Yeast Infection: a Vaginal Fungus Infection

Author: Farzina Naznin

Yeast infection is a fungal infection which is also called as Candidiasis. Yeast infection is found to be more prominent in the vagina. Yeast infection causes to the formation of certain irritation in the vagina. Yeast infection is also prone to affect the male folk through the means of sexual intercourse. More particularly, males who are not circumcised are prone to catch this infection. It is estimated that majority of women in one way or the other in their lifetime are affected by yeast infection. Yeast infections are mostly found in the vagina of the women but it causes no serious problems.

The cause of yeast infection is immense and varied but the prime cause is the sexual intercourse which is enjoyed in the ground of unprotected sex. Candida albicans is the prime cause of vaginal yeast infection. Candida is virtually caused due to sexual intercourse which is transmitted from one partner to the other. Unprotected sex often causes yeast infection. Candida along with certain other forms of yeast causes yeast infection which occurs in the vagina, rectum or in the mouth.

Yet another cause of yeast infection is the use of condoms which contains a lubricant known as nonoxynol-9, which kills the HIV virus. Diet is also a cause of yeast infection. There is certain yeast containing food which intensifies the frequency of the yeast infection. Hormones, either natural or simulated also create yeast infection. Yeast infection might also be caused when a person's immune structure is not balanced and influenced properly. Besides Candida, cause of yeast infection might also be entitled to antibiotics. Prolonged use of antibiotics for the purpose of treatment of certain diseases leads to yeast infection. Inappropriate means of clothing like tainted and tight underwear may often lead in the formation of yeast infection.

Women undertaking contraceptive pills are prone to get the yeast infection. Moreover, certain injury in the vagina or in the vaginal membrane can to a certain extent cause yeast infection. Yeast infection can develop symptoms like continuous itching, irritation, discomfort and burning sensation in the vagina. A discharge mainly white in color is experienced due to yeast infection. Painful and swelling breasts, anxiety, depression, acne problem are certain other symptoms of yeast infection. It is estimated that regular use antibiotics, birth control pills also causes yeast infection. Yeast infection can be overcome by means of self treatment. Further, proper guidance from doctors is also necessary to be taken when the yeast infection becomes quite acute.

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Farzina Naznin’s concepts related to women’s health can be read in her articles written for the sites like http://www.sexualhealthsystem.com/ http://www.abouthealthonline.com/ http://www.learnsexualhealth.com/ http://www.womensfitnesshealth.com/ Comments are most welcome at farnaznin@gmail.com

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Losing your Virginity - a Girl's Guide to the First Time

Author: Sacha Tarkovsky

If you are reading this, and fit the situation, then the subject is already a consideration on your mind.

You may have read something on the subject, spoken to a girlfriend who has passed through the experience recently, and heard about it in school. We hope to help you here, with a short guide. It is for you.

First of all, you must feel it is the correct thing to do. You must NOT be pressured into it, or the experience will fail to bring you the pleasure and good memories you expect and deserve. You are in charge of your life and body. You must really feel ready for it.

If you have been masturbating, you probably had clitoral orgasm, so you know what is possible in terms of feelings. You must also, know your own anatomy.

You know you have some outer lips that cover the vulva, and some inner lips which are very flexible. If your hymen is intact, you are also going to tear that, with the accompanying sensations and bleeding. Find out.

In the second consideration, do not have sex if you have over-drunk alcohol. You can become drunk and lose a great deal of your judgment after even one drink.

The third consideration is INSISTING on the use of a condom with your partner. The reasons for this are well known, and certainly there is no excuse for not using it. You must be protected. This is a health concern, a very good way to prevent conception, and generally a good idea as it will help to slow down your partner by desensitizing him a bit.

So to begin.

You cannot have too much foreplay. This should take the form of mutual kissing, erotic massaging, exploring each other's bodies, seeing where each of you are sensitive and have erogenous spots. Don't rush. It will be over soon enough as it is.

