Picture this: The year is 2030 and you’re at the annual family reunion It’s you and 99 of your dearest loved ones

It has been stated that one in three people will develop a form of Cancer at some point within their lives, making it one of the most prolific diseases that we are now seeing Due to this doctors have to be highly aware of the possibility of Cancer when making a diagnosis

Cancer is second only to cardiovascular disease as the leading cause of death in the Western world Although Cancer is primarily a disease of the elderly with more than 60% of deaths from cancer occurring in those over the age of 65, cancer can strike even the youngest of children

Cancer is now the leading cause of death globally It is estimated that cancer will kill 84 million people in the next ten years

Learning to fully live during tough times

Breast cancer radiotherapy is at best an ordeal and at worst a living nightmare for many women The worst moment after being told you really do have cancer is being told you will need chemotherapy and radiotherapy as treatment to fight the disease

Herceptin Treatment is a fairly new treatment for breast cancer It was originally licensed for women who had some form of meteastatic breast cancer spread but a little over two years ago it was licensed to be used on any woman with early stage breast cancer

Diagnosed with cancer as a teenager, Zoё Szypillo 23, didn’t thin she’d get to her 17th birthday

Mesothelioma is a form of lung cancer, predominantly caused by exposure to asbestos fibers In fact, mesothelioma is a cancer of the mesothelium, the sheath that covers major organs such as the lungs (pleurum), the heart (pericardium) and the abdominal cavity (peritoneum)

My younger brother, Junaid, passed away recently after a two year battle with cancer He died as I was holding his hands at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto on March 19, 2008 at 11:10am