Information and Resources for Cancer

Why Demian Dressler, DVM created the Dog Cancer Coping Guide and what it contains.

A guide on how to check for the early signs of breast cancer…

Linette Atwood lived through the ravages of cancer both as a caretaker of her father, her husband and her sister, and as a patient. Her Guide to Surviving Cancer was born of necessity….

Dr. Benzinger from secondopinion.org with health information on prostate and cancer ….

By the end of the day, another 4,000 people will be told they have cancer. While hearing those words can be difficult, it’s often just the beginning. Patients then have to find doctors who can treat them, fill out dozens of forms so they can, and choose from several different treatment options. It [...]

In a unique venture, people across the globe are cooperating to fight cancer using a concept known as grid computing.
Grid computing – as opposed to local computing — allows Internet users worldwide to contribute to a “virtual” supercomputer to solve a difficult problem.
This can be done by “donating” idle computer time to the effort.
The anti-cancer [...]

Medics at Brisbane’s Princess Alexandra Hospital have given fresh hope to prostate cancer patients, by developing a new treatment that could reduce painful side effects and help maintain sexual function.
The alternative form of therapy, dubbed Image Guided Radiotherapy (IGRT), has been available at the Princess Alexandra (PA) Hospital since the opening of new a linear [...]

Can skin cancer be avoided? While scientists still have miles to go before they can determine whether or not skin cancers can be completely deterred, at least one type is associated with definite risk factors.
The three main types of skin cancer are: basal cell carcinoma; squamous cell carcinoma; and malignant melanoma. All three are detrimental [...]

The prostate is a gland in the male reproductive system that is located below the bladder and in front of the rectum. A healthy gland is about the size of a walnut. If the prostate enlarges, it squeezes the urethra and slows or stops urine from passing from the bladder to the penis.
All prostate enlargement [...]

Uterine sarcoma cancer is a rare type that begins in the muscle or other tissues of the uterus. Most often, it can be found in women who have completed menopause.
There are basically two types of uterine sarcoma cancer: (1) leiomyosarcoma (cancer that begins in smooth muscle cells); and (2) endometrial stromal sarcoma (it begins in [...]