All the while as you have foreplay, your womb will be producing the all important moisture that is required. Believe us, the wetter the better. You cannot be too wet for the first time. If you are a bit adventurous, ask you partner to give you cunnilingus, and if you can, give to your partner some fellatio. These are wonderful signs of showing affection.

Getting into it.

Make sure after your foreplay (and perhaps fellatio) put on the condom if you haven't already. The partner may make the first move to go directly into the standard missionary position. Bad idea. It is the worst position to lose your virginity. You are not in control, and it will be more painful and you cannot do anything but lay there and take it. Instead, try the girl on top position. Here you are in control. Your vagina has never had anything in it before (like a penis) and it must accommodate it slowly...and it will.

If you are losing you hymen, you are the one determining the speed and pressure with which it occurs. You will not suffer, and if you are still not wet enough, you can apply some water-based vaginal lubricant (such as K-Y). The deed is soon done, and you can get down to thrusting.

At first, have your partner move without thrusting, just applying pressure while fully inserted in your vagina. As it begins to feel natural, you can your self start thrusting.

At this point you can change positions (assuming your partner has lasted) and go onto your back. However, do not settle for the simple missionary position, but tilt your pelvis slightly up, and ask your partner to suspend himself on his arms and not lay on you...this when thrusting will stimulate both your clitoris and G-spot.

There are a lot of variables here, but lose you virginity as we suggest, and you will have in your mind pleasant memories instead of feeling unfilled, or used.

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Health Insurance Quotes Reform Weekly January

Author: Health Insurance

Federal

Although the House vote to repeal health care reform is symbolic only (given the Democratic Senate and White House), it is a necessary first step leading to committee by committee action over the coming months on discrete provisions of health care. One such item, medical malpractice liability reform, got a hearing last week before the House Judiciary Committee as Republicans paraded several witnesses before the committee to showcase the need for legislation from the physicians' perspective. Since it is very unlikely that the American Medical Association's wish list would ever become law, the best result from the committee process would be a bill that skirts the more controversial items (e.g., cap on damages) and focuses on attainable and meaningful reforms, such as health courts, stronger pre-trial evaluation and settlement pathways. This would be a path Aetna would strongly support.

States

ARIZONA: Governor Jan Brewer has announced that she will request a waiver from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services so that the state can set Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) eligibility below levels mandated by the PPACA. In March 2010, Governor Brewer signed a fiscal year 2011 budget that stripped funding for the state's Children's Health Insurance program (KidsCare) and cut $385 million from AHCCCS, effectively repealing an expansion of AHCCCS to childless adults approved by voters in 2000. However, following enactment of the PPACA, the state rescinded the scheduled cuts to comply with the law's "maintenance of efforts" (MOE) requirement. The MOE requirement prohibits a state from having eligibility standards, methodologies, or procedures for adults that are more restrictive than those in effect on March 23, 2010, until a health insurance exchange in the state is fully operational, and for all children in Medicaid and CHIP through September 30, 2019. The MOE requirement provides an exception for non-pregnant, non-disabled adults earning more than 133 percent of the federal poverty level if a state is projected to have a budget deficit. Arizona faces a mid-year budget deficit estimated at $825 million. A $1.4 billion shortfall is projected for the 2012 fiscal year.

CALIFORNIA: The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review whether health care providers and patients have the right to sue California over budget reductions made to Medi-Cal reimbursements. The high court will review three legal challenges to California's proposed and adopted reimbursement cuts. The Supreme Court's ruling on the case could have major implications for efforts to address California's budget deficit. Last week, Gov. Jerry Brown (D) released a budget proposal that would reduce Medi-Cal payments to health care providers by 10 percent to cut program spending by about $719 million in fiscal year 2011-2012. In addition, the case could have implications for other states seeking to address budget deficits by cutting Medicaid payments. With federal courts in California blocking the cuts, 22 states have joined California in appealing the issue to the Supreme Court. The court is expected to hear oral arguments in the case next fall. A decision is expected in late 2011 or early 2012.

