cancer

Use of Cellular Phones associated with Increased risk of Brain Tumors

... suggests that there is an increased risk of brain cancer in the areas of highest exposure in patients using digital telephones (Case Control Study on Radiology work, Medical X-Ray Investigations, and Cellular Telephones as Risk Factors for Brain Tumors, Hardell, et al, May 4, 2000, www.medscape.com). Thei...

Virus Level could Predict Cervical Cancer Risk

Cervical cancer is one of the most common cancers in women. If it ...measuring the levels of a virus linked to cervical cancer could help to identify women at risk from the disease long before it develops or is detected with co...

Human Genome Project Achieves Technological Triumph

...nd determines our susceptibility to illnesses like cancer or diabetes. Mapping involves three separate steps: sequencing, assembling and annotating the genes. In the sequencing phase, researchers identified the approximate 3.5 billion chemical letters (A, C, G, T) that make up human DNA,the building block o...

Cancer Doctors Okays Controversial Prostate Therapy

A controversial treatment for prostate cancer in which radioactive seeds are implanted in the pr...rs, but previous treatment guidelines for prostate cancer left the procedure out. "The weight of institutional experience at NCCN members allows us to expand ...

Bad News for Short People

...scular mortality. However, height did not predict cancer mortality for either men or women. Height was inversely associated with serum cholesterol and family history of stroke in both men and women, the investigators noted. "In conclusion, we found that short stature was associated with most of the assess...

Blood Cells Capable of Regenerating Liver

...inely used to help patients with leukemia, a blood cancer treated by destroying the bone marrow and replacing it with healthy bone marrow. <br.Various studies are just starting to suggest that at least some of these stem cells have the power, under the right circumstances, to give rise not only to the ...

Potential New Cancer Gene Identified

... in Burkitt's lymphoma cell lines was blocked, the cancer cells revert back to normal-appearing cells. This could point the way to new therapies for one of the most aggressive childhood cancers, as well as other cancers associated with increases in the HMG-I/Y gene according to the Johns Hopkin's research t...

New Way to "See" Genes, Evaluate Effectiveness of Gene Therapies Discovered

... "The technology is expected to help patients with cancer and other illnesses, such as cardiovascular diseas...chers plan to test the tracking system in prostate cancer patients within a year, and are working with researchers at other institutions to help them evaluate...

Vitamin B12 can help in detecting cancers

In some of the cancer patients the Tumors can't be easily deected. A new...he body. Dr. Collins treated a patient with breast cancer and he says that, "The cancer stands out as a bright spot in the breast. It's very easy to detect." ...

More Accurate "PROSTATE CANCER" Test can save Unnecessary Biopsies

Prostate cancer can effect men over the age of 40 years and is the second commonest cancer among men after lung cancer. Usually it goes undetected till it is advanced and beyond cure. However...

Consensus on "Combination Therapy" for Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is the commonest cancer among women in the world. There has been some on going controversy on certain aspects of treatment ...

Kissing can cause Kaposi’s Sarcoma in AID

... the herpes virus that causes an AIDS-related skin cancer called Kaposi’s sarcoma. Kaposi’s sarcoma causes purple skin blotches and can also attack the internal organs. The virus rarely causes sickness among people with normal disease defenses but attacks those with weakened immune system as in AIDS. The...

Cancers of Colon & Rectum linked to Cigarette Smoking

...ers, smoking also increases the risk of death from cancer of the colon or rectum, according to results of a ...Cancer Society. As many as 12% of all colorectal cancer deaths in the US may be caused by tobacco smoking. "Colorectal cancer is not currently considered a...

Life Saving Cancer Drugs – From Chicken! Possible Says 'Dolly’ Creatos

In what can be a watershed in cancer research, Scottish scientists along with US Biotech Company Viragen Inc., have used nuclear transfer technology to harvest life saving drugs to treat many serious diseases including cancer. The same team had earlier cornered world wide fame and glor...

