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Breast Cancer - Symptoms and Risk Factor Breast cancer has emerged as major cancer amongst women of India, displacing cervical cancer. Data from the Ministry of Health has ranked breast cancer as the number one cancer among Indian women with a rate as high as 25.8 per 100,000 women and mortality of 12.7 per 100,000 women. Breast cancer is no longer cancer of older women around 25% of breast cancer is beginning to be seen in women younger than 50. Hence, all women need to know the signs and symptoms of breast cancers and risk factors for the development of breast cancer. The common symptoms of breast cancer are Lump in the breast or under am (around or in armpit area) Thickening / swelling change in skin texture of part of the breast Redness /flaky skin in the nipple area Change in nipple area/pain Discharge from nipple (other than breast milk) Change in size or shape of the breast g) pain in any area of the breast. If any woman notices any of these, it i...

What is Obesity? Obesity is almost a pandemic in the current health scenario and it has been often established that it leads to a great number of lifestyle disorders including diabetes, hypertension, coronary problems and more. Morbidly obese people face more complications in their daily movements and have been known to undergo Total Knee Replacement surgery at younger ages than those with a lower BMI. In recent researches (meta analysis, October ’17 issue, Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery) it has been established that obese patients who go through Total Knee Replacement surgery are almost twice as likely to incur infection post surgery and more than 2 times likely to incur deep infection. The obese patients undergoing this procedure are a little more likely to later need a second surgery when compared to those that aren’t obese. Apart from the risk of infection, other complications post a Total Knee Replacement surgery that may arise from obesity include ...

A time when one or more offspring develop in the womb of women, it is called pregnancy. Other terms for pregnancy are gestation or Latin word gravid that means heavy. To get pregnant women to need to go through sexual intercourse or in recent times, assisted reproductive technology can make it possible. Starting from the last menstrual period (LMP), it takes around 40 weeks or nine months, typically for childbirth to occur. Women have the option of either giving birth to a child or go for abortion by access to safe abortion care. Unfortunately, there are also chances of miscarriage of children in the womb for some reason. There is a division of three trimesters, each lasting for about three months during the condition of pregnancy . During the first trimester, sperm fertilizes the egg, so also referred to as a period of conception. Then fertilized egg attaches inside the uterus after travelling down the fallopian tube to begin the formation of the placenta and...

10 Warning Signs of Lung Cancer Probably, lung cancers do not show up any symptoms until its invasion into your body. However, some patients in the early stages of lung cancer exhibit symptoms, and luckily their treatment is more effective due to the detection of cancer at an early stage by doctor’s diagnosis. Perhaps symptoms of the first stage of the disease can be by some other reason too, but you shall see lung cancer specialist if apprehensive about your condition. According to Wikipedia, 1/10 people do not reveal any symptoms in their diagnoses for lung cancer. Further, it says, around 85% of cases of lung cancer are related to prolonged tobacco smoking, whereas 10–15% of cases suffer from this disease by genetic factors, exposure by radon gas, second-hand smoke, asbestos, or other kinds of air pollution. 10 Symptoms of lung cancer As discussed above, it is hard to notice symptoms of lung cancer until the disease advances. Yet there are common sympto...

Tips for Parents to Maintain a Child’s Healthy Diet As we see the transition from the lifestyle of the previous millennium to the present, there is one big difference that we cannot fail to notice-the diet we feed our children. While Indian has long had an ethos of home-cooked food, we see that this very ethos seems no more feasible for mothers who continuously try to strike the delicate work-life balance. But, even when so many mothers have managed to make home-cooked meals for their children, the fad gets the better of them, the trend of eating out often and eating junk when you do. Children are, more than ever, addicted to junk food, pizzas, burgers, and noodles being the raging favourites. Unhealthy Foods Children Should Avoid As parents, we think that all the children are having it, and they seem just fine. The truth is that they’re not. What children need in their growing age is well-balanced nutrition. What may look like a perfectly healthy child to yo...