Vaginal Cancer

Vaginal cancer is uncommon but is severe type of cancer that forms in the tissues of the vagina. Primary vaginal cancer is quite rare in the common population of women, but a specific form of vaginal cancer is statistically significant in women. Vaginal cancer occurs more frequently in women when they cross the age of 50, but that is not précised, it can happen at any age, even in infancy and can be cured if diagnosed and treated in early stages. Surgery alone or surgery combined with pelvic radiation is typically used to treat vaginal cancer. According to some statistic it has been calculated that around 2,000 women are suffering from this rare type of gynecological cancer each year.

What is Healthy Vagina

Vagina is a muscular canal from the cervix to the outside of the body. It has an average length of about six to seven inches. The walls of vagina are lined with mucus membrane.The vagina consists of vulva that includes labia majora, mons pubis, labia minora, clitoris, bulb of the vsttibules, vstibules of the vagina and the only part of the vagina that can be normally viewed without any instrument from outside is the vaginal opening. …Click here to read more

Women over 40 need to take some special care as they are about to enter the pre menopausal period. Instead of getting demoralized by your age, try to redefine your age.

•    Women over 40 should not think that it’s an end of their life & should not stop visiting their physicians.  It’s your new life & your physician can show you some helpful paths.

•    Revaluating calorie intake is very necessary for women over forty. They need to consume calorie according to their daily activities.

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Atril fibrillation, which is quite well-known as the abnormal heartbeat, is often related to drinking, but a new study says that if healthy middle-aged women consume light amount of alcohol, it doesn’t increase their risk of having atrial fibrillation.

To find out the link between alcohol consumption and abnormal heart beat, researchers from Harvard Medical School examined the data of a large Women’s Health study.

Some previous studies in men have shown that higher amounts of alcohol consumption have links with increased atrial fibrillation.

In the study almost 35,000 women were included and all of them were of 45 and over years of age. None of these women had abnormal heart rhythm or some other heart condition at the beginning of the study. The women were asked about their alcohol consumption at the beginning and after 48 months of the study. With a 12.4 years average follow-up, the researchers found that nearly 1.9% of women who used to consume one or less drink a day had developed the condition, while the rates were found as 1.8% in the women who used to consume one or two drinks. But the women who consumed two or more drinks daily had 2.9% higher risk.

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NEW YORK – Mild to moderate physical activity may minimize the risk of endometrial cancer associated with obesity, according to study of American Cancer Society.

Dr. Alpa V. Patel and colleagues noticed 466 cases of endometrial cancers between 1992 and 2003 in 43,000 postmenopausal women with complete uteri.

Researchers found that, active women engaged initially in mild to moderate exercises, such as walking, biking, aerobics or dancing, equivalent to almost two hours of moderately paced walking per week.

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According to a Dutch study, young women who receive radiation after surgery for breast cancer are more likely to develop a new tumor in the opposite or contralateral breast and this risk is even higher in the women who have a significant family history of breast cancer.

The study will be published online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology current issue. In this study, the researchers examined some fairly recent radiation techniques and some experts have pointed out these techniques have been improved and refined with the passage of time.

Dr. Jay Brooks, who is chairman of hematology/oncology at Ochsner Health System in Baton Rouge, La, says about this study: “Though it’s quite interesting, over the last 25 years radiation techniques have dramatically changed and many patients were treated with much older techniques.” …Click here to read more