Cancer Definition and 210 Threads

Hey all, It's been quite a while since I've been on here, I'm an IT Technician and recently lost a student to brain cancer at the age of 11 so i thought I'd brainstorm until i worked out a possible and feasible way to beat cancer, this might be sci-fi or false information as I'm not entirely...

I am doing a project that relates to welding acrylic. I got the bottle today, and I can't use it because its flammable and has chemicals known by the state of California to cause cancer (makes you wonder why the hell they would market this crap). Are there any clean, non-flammable, and...

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Hi all! I have recently found that I want to get into cancer research after my studies, and want to know more about my options. Right now I'm in the first year of my masters, and have finished most of the standard subjects for a physics degree, I think. I will be continuing on with different...

If I wanted to prove that some method is capable of destroying cancer cells, what would be the simplest way of going about this. Would it be sufficient to take a tissue sample containing cancer cells, and apply the procedure on it? How would you detect the existence of cancer cells before and...

Two weeks ago a study claiming a Fukushima thyroid-cancer epidemic made headline news. The epidemic is being associated with the nuclear disaster. However, the study may be seriously flawed. Here are two informed critiques (please post more if found)...

Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is still an enemy, but also a friend... Pregnant women are more susceptible to malaria, scientists were able to link this to a specific sugar in the placenta that seems to be relevant for its rapid growth. The same sugar molecule is found in most types of...

Hello everyone, Lets say there is a guy with colorectal carinoma and he developed metastasis in liver. 1. My question is now this guy has a liver cancer as well. Does this liver cancer contain dysplastic cells from colon or does it contain dysplastic hepatocytes. In simple words what I'm...

Hello everyone, 1.I was wondering what is the exact mechanism that rectal cancer gives a sense of incomplete evacuation after defecation (Tenesmus in scientific language). Also why is this is not present in colon cancer higher up eg in ascending colon cancer and only lower down like rectal...

I am a third year undergraduate physics major. Often time people ask what I want to do with physics, and I didn't really have an answer for them. I guess I always assumed I'd pursue a masters degree in some kind of engineering, but I want to be able to do something that I'm passionate about...

I am a third year undergraduate physics major. Often time people ask what I want to do with physics, and I didn't really have an answer for them. I guess I always assumed I'd pursue a masters degree in some kind of engineering, but I want to be able to do something that I'm passionate about...

Hi everyone. I'm an electronics eng. student, and, during my studies, and my life outside university, I've heard several times of how electromagnetic fields could affect our body, in a way or another. There are also various resources talking about how these fields can attack cancer...

Hello, so I have just learned that CFL bulbs fall into the category of producing UV light, including perhaps some UVB in the case of black lights. I have had a black light bulb and a blue CFL running in my bedroom for almost two years now. I often fall asleep with the lights on, sometimes nude...

I was just wondering about how potent this was. Here are some sources I found. http://www.newsmax.com/Health/Health-News/polio-virus-cancer-cure/2015/03/30/id/635309/ http://www.commdiginews.com/health-science/first-human-polio-virus-clinical-trial-raises-hope-for-curing-cancer-16188/...

After spending some time doing a project on cancer I found out there are dozens of treatments abailable to at least decrease the cell divison in cancerous cells. Chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgury. Each one divides into sub categories with tons of treatments available. After looking at lung...

Scientists: Random gene mutations -- 'bad luck' -- primary cause of most cancer http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/02/health/cancer-random-mutation/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Dear friends; People say that using of Microwave oven is harmful for human body as the high frequency raise of microwave oven destroy the internal structure of food. Some people say that the person who daily use the microwave oven, can be faced blood cancer. Please share your comments as now...

Is this is good as it sounds? http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/05/15/womans-cancer-killed-by-measles-virus-in-unprecedented-trial/

I saw a video of Jack on Upworthy this morning. Interesting kid. I read several articles about him. Someone at Forbes said they didn't include him in their "30 under 30" list, because he'd never published in a peer reviewed journal, nor were his numerical claims correct. I thought that...

I have looked around for a group of people who perform cancer research as a kind of open /crowd sourced project. Not paid researchers, but a group of people passionate about science and finding a cure. I have found some resources for this kind of research through organizations like COSMIC but no...

Question: Explain why it is necessary to use relatively low energy X-rays to produce an image of the breast. My answer: Currently x-rays energy levels used during mammograms have approximately a one in a million chance of inducing cancer, this means that approximately for every two-hundred...

Nothing surprising, but worth repeating. 480k Americans die each year from smoking related illness. Stop smoking...

If you are not familiar with Morgellan's, it is a disease where lesions appear on the skin, and then weird fibers begin to grow out of the lesions. Some in the medical community seem to think it's a hoax or a self-induced condition due to scratching and such, and that the fibers are just...

Are multivitamins a waste of money? Editorial in medical journal says yes http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/16/health/multivitamins-studies/index.html I've taken vitamins and supplements during some periods and I admit, I can't tell the difference.

Hi, If I were given a whole-body X-ray dose daily for many days (a year for example) What would be the highest dosage per day which would result in an increased cancer risk but no noticeable signs of radiation poisoning by the end of the year, or during? And also, I've read that a 2KRad dose...

