Cancer : Types, Symptoms, Causes, Prevention and Diagnosis

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March 04, 2021

Jessamyn Stanley needs you to know what yoga is really about - and it's not the poses. In her new book Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance, the yoga instructor and body activist shares reflective personal essays that touch upon everything from racism to the cultural appropriation of American yoga, from consumerism to cannabis. And while the timing couldn't be better considering the current cultural climate, the idea for the book came to her years ago while she was writing her first book, Every Body Yoga, a guide to developing a yoga practice. "I realized yoga is a lot more than postures," she tells PEOPLE. "The postures get to be more complicated, not because you're practicing harder gymnastics or physical postures, but because you're practicing emotional and mental and really spiritual postures." In fact, she says, yoga is not supposed to feel good. Take the example of someone expecting a Zen-like experience from a yoga practice - only to be disappointed. "You're like, 'This is hard. Everyone else seems to know what they're doing. I am not good enough, I shouldn't be doing this, maybe my body is supposed to look different, maybe my life's supposed to be different.' All these feelings start to come up. That's what the postures are leading you towards, is to have that experience." RELATED: Jessamyn Stanley Found Body Acceptance Through Yoga and Can Help You Do the Same Stanley has been nurturing this self-awareness in the nearly 10 years since she has been breaking barriers in the yoga world, tackling topics like fat-shaming, her queer Black identity and unattainable beauty standards. In Yoke - which means yoga in Sanskrit - she uses her own life as a a metaphor to further explore the coming together of mind and body, light and the dark, good and the bad - both on and off the mat. "I wanted to reflect on what it is to practice yoga when we are as a society being forced to reckon with the long, deep, systemic, down-to-the-bone problems. We're being forced to look at things that we've never wanted to look at. And that's all that yoga is, is looking at the things that you don't want to look at. And ultimately, come hell or high water, accepting them." Story continues Workman Publishing

 



World Cancer Day is celebrated all over the world. This day is special because people are made aware of cancer on this day. World Cancer Day is observed every year on 4 February. This day is celebrated internationally to prevent this disease and spread awareness. Making people aware of cancer. So that they can recognize the symptoms as quickly as possible and avoid this deadly disease. The goal of celebrating this day is to reduce misconceptions spread about cancer. Government and non-governmental organizations organize camps, lectures, seminars etc. for the prevention of cancer. Every year on World Cancer Day a special theme (I Am and I Will) is used to make it more and more successful.


What is Cancer?

The disorder of abnormal growth of cells is called cancer. In this disease, cells start growing uncontrollably and disorderly which are not part of the normal developmental system of the body. According to experts, abnormal changes or mutations in DNA cause most types of cancer. w.h.o. According to cancer is the second largest cause of mortality worldwide. 

Types of cancer

Depending on the origin of cancer, cancer can be divided into the following types:

  1. Carcinoma
  2. Sarcoma
  3. Leukemia
  4. Lymphoma

Apart from this, according to the part of the cancer in the body, cancer can be divided by the following names.

  1. Cervical cancer
  2. Oral cancer
  3. Uterine cancer
  4. Breast Cancer
  5. Womb cancer
  6. Ovary cancer
  7. Blood cancer
  8. colon cancer
  9. lung cancer
  10. Colon cancer
  11. Throat cancer
  12. Liver cancer
  13. Skin cancer
  14. Bladder cancer
  15. Brain cancer
  16. kidney cancer
  17. Pancreatic cancer
  18. Testicular cancer
  19. Vaginal cancer
  20. Endometrial cancer

How to identify the symptoms of cancer?

What are the early symptoms of cancer and how to identify it?

Symptoms may also vary according to which part of the body the cancer has occurred. Apart from this, some specific symptoms can also be seen which depend on the type of cancer and the location of the cancer such as-

  1. Sudden body weight
  2. Feeling tired and weak
  3. Frequent bruising in any part of the skin
  4. Feeling lumps under the skin
  5. Difficulty in breathing for a month or so
  6. Early skin scars
  7. Loss of appetite
  8. Recurrent fever
  9. Muscle and joint pain
  10. Slow healing of wounds
  11. Recurrent infection
  12. Digestive diseases such as diarrhea or constipation
  13. Change in voice

Causes that increase the risk of Cancer

First of all, we will know why cancer occurs? Cancer is usually caused by some changes or mutations in the DNA. In simple language, DNA is called the brain of cells, which instructs them to do multiplication. When there is a defect in these instructions, the cells start to grow uncontrollably and as a result cancer develops. 
There are also some substances that can cause cancer. They are called carcinogens. Carcinogen is considered one of the leading causes of cancer. Apart from this, human papilloma virus can also cause cancer in some cases. There are some other carcinogens that, along with factors like diet and health, can cause cancer.

