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The medical world has been rocked in recent years by the widespread use of alternative therapies in treating illnesses and injuries. In fact, it's now estimated that as many as one in three adults in the U.S. uses herbal remedies and other alternative therapies. Sales of herbal medicine skyrocketed nearly 60 percent in 1997, amounting to an incredible $3.24 billion. Yet, doctors are not always aware of the fact that their patients are using alternative treatments. One study a few years ago indicated that only 58 percent of the physicians surveyed always or often question their patients about alternative therapies. A majority of doctors questioned believe that herbal remedies have no side effects or quite limited side effects. As a result of this study, researchers determined that physicians tend to underestimate how many of their patients are using alternative therapies. The Safety Issue Although alternative therapies are more popular than ever, it still isn't clear how safe these remedies are. Consequently, it can be hard for a pharmacist to advise a patient about the proper use of such therapies in connection with prescription medication. Given the widespread use of alternative therapies, it stands to reason that there would be concerns about whether herbs are safe to ...

Breast cancer is one of the most dreaded diseases among women. It plays second fiddle only to lung cancer as the top killer of women in the United States and the rest of the world. And since the 1970s, recorded cases of the disease have continuously increased at an alarming rate. Breast cancer can also happen to men, albeit rarely; around 12,000 American men contract this disease every year. Despite the nasty reputation of breast cancer, doctors have yet to find out the real causes of the disease. Right now, experts believe that cancer cells in the breasts develop as a result of a combination of risk factors. Nonetheless, doctors are sure that bumping or accidentally hurting your breasts can not trigger cancer. Many studies confirm that certain elements may put a woman in an increased susceptibility to breast cancer. Women with one or all of these risk elements may be more imperiled than other women who are free from such factors. Here are the determinants of breast cancer to watch out for. Age Your likelihood of having this type of disease increases as you become older. Statistically speaking, most breast cancer patients are women who are at least in their 60s. In fact ...

Cancer is the name given to any illness resulting from one of our body's own cells growing out of control. There are many processes that control a cell's growth and division, each of which can go wrong. Several of these control mechanisms need to be damaged before a cell becomes cancerous. There are more than 200 different types of cancers, which are categorized in to carcinoma, sarcoma, lymphoma and leukemia based on the cells from which they arise. The principles involved in treating cancer are either directly destroying the cancer tissues or indirectly destroying them by depriving them of blood supply and/or their nutrition. But the irony is that whatever conventional treatment is used to destroy cancer cells do affect to some extent the normal cells also. They may damage the skin, liver, intestine the bone marrow and other rapidly multiplying cells. Sometimes the effect of the treatment is more devastating than the disease itself. Role of Alternative Medicine in treating cancer A larger study of Alternative medicine use in patients with different types of cancer was published in the July 2000 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology. It was found that nearly 70% of the patients used at least one ...

Simple concepts are often the most powerful ones -- and yet typically the most overlooked. This is particularly the case in the health care industry. For the past 700 years, society has been taught to think of the curing of cancer and other disease as a perplexing and complicated science that is best left in the hands of medical professionals. As a result, people have come to rely heavily on the information that is given to us by doctors and health care providers who are themselves usually unenlightened about alternative healing options that may be better for treating diseases than the normal medical treatments consisting of prescription drugs, surgery, radiation or other expensive, dangerous therapies.   There is, however, a simple, low-cost therapy that can be self-administered at home in less than a minute -- and costs about one and a half cents per day. Over the past 70 years, approximately 15,000 European medical doctors have administered this powerful therapy to over 10 million people to treat over 50 different diseases. Natural cures for cancer, alternative liver cancer treatment, lung cancer cures, alternative breast cancer treatment, alternative prostate cancer treatment and many other diseases are among those successes. However, in ...

How Alternative Cancer Treatment can help those living with Lung Cancer Lung cancer involves abnormal cell growth in the lungs, part of the overall respiratory system. While doctors cannot explain why one person may develop lung cancer and someone may not, there are several factors that can lead to the development of lung cancer. According to the National Cancer Institute, people who smoke tobacco are at the greatest risk for developing lung cancer because of the harmful substances that are inhaled when smoking cigarettes, pipes, or cigars. Individuals exposed to radon are also at risk for developing lung cancer. Radon is a radioactive gas that is found in soil and rocks, although it cannot be seen, tasted, or smelled. Sometimes radon is found undetected in residential homes. People who work in mines may be exposed to radon, increasing their risk for lung cancer development. Other substances thought to be factors in the development of lung cancer are asbestos, arsenic, nickel, soot, and tar, among others. People that have had an immediate family member diagnosed with lung cancer are at risk, along with those who have already had a personal history of lung cancer. The risk of developing a second lung cancer ...

Most of the people around the world die due to cancer, and one common cause that ties them together is lung cancer. The standard age for the diagnosis of this disease is sixty. Cancer can be broadly classified into two types, small cell (or coat cell) lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer. The growth of small cell lung cancer is very quick and can easily spread to the other body parts. This kind of lung cancer is most common among the smokers. The non-small cell lung cancer is further divided into three types; squamous cell carcinoma (a very common type of lung cancer), adenocarcinoma, and large cell carcinoma.    Around 170,000 new lung cancer cases are detected every year and about 160,000 people lose their lives due to the disease, if it is detected before spreading to the lymph nodes or other body parts, there is a 50% chance of survival. But, most of the times, cancer is not detected at the early stage making the survival chances as low as 12%, though things have improved nowadays owing to the better diagnostic procedures.  There are three kinds of alternative lung cancer treatment, they are, correct nutrition, oxygenation therapy and lycopene. ...