I recently had a friend on facebook share this website Edit by mentor: link deleted it suggests there's a causal relationship between root canals and cancer. Right off the bat, given the website name, realfarmacy, i was skeptical. I tried to check their sources and did a few searches on google...

Dry tap means failure to obtain any material at all during bone marrow aspiration. In leukaemia, aren't you supposed to find at least some material, like abnormally growing cancer cells? Similarly, in multiple myeloma, abnormal plasma cells can be found. But in my haematology textbook...

I always thought Hookah was sightly better because it doesn't generally contain many of the dangerous additives as cigarettes, but apparently it's still quite bad because you end up inhaling bar larger quantities per session. The CDC has a nice article on it CDC - Fact Sheet - Hookahs -...

I have never thought of Linus Pauling as a quack but this article seems to indicate otherwise. I find the last paragraph rather misleading. If fails to mention that he was 93yrs old.

Every now and then, a news appears saying a new research could revert cancer on mice or something similar. But then I don't hear about them anymore. So what are the most promising research studies on curing cancer, and were there any promising researches before that failed when tested on humans?

A person needs to undergo surgery. Someone shot him. He will die in three hours. No one knows him. He has no family. He comes to the hospital and his mental situation is bad. He seems to be crazy and says irrational things. He can't think or make decisions for himself. You are a medical doctor...

Does anyone know what might be the cause of Marie Curie's cancer

Anyone find themselves going more organic these days? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/25/roundup-herbicide-health-issues-disease_n_3156575.html Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases...

Not sure if this belongs here or in the nuclear engineering forum. Many cancer patients in radiation therapy for cancer receive as much as 170-190 rads of daily radiation for 7-9 weeks. When I looked at a radiation chart I found that equates roughly to the dose at 1 mile from a Hiroshima...

Dear Colleagues, Is there anyone here who would be interest in sharing articles, data, theories, and discussions on risks of EMF, RF, radiation emission from devices and man made structures and health consequences and epidemiology. Please contact or send a follow up post here. I am...

What triggers the cancer related pain? I did some reading about pain (mostly wikipedia) and nociceptors and I understand they react to several types of stimuli. Apparently mechanic and thermal stimuli are out of the question, that leaves us with some kind of chemical stimuli - but what it is...

Example of medical issues against artificial contraceptives: The World Health Organization has classified oral contraceptives as an A-1 level carcinogen, which puts it on the cancer-causing level as asbestos and cigarettes...

Phys-Org Medical Xpress prostate cancer 'Golden Era" The article "Golden age of prostate cancer treatment hailed as fourth drug in two years extends life" has attracted my attention, just a few weeks following my surgery for prostate cancer. Because the study tracks cancer that has...

Cure for cancer lies in biotechnology and manipulating Virus’s?? What to kill a cancer cell without killing healthy cells around it? What’s the perfect candidate? Something small to avoid the immune system. Something specific to the cancer cells. Something lethal to the target cancer...

Hello, As far as I understand Chemotherapy intends to stop cancer growth and reduce it as much as possible as well as to destroy cancerous cells in the blood stream to avoid metastasis. Now, and again as far as I understand, if someone else cancerous cell would enter my bloodstream my...

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/246061.php "Cancer rates are expected to increase by 75% by 2030" wtf? this is horrible. Why isn't more resarch being poured into this, this is one of the biggest health hazard if not the biggest health epidemic in the future. Cancer is horrible and it...

I hear they emit radiation which deionizes atoms. Is this due to the frequency of the x-ray? Is x-ray light considered radiation?

A bit of a shock. Earlier this week he announced a "leave of presence" and he would slow down and only review movies he wanted to review. http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/04/showbiz/roger-ebert-obituary/index.html

Iain Banks author of The Wasp Factory, The Crow Road, Complicity and the Culture series has terminal cancer and isn't likely to live another year. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-22015175 I read my first culture novel as a young teen and loved it, Iain is a great writer :frown: such...

I just bought a rather "cheap" lamp from Target and when I unpack it I find a sheet of paper with the warning "this product is known to the state of california to cause cancer". Well isn't that great. thanks a lot! There is a little tag on the electrical cord that says I should wash my hands...

Let's say I had a network of enzymes that are all interconnected that may be involved in cancer progression. Each enzyme produces a chemical product that might be used by some other member in this network, but each enzyme might produce a product at different rates. Is there a way I could...

Example: Radiation to detect and treat cancer. That's particle physics Do you guys have any more ideas? Thanks for your help! :)

I have been working with a 2.8 (decayed over summer) micro curie cobalt-57 source testing a gamma camera. I would like to know if this made my risk for getting cancer higher ? My employers say l don't need to be worried.

Hi everyone, new to the forum and new to fortran. my coding skills have never been my strongest point and I'm struggling to understand the code from start to finish. If anybody can help me, i would appreciate it very much. Basically the code is used to detect breast cancer using the Yee's...

Okay, so i have read one or two articles about cancer from a evolutionary perspective. However it still its not clear how cancer cells have a particular advantage in our body ? Is it that cancer cells have increase their survivability by rapidly multiplying - are there any examples of this in...