CONNECTICUT: Speaker Chris Donovan, members of the Public Health and Insurance Committees and a variety of advocates held a press conference last week to announce the Public Health Committee has raised the SustiNet bill based on the recent recommendations of the SustiNet Board. Few details were provided, but the original report recommends that SustiNet become a licensed insurance plan. "We don't need health insurance anymore, we need to move towards health assurance — health care that will be there for us, and the SustiNet plan will do that," Donovan said. Lawmakers will face a $3.7 billion budget deficit by July 1. Rep. Betsy Ritter, D-Waterford, co-chairwoman of the Public Health Committee, said the plan will have to go before multiple legislative committees, with the actual bill some weeks away. A financial analysis on upfront costs is not yet available. Aetna is working with the Connecticut Association of Health Plans (CTAHP) and AHIP to secure an objective fiscal analysis of SustiNet's, as a public option, true cost to the state, and of the strong, positive impact health insurers have on the state's economy.

DELAWARE: In his State of the State speech, Governor Jack Markell emphasized the need for state government to spend more efficiently. He specifically noted that the demands state employee health insurance and pensions are putting on the state budget are unsustainable. The Governor specifically stated he is open to any and all good ideas for addressing this budget issue. In other news, a joint meeting of the Senate Health Committee and the House Economic Development, Banking, Insurance, and Commerce Committee was convened for an update on the state's effort to implement health care reform. Rita Landgraf, Secretary of Health and Social Services, along with Bettina Riveros, Health Care Commission Chair, advised legislators the commission will spend the next six to eight weeks holding stakeholder meetings across the state seeking input on establishing a state health insurance exchange.

GEORGIA: The Exchange Workgroup formed by former Governor Sonny Perdue had its final meeting last week and will submit a list of issues for Governor Deal's administration to review before deciding how to proceed on the issue of instituting an exchange in Georgia. As the head of this workgroup for Governor Perdue is continuing under Governor Deal's administration, it is likely that there will be some enabling legislation during the 2011 session, though it is unclear what that will be. The legislative session began January 11, 2011 and continues for 40 legislative days.

IOWA: The General Assembly convened in Des Moines on January 10 and is expected to adjourn on April 29, 2011 In the November elections, Republicans took control of the House and gained a few seats in the Senate, narrowing the Democrats' majority there. Republican Terry Branstad was sworn in as governor for the second time. Having served in the post from 1983 to 1999, Branstad is the longest-serving governor in Iowa's history. The state's budget deficit is projected to be more than $785 million for fiscal year 2012 and will dominate legislative discussions. House Speaker Kraig Paulsen has vowed to remedy the deficit through spending cuts rather than tax increases. The Governor's proposal to revise the state's annual budget to a two-year cycle will also be debated. Bills of interest so far include several challenging PPACA's individual mandate, a prohibition on abortion coverage, creation of mandate-lite policies, a mandate for coverage of smoking cessation programs, a rate review bill that would require a public hearing for any increase over 10 percent in the individual market, and a bill establishing $100 as the minimum required payment for state employees.

INDIANA: Governor Mitch Daniels has issued an executive order establishing the Indiana Health Benefit Exchange. In his order he directs the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration (IFSSA) to cooperate with appropriate state agencies, including the Department of Insurance (IDOI), to establish and operate the exchange. The IFSSA Secretary or the secretary's designee will serve as the incorporator of the Exchange. If, after careful analysis, the state deems it appropriate to proceed with creation of the exchange, a board of directors will be selected. The board will include representatives of state agencies and the Indiana General Assembly. Standing Committees will be appointed that have stakeholder representation. In addition, Governor Daniels submitted a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius requesting approval of a state plan amendment to extend the Healthy Indiana Program (HIP) beyond its expiration date. HIP, the state's consumer-directed program for covering the uninsured population, is scheduled to expire in 2012. Daniels notes he has received communication from HHS staff indicating the state plan amendment will be rejected due to HIP's required level of contribution from participants. The Governor said the state intends to utilize the program for the newly eligible Medicaid population pursuant to PPACA. Daniels cautioned that Indiana does not have the time and financial resources necessary to complete new rigorous requirements for applying for a waiver extension if the amendment is rejected. The current 45,000 enrollees in the program would have to be transitioned into traditional Medicaid.