Acupuncture May Help Chemotherapy Side Effects

... disabling side effects of chemotherapy for breast cancer patients, if researchers at National Institute of Health (NIH) are to be believed. According to Dr. Joannieshen MD, MPH, research associate at NIH, electro-acupuncture was more effective in controlling vomiting than just medication.Ian Cyrus, Direc...

Startling Expose – Physicians Often Have No Regular Source Of Health Car

...mportant preventive services such as flu shots and cancer screenings’, Sounds scary but this report will surely make at least a few physicians to sit up and shed the accumulated rust. In this context it is to be borne is mind that the Union Ministry of Health is planning that all doctors renew their registr...

What happens when Medications go wrong?

...c were used as experimental lab animals when toxic cancer treatment were administered to them regularly and the effects of the drugs were studied. The study went haplessly wrong with many developing incurable cancers and the matter was hushed up with the President offering an apology and huge sums of money ...

The Cancer Rumour mill working over time

...dical journals listing these products as potential cancer causers. However, medical experts are concerned t...any years that smoking has a link to not only lung cancer but to many other types including bladder and kidney." John Antoine, MD, chief of radiation oncolo...

Want a Healthy brew? Have some Tea!

...t to studies, which suggest that tea helps prevent cancer and heart disease. Also researchers have found that tea helps women in the menopausal age group by strengthening their bones by increasing their bone density. They say the anti-oxidants found in tea are 100 times more powerful than vitamin C and 25 t...

Want skin cancer? Please have a cigarette

...mokers have a three-fold chance of developing skin cancer than people who have not smoked before. The report...o retards the immune system. The team advises that cancer incidence will come down not only through lesser exposure to sun light but also by avoiding smoking....

New hope for cancer victims – will vaccine cure the deadly bug

One very deadly form of cancer is pancreatic cancer, though it isn’t very common....ine has been successfully tested on the pancreatic cancer victims and it has increased the survival rates in many. Vaccines are typically thought of as a way...

Dietary phytonutrients – Secret for the good food to taste ba

Phytonutrients have been associated with cancer prevention and other health benefits. They are trace chemicals and taste bitter, acid or astringent. If phytonutrients have to be consumed then demands of good taste and good health may be wholly incompatible. The bitter phytonutrients protect the p...

Sexual abuse affect health for a lifetime

...s. It varied by gender, where arthritis and breast cancer occur in women and increased risk of thyroid disease occur in men. There is an association between early sexual abuse and a reduced risk of hypertension. The effects are not only due to sexual abuse but also related to stress-related hormonal alter...

Are cancer patients being taken for a ride?

... and against it. Recent studies have revealed that cancer victims suffer the most when it comes to drug testing when sometimes very toxic new anti cancer drugs are tested on unsuspecting victims in the name of conducting a study.A new Harris interactive ...

Cancer drugs in development nearly doubled since 1995

...mber of drugs being developed for the treatment of cancer has nearlydoubled during the past six years, accor...ies.Experimental drugs for the treatment of breast cancer total 59, while thereare 55 for colon cancer, 52 for skin cancer and 52 for prostate cancer. Otherca...

Breast cancer treatment to be determined by gene test

...ving lumpectomy if they test positive for a breast cancer gene mutation, researchers said California on Mond...mutation carriers have a 55% to 85% risk of breast cancer risk by age 70, while carriers with breast cancer have about a 35% 10-year risk of developing cancer...

Ductal lavage may detect early breast cancer

...d a new method of detecting early stages of breast cancer by using a new method called ductal lavage. Ductal...ned samples of ductal fluid from women with breast cancer and women without the disease to detect signs of a process called methylation. The presence of mark...

Beware of the oral patch! It could be cancer!!!

...te patches found inside the mouth can lead to oral cancer in many cases. A simple genetic test can help pinp...ches are known, can be cured and the occurrence of cancer prevented. The number of chromosomes in the cells that make up the patches is the key to finding if...

New drug helps boost cancer treatment

... New York have achieved a breakthrough of sorts in cancer treatment, by designing a new drug, which attaches itself to a key position on cancer cells and gives new potency to failing chemotherapy drugs thereby extending survival of advanced col...

