Loss of appetite from cancer
Cancer and cancer therapy has been associated with loss of appetite in many patients. Cancer patients may have no sense of hunger at all, have extremely poor appetite or eat...
Side effects of lymphoma
Side Effects of Cancer TreatmentsTreatment for cancer usually involves toxic medications (chemotherapy) and radiation. This treatment targets the cancer cells but at the same time, it affects normal, healthy cells...
Misdiagnosed with PCOS
Polycystic Ovarian DiseasePolycystic ovarian syndrome (polycystic ovarian/ovary disease, Stein-Levinthal Syndrome, PCOS) includes the many different symptoms. These include: rare and irregular menstruation, signs of excess male hormones, infertility, hirsuitism, thinning...
Prevention of brain tumors
A person is considered to have developed brain tumor when there is a vast number of abnormal brain cells in the brain. Brain tumors affect both children and adults but...
Causes of nocturnal seizures
Seizures are activities in the brain that are impossible to control that manifest themselves through a series of body spasms. Nocturnal seizures are obviously the kind of seizures that occur...
Absence seizures in children
Absence Seizures - IntroductionNervous cells of the brain normally communicate by electric signals. Characteristic of seizures is abnormal hyper production of electric signals. The excessive electrical discharge causes abnormal twitching...
Brain tumor survival rate
Introduction to brain tumorsAny brain tumor is essentially serious and life-threatening because of its invasive and infiltrative character in the limited space of the intracranial cavity. However, they do not...
Benign tumor in brain
Benign Brain Tumor OverviewBenign tumor in the brain is a growth made up of cells with abnormal growth pattern and abnormal cell division but it is not cancerous. This means...
Malignant brain tumor
An abnormal and uncontrollable growth of cells in the brain results in formation of a brain tumor. The brain tumors can be simply classified into benign and malignant. This classification...
Types of brain tumors
There are numerous types of brain tumors. They are classified by the cell origin and the area of the brain that is affected. There are over 120 types of brain...