MISSOURI: The 96th General Assembly convened on January 5 and is expected to adjourn on May 30, 2011. With 106 members to the Democrats' 57, the GOP has the largest number of seats it has ever held in the House and is just three members short of being veto-proof. Given the large Republican majorities in the General Assembly and 70 percent voter support for Proposition C -- an effort to turn back health care reform, the legislature will be under pressure to do nothing to move Missouri closer to enactment of federal health reform.

Significant health care bills filed this session include a resolution calling on the Attorney General to file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the PPACA, a bill requiring statutory authorization by the General Assembly to implement PPACA, a bill expanding the autism mandate, an MLR bill for large carriers requiring a 90 percent MLR for Missouri-associated revenues and 85 percent for smaller carriers, a bill requiring the state employee health plan to offer a minimum of three high-deductible options with differing annual deductibles and annual out-of-pocket expenses, a bill prohibiting "Most Favored Nation" clauses, legislation creating transparency and publication of carriers' fee schedules and requiring carriers to contract with providers willing to meet certain provider participation terms and conditions, and creation of a uniform group application for insurance.

NEBRASKA: The 102nd unicameral legislature has convened in Lincoln where it is expected to spend much of the session grappling with a budget deficit approaching $985 million for the 2011-2013 biennium. Implementation of the PPACA is expected to receive serious attention as well, with six bills relating to implementation or rejection of PPACA introduced to date. Bills of interest include legislation creating an Exchange Task Force, an interim committee for PPACA study, and several bills challenging the individual mandate, prohibition of abortion coverage, and a cochlear implant mandate. In addition, a bill banning discretionary clauses in health and disability income insurance contracts has been introduced. The legislature began its work on January 6 and is tentatively scheduled to adjourn on May 26, 2011.

NEW HAMPSHIRE: The legislature convened on January 5, 2011, and is scheduled to adjourn on June 30, 2011. Governor John Lynch will continue as the state Executive; however, Republicans have gained control of both chambers in the legislature. In addition to the state's budget deficit, implementation of federal health care reform will continue to be a priority for the governor and the legislature. Given the Republican majority and anticipated revenue shortfalls, there will be limited, if any, activity on health insurance issues. The legislature will, however, be paying close attention to federal health reform implementation issues and activities. In addition, there have been discussions about eliminating certain state mandates if they are not included in the essential benefits required under the PPACA. In 2010, the state enacted legislation granting certain powers to the commissioner with respect to implementation of PPACA. This legislation also created a legislative oversight committee, to which the Department of Insurance (DOI) must report monthly. This month the DOI submitted a request for a waiver of the 80 percent minimum loss ratio (MLR) requirement for individual health insurance market policies until 2014.

NEW YORK: In a new report, the United Hospital Fund (UHF) looks at how New York might set up health insurance exchanges. One option is to let HHS run the state's exchange, While that could save money, it would also mean ceding key operational and regulatory issues to the feds. It might also jeopardize existing consumer protections in Medicaid that are unique to New York. If the state sets up its own exchange, it must decide whether to join a multi-state exchange, a statewide entity, or small local ones. UHF noted that New York might consider following the leads of Massachusetts and California by creating an independent public authority to run an exchange. Former Governor David Paterson created a 35-member Exchange Committee that met only twice and did not make any recommendations. Governor Andrew Cuomo has not indicated his plans for establishing an insurance exchange in New York.

PENNSYLVANIA: Governor Tom Corbett has announced his intention to nominate Michael Consedine as the next Insurance Commissioner. Consedine is a partner at the law firm of Saul Ewing, where he serves as Vice Chair of its Insurance Practice Group. Prior to joining Saul Ewing 12 years ago, Consedine served as state Insurance Department Counsel.