Antidepressants come in handy for patients on treatment for hepatitis, cancers and multiple sclerosis

...on chemotherapy with high dose interferon for skin cancer (malignant melanoma), developed severe depression. But when they were given antidepressant Paxil for two weeks before chemotherapy, only 11% developed depression. Dr. Andrew H. Miller, MD of the department of psychiatry and behavioral science at Em...

Half of world's children are passive smokers - damning disclosure from WHO

...r discomfort, exposure to second-hand smoke causes cancer and contributes to various lung and heart diseases," said Brundtland, adding that it can cause "asthma and other respiratory illnesses in children" and also has been implicated with sudden infant death syndrome and middle ear infections". The WHO sa...

Radioactive Seeds used in Prostate Cancer treatment can migrate with the body

...k, has said that radiactive seeds used in prostate cancer treatment can migrate to other parts of the body i...d. The radiation emitted by these pellets destory cancer cells. But at times these pellets can erode through blood vessels and enter other areas of the body...

Cancer patients turning to Internet for information

Many cancer patients, according to a recent study, are increas...than 20% of the patients said they used it to find cancer relative information. In the related study, investigators found that patients are not the only ones...

ZD1839 Proves Effective - A Breakthrough in fighting Lung Cancer

...fety in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) as monotherapy and in combination with sta...n whether this drug can be used for other forms of cancer as well....

Smoking spreads Cancer

...searchers identify that female smokers with breast cancer face an increased risk of their tumors spreading t...urin says the research may help explain why breast cancer is more likely to be fatal among smokers as it is common for breast cancer to metastasize to the lun...

Virus Combats Brain Tumour

...gues report that in a set of experiments involving cancer cell lines grown in the laboratory, reovirus destroyed cancer cells in 20 out of the 24 cell lines. It was also found that these virus killed the tumour cells tha...

Lose stomach for Life....Preventive removal of stomach saves the risk of cancer

...o families with a rare form of hereditary gastric cancer caused by a mutation of the E-cadherin gene. These... "Nevertheless, what we are learning about gastric cancer in these rare families might provide clues about how gastric cancer starts and therefore might help ...

One...just one cigarette can spoil the heart function.

...nt risk towads the diseases such as heart attack , cancer etc.,. Dr. Firas A. Ghanem and colleagues at the Brody School of Medicine of East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, in a suspicion that smoking might affect the left ventricle of the heart ( an important chamber that pumps the bloo...

Risk of Cancer can be reduced to 40% with a High Fiber Diet

... that fiber was particularly important in reducing cancer of the colon and rectum. Medical experts belie...go, showed a decreased chance of developing colon cancer in people eating lots of fish, but a raised risk in those consuming large amounts of preserved meats...

Drinking arsenic water leads to cancer

...he population of Bangladesh are at risk of getting cancer from arsenic deposits in well water. Drinking ar... for prolonged periods results in skin lesions and cancer of kidney, skin, lung and bladder said the study.// At least 100,000 cases of debilitating skin l...

New scalpel probes into cancer

...rt scalpel which is able to detect the presence of cancer cells beneath layers skin, blood and muscle have ...cut into the glass surface of the device. Because cancer cells contain more protein than normal cells, their greater density changes (refracts) the speed of ...

Hormone replacement Therapy a headache

...with menopause, cause a slightly increased risk of cancer of the breast and endometrium, the lining of the womb. Dr Elisabeth Weiderpass, of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, says that low dosages does not harm but should not be used continuously. Once women stopped using the drug the increased risk ...

Better prostate cancer detection

...land. They did this on a group of 74 men and found cancer in 40 of them. In ten, the cancer was found only in one or more of the six inner areas - and would have been missed if the conventiona...

Protective effects of tomatoes in prostate cancer

... nutrients may be effective in preventing prostate cancer and treating the disease in its earliest stages.//...ve a cause-and-effect between lycopene and reduced cancer risk. In their study , the researchers followed 30 men with localized prostate cancer and administ...

Starch fights cancer

...in Africa, Japan and China have low rates of bowel cancer even though they eat less fibre than Westerners.// The researchers have discovered that resistant starch which, as its name suggests cannot be digested, passes into the colon where it releases substances that protect against cancer. Resistant sta...

Eye Saver

Patients suffering from a certain form of cancer of the eye need not have to remove their dieased e...rs. The study looked at 1,317 patients with cancer of the choroid,the thin layer of vessels beneath the retina, which contains most of the eye's melano...

Tea Tales

...nzymes essential for tumour growth and de-activate cancer promoters. A cup of tea supplies around 200 gms of flavanoids. The antiioxidant potency in a cup of tea is 400 per cent greater than a cup of orange juice while providing a far smaller intake of sugar and calories. Black tea has a biochemi...

Early detection of prostate cancer

...chemical currently used as a ‘marker’ for prostate cancer progression), and two other blood proteins. It was found that men with prostate cancer who could not be detected by the PSA test could potentially be picked up by measuring levels of the ...

Male infertility in relation to cancer

...elationship between increasing rates of testicular cancer and decreasing sperm quality, have concluded men w...over 1.5 times more// likely to develop testicular cancer than other men. Though there are no specific feature was linked to increased risk of testicular ca...

Dark skin protects

... the extra melanin in darker skin protects against cancer and sunburn from ultraviolet radiation. But, New Scientist reports, some parts of the body which are hardly ever exposed to sunlight, such as genitalia, throats and nasal passages, are packed with melanin cells.In mammals, melanin is contained inside...

Increase in tobacco deaths

...igarettes smoked in someone's thirties may cause a cancer to develop quarter of a century later. Since two thirds of all young men in China smoke, and half of them will die from their habit, this means that a third of the male population will be killed by tobacco. This shcok is suffiecient to make people ...

Ovarian cancer in relationship with Hormone therapy

...,236 who were former users. A total of 944 ovarian cancer deaths were recorded in the 14 year study until De...rs prior to enrolment. Annual age-adjusted ovarian cancer death rates per 100,000 women were 64.4 for baseline users with 10 or more years of use, 38.3 for fo...

Eat Vitamin C and stay young

...a day,Levine said. `That's where the benefit is in cancer prevention, increasing life span and perhaps in preventing heart disease.// Vitamin C is an anti-oxidant and has been touted as a way to fight off the common cold and cancer. In the study of healthy young women, however, the vitamin did not change ...

Need for Colon cancer screening

Colon cancer should be screened periodically once in 5 years in...rs Medical Centre in the US, death rate from colon cancer has been decreased due to the routine screening.// They investigated over 3,000 apparently healthy ...

Obesity a risk for pancreatic cancer

... to live for more than five years after pancreatic cancer has been diagnosed and little has been known about...obese have a 72 per cent higher risk of pancreatic cancer compared to those who are of normal weight or slightly underweight.This may be because excess weight...

Novartis files application with FDA for Zometa

...one complications can be extremely debilitating to cancer patients, and seriously impact their day to day ac...will help make a marked difference in the lives of cancer patients and their families" said David Epstein, President, Novartis Oncology. Three trials have ...

Estrogen lowers cancer risk

... had about a 20 percent lower chance of developing cancer if they used oral contraceptives. This new researc...t estrogen in the pill could protect against bowel cancer and our research has gone some way to confirm this In the future, it may be possible //to develop ne...

Genetic influence in menopause

... in 118 families already participating in a breast cancer screening project.// They also collected data from twin sisters. They found that the age of reaching menopause is 85-87 per cent down to genetic factors in non-twins, and 70 to 71 per cent genetic in twins. Researchers collected DNA from the sister...

Relieve hot flashes

... women, but concerns remain over its use in breast cancer survivors because the hormone may stimulate breast cancer growth.// The herb black cohosh seems to alleviate hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause, a...

Flaxseed fights cancer risk

...emale hormone levels and may thereby reduce breast cancer risk.The flax plant has been used for thousands of...// High levels of oestrogen are linked to breast cancer and lignans may lower levels by blocking oestrogen synthesis. Researchers at the University of Minne...