Below you will find some of the more common cancers listed, although there are many others, as some of you will already be aware.   This survey is about determining, of the cancers listed, who is looking outside of traditional therapeutic methods to find Complementary Therapy or Alternative Therapy - as XYZ-Wellbeing offers.  For the purpose of this article, we define Complementary Therapy as doing something alongside the usual orthodox methods.  Whereas, we define  Alternative Therapy as abandoning traditional methods and choosing one or a combination of alternative therapies.  The fact that you are on this website tells us that you are at least looking at alternatives -  so you do qualify to take the survey.  You may vote for yourself or for a family member that you for which you have caregiver responsibilities.  If there is more than one member of the family that has been diagnosed with Cancer, please feel free to return tomorrow and re-vote.

Please choose carefully, as we believe you will be interested in the results being accurate, just as we are. You will note that Poll One is for Primary Cancer, and Poll Two is for Metastatic Cancer.  Please, when doing the survey, only do either Poll 1 OR Poll 2.

Then we have the Blood Type Survey in green at the top of the page.  Dr. Pablo has a theory that types AB,  A, and B have a higher incidence of cancer then O Blood Type.  Again, this is just a hunch, and this survey will assist us in finding out if it needs further investigation.  Those on the XYZ-Wellbeing Program will see that we recommend the Eat to your Blood Type Diet. Those that change to this blood type diet report feeling the benefits of it.

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We thank those that assist with this survey, as it helps us design and bring better services to you!

1. Lung Cancer
   Lung cancer kills more Americans than any other cancer.  The average annual death toll from recent years is more than 90,000 men and 45,000 women.

   

2. Colon-Rectum Cancer (Colorectal Cancer)
   It is the second leading cause of cancer death in the U.S.  Each year it claims an estimated 55,000 lives, and produces about 150,000 new cases- more than any other kind of cancer- except skin cancer.  It afflicts men and women about equally.

3. Breast Cancer
   Breast cancer is the most common of cancers affecting women.  It kills more women than any other kind of cancer. About 150,000 women in the U.S. develop breast cancer each year, and 35% die of the disease.

4. Stomach Cancer
   Stomach cancer is still one of the more frequently diagnosed types of cancer and the death rate is relatively high, at nearly 10 per 100,000 in population.  Men are twice as likely to be victims of stomach cancer as women.

5. Prostate Cancer
   Cancer of the prostate is the most common cancers among men and is second only to lung cancer as a lethal type of tumor for men.  About 30,000 people die of prostate cancer each year.

6. Bladder Cancer
   Extensive occurrence of bladder cancer is commonly associated with industrial growth.  It appears at annual rate of about 40,000 new cases each year in the U.S. and causes more than 15,000 deaths annually.

7. Oral Cancer
   Cancer of the mouth and lips strike an estimated 25,000 persons in the U.S. each year and kill a shocking 9,000.

8. Skin Cancer
   With as many as 500,000 new cases occurring annually, skin cancer is the largest single source of malignancy in the U.S.   An estimated 6,000 persons die of this disease each year.

9. Cancer of the Uterus
   Uterine cancer is more common than cancer of the cervix (cervical cancer).  Uterine cancer is the most common type of cancer of the reproductive organs.

10. Ovarian Cancer
    Ovarian cancer is the fifth most common type of cancer in women, with an average of 21,000 new cases each year.  It is second to uterine cancer in the number of cases of cancer of the reproductive organs.

11. Lymphomas
    Lymphomas are cancers that affect the lymphatic system. Lymphomas arise when developing lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell) undergo a malignant change and multiply in an uncontrolled way. Increasing numbers of abnormal lymphocytes, called lymphoma cells accumulate and form collections of cancer cells called tumours in lymph nodes (glands) and other parts of the body. Over time, lymphoma cells replace normal lymphocytes, weakening the immune system's ability to fight infection.