The Corbett transition team has announced that adultBasic, Pennsylvania's health insurance program for low-income adults, is expected to expire on February 28 due to lack of funding. The announcement, unusual in that it comes from an incoming administration, was necessitated by the need to provide advance notice to enrollees and to inform them of alternative coverage options. Originally started by former Governor Tom Ridge and funded through the state's allocation of Tobacco Settlement dollars, the program was later funded through the 2005 Community Health Reinvestment Agreement (CHRA). While that agreement between the Rendell Administration and the state's four Blue Cross plans expired on Dec. 31, 2010, additional funding was later provided by the plans pursuant to the CHRA's formula. It now appears those additional funds will be exhausted by the end of next month.

TENNESSEE: A new Commissioner of Insurance appointed by Governor Bill Haslam took office last week. Julie McPeak is an attorney at the Nashville firm of Burr and Forman and the former Commissioner of Insurance in Kentucky. Aetna is scheduling a meeting with the new Commissioner within the next several weeks.

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KNOWING ABOUT TEXAS HEALTH INSURANCE

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Texas leads the nation in the series of people but Texas illness insurance. Although scarcely the single in 5 Americans, have been not insured, it is estimated which the single in 3 Texans have been uninsured.

In Texas Medical Association report, “additional 5.5 million Texans – together with 1.4 million young kids – miss illness insurance”.In the inform published by the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, “The uninsured have been the opposite organisation which includes people who cannot means in isolation illness insurance, operative in tiny businesses which do not ‘ insurance, who simply select not to buy illness insurance, even if they can means it, who have been authorised – not purebred – government-sponsored programs such as in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Plan (CHIP), as well as new immigrants.

The many important repudiation from these reports is which it is mostly formidable for people to navigate the preference of Texas get illness insurance. There have been the crowd of choices as well as decisions. Do we get an particular or family coverage? Should we go with the illness classification (HMO), elite provider classification (PPO) or an additional arrange of plan? What kind of deductible should we choose?The assign to find Texas illness word is even some-more daunting because, as we pierce from the illness word association to another, we find which any offers the opposite set of options.

Accordingly, it is formidable to review apples with apples proverbial. Most people do not comprehend which the full-service group formed in Texas illness word can assistance each the single of people as well as family groups to tiny commercial operation owners as well as Medicare beneficiaries assimilate the options which have been their ordering to acquire insurance.

Better still, these agencies suggest their services as well as giveaway support. It is since they have been compensated by word companies, rsther than than the insured. Therefore, we can pick up the benefits of their imagination impartial, giveaway of charge. Best of all, the little of these agencies have implemented easy to operate online systems which concede we to acquire quotes, review Texas illness word skeleton as well as even request online – all from the joy your home.

In fact, we can perspective the skeleton of illness insurance, hold up insurance, dental plans, illness word skeleton as well as all in the single place. To acquire quotes for illness insurance, for example, simply come in your sum in to an online form, as well as afterwards yield the little simple report about we as well as alternative family members we instruct to insure.

The complement will afterwards beget quotations from the accumulation of companies, which allows we to review side by side. You can arrange the formula by the series of factors, together with the illness word company, devise type, deductible, co-payment, as well as the guess of the premium. Once we confirm which devise we prefer, we can request online. Every day, illness word is the flourishing series of people with affordable illness word Texas. In return, those who acquire illness word rest simpler know which their family groups as well as they have been protected.

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OBESE ON A CHILD IT’S SERIOUSLY HEALTH PROBLEM

One critical illness complaint of Obese kid involves the body’s capability to routine sugar. Diabetes is occurring in roughly widespread rates in the United States as well as many of the Western world. That’s since you have complicated kids who have been flourishing in to complicated adults. And this illness complaint of portly kid starts early as well as can means diabetes to start in adults during the immature age.

When the kid is overweight, their body’s systems have been overtaxed. A kid doesn’t only turn overweight accidentally. Poor diet as well as miss of practice in any multiple will minister to the kid being overweight.

