Category: Cancer

What is Oral cancer? Oral cancer is the medical term for cancer that develops in the mouth or throat. It’s part of a bigger category of tumours known as head and neck cancers. Most form in the squamous cells located in your mouth, tongue, and lips. Mouth cancer affects more than twice as many males…

What should you know about Colon cancer? Colon cancer is an illness that begins in the colon and spreads throughout the digestive tract (colon). The last section of the digestive tract is the colon. When the usual replacement of colon lining cells fails, colon and rectum cancers develop. When tumours form in the large intestine,…

What is Cancer? The term “Cancer” is used to describe disorders in which groups of cells multiply and spread to other organs. The blood and lymph systems allow their cells to spread to other regions of the body. As a disorder, it encompasses more than one. There are over a hundred different types of cancer…

What about Lung cancer? Lung cancer is known as bronchial carcinoma. A major percentage of lung tumours are carcinomas, cancer that majorly occur in skins, tissue, or lining of the internal organs and form tumours. The uncontrolled cell growth in the tissue of the lung is characteristic of cancer developing in the lung. As a…

Breast cancer develops when cells in your breast multiply and divide uncontrollably, resulting in a mass of tissue known as a tumour. Breast cancer is more likely to develop as you get older and gain weight. Feeling a lump in your breast, seeing changes in the skin on your breasts, and experiencing a change in…

Chemotherapy is a type of cancer treatment in which one or more medications are used to fight cancer cells in the body. The best or easy method could be adapting to a diet during Chemotherapy. Its symptoms, which include dry mouth, a change in taste, nausea, and weariness, can make eating a chore. However, it’s…

What about Tongue Cancer? Oral (mouth) cancers can take many different forms. It happens when cells divide uncontrollably and form a tumour, just as in other cancers. They are divided into two categories. Oral cancer is a type of cancer that affects the part of the mouth that can protrude. The other happens near the…

What about stomach cancer? The proliferation of malignant cells within the stomach lining is what defines stomach cancer. This type of cancer, also known as gastric cancer, is hard to detect although most people do not exhibit early symptoms.  Almost all stomach cancer symptoms (about 95% of all cases) begin in the glandular tissue lining…

What is Breast cancer? The tumour cells that develop in the breast are mainly known as breast cancer. When cells begin to spread uncontrollably, they become cancerous. An abnormal lump of tissue is called a tumour. In breast cancer, there are two types of breast tumours: Non-cancerous (Benign), and Cancerous (Malignant). Breast tumour cells can…