Health and Fitness Facts

Alzheimers disease has become very popular among a number of patients in the countries like the US, especially, in the older patients. The patients suffering with the disease face significant complications in thinking, understanding and communicating. A disease leads to a severe damage in the brain and memory. The sickness leads to negative affects in a person’s normal family life, social gathering and a normal individuality. The disease shows a slow progress inside the brain resulting in a severe grievance in the memory. It creates a disturbance in almost all those works which are been derived by the brain. Many times, the sickness takes years to increase. This mental illness can occur due to an injury inside the brain, an existence cancerous cells or tumors, hypertension or high blood pressure, diabetes, coronary artery disease or an increasing level of cholesterol in the blood. Medical experts say that the person, who has a less grade of education, can also develop this disease.

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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder which clinically manifests itself as progressive mental deterioration, loss of memory and cognitive functions. Alzheimer symptoms eventually lead to the individual’s inability to carry out the daily activities of life. To actually define Alzheimer, or receive a definitive diagnosis, this can only be made by a postmortem biopsy of the brain, which demonstrates atrophy, senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. 50-60% of all cases of dementia, in both the senile and presenile period, are the result of Alzheimer’s disease. Genetics do play a significant role in determining susceptibility to Alzheimer’s disease and Alzheimer’s life expectancy, however, environmental factors also play a significant role. Traumatic injury to the head, exposure to neurotoxins from environmental sources, chronic exposure to aluminum and/or silicon, and free radical damage have all been implicated as causative factors in Alzheimer symptoms. Just as in other chronic degenerative diseases, there is considerable evidence that increased oxidative damage plays a central role in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s disease. Therapies designed to support antioxidant mechanisms may be quite beneficial in the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease as well as improve Alzheimer’s life expectancy. High doses of the vitamins C and E can prevent further oxidative damage of the brain. High dosages are required because it is more difficult to increase antioxidant levels in the brain tissue compared with other body organs.

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Cancer is the deadliest disease of the century. The advancements in medical field and years of researches have resulted in developing a variety of treatments for cancer. Chemotherapy, surgery, proton therapy, cryosurgery, radiation therapy etc are few treatment methods. Radiation treatment is done in about 50-60 % of cancer patients.This method of cancer treatment is applied on almost every type of cancers like breast cancer, pancreatic, prostrate, uterus, lungs, leukemia, cancer affecting lymphatic system, soft tissue sarcomas etc.

Radiation therapy is a targeted therapy where the cancerous cells are targeted to destroy it. This treatment damages the ability of the cancer cells to replicate and spread cancer. There are various advanced methods of radiation therapy like proton beam therapy, stereo tactic radio surgery etc.
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