Category: Cancer

You are constipated if your motions are hard and you have difficulty opening your bowels. It doesn’t really matter if you don’t open your bowels very often, as long as your motions are soft and easy to pass when you do.

I’m sure you know some of the simple things that can cause constipation—not eating enough [...]

Everybody who has cancer is under some nervous strain some of the time. This shows itself in different ways in different people. Symptoms which can be due to nervous tension include difficulty sleeping, lack of energy, irritability, crying spells, loss of appetite, nausea, difficulty in swallowing, indigestion, stomach pains, diarrhoea, breathlessness, chest pains, palpitations, headache, [...]

Abscesses

True breast abscesses are painful and can grow up to between 5 and 10 cm (2 and 4 inches) or more across. They contain pus, which is made up of bacteria and secretions from within the breast, and are distinct from the inflammation due to duct ectasia and plasma cell mastitis. Abscesses can occur anywhere [...]