Bleeding After The Menopause - Essential Facts You Need To Know
Posted on March 14, 2008
If you’ve been through the menopause you may be worried by spotting or bleeding that you find. This can be due to a number of causes including vaginal infections, fibroids and endometrial cancer.
But first you have to rule out the fact have you actually reached the menopause. Even if you have been having perimenopausal symptoms such as hot flashes and night sweats for several years, it doesn’t actually mean that you have reached the menopause yet. What most people call menopause symptoms are actually due to the perimenopause - the run up to the menopause. During… Continue reading
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Fear or Fact? Cervical Cancer and the HPV Vaccine
Posted on March 14, 2008
Unless you’ve been living in isolation for the past 1 - 2 years, you would have found it almost impossible to avoid hearing about the risk of cervical cancer, and the two new HPV (Human Papillomavirus) vaccines (Gardasil and Cervarix) that have now been introduced as a prevention strategy against this disease.
In a revolutionary age where media campaigning has tremendous power and potential to infiltrate thinking and ideas on national and global scales, distinguishing fact from emotion becomes a confronting, yet subtle dilemma.
The platform for the introduction of these 2 new HPV vaccines onto the worldwide market has been on… Continue reading
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Is Cervical Cancer The Real Threat We’ve Been Led To Believe?
Posted on March 14, 2008
With the vast amount of media attention given to cervical cancer since the introduction of the new HPV (Human Papillomavirus) vaccines, any female or parent could certainly be forgiven for believing that the risk of cervical cancer is a serious health threat to the female population.
But exactly how serious is the risk, and what percentage of the population is actually affected?
Consider these facts. Cervical cancer only represents a small proportion of all cancer diagnoses and deaths each year. For example, according to the American Cancer Society, American women are 16 times more likely to develop breast cancer than cervical cancer… Continue reading
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The Skinny on Cancerous Moles
Posted on March 14, 2008
Do you have skin moles and worry that they may become cancerous? The good news is that most skin moles are, and remain, benign. However, these skin growths do have the potential to become cancerous. If melanoma is discovered early, the chances of recovery are greater. But how can you tell the difference between a cancerous mole and a benign mole? Here are some tips to steer you in the right direction.
Melanoma accounts for less than 5% of all skin cancer instances. That being said, it also has the highest mortality rate of all skin cancers and can quickly spread… Continue reading
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Early Warning Signs of Ovarian Cancer
Posted on March 13, 2008
What are the early warning signs of ovarian cancer? This is a very difficult question to answer, because while there are symptoms in the beginning stages of the disease, they tend to be so mild that both the woman herself and her doctors may not think the symptoms are indicative of ovarian cancer. This is particularly the case if the woman doesn’t have ovarian cancer in her family’s history. Yet, it’s still helpful if women are at least aware of the most common signs of ovarian cancer. By knowing what the symptoms are, she may not… Continue reading
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Stages of Ovarian Cancer
Posted on March 13, 2008
There are four stages of ovarian cancer. When you get diagnosed, your doctor will try to determine which of the stages you belong to. If you are diagnosed in the earlier stages then you have a greater chance of survival. On the other hand, diagnosis in the latter stages could mean that your disease has progressed too much to be cured by conventional means. Either way, you should be aware of these stages so you can know what to expect as your ovarian cancer progresses. Each of these stages are described in greater detail below.
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