Cancer Definition and 211 Threads

While assessing the various tissues in the human body, I was unable to recall ever having heard of the cardiovascular system being affected by cancer. Does cancer of the heart exist, and what is its incidence relative to other cancers?

Just seen an interesting documentary about the breakthrough in Cancer treatments. The programme gives a brief discription on cell division and how doctors think the way forward for treatment is changing due to the Understanding of Genetic (genome) discovery. Anyway I was fascinated by the film...

http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20031203/02/

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,104730,00.html The video is more informative than the article.

Is is true that heating food/fluids using microwaves leads to a higher risk of cancer?

I truly believe this. Judaism, Christianity (in its many forms) and the Islamic religion have brought more pain and suffering than benefit to humanity. These religions all share a common design. They are all structured so as to control the masses by the fear punishment and the promise of...

Heres the problem: An x-ray tube used for cancer therapy operates at 4.0 MV, with a beam current of 25 mA striking the metal target.Nearly all of this power is transferred to a stream of water flowing through the holes drilled in the target. What rate of flow, in Kg/sec, is needed if the...

What habits shouldn't I have? What foods shouldn't I take ?

"Sunscreens have been heavily promoted as a means of protecting sunbathers but they may have the opposite effect, according to a report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. It cites Antony Young of King's College, London, who said several large scale studies over the past few years...

My good friend's wife is dying of cancer. She has "final stage, inflammatory, breast cancer", or something like that. I need whatever information (perhaps some links or references) anyone has on the possible cures (particularly something "natural"). Also, does anyone have information on...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&ncid=571&e=25&u=/nm/20030429/hl_nm/mouse_cancer_dc_1