs in 10%-30% of people with cancer.
The cancers most often associated with hypercalcemia are those of the breast, lung, kidney, prostate, head and neck, as well as certain blood, neoplasms particularly multiple myeloma.
MODERN METHODS OF CHILDHOOD CANCER MANAGEMENT
According to the latest data, the incidence of oncological diseases in children shows tendency to increasing. The range of these diseases is broad and by clinical course and results of special treatment they radically differ from the pathologies of the same type in adults.