Prevention education is a major part of the activity of any cancer treatment center. Your lifestyle plays an important role in determining whether you are at risk for developing cancer or not. Mothers who are unable, or choose not to, breastfeed their babies could be more risk prone. Similarly men who are habitual smokers, those who drink less water, are too busy to eat regularly or pay attention to what they eat, lack exercise or are overweight are also at greater risk of prostate cancer, lung cancer, colon and rectal cancer and kidney or urinary bladder cancer.
No amount of preventive education by a cancer treatment center will bear fruit unless the individual takes a decision to make major lifestyle changes.Ideally, men over 50 years and women over 45 years of age need to have regular health checkups for cancer detection.
But if you have cancer, with timely treatment and support from friends and family, you have a high chance of getting your life back.
Treatment Priorities at Cancer Treatment Centers
There needs to a good understanding between the treating doctor, the cancer patient and the patient’s family. Ideally, no treatment should be initiated without first counseling the patient on the likely effects, side effects or complications that may arise. The priority at any cancer treatment center should be to have doctors who are careful to listen to the wishes of their patients and accommodate them as much as possible. The patient and the family are already under tremendous stress. The doctor and the staff at the treatment center should do all they can to make the course of treatment as stress free as possible.
Patients also have a responsibility. If complementary treatment is not available, or approved by treating doctors at the treatment center, the patient and his or her family should disclose this to the treating doctor.
Surgery at the treatment center
At a cancer treatment center, a patient may have to undergo surgery. Surgery is just one of the many options for treating cancer, indicated more in certain types of cancers than in others. In most cases, surgery is resorted to when the treating medical oncologist thinks that surgery can be a cure. A small sample of the cancerous tissue is taken from the patient and studied under a microscope to determine the extent of spread of the disease and its severity. Biopsies are normally done by a surgeon at the cancer treatment center.
All accredited cancer treatment centers have surgical oncologists who are trained in the removal of tumors. Surgeries are normally indicated when a cancer is localized in a particular area of the body, and can be easily removed. For example, in breast cancers, removal of either the entire breast, or the affected portion, accompanied by reconstructive surgery normally serves to cure and eliminate the cancer.
Hospice Care if the Cancer is Fatal
The term Hospice was first used by Dame Cicely Saunders of London St. Christopher Hospice. It was a name given to special care to patients with terminal diseases who are going to die. At a hospice, no medical treatments are given, except to manage pain and make the patient as comfortable as possible. Most such hospices are run by Christian charities.
Hospices ensure that the sick person is cared for, the pain is kept under control and that the patient is comfortable. Although they are not treatment centers, they nevertheless ensure care of the patient. Staff at hospices are carefully chosen for their ability to provide care with love and compassion. While death may be inevitable, the patient never feels unwanted and forsaken. They continue to live with dignity. Hospices are not places which hurry or accelerate death, and often the dying inmate might live a lot longer than otherwise thought. A hospice is more a sanctuary of peace, rather than a treatment center.
No amount of preventive education by a cancer treatment center will bear fruit unless the individual takes a decision to make major lifestyle changes.Ideally, men over 50 years and women over 45 years of age need to have regular health checkups for cancer detection.
But if you have cancer, with timely treatment and support from friends and family, you have a high chance of getting your life back.
Treatment Priorities at Cancer Treatment Centers
There needs to a good understanding between the treating doctor, the cancer patient and the patient’s family. Ideally, no treatment should be initiated without first counseling the patient on the likely effects, side effects or complications that may arise. The priority at any cancer treatment center should be to have doctors who are careful to listen to the wishes of their patients and accommodate them as much as possible. The patient and the family are already under tremendous stress. The doctor and the staff at the treatment center should do all they can to make the course of treatment as stress free as possible.
Patients also have a responsibility. If complementary treatment is not available, or approved by treating doctors at the treatment center, the patient and his or her family should disclose this to the treating doctor.
Surgery at the treatment center
At a cancer treatment center, a patient may have to undergo surgery. Surgery is just one of the many options for treating cancer, indicated more in certain types of cancers than in others. In most cases, surgery is resorted to when the treating medical oncologist thinks that surgery can be a cure. A small sample of the cancerous tissue is taken from the patient and studied under a microscope to determine the extent of spread of the disease and its severity. Biopsies are normally done by a surgeon at the cancer treatment center.
All accredited cancer treatment centers have surgical oncologists who are trained in the removal of tumors. Surgeries are normally indicated when a cancer is localized in a particular area of the body, and can be easily removed. For example, in breast cancers, removal of either the entire breast, or the affected portion, accompanied by reconstructive surgery normally serves to cure and eliminate the cancer.
Hospice Care if the Cancer is Fatal
The term Hospice was first used by Dame Cicely Saunders of London St. Christopher Hospice. It was a name given to special care to patients with terminal diseases who are going to die. At a hospice, no medical treatments are given, except to manage pain and make the patient as comfortable as possible. Most such hospices are run by Christian charities.
Hospices ensure that the sick person is cared for, the pain is kept under control and that the patient is comfortable. Although they are not treatment centers, they nevertheless ensure care of the patient. Staff at hospices are carefully chosen for their ability to provide care with love and compassion. While death may be inevitable, the patient never feels unwanted and forsaken. They continue to live with dignity. Hospices are not places which hurry or accelerate death, and often the dying inmate might live a lot longer than otherwise thought. A hospice is more a sanctuary of peace, rather than a treatment center.
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