Jul 5
Coping with mesothelioma
You may already know this sad fact: There is no early diagnosis for this disease and is usually found out at the advanced stage. You might find it very difficult to deal with the situation as you might be aware that there is no treatment for your disease and you have very little time left.
Along with coping with the fear and anxiety of the cancer you also need to work out strategies to manage your disease practically like arranging for money, dealing with family emotions, fighting a legal battle.
You need to choose the best mode of treatment for your disease depending on what stage it is which will give you maximum relief.
You need to gather maximum information about your disease and physiotherapists, specialist nurses and social workers who can all help you manage at home, as well as in hospital. You can discuss with various support groups located across the country with which you can discuss your fears and apprehensions.
Living with advanced cancer
Treatment can bring certain amount of respite to your disease. You can also get relief if you talk to others about your feelings. You should spend time with yourself to come to terms with the problem. There is no right or wrong solution to deal with the problem.
You should try all possible ways to live with the mesothelioma. You should come to terms with the fact that there is no cure to your advanced mesothelioma.
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You should look for treatments which can slow down the complications of the cancer as well as reduce your pain.
You need advice from an expert in the field of mesothelioma to get information on the following:
” The diagnosis
” Treatment available
” How treatment can benefit you
It is found that people diagnosed with mesothelioma learn to live with the disease by appreciating everything around them, getting their priorities right, cherishing relationships and completing things that you always wanted to do.
A few questions that you can ask your physician about living with mesothelioma are:
” Time frame of my treatment
” Precautions that needs to be taken during the course of the treatment
” Kind of help available
” What kind of work can be done and what sports and hobbies can be pursued?
” Kind of travel that can be done
” Diet to be followed
” Cost involved for the treatment
” Claiming for compensation
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Jul 4
Cancer - Fifteen Warning Signs
By Radoslaw Pilarski
1. Losing weight at a rapid rate (among people not being on a diet), gasses, discomfort, digestive disorders, anorexia, recurring diarrhoea, constipation - are the symptoms occurring most frequently in case of lung, stomach, kidney and large intestine cancer. If accompanied by a feeling of weakness, it can be a sign of blood loss or lack of proper elements building it.
2. Pain of unknown cause - long-lasting stomach-ache can be the symptom of large intestine cancer, lumbalgia can be the sign of kidney cancer, pain in the chest can result from lung cancer. Bone aches can be caused by metastasis.
3. Haemoptysis, long-lasting hoarseness (over 3 weeks), persistent cough or change of its character - can be caused by lung or larynx cancer.
4. Change in colour of moles and warts, ulceration and itching, ulceration of open wounds, burns and scalds can be the signs of skin cancer.
5. Excessive production of urine, backlog of urine, painful urinating, slow, time-consuming flow of urine, lumbago as well as backache can be the signs of prostate cancer.
6. Pain, vertigo, nausea, sight distortions (oversensitized sight, astigmatism), hearing impediment, upset balance and mental disorders can result from brain cancer.
7. Swallowing difficulties - can be a symptom of throat, larynx, oesophagus and stomach cancer.
8. Feeling of fullness in epigastrium, aches and digestive disorders - may be due to stomach cancer and other kinds of alimentary canal cancer, sometimes ovary cancer.
9. Blood in faeces, black faeces, alternating diarrhoea and constipation, mucus in faeces, narrow (pencil-like) faeces - are the symptoms of alimentary canal cancer, especially of large intestine and rectum.
10. Blood in urine (without the symptoms of urinary tracks inflammation), dysuria (compulsive urination, difficulties in urination) - can accompany the urinary tracks cancer.
11. Improper bleeding from the genital tracks, pink or dark-red vaginal discharges, hypogastrium and lower limbs ache can be the signs of vagina, uterine cervix and uterus cancer.
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13. Breast tumour (by approximately 15% - 25% can be impalpable), ulceration, the retraction of nipple, asymmetrical nipples, change of size or the shape of a nipple, its swelling and the marks around it, enlargement of lymphatic glands in the armpit, extension of veins in the breast skin, ulceration of breast skin, shoulder swelling, flat efflorescene in case of the so called advanced inflammation nipple cancer - are often the symptoms of breast cancer.
14. Fever, tiredness, bones and joints ache, inclination to temporary anaemia and bleeding, impalpable tumour of abdominal cavity, as a result of spleen enlargement, that can be detected in gastro-bowel test.
15. Pain and pressure in the upper right part of stomach, tiredness, anorexia and at a further stage of rhe disease a palpable tumour in the upper right part of stomach, inclination to jaundice and bleeding can be the signs of liver cancer.
Copyright 2006 Radoslaw Pilarski
Radoslaw Pilarski is a PhD candidate working on anticancer properties of Uncaria tomentosa - http://www.uncariatomentosa.com - at PAS, Poland. mLingua Worldwide Translations, Ltd. - http://mlingua.pl - provides professional language translations.
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