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Women diagnosed with cervical cancer must not only fight against this evil, but also against the emotional impact that it causes in their daily lives and in their relationship.

Women diagnosed with cervical cancer must not only fight against this evil, but also against the emotional impact that it causes in their daily lives and in their relationship. Therefore, specialists say, is also receiving psychological support necessary to overcome to achieve this clinical condition.

At present, cervical cancer, whose causative agent is human papilloma virus (HPV), occupies, after breast cancer, the second leading cause of death among Mexican women between 25 and 64 years of age. In the northern region especially breast cancer has been increasing.

According to the Pan American Health Organization, it is estimated that Mexico was diagnosed about 12 thousand new cases per year and 12 deaths occur daily for cervical cancer, being more common in southeastern states.

Depending on the age and the progress that the cancer of the cervix, the woman must undergo from treatments involving surgery, radiation and chemotherapy in the pelvis, to the removal of the womb and ovaries (hysterectomy).

“These facts, plus the lack of knowledge about the disease, resulting in situations that may psychologically damage her and her family,” said Dolores Gallardo Rincón, an oncologist.

One of the most traumatic processes is hysterectomy, which is seen as a mutilation. According to the expert, “the patients stated that they have a feel of how if they were empty inside, complain that your partner no longer looking for them.” It is also possible that menopausal symptoms, state of melancholy and anxiety. Because cervical cancer, the woman’s sexual life is severely disrupted.

According to the specialist, patients fear that if they have sex can hurt after diagnosis, the treatment not work, making the cancer relapse, or that there is any change in sexual function after hysterectomy. In fact, some sufferers experience a decrease or even a mental block sexual desire, that is why we considered it necessary to receive psychological support.

And is that many times women face this complex scenario alone, without support from your partner. The expert acknowledged that sometimes the patients suffer indifference or abandonment by her partner.

Working with a psychologist to reduce stress can help women with breast cancer survive longer, say U.S. researchers

Stress reduction during treatment for breast cancer can maintain a strong immune system and improve the quality of life, two factors that help survival.

They found that women who participated in a support group where they were taught to deal with your stress through relaxation techniques and problem solving, lived an average of six months longer than other women.

The study is unusual because although it is logical that the therapy could alleviate some of the stress of cancer treatment, few studies have shown that it can increase the survival of a woman.

Women who participated in the study had a psychological evaluation and therapy that helped them understand the stress, learn ways to deal with it, stay in your cancer treatment and improve communication with your doctor, situations that made them feel better emotionally during treatment and recovery.

Stomach cancer is the second most common type of cancer and the second deadliest in the world.

Infections caused by the bacterium Helicobacter pylori (one of the most common in the world) are the cause of gastritis and gastric ulcers as well as being a major cause of stomach cancer.

According to studies at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in USA and published on the journal Cancer Prevention Research, broccoli sprouts three days reduced infections caused by the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, to inhibit the development of the same.

To be an association between stomach cancer and infections caused by this bacterium, a reduction of the bacteria consequently lead to a decrease in that type of cancer.

The agent who owns this building is a natural compound (sulforaphane) found in high amounts in broccoli (specifically in the shoots of the garden).

The laboratory experiments show that this eliminates the bacteria purified phytochemical H pylori resistant to common antibiotics and, furthermore, is capable of ending it within and outside the cell.

Broccoli is rich in antioxidants and specific elements that protect against cancer.

Broccoli protects against cancer by being a vegetable rich in beta carotene and vitamin C, nutritional antioxidants have been shown in numerous studies to have a great capacity to prevent the growth of malignant tumors.

Also has in its composition three elements with anticancer capacity such as: indole (indole-3-carbinol), sulforaphane and phenilisotiocianate.

Broccoli also acts as a protector of benzopyrene (which is a carcinogenic element that originates from combustion processes: car exhaust, cigarettes, stoves, etc).

How it works?
The mechanism which exerts this effect is based on the ability sulforaphane and indoles (indole-3-carbinol,) of inhibiting tumor growth by increasing the activity of certain enzymes which are dedicated to ridding the body of some officers carcinogenic or block its action.

The presence of fiber and vitamin C may also have a synergistic effect in protection against carcinogens.

Approximately one third of patients with lung cancer are diagnosed with localized disease can be treated by surgical resection. Another third of patients have disease that has spread to lymph nodes. In such cases, radiation therapy used in combination with chemotherapy and sometimes surgery. The last third of patients may have tumors that have already spread to other parts of the body through the bloodstream and usually are treated with chemotherapy and sometimes radiation therapy for relief of symptoms.
* Surgery is the primary treatment for patients with early stage cancer who have good general health. The goal of surgery is to completely eliminate all tumor cells and thus cure the disease. Although a tumor reappears after trying to remove it, often it can be removed with a second operation. Surgery is a possibility although there are multiple tumors or metastases, the tumors are always together on one site that the surgeon has access. Unfortunately, lung cancer tends to occur in smokers over 50 years of age, who often already have lung disease or other serious health conditions which increase the risk of surgery.

The location and size of a lung tumor determine the extent of surgery. Lobectomy, or removal of an entire lung lobe, is an accepted procedure to remove the cancer when the lungs are functioning. The risk of death is 3 to 4 percent, and tends to be higher in older patients. If lung function does not allow a lobectomy, a small cancer and confined within a limited area can be removed with a small portion of surrounding lung tissue. This is called a segmental or wedge resection. Patients lose less pulmonary function since it removes a smaller portion of the lung. The segmental resection is only for early-stage small cancers that are on the verge of lung and carries a mortality rate of 1.4 percent. If it is necessary to remove the entire lung by pneumonectomy, the mortality rate is 5 to 8 percent. Older patients are at greater risk, and is very common for the cancer coming back.

In most cases the patient is not eligible for surgery or can not remove the entire tumor because of their size or location. However, there are several other treatments available that can reduce the size of the tumor to make it easier to remove it, or in some cases completely destroy lung cancer.