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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...

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