Cancer / Oncology Treatments

The liver continuously filters blood that circulates through the body, converting nutrients and drugs absorbed from the digestive tract into ready-to-use chemicals. The liver performs many other important functions, such as removing toxins and other chemical waste products from the blood and readying them for excretion. Because all the blood in the body must pass through it, the liver is unusually accessible to cancer cells traveling in the bloodstream.
Liver cancer or hepatic cancer is a cancer that originates in the liver. Liver cancers are malignant tumors that grow on the surface or inside the liver.

An abnormal growth found in the bone is called bone cancer. Cancer that starts in a bone is uncommon and Cancer that has spread to the bone from another part of the body is more common.

Breast cancer is a group of cancer cells (malignant tumor) that starts in the cells of the breast and invade surrounding tissues or spread (metastasize) to other areas of the body.

Chemotherapy works by stopping or slowing the growth of cancer cells, which grow and divide quickly. But it can also harm healthy cells that divide quickly, such as those that line your mouth and intestines or cause your hair to grow. Damage to healthy cells may cause side effects. Often, side effects get better or go away after chemotherapy is over.

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (also called CLL) is a blood and bone marrow disease that usually gets worse slowly. Like all leukemias, chronic lymphocytic leukemia is a cancer of the blood cells. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) affects a certain type of white blood cell, called a B lymphocyte. This disease is also called B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia. B cells originate in the bone marrow, mature in the lymph nodes, and then circulate in the blood to help fight infections. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is the second most common type of leukemia in adults.

Radiation therapy (sometimes abbreviated to XRT or DXT) is a cancer treatment. Its goal is to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. Unlike cancer cells, most of your normal cells recover from radiation therapy. Doctors try to protect normal cells by limiting the radiation dosage and spreading treatment out over time. When they use radiation machines, they shield as much of your body as possible while targeting the cancer.

A Brain Tumor is an abnormal growth of cells within the brain, which can be cancerous or non-cancerous (benign).

Causes:
Radiation to the head
An inherited (genetic) risk
HIV infection
Cigarette smoking
Environmental toxins (for example, chemicals used in oil refineries, embalming chemicals, rubber industry chemicals)

The junction where the femur and tibia couple together is called the femorotibial joint. The region of the knee where the patella and femur form a junction is called the patella femoral joint. These two joints are what allow the bending and straightening of the knee. It is these joints that are replaced in a total knee joint replacement.