Prostate Cancer

The prostate often enlarges gradually after the age of 50 years. At the age of 70 years, 80% of men have an enlarged prostate. Many older men who have problems urinating due to prostate enlargement (non-cancerous). In some men, enlargement was followed by the growth of cancer. Therefore, you should get a healthy life since a young age, so you can avoid prostate disease.

The prostate is a gland located below the bladder in men. The main function of the prostate is to produce fluid which protects and deliver sperm.

Prostate cancer occurs when prostate cells to grow faster than normal conditions to form lumps or tumors that have a malignancy. Is the most common cancer in men, especially those aged over 65 years.

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Cloves Usefulness for Health

Cloves (Syzygium aromaticum L.) are the aromatic dried flower stalks of the Myrtaceae family tree. Indonesia is a native plant identification flora of North Maluku province. Cloves currently mainly grown in Banda Islands, Madagascar, Zanzibar, India, and Sri Lanka. Clove tree is an annual plant that can grow up to 10-20 m high and has oval leaves on flowering shoots. Flowers at first green and red if the flowers are blooming. Cloves are harvested when it reaches 1.5 to 2 cm long.

Usefulness of cloves

Cloves are used as a spice in Europe and Asia, either in whole or as powder. Especially in Indonesia, cloves are also used as an ingredient of clove cigarettes. In China and Japan, cloves are used as an incense fragrance materials. Dried leaves are finely ground cloves can be used as a vegetable and effective pesticides to control Fusarium stem rot disease by providing 50-100 grams of dried pimento leaves per plant.

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Lung Cancer

Lung cancer including the deadly cancer, both for men and women. Compared with other cancer types, such as prostate cancer, colon cancer, and breast cancer, lung cancer today are more likely to increase its development.

Lung cancer is a form of development is very fast sell (abnormal) in lung tissue caused by changes in the form of the expansion of cellular tissue or sell itself. If left unchecked this abnormal growth that can spread to other organs, both near and far to the lung such as bone, liver, or brain.

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Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is a cancer of the breast tissue. This is the most common type of cancer that affects women. Men can also develop breast cancer, although less likely than 1 in 1000. The most common treatment is with surgery and if necessary followed by chemotherapy or radiation.

Clinical Symptoms of Breast Cancer

Clinical symptoms of breast cancer may include:

Lump in the breast

Usually a painless lump in the breast. The lump was small initially, the longer it will be even greater, and then attached to the skin or cause changes in the skin of the breast or the nipple.

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Lymph Node Cancer (lymphoma)

Lymphoma / lymphoma is a cancer of the lymphatic system is growing due to a mutation (change) lymphocytes (a type of white blood cells) that were previously normal becomes abnormal and malignant. As well as normal lymphocytes, malignant lymphocytes can grow in various organs in the body including lymph nodes, spleen, bone marrow, blood or other organs.

The lymphatic system is part of the immune system that flows throughout the body and is useful for fighting viruses, bacteria and fungi, which can lead to the onset of infection in our body.

Common symptoms of lymphoma include discovery of a lump in the neck, armpits and groin, fever without cause, night sweats, weight loss without apparent cause drastic and constant fatigue.

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Liver Cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma)

Liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma) is cancer that arises from the heart, also known as primary liver cancer or hepatoma. The liver is an organ composed of different cell types (eg, bile ducts, blood vessels, and fat cells). However, liver cells (hepatocytes) up 80% of liver tissue. Thus, the majority of primary liver cancer (more than 90% -95%) arises from liver cells and so-called liver cancer or carcinoma.

GLOBOCAN Based on data released by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), in 2008 recorded 748 000 cases of liver cancer are diagnosed. This disease is a cancer with the third highest mortality rate, with 696 000 patients die each year. More than 85% of cases occur in developing countries.

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Blood Cancer (Leukemia)

When we hear the word cancer, it must have in our minds imagined the terrifying and deadly disease, everyone already knows the malignancy of cancer.

Blood cancer (Leukemia) is a malignancy that occurs in blood cells. The term leukemia includes malignancies that occur in white blood cells, red blood cells (erythroleukemia) or on other elements in the blood or spinal marrow.

Malignancy begins when the growth of blood cells (white) is abnormal (blast cells or young cells) which at the time, they may push the white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets are normal. This makes it hard for blood to do its work.

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