does having cyst or masses in the body, a possible risk for any kind of cancer?
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yes it can about 3 years ago. i had a mass on top of my hearth. it grows within 1 years when the time for surgery when they took the mass out it was 10 pound 6oz 7inch.it never can back. with god and prayer. im still cancer free thank god. what im trying to say. pray and ask god to help go to your church have them to pray over you.god bliss
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I just went through a cancer scare and had some ovarian cysts removed. Here are the links I found most useful:\n\nhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000893.htm\nhttp://www.emedicine.com/radio/topic511.htm\nhttp://www.cancerwise.org/september_2004/display.cfm?id=f35c37df-ac53-4bc0-ac5511ac88865f3d&method=displayfull&color=green\nhttp://ovacome.jamkit.com/Home\nhttp://www.reutershealth.com/wellconnected/doc92.html\nhttp://health.yahoo.com/ency/healthwise/tw9761;_ylt=AsFgabc6Y97oSXeL5gIYjdEog7MF#tw9761-sec\nhttp://www.endo-resolved.com/index.html\n\nGood luck, and remember that until they biopsy it, you can't know for sure that you've got cancer. I had FIVE test results indicating cancer, but it wasn't cancer!
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Well, it's not a personal experience, but a friend of mine, after trying to get pregnant unsuccessfully, found out that she had cysts. She had those removed (must have been 2 years ago) and now she has a beautiful baby boy :-)
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Not always gives cancer, but it has metals in it, but there are alternates such as Bert's Bee's type deoterent.\nIt does'nt contain any metals although it may be a little more expensive.\nI dont know what kind of cancer it could cause, but remember, it goes in your bloodstream, so it could cause any kind.\nIt's best to avoid all metals in your body.\nNo idea what the chances are.
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Cancer of the heart muscle called angiosarcoma do occur but are rare and\noccur more often in children and more often in the right side of the heart.\nCancers like melanoma are known to spread to the heart. That being said, it\nis somewhat curious why certain tissues are less susceptible to cancer.\nThis is typically ascribed to the belief that the more cells that are\nactively dividing in an organ or tissue the less likely that organ or tissue\nwill have a cancer arise in it.  So skin, intestine and bone marrow which\nhave high populations of dividing cells are more often to have a cancer\narise in their cells than the heart whose muscle tissue is essentially\nnon-dividing.
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No, you may have cysts. go to your doc.
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Hereditary in the fact that all people in the world are related in one way or the other. So, yes . . anyone, of any age, race, sex, or despite whether they eat health foods or candy bars for lunch, exercise or are couch potatoes, smoke or not . . anyone can get cancer. There are trillions of cells in the human body, and at any moment one of the could become cancerous. \n\nCancer is hereditary, but not predictable. If your mother had breast cancer, you may be at a higher risk for breast cancer . . . you may take all the precautions, check your breasts for lumps, do every single thing right to check for breast cancer . . and than be totally shocked when cancer is discovered in your kidney, or colon, or that you have leukemia. The fact that your mother had breast cancer would be irrelevant. Or you may never get cancer at all. You cannot predict what will happen.\n\nThe only protection against cancer is to become as educated as you can possibly get to learn about all the warning signs, for any cancer. If you have any unusual bumps or lumps anywhere on your body . . have it checked immediately. It is also good to eat a well balanced healthy diet, exercise, learn to check your entire body for lumps or anything unusual, don't smoke or take drugs, and keep a healthy mind and attitude. That way should you ever find out you have cancer, you will be able to fight it. The healthier you are at diagnosis the more able you will be to fight the cancer successfully.
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Could it be enlarged Lymph nodes or an Cysts?
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No one can give you an answer unless they are a doctor, take this lump seriously because it could be something serious. Don't be embarrassed to talk to your parents because it could save your life. A nurse told my son that there was nothing wrong with his testical, and now he has testical cancer and he is going to be a very ill young man of 26 and he had a lump. Best of luck and God guide you to the right decision.
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Call your OB/GYN and see if they recommend you come in to the office before your next scheduled visit.  In the mean time, this is what the experts say:\n\nBreast lumps that are not suspicious have the following characteristics:\n\n1.Freely moveable (cancers tend to invade, and therefore feel stuck to the surrounding tissue). \n2.Painful, which usually means inflammation, not tumor \n3.Vascillations of size (cysts related to milk production will change size with the ups and downs of the hormonal fluctuations. Bad cysts will stay the same size or grow bigger). \n4.Very round-ish. (Malignancies are irregularly shaped.) \n5.Small size (less than a centimeter is small.) \n\nSuspicious breast lumps show the opposite of 1-5 above.\nhttp://www.babyzone.com/features/expertsqa/?QAID=173&ExpertID=1\n\nBreast lumps may occur normally in pregnancy, especially in the third trimester when your breasts are getting ready for lactation. Such masses are typically soft, mobile and occur in both breasts. They may be tender. A tail of breast tissue may extend into the axillae or armpit area. \nBreast cancer is uncommon in pregnancy but it does occur. Approximately one to two percent of breast cancers are diagnosed in pregnancy. The prognosis is similar whether the cancer is diagnosed during pregnancy or at another time.  http://www.ivillage.co.uk/pregnancyandbaby/pregnancy/tri3/qas/0,9583,15_157286,00.html\n\nBy the way, I am a registered mammographer with 15 years experience in the field, and I have never done a mammogram on a pregnant woman.  If a pregnant woman has a suspicious mass, we ALWAYS do an ultrasound instead of a mammogram.  Better safe than sorry when it comes to exposing your baby to radiation.