The most main risk factors for cancer include the following:

  1. Long-term consumption of tobacco or products made from it, such as cigarettes, etc., can cause cancer of the mouth and lungs.
  2. Consuming alcohol for a long time can cause liver cancer.
  3. Unhealthy foods and refined foods that are low in fiber can increase the risk of colon cancer.
  4. Certain types of hormones can also cause cancer, such as increased testosterone levels, prostate cancer and increased levels of estrogen can increase the risk of breast cancer.
  5. Even with aging, there is a risk of getting some types of cancer like- colon cancer, breast cancer and prostate cancer etc.
  6. Having a cancer earlier in the family can also increase its risk. Most of the cases of breast cancer are seen in it.
  7.  Being exposed to ultraviolet rays for a long time and exposure to radiation due to repeated x-rays also increases the risk of cancer.
  8. Obesity also increases the risk of cancer. Eating a high-fat diet and reducing physical activity makes the body worse, resulting in an increased risk of cancer.


Cancer Prevention and Diagnosis

How to prevent cancer?

Cancer development can be prevented by adopting a healthy lifestyle and reducing risk factors. 
The following are some ways to prevent cancer-

  1. Do not smoke
  2. Do not drink alcohol
  3. Reduced exposure to sunlight.
  4. Take a fiber-rich diet and do not take too much fat in the diet.
  5. Do not eat canned food prepared outside.
  6. Exercise regularly.
  7. Maintain normal body weight.
  8. Check your BMI daily.
  9. If the skin starts becoming blue or any wound is not healing or if there is a disease for a long time, talk to the doctor about it.
  10. Get all the vaccines done regularly. The human papillomavirus vaccine protects against the development of cervical cancer, hepatitis B vaccine should also be applied as hepatitis B can cause liver cancer.


How is cancer tested?

For the test of cancer, doctors recommend to get some tests done, on the basis of which the cancer is confirmed.
  1. Physical test
  2. lab test: CBC, ESR, KFT, LFT
  3. Imaging test : X-RAY, CT Scan, MRI, PET Scan, SPECT Scan and USG Scan 
  4. Biopsy


When to visit a doctor?

If you feel any of the symptoms mentioned then it is better to talk to the doctor as soon as possible because it is possible to prevent some symptoms of cancer in the early stage. However, it is possible to treat cancer in two ways-

1. Surgical: In this, part of the cells growing due to uneven rop is removed. This process is done by biopsy technology.
2. Non-Surgical: In this, a chemotherapy procedure is used. In chemotherapy, with the help of special types of drugs, the cells growing asymptomatic are destroyed. Apart from this, radiotherapy has also been used, in which the tumor or abnormal growing fat is destroyed with the help of gamma radiation.
This treatment is out of the reach of everyone due to its expensive. So cancer can be avoided by identifying symptoms at the initial stage.

Jessamyn Stanley needs you to know what yoga is really about - and it's not the poses. In her new book Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance, the yoga instructor and body activist shares reflective personal essays that touch upon everything from racism to the cultural appropriation of American yoga, from consumerism to cannabis. And while the timing couldn't be better considering the current cultural climate, the idea for the book came to her years ago while she was writing her first book, Every Body Yoga, a guide to developing a yoga practice. "I realized yoga is a lot more than postures," she tells PEOPLE. "The postures get to be more complicated, not because you're practicing harder gymnastics or physical postures, but because you're practicing emotional and mental and really spiritual postures." In fact, she says, yoga is not supposed to feel good. Take the example of someone expecting a Zen-like experience from a yoga practice - only to be disappointed. "You're like, 'This is hard. Everyone else seems to know what they're doing. I am not good enough, I shouldn't be doing this, maybe my body is supposed to look different, maybe my life's supposed to be different.' All these feelings start to come up. That's what the postures are leading you towards, is to have that experience." RELATED: Jessamyn Stanley Found Body Acceptance Through Yoga and Can Help You Do the Same Stanley has been nurturing this self-awareness in the nearly 10 years since she has been breaking barriers in the yoga world, tackling topics like fat-shaming, her queer Black identity and unattainable beauty standards. In Yoke - which means yoga in Sanskrit - she uses her own life as a a metaphor to further explore the coming together of mind and body, light and the dark, good and the bad - both on and off the mat. "I wanted to reflect on what it is to practice yoga when we are as a society being forced to reckon with the long, deep, systemic, down-to-the-bone problems. We're being forced to look at things that we've never wanted to look at. And that's all that yoga is, is looking at the things that you don't want to look at. And ultimately, come hell or high water, accepting them." Story continues Workman Publishing