And it’s not the weight itself indispensably which causes many of the of the illness complaint of portly child. Rather it’s the diet as well as lifestyle which led the kid to turn fat which can means the problems.

One of the many critical illness conditions confronting people currently is the hazard of diabetes. Fortunately, diabetes is mostly preventable. Type we diabetes occurs when the pancreas stops functioning properly. This sort of diabetes is additionally well known as youthful diabetes. This isn’t the preventable mildew since it simply happens when an organ malfunctions.

Type II diabetes upon the alternative palm is roughly regularly preventable. This is the mildew caused by lifestyle choices similar to diet as well as miss of exercise. While there have been cases where it seemed the chairman was you do all probable to contend fit as well as they grown diabetes, in roughly each box the condition was brought upon by bad dietary choices.

People who have sort II diabetes can customarily stop the mildew as well as even retreat it by following the full of illness diet which cuts out elementary carbohydrates. It’s dishes tall in sure sorts of carbohydrates which minister to the growth of diabetes, so expelling them can have the extreme difference.

When adults who have diabetes change their diets, thespian changes can take place. They mislay weight as well as reduce their red red red red blood sugarine levels naturally. This can lead to an finish to diabetes as well as they can get off the pills as well as even the insulin shots.

This illness complaint of portly kid mostly starts when they’re young, even yet the diabetes might not rise until they’re an adult. That’s since it’s the solemnly surpassing mildew as well as can take years prior to the physique responds.

When the kid cooking the diet tall in elementary carbohydrates similar to flour as well as sugar, vast amounts of glucose have been expelled in to the red red red red blood tide after they eat. Because kids’ bodies have been so adaptable, their bodies work well to mislay the additional glucose by releasing vast amounts of insulin to take caring of it.

Over time, the vast amounts of insulin expelled in to red blood tide can repairs the vessels as well as arteries. And in the future the physique becomes resistant to the goods of insulin, only as the chairman can be resistant to antibiotics or alternative drugs.

The physique stops promulgation it out. The red blood sugarine isn’t removed, as well as pills or insulin injections turn necessary. This illness complaint of portly kid might take years to develop, though it’s you do repairs over their complete childhood if not stopped.

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KNOWING ABOUT MORBID OBESE

A Morbid Obese Person is someone who is pang illness goods since of his or her weight. Or it can be someone who isn’t nonetheless pang a goods of it yet will in a destiny if they do not revoke their weight. A Morbid Obese Person has additional weight which could really great minister to his or her death.

You can establish either you’re morbidly portly by seeking during a couple of opposite factors. First, usually take a impulse to notice how your physique feels. Look in a mirror. Think about a approach people provide we as well as conflict to you. You know it if you’re overweight by some-more than usually a couple of pounds. That doesn’t meant you’re dark obese, though.

Chances have been you’re not morbidly portly unless you’re some-more than 100 pounds overweight. You can be obese, being 60-99 pounds overweight, for instance, though being deliberate morbidly obese. And if you’re 10 to 50 pounds overweight, we competence usually be deliberate overweight as well as not portly during all.

Another approach to magnitude your plumpness is by a physique mass index. If your BMI series is over 40, you’re morbidly obese. If you’re 100 pounds or some-more overweight, your BMI should automatically be 40 of above.

If your BMI series if 35-39 yet you’re carrying illness goods without delay associated to your size, afterwards we can additionally be deliberate really obese. Some of a illness goods we competence be experiencing have been things similar to tall red red red red red red blood pressure.

Sometimes we can be overweight even usually a small bit as well as it can have your red red red red red red blood vigour rise. But if you’re obese, your red red red red red red blood vigour can climb dangerously high, causing repairs whilst we do not even know it.

Being which overweight can additionally means diabetes. At initial we competence usually have tall red red red red red red blood sugarine as well as be deliberate “borderline.” A alloy competence give we a diet to follow as well as allot pills. You’ll substantially get a special device as well as exam strips so we can exam your red red red red red red blood regularly.

If we have these problems even with a BMI of 35, afterwards we would be personal by a doctors as morbidly obese.

