by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Cancer
Chemotherapy is an aggressive and very powerful form of cancer treatment. It is not without side effects, some of which can be very serious. These side effects of chemotherapy disturb your quality of life adding to the already mental trauma of having being diagnosed...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Cancer
Chemo, in short, stands for chemical and therapy means treatment. Chemotherapy, therefore, is defined as the treatment of cancer with chemicals (drugs). It is an aggressive therapy that destroys the rapidly multiplying cancer cells in the body. Doctors often refer to...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Cancer
Blood tests for cancer diagnosis are usually non-conclusive. The fact is that there is no single reliable blood test to accurately diagnose cancer. These tests, however, may help or guide the doctor in the diagnosis, but the doctor cannot stop his procedure of...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Cancer
When we say types of cancer, we may either mean the various types of cancers according to the site of origin such as breast cancer, or it can also mean the different kinds of cancers according to their pathological classification. Cancer is cancer but different...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Cancer
What is the stage of cancer? When your doctor mentions the stage of cancer, it basically means the state of development, condition, or severity of the disease. It also indicates to what extent cancer has progressed or how much the cancer cells have spread. There are...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Cancer
There are more than 100 types of cancers and their symptoms as there are more than 100 sites in the body where cancer cells can originate. Depending on the site of cancer in the body, its symptoms will present accordingly. Body symptoms of cancer can be general such...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Cancer
Cancer is a disease characterized by the mutation of normal cells into cancer cells that divide uncontrollably and destroy the normal body tissue. The cancer cells invade the neighboring tissues and often spread throughout your body to form metastasis in distant...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Cancer
What is the 5-year cancer survival rate? Cancer survival rates tell you the proportion of people who continue to live after being diagnosed with a certain type of cancer for a particular amount of time. These cancer survival statistics generally use a five-year...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Cancer
What is metastasis? Definition Cancer that spreads from its place of origin to other regions of the body is called metastatic cancer and the process is called metastasis, the plural of which is metastases. It is referred to as stage 4 cancer. Metastasis is defined as...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Cancer
This article presents an overview of statistics related to cancer worldwide and in the United States. It covers three aspects: prevalence and incidence of cancer, mortality trends, and survival rates. Some trends are alarming while some offer comfort on the progress...