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All lumps are not cancer. That might even be a small hydrocoele(fluid in your ball-due to trauma) Sometimes even a lipoma or sebaceous cyst may be there Dont worry about the terms though tey may appear terrifyng they are benign.Go to your surgeon . They would let you know
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From the ERC (www.endocenter.org), posted to their listserv at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/erc:\n\n\nEndometriosis-ovarian cancer link 'underestimated'\nSource: Human Reproduction 2006; 21: 1237-42\n\nResearchers assess the relative risks of individual cancers over a long period of follow-up among women with endometriosis. \n\nWomen with endometriosis appear to be up to twice as likely as the general population to develop ovarian cancer, say researchers. \n\nCo-existence of endometriosis and cancer has been reported several times. One study showed an overall relative risk of 1.2 in women with endometriosis compared with those without it, and risks for ovarian cancer and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of 1.9 and 1.8, respectively. \n\nAnna Melin (Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden) and colleagues evaluated whether these risk ratios stood in an extended study. They identified women (n = 64,492) who were discharged from a Swedish hospital with a diagnosis of endometriosis between 1969 and 2000, and assessed their incidence of cancer, using the National Swedish Cancer Register. \n\nExcluding the first year of follow-up, there were 3349 cases of cancer. The overall risk of cancer was no higher than that expected on the basis of the female Swedish population, but ovarian cancer (standardized incidence ratio [SIR] = 1.43), endocrine tumors (SIR = 1.36), non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (SIR = 1.24), and brain tumors (SIR = 1.22) were all more prevalent.\n\nAn even higher risk of ovarian cancer was seen in women with early diagnosed (SIR = 2.01) and long-standing (SIR = 2.23) endometriosis, respectively. \n\n"This study has shown an increased risk of some types of malignancy, above all ovarian cancer, in women with endometriosis," the researchers conclude.\n\n"The material indicates that the risk might have been underestimated."\n\n19 April 2006\n\n------------------\n\nEndometriosis & Malignancies\n\nWe know that Endometriosis can impact every aspect of our lives, from our interpersonal relationships to our careers; from our ability to have children to our ability to get out of bed in the morning.  It can change our views on life and how we think about ourselves - and how we think about others.  The consequences of Endometriosis touch every part of us, inside and out, prompting some women to refer to their disease as a "benign cancer."  Can Endometriosis go one step further and actually turn malignant?  Can it even place us at risk for certain cancers and other illnesses?  Unfortunately, research shows that for some women, it may. \n\nMalignant transformation of Endometriosis can and does occur.  Some researchers even estimate that approximately 0.7-1.0% of patients with Endometriosis have lesions that will ultimately undergo malignant transformation, and urge consideration of performing bilateral oophorectomy at the time of abdominal surgery in patients with significant disease.(1) \n\nWe have also begun learning of the elevated risks women with the disease have for certain cancers, including non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.  The reasons why remain unclear; however, women with Endometriosis are more likely take certain drugs, such as Progestagens, and are more likely to have had their ovaries or uterus removed, another factor that influences hormone levels and possibly increases cancer risk.  One patient undergoing Tamoxifen therapy was discovered to have malignant endometrioid neoplasia arising within her Endometriosis, suggesting to her physicians that the Tamoxifen, as a result of its estrogenic effects, caused proliferative and malignant changes in her disease.(2)   \n\nIn a similar study targeting women who had undergone hysterectomy with oophorectomy because of Endometriosis, authors noted that "Endometriosis can undergo estrogen-dependent changes similar to the endometrium and may carry a risk of developing hyperplasia and carcinoma during unopposed estrogen stimulation."  The r
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Straight up from someone who has been there/done that, you need to get to the doctor. Despite what a lot of people think, it IS possible for a cancerous lump to be painful and there's no way of knowing what any lump is without having it checked out. s\n\nTruthfully, it's probably nothing...most breast lumps are begnin anomolies like cysts (which are painful), etc. However, the sooner you have it checked out the better off you will be. If it's nothing, you'll be able to stop worrying and get on with your life and if it's cancer, you'll have a much better chance at having a successful treatment and recovery the sooner you start treatment.
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Probably a benign cyst and nothing to worry about, but its always wise to get these things checked out by a doctor :D
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Yes--if they are large enough or there are several. Small cysts often show NO effects and resolve themselves.\n\nIt is a common problem and they are usually benign (non-cancerous).\nThe larger ones will cause heavy bleeding and periods that do not seem to end.\n\nSome large cysts need to be removed and have in some cases caused the removal of the ovary it is effecting.\n\nA pelvic exam and an ultra-sound will tell you how bad they are and what treatment is needed.\nThe most common treatment is a low dose of birth-control pill to shrink them and eventually resolve them.
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It is a condition in which the cells in the body divide uncontrollably & r functionally inept or unrequired, & can spread to other regions to cause cancer there (metastasis). There r some important danger signs- loss of weight, change in voice, bleeding from abnormal site, menstrual difficulties, long-standing fever, etc. Tumors that have metastsized r generally not treated by surgery. And yes, as some1 has mentioned early detection is the key. Common risk-factors include smoking, estrogen in 'pills', radiation, aromatic compounds, etc.
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fibrocystic breasts are fairly common.  But, size has nothing to do with cancer.  Small women get cancer too.