If you’re heavy, substantially tighten to 100 pounds overweight, as well as you’ve attempted in a past to remove weight unsuccessfully we competence be personal as dark obese. The incapacity to strech a full of illness weight as well as say it is a hallmark of dark obesity.

The reasons doctors operate this sequence is which dark plumpness is a great reason to have weight detriment surgery. While it’s regularly preferable to remove a weight of course by great diet as well as exercise, infrequently which doesn’t happen.

When a chairman is really complicated as well as hasn’t been means to remove a weight upon his own, operation is an option. If illness problems have been already display up, as well as a chairman hasn’t been means to remove weight, there’s small disbelief which a settlement will go on as well as things will usually get worse.

Some dark portly people need weight detriment operation to forestall an early death, as well as assistance them strike tall red red red red red red blood vigour as well as alternative diseases for good.

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How Radiofrequency Ablation Treating Cancer?

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Cancer Treatment

Radio Frequency Ablation (RFA) is a relatively new therapy for cancer in which tumors are destroyed using heat energy. A needle is placed through the skin and into the tumor. A radiofrequency is sent through the needle which heats and destroys the tumor. This procedure is performed under conscious sedation and most patients can go home the same day.

Two superficial subcutaneous metastatic nodules were treated with percutaneous radiofrequency ablation. The patient received significant pain relief and improved quality of life.

RF ablation is a minimally invasive method used to treat multiple types of cancers. RF ablation is ideal for treating multiple tumors of the liver and lung and for relieving the pain of those with metastatic bone lesions. RF ablation is ideal for patients that have too many lesions for surgical removal or who are poor surgical candidates because of other coexisting medical conditions.

Cancer-associated pain is often the most debilitating aspect of malignant disease. Because of the lack of effective treatment options, it is a difficult clinical problem to manage. Treatment of pain from metastatic disease is often palliative in nature and is often limited in effectiveness.

Radiofrequency ablation has been studied in recent years for the treatment and eradication of focal tumors.9 Radiofrequency has long been used to treat painful disorders such as trigeminal neuralgia or osteoid osteoma.

There are many advantages of Radio Frequency Ablation over an open surgical procedure. Patients with multiple lung lesions are often unable to be treated with surgery because too much healthy lung tissue would have to be removed in order to rid the patient of all of the cancerous tissue. Radiofrequency ablation can be used to destroy the tumor while the remainder of the lung is spared. This means that patients can have multiple tumors in both lungs and can still be successfully treated with RF ablation. The same idea also holds true for liver lesions. The other advantage is that RF ablation can be performed multiple times on different occasions. It is very devastating when a tumor recurs after surgical resection. Recurrence after surgery may require another large surgery or may signal the end of the patient\'s battle with the cancer. RF ablation can be easily performed to treat recurrent tumors.

Recent developments in the technology and techniques of ablation as well as in image guidance have allowed application of this treatment to other portions of the body. The use of thermal therapy to induce coagulation necrosis is being explored in a host of tumor types for cure, debunking, and palliation.

Determine the effectiveness of Radio Frequency Ablation (RFA), in terms of amount of
tumor coagulated and viable cell count, in patients with early invasive breast cancer
or low- or intermediate-grade ductal carcinoma in situ.

• Determine the size, configuration, and pathological features of human breast tumors after treatment with RFA.
• Determine whether RFA energy applied to breast cancer will result in cancer cell death.
• Determine whether tumor-free margins are achieved by RFA in these patients.
• Determine the rate of acute toxicities to skin after surgery in patients treated with
  this regimen.

Surgical resection of RFA area: After RFA is completed, the electrode is removed and
patients undergo wide local excision of the residual tumor or mastectomy. Discover how RFA is being used to treat to different cancers.

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Interventional Radiologists are leading the way in performing to treat cancers that once required open surgeries. These new treatment options hold the promise of less pain, quicker recoveries and a better quality of life using Radio Frequency Ablation (RFA).In Florida many therapy available for Cancer treatment and other treatments also.

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