Lung cancer – a malignant tumor that develops from epithelial lung tissue. There are two forms: central lung cancer originating from the bronchi, and peripheral cancer that develops from within the lung tissue.
Lung cancer is one of the most common cancers. Despite the best efforts for its prevention, the incidence rate since the beginning of the XX century has grown several dozen times. Lung cancer is leading reasons of mortality in many countries from oncological diseases among men. Primarily, it is connected with the fact that the initial stages of lung cancer occur almost asymptomatic and patients address to the doctor too late. Continue reading
These small growths commonly found on the gallbladder are often made up of cholesterol – but they can also be cancerous.
Gallbladder polyps are considered a fairly common condition. And while most of the time gallbladder polyps are nothing to be concerned about, some of them can be cancerous. Continue reading
Oncology – a section in medicine that studies the problems of diagnosis and cure of malignant tumors (neoplasms). Despite the fact that oncological diseases have been the scourge a long time, but now they became widely known about them a lot of talk, explore, conduct many kinds of experiments and the development of more effective drugs. Continue reading