The following closely related terms may be used to designate abnormal growths:

• Tumor or tumour: originally, it meant any abnormal swelling, lump or mass. In current English, however, the word tumor has become synonymous with neoplasm, specifically solid neoplasm. Note that some neoplasms, such as leukemia, do not form tumors.
• Neoplasm: the scientific term to describe an abnormal proliferation of genetically altered cells. Neoplasms can be benign or malignant:
• Malignant neoplasm or malignant tumor: synonymous with cancer.
• Benign neoplasm or benign tumor: a tumor (solid neoplasm) that stops growing by itself, does not invade other tissues and does not form metastases.
• Invasive tumor is another synonym of cancer. The name refers to invasion of surrounding tissues.
• Pre-malignancy, pre-cancer or non-invasive tumor: A neoplasm that is not invasive but has the potential to progress to cancer (become invasive) if left untreated. These lesions are, in order of increasing potential for cancer, atypia, dysplasia and carcinoma in situ.

The following terms can be used to describe a cancer:

• Screening: a test done on healthy people to detect tumors before they become apparent. A mammogram is a screening test.
• Diagnosis: the confirmation of the cancerous nature of a lump. This usually requires a biopsy or removal of the tumor by surgery, followed by examination by a pathologist.
• Surgical excision: the removal of a tumor by a surgeon.
• Surgical margins: the evaluation by a pathologist of the edges of the tissue removed by the surgeon to determine if the tumor was removed completely ("negative margins") or if tumor was left behind ("positive margins").
• Grade: a number (usually on a scale of 3) established by a pathologist to describe the degree of resemblance of the tumor to the surrounding benign tissue.
• Stage: a number (usually on a scale of 4) established by the oncologist to describe the degree of invasion of the body by the tumor.
• Recurrence: new tumors that appear at the site of the original tumor after surgery.
• Metastasis: new tumors that appear far from the original tumor.
• Transformation: the concept that a low-grade tumor transforms to a high-grade tumor over time. Example: Richter's transformation.
• Chemotherapy: treatment with drugs.
• Radiation therapy: treatment with radiations.
• Adjuvant therapy: treatment, either chemotherapy or radiation therapy, given after surgery to kill the remaining cancer cells.
• Prognosis: the probability of cure after the therapy. It is usually expressed as a probability of survival five years after diagnosis. Alternatively, it can be expressed as the number of years when 50% of the patients are still alive. Both numbers are derived from statistics accumulated with hundreds of similar patients to give a Kaplan-Meier curve.

Classification

Cancers are classified by the type of cell that resembles the tumor and, therefore, the tissue presumed to be the origin of the tumor. These are the histology and the location, respectively. Examples of general categories include:

• Carcinoma: Malignant tumors derived from epithelial cells. This group represents the most common cancers, including the common forms of breast, prostate, lung and colon cancer.

• Sarcoma: Malignant tumors derived from connective tissue, or mesenchymal cells.

• Lymphoma and leukemia: Malignancies derived from hematopoietic (blood-forming) cells

• Germ cell tumor: Tumors derived from totipotent cells. In adults most often found in the testicle and ovary; in fetuses, babies, and young children most often found on the body mid-line, particularly at the tip of the tailbone; in horses most often found at the poll (base of the skull).

• Blastic tumor or blastoma: A tumor (usually malignant) which resembles an immature or embryonic tissue. Many of these tumors are most common in children.

Malignant tumors (cancers) are usually named using -carcinoma, -sarcoma or -blastoma as a suffix, with the Latin or Greek word for the organ of origin as the root. For instance, a cancer of the liver is called hepatocarcinoma; a cancer of the fat cells is called liposarcoma. For common cancers, the English organ name is used. For instance, the most common type of breast cancer is called ductal carcinoma of the breast or mammary ductal carcinoma. Here, the adjective ductal refers to the appearance of the cancer under the microscope, resembling normal breast ducts.

Benign tumors (which are not cancers) are named using -oma as a suffix with the organ name as the root. For instance, a benign tumor of the smooth muscle of the uterus is called leiomyoma (the common name of this frequent tumor is fibroid). Unfortunately, some cancers also use the -oma suffix, examples being melanoma and seminoma.