Health Information

Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer and it is a silent danger to a women’s health. Around 14 women die from cervical cancer per day. Therefore, cervical cancer screening test is essential to help find the abnormalities in the early stage in order to find the best solution and treatment.

Most of liver cancer patients usually have no abnormal signs or symptoms, but there are still suspected signs, such as abdominal pain, feeling of fullness, fatigue, loss of appetite, weight loss, and yellow eyes along with ascites in severe cases. Basically, Ultrasound, CT scan or MRI will be used to diagnose along with blood test (Liver function test) and/or biopsy.

Liver cancer is caused by chronic hepatitis which later on turns to liver cirrhosis. The risk factors usually found in Thailand include.

You’ll receive the best colon cancer surgery and treatment in Thailand at Vejthani Hospital in Bangkok. Read on to learn about the differences between colon cancer and rectal cancer.

Postcoital bleeding or bleeding after sexual intercourse is one of the possible problems that could happen in females even though it is not their menstrual period. Dr. Chutatip Poonsatta, M.D., an Obstetrics and Gynecology – Gynecologic Laparoscopy specialist of Vejthani Hospital explained that postcoital bleeding or bleeding after sexual intercourse might be caused by an ordinary vaginal infection or some kind of cancer. Somehow, the blood might come from inside or outside of the vagina, cervix, or uterus.

The prostate is a gland residing between the bladder and penis. It lies in front of the rectum, and the urethra runs through it, allowing urine to flow out of the body. Crucially, the prostate makes the fluid that nourishes and protects sperm. Prostate cancer is one of the most commonly occurring cancers in males.

Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancer in Thailand, and the number of people who have colorectal cancer are rising every year. The cause of colorectal cancer is unknown, however, the major risk factor of colorectal cancer is eating behavior. Nowadays, people prefer consuming food that is easier, faster, and convenient to consume such as frozen food or processed food like instant noodle, sausage, etc.Dr. Supakij Komvilai, a colorectal surgeon of Vejthani Hospital explained that most of the patients who have colorectal cancer usually have no idea that they have cancer because colorectal cancer in the early stage shows no signs and symptoms. But, if the patients have the symptoms like blood in the stool, small stool, constipation alternate with diarrhea, abdomen distention, stomach tightness, or lump in the abdomen; it means that it is in the spreading stage already, and it needs to be treated by colorectal surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, or colostomy in some cases.

With today’s medical development, it allows us to know that colorectal cancer is caused by polyps in the large bowel. Most of the patients who have polyps usually have no symptoms until the polyps get bigger and transform into cancer. Currently, the polyps in the colon can be detected by colonoscopy, even if it is just 2 mm. small or mung bean size. Moreover, it will be used along with the Magnifying Narrow Brand Imaging or Magnifying NBI in short.

How many of us are aware of the risk factors contain in our daily consumptions for Colorectal Cancer, especially in red meat and processed food. We go on to our day to day lives without paying enough attention to what we consume.