What is PMP cancer and how is it treated?
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Pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP)is a very rare form of cancer believed to originate in the appendix. The tumor is not harmful by itself, but it has no place to go inside the abdominal cavity. If left untreated, it will eventually build up to the point where it compresses vital structures: the colon, the liver, kidneys, etc.  PMP does not spread through the lymphatic system or the bloodstream like other cancers.\n\nPseudomyxoma is difficult to cure and can depend on where the disease is and the amount present. It can also depend on what sort of cells are present. If the doctors find more aggressive cancer cells this can affect how well the treatment works. Cytoreductive surgery and chemotherapy given in the abdomen provides the best chance to remove the disease and stop its return.
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Do you mean Zometa? - Used to treat bone metastasis in Prostate Cancer.  Decreases bone pain and increases density.  It is given by infusion, on a periodic schedule of months.  it is generally well tolerated and only for a select few patients.
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See: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000521.htm#Treatment
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try www.radiologyinfo.org for more information of this treatment and The Royal Marsden Hospital in London, UK may have this kind of treatment available. Check the website www.royalmarsden.nhs.uk
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I have not heard anything being cured. It improved research regarding Parkinson's disease, Colonial cancer could be caused by virus, and general cancer cells.
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There are many weapons in our arsenal against cancer. Some can cure certain cancers. Some can slow the cancer's advance down. No one approach cures all cancers.\n\nTypically once a cancer has metastasized and become cancers in the abdomen, the outlook is much worse, I am sorry to say. \n\n\nHere is a range of some of the types of cancer therapies:\n\nYou can cut it out. \n\nYou can try to kill the fast growing cancer cells with radiation or chemotherapy.\n\nYou can use drugs that target the blood supplies of the cancer (angiogenesis).\n\nYou can use molecular biology to design medications that bind to the receptors on the cancer cells and prevent them from functioning. \n\nThere are a range of other drugs that inhibit certain processes in the cancer cell (see ref).\n\nAntibody treatments like monoclonal antibodies. \n\nBiological response modifiers like immunotherapy, cytokine therapy.
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Yep, I had mild dysplasia (sp?) twice. I had the LEEP procedure done. It just feels like a little tugging. No big deal, if that's what you are having. And its more precautionary than it is a cancer treatment. It hurts a little during, and their might be slight cramping afterward. It's not too bad, though. Email if you have any more questions, cjbay10@yahoo.com
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Hi,\n\nStage II doesn't say much with MM.  \n\nIt depends on the age of the person,  the M Spike level,  how they are responidng to treatment, damage MM did before diagnosis and a lot of other things.\n\nSurvival can be short or very long (over 10 years).  \n\nThere are a lot of new drugs out there that can help too.\n\nFor more information:\n\nwww.myeloma.org\n\nthey also have a hot line  if you want to call.  Hardest thing with MM is the not knowing - every one's MM is different and it makes it hard to treat.  There is no "playbook" for MM based on staging;  which means you need to make sure you are seeign someone with a good understanding of the cancer.\n\nGood luck,\n\nJewells\n32 months and still here
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Not currently, however there are treatments and preventative measures. \n\nA cure means you will be completely absolved of the problem forever.  \n\nA treatment is a management. Like chemo can rid a person of cancer for awhile but there's still a chance it will come back. \n\nCancer happens on a cellular level so it's going to be a tough one to find a 'cure' for.  \n\n(Quoted)\nCancer can be treated by surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy or other methods. The choice of therapy depends upon the location and grade of the tumor and the stage of the disease, as well as the general state of the patient (performance status). A number of experimental cancer treatments are also under development.\n\nComplete removal of the cancer without damage to the rest of the body is the goal of treatment. Sometimes this can be accomplished by surgery, but the propensity of cancers to invade adjacent tissue or to spread to distant sites by microscopic metastasis often limits its effectiveness. The effectiveness of chemotherapy is often limited by toxicity to other tissues in the body. Radiation can also cause damage to normal tissue.\n\nBecause "cancer" refers to a class of diseases, it is unlikely that there will ever be a single "cure for cancer" any more than there will be a single treatment for all infectious diseases
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Here's a cure fpr prostate cancer. Far less painful than radiation.\n\nhttp://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/cancercure-dandelion.htm
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Carcinoma in situ is not yet what we commonly call "cancer". It is the fine line between benign and malignant tumour. Since it is not yet malignant, it can be left alone like a benign tumour, or if you fear that it will turn into malignant tumour, surgical removal can be done. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy can also be used.
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The child should be treated by a pediatric oncologist, pediatric team, in a children's hospital.\nThey are your best guide through the cancer maze as your question is vague. Your doctor should be able to give you advice and various treatment options on what steps to take.\n\nGood luck.
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There is a lot of information out there on the net. . .this is just some things I found - beginning with what the "seed radiation" is:\n\nBrachytherapy, also known as prostate seed implantation or radioactive seed implantation involves placing tiny radioactive pellets ("seeds") directly inside the prostate tumor. Low-dose seeds are implanted permanently and give off radiation for several months before losing their radioactivity. High-dose, or high-energy, seeds are implanted for less than a day and deliver a concentrated dose of radiation to the tumor.\n\nMen whose cancer is confined to the prostate gland are the candidates for this type of treatment\n\nWhen you do your search - try using the search keywords like: prognosis of brachytherapy.  A good website to go to is the National Cancer Institute.
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Interesting information on this website.  I use it a lot.  \n\nhttp://www.emedicine.com/pmr/topic143.htm
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My dad has it.  It's cancer of the prostate gland which is just below the bladder as described by the other person.  My dad's has spread to his lymphatic system and has now gone into his bones - this took about a year to happen from being diagnosed - it's moved very fast.  His first symptoms were of a desperate need to pee but being unable to do so which is caused by the prostate swelling and pressing on the urethra.\n\nProstate cancer caught early enough can be cured.  It's usuaslly one of the slowest spreading cancers unless it gets into the lymphatic system and then......well, it moves fast.\n\nIf you're worried you should check with a doctor.  If you get a normal PSA reading THIS DOES NOT MEAN YOU DON'T HAVE IT as in rare cases (about 5% including my dad) you can get low readings (dad's was less than 4 originally).  Always insist on a scan (MRI preferably) otherwise what happened to my dad might happen to you.  It was only when he stated to pee blood that they did a scan.\n\nHope you haven't go it.
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Its oesophagal cancer - the tube that carries food into the stomach.  My mum sadly died of this cancer.  It begins with a feeling of food being stuck in the throat which makes the person vomit - obviously weight loss is fast and dramatic in most cases. Tests are done via passing a camera into the stomach which can then find the cancer and do a biopsy.  Treatment to relieve the initial problem can be either stretching the oesophagus and sometimes inserting a stent - depending on how advanced it is. Sometimes an operation can be done to remove the tumour again dependant on size etc.  Most commonly chemotherapy treatment is given and although I said my mum died of this - at that time combined chemo was in experimental stages and has since advanced to a stage where many more people survive this cancer.  Stay positive is the key and rest during chemo. xxxxx
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The Whipple procedure is a technique of pancreaticoduodenectomy, or surgical removal of pancreatic cancer. It was named for American surgeon Dr. Allen Whipple who devised the procedure in 1935