When someone is discovered to have colon cancer, an important question that needs to be answered is “how much has the cancer spread by the time it was discovered”? The system that physicians have agreed upon to answer this question is by separating the amount of spread of the colon cancer into what are known […]
Archive for November, 2009
Colon Cancer Stages
November 22nd, 2009 by RemwesMedical
Colon Cancer Symptoms
November 22nd, 2009 by RemwesMedical
Colon Cancer is a very important medical problem which affects thousands of people yearly. There are some clues or symptoms that a person can exhibit which may give us an early indication that that person may or may not have colon cancer.
Posted in Colon Cancer 
Tags: Abdominal pain, Anemia, Blood in the stool, Blood per rectum, Colon Cancer, thin stools 
No Comments »Lung Cancer Diagnosis
November 21st, 2009 by RemwesMedical
The diagnosis of lung cancer is something that brings much anxiety and fear to the person as well as to the family members of the person. For years people have tried to see if perhaps a screening techniques could be found that would allow for the earlier diagnosis of lung cancer, but these efforts have […]
Posted in Lung Cancer Tags: bloody sputum, Cancer diagnosis, cancer screening, cough, Lung Cancer, weight loss No Comments »Stage 4 Lung Cancer
November 17th, 2009 by RemwesMedical
Stage 4 Lung Cancer is lung cancer that has spread beyond the initial area in the lung where the cancer started to a distant area such as the opposite lung or the bones or the brain or the liver. Lung Cancer is divided into two different types of lung cancer.
Lung Cancer Treatments
November 17th, 2009 by RemwesMedical
The treatments that are available for lung cancer are as follows: 1. SURGERY. When someone is found with lung cancer, the first and most important determination is to decide if the cancer can be removed surgically. The decision whether to allow surgery or not is based on the size of the tumor when it is […]
Lung Cancer Chemotherapy
November 15th, 2009 by RemwesMedical
The chemotherapy that is used to treat lung cancer is constantly evolving. As new treatments are discoverd and more effective ways of fighting lung cancer are found, these new treatments are incorporated into the fight against lung cancer.
Posted in Chemotherapy, Lung Cancer Tags: Erlotinib, Iressa, Lung Cancer therapy, lung cancer treatment, Nilotinib, tarceva No Comments »Metastatic Lung Cancer
November 15th, 2009 by RemwesMedical
When lung cancer spreads beyond the original area or spot where the cancer started, this is what is known as metastasis. Following with this thinking then, when a lung cancer is a spread cancer, this is what is known as a metastatic lung cancer.
Posted in Lung Cancer Tags: brain tumors, cancer spread, chemotherapy, liver tumors, metastasis No Comments »Lung Cancer Staging
November 14th, 2009 by RemwesMedical
When a lung cancer is found, one of the most important and life-saving treatments available is the possibility of surgically removing the cancer. Unfortunately, this is not always possible since many times, the cancer has spread too far by the time it has been found.
Lung Cancer Surgery
November 13th, 2009 by RemwesMedical
Surgery for lung cancer is the only treatment that truly offers the possibility of cure. Unfortunately, it is not available for many people who develop lung cancer. Many times, by the time we discover the lung cancer, it has spread so far that surgery is no longer a possibility.
Posted in Lung Cancer Tags: lung cancer stage, lung cancer surgery, lung cancer treatment No Comments »Symptoms Lung Cancer
November 10th, 2009 by RemwesMedical
The symptoms experienced by a person which suggest the possibility that he or she may have lung cancer are various. These symptoms are all the more suggestive of the possibility of lung cancer if the person also has the risk factor of having smoked cigarettes for many years.