Mike Weiss

How Effective is Chemotherapy? Basically, chemotherapy and radiation therapy are cytotoxic, meaning poisonous or deadly to living cells. They work by killing the cancerous cell, preventing with its ability to divide and grow. The only difference between the two is the method of delivery. Radiation therapy works through high energy…

American Cancer Society, on its report Global Cancer Facts and Figures in 2007 stated that there would be around 7.6 million estimated deaths from cancer. According to The Telegraph in 2013,  a broadcast in the UK,  “15,000 people die every year because of cancer treatment rather than the illness itself!”…

Comparison Study for Rheumatoid Arthritis using Different Chinese Medicinal Formula Rheumatoid Arthritis or RA is a chronic systemic disease that affects the joints, connective tissues, muscle, tendons, and fibrous tissue. Thus, it tends to strike during the most productive years of adulthood, between the ages of 20 and 40, and…

What is Cancer Surgery? Surgery it is a branch of a medicine that require to remove tumor. It removes parts of the body affected by disease or disorder to return the feeling of the patience well. The goal of surgery is to diagnose cancer, remove all cancer or tumor. And to…

The immune system The immune system consists of cells, tissues, and organs that work jointly to defend the body from foreign invaders. The human body serves as an ideal environment for many microorganisms. The immune system’s primary job is to keep them out and destroy them. A cancer cell can…

Cancer cells divide and rapidly grow than those of the healthy cells in the human body. Radiation therapy is a kind of cancer treatment which delivers high energy waves such as x-rays, gamma rays, electron beams, or protons to destroy rapidly dividing cells. Though it may also damage healthy tissues…