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...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Cancer
Cancer is a complex genetic disease that is caused by specific changes to genes. These changes in the normal cell can occur in one cell or group of cells and are the main reason for a normal cell to transform into a cancer cell. These normal cells are the body’s basic...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Cancer
Cancer cells differ from normal cells in the body in many ways. The differences range from the types, characteristics, growth potential, properties, and more. A cell is the basic unit block of all living creatures. During your life, the normal body cells are...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Diseases and Conditions
Nipple pain is pain that occurs in the breast tissue around the nipple of the breast. It can result from a simple physical cause such as surface abrasion caused by breastfeeding, or by physical activity without a bra, or wearing a poorly fitted bra. These activities...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Diseases and Conditions
How do you define breast pain? Simply put, breast pain or breast tenderness is some level of discomfort or pain that can develop in one or both breasts. In medical terms, it is referred to as mastalgia and mastodynia. It can occur in women of any age but is more...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Pregnancy
As your body undergoes changes during pregnancy, so do your breasts. Post-delivery, it is the breasts that help the mother satisfy her most important obligation to her baby, that of feeding it. For lactation to occur, the breasts undergo certain changes, anatomically...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Human Body
The female breasts in humans, referred to as mammary glands in medicine, usually start developing between the ages of 9 to 14 years due to hormonal changes associated with puberty. The mammary glands are exocrine glands present in humans and other mammals that produce...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Nutrition
Apples are one of the most popular fruits around the world. The reason for their rising popularity is their dense nutritious value, good taste, and the consequent health benefits they have on the body. They are a rich source of antioxidants, vitamins, dietary fiber,...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Health
What is alcohol rehabilitation? Alcohol rehabilitation is the process of medical and psychotherapeutic treatment to cure dependency on psychoactive substances such as alcohol. It is carried out at the rehabilitation center. It starts with alcohol detox, which is the...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Diseases and Conditions
Most people suffering from kidney stones want to pass them out as quickly as possible for fear of the renal colic episodes they have faced. The pain of kidney stones is probably the worst type of pain man ever faces. Secondly, the fear of having to go through surgery...
