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According to disclose much of the world’s newspapers during the 52 th annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine in Philadelphia, was announced the new intervention against cancerous tumors. Apparently a team of researchers has used tiny carbon capsules with iron to improve the process of tumor destruction.

This implements the laser technique, refers to the “iron-carbon capsules, visible on the screen of a scanner, are accurately located within the body and are heated by laser when it reaches a tumor.”

Ding Xuanfeng asserts Baptist Medical Center Wake Forest University (North Carolina), the intervention is done with “carbon nanotubes with multiple layers that contain iron and are 10,000 times thinner than a human hair.” Through a escancer magnetic resonance imaging were performed lab tests, scientists were able to track particles within living tissue.

This method revealed to the world, is the development and evolution of the experimental technique for cancer treatment known as laser-induced thermal therapy (TTIL) that uses laser energy to heat and destroy tumors.

The researchers found “the TTIL works because certain nanoparticles can absorb the energy of a laser and convert it into heat. If the nanoparticles are struck by lightning while inside the tumor free energy of high temperature and kill cancer cells. “However, the technical difficulty was that the scanner that doctors use the tumor can be clearly seen, but the particles are not seen, which may mean a high risk to the patient because it could end up destroying healthy tissue.

Therefore, the development towards the new method, an important step forward in clinical research, as to the extent that the iron particles are charged they become visible to the scanner.

Worldwide, every two minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, the second leading cause of death in women. Knowledge and early detection of tumor is the best prevention. And to achieve this we need to be informed. Today we will see some major misconceptions about breast cancer.

“Breast cancer cannot be prevented.”

FALSE. Periodic monitoring for early detection becomes the only way to treat it on time and increase the chances of a cure. The survival rate 5 years after diagnosis and early treatment is 96%. You are conducting studies with drugs that could
prevent breast cancer.

“If there are no symptoms should not worry.”

FALSE. 75% of nearly 18,000 women each year who are diagnosed with this disease had no known risk factors or symptoms. It is therefore important to monitor periodically, although in some cases the disease is announced from any symptoms such as lumps in the breast, changes in color or texture of the skin, hard or persistent axillary nodes, among others.

“There is no right age to start with the controls.”

FALSE. The WHO recommendations and Intersociedades Argentine Consensus indicates that we must perform a mammogram every year after age 40. If a woman has a family history of breast cancer begins ten years before the age of onset of disease in your family. Due to the particularity of each woman’s age and the frequency may be determined by your doctor.

“Self-examination is not used to detect breast cancer.”

FALSE. The method is used to detect breast cancer early, but is valid for awareness regarding breast care.

“The ultrasound replace mammography”

FALSE. They are two different types of techniques with specific purposes and uses, and often complementary at the discretion of the physician, but ultrasound does not replace mammography.

Melanoma, showing the shape, volume and color variables, can develop in the skin surface.

In men usually appear on the trunk, from shoulders to hips, head or neck. Conversely, women especially in the legs or trunk. You may not exclude other parts of the body, can also be developed under the fingernails, palms or soles of the feet.

It is important to remember that this is not a contagious disease, so there is no risk of contact with people who suffer from it. There are several types of melanoma:

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