Breast cancer does not occur in children and the first cases are seen in the late teens and in the early twenties. At that age, the disease is rare but its frequency increases rapidly up to age fifty and then continues to increase, but less rapidly, thereafter. As we noted in the chapter on diet, [...]
If cancer involves the brain, the first signs may just be symptoms of raised pressure within the skull—headache, vomiting and maybe blurred vision. Of course, there are many other possible reasons for these symptoms. Contrary to what many people imagine, cancer in the brain very rarely causes the complete alteration in personality which some people [...]