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Jaundice: Symptoms and treatment
Jaundice is not actually a disease, but a condition that is caused by an elevated amount of the bile pigment bilirubin in the blood. The normal bilirubin level in blood serum is between 0.2 and 1.2 mg/dL. If the concentration rises to above 3 mg/dL, jaundice can develop as a yellow discoloration of the skin or the whites of the eyes. The buildup of bilirubin in the blood can be caused by a variety of different disorders.
Bilirubin is a yellow pigment produced from hemoglobin in red blood cells. At end of their life span, red blood cells travel to the spleen, where they are broken down and their hemoglobin is converted into bilirubin by a series Read the rest of this entry »
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What is lung cancer?
In order to understand lung cancer we need to explore what cancer really is.
Every human being has cells in their body they are natural; they go through a birth and death cycle (”how cells and tissues grow). Sometimes cells change into cancer cells; cancer cells grow rapidly, die slowly, or do not die. As a result of this pattern they invade nearby tissue which causes tumours to develop out of abnormal growth.
Cancer cells do not bind or hang onto each other as normal cells do, they separate and spread.
Metastasis is the spreading of a disease from one organ to another which is common in cancer. For example if the Read the rest